Kamala Harris to Barr, May 1: "Has the president or anyone at the White House ever asked..."

[Miles Archer]

Eric Columbus
@EricColumbus

Key point — Trump first spoke to Zelensky on April 21, ten days before Barr couldn’t answer if anyone in WH ever asked him to open an investigation. (h/t

@AshaRangappa_ for recalling this Harris/Barr exchange).

Link to tweet

@SenKamalaHarris
: Has the president or anyone at the White House ever asked or suggested you open an investigation into anyone?

BARR: ..... ah .....

HARRIS: Seems like something you should be able to answer

BARR: I don't know .......

Link to tweet

[johnnyfins]

5. Now that it is an official Impeachment Inquiry

They better go after that unredacted Mueller Report and the underlying evidence. This isn't only about this dirty administration. It's about our elections being attacked. It will still go on long after Trumpty Dumpty falls off the wall.

[joost5]

2. Obvious and well established point: Barr is a corrupt right-wing extremist.

Wonder what Kompromat they have on him.

[abqtommy]

3. It's fortunate that we have a right wing extremist wing at Gitmo

for Barr and his buddies.

[subana]

9. he is!!

In a Palmer Report article, it says:

Schiff quickly zeroed in on the sequence of events that played out once Maguire received the whistleblower complaint from the Inspector General. Schiff got Maguire to admit that he went to the Department of Justice to seek advice on whether to forward the complaint to Congress, even though he knew that Attorney General Bill Barr – the head of the Department of Justice – was accused of wrongdoing in the complaint.

This means Bill Barr was given the opportunity to illegally suppress a whistleblower complaint about himself – and he seized that opportunity. Considering that Barr used his position in government to violate the law in the name of sabotaging an investigation into his own behavior, this is a textbook case of obstruction of justice.

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/adam-schiff-admit-joseph-maguire-crucial/21147/

Maguire should have known not to ask someone who was named in the complaint!!

[subana]

11. yes, that makes sense

in a kind of backwards way! But that seems to be the way republicans operate.

[peggysue2]

4. Kamala Harris nailed Barr to the wall

How sweet is this clip now as the man struggles with the word 'suggest.'

[cab67]

7. Was Barr under oath?

[peggysue2]

8. Pretty sure he was, yes.

Which is why he tried 'slippery' as a strategy. Worried about perjury much????

[onetexan]

13. oh damn, this is good!

Dems should go after him for lying to Congress as well. He's neck deep in corruption.

[Kaleva]

14. Lying to Congress is an unlawful act by itself. Doesn't need to be "under oath".

[DesertRat]

12. k&r