Again, I'm already familiar with the report and memo, thanks, and rightly assumed that TDSers would try to write off the industrial-grade abuse directed at the Trump campaign. It goes beyond sloppiness:
"My own view is that the evidence shows that we're not dealing with just the mistakes or sloppiness," Barr told host Laura Ingraham. "There was something far more troubling here. We're going to get to the bottom of it. And if people broke the law and we can establish that with the evidence, they will be prosecuted."
Trump "has every right to be frustrated" by the investigation, Barr added.
"What happened to him was one of the greatest travesties in American history -- without any basis," Barr said. "They started this investigation of his campaign. And even more concerning, actually, is what happened after the campaign. A whole pattern of events while he was president ... to sabotage the presidency ... or at least have the effect of sabotaging the presidency."
During Thursday's show Barr also addressed what he described as abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), saying he believed "safeguards" would "enable us to go forward with this important tool."
" I think it's very sad and the people who abused FISA have a lot to answer for," he said, "because this was an important tool to protect the American people.
"They abused it. They undercut public confidence in FISA but also the FBI is an institution and we have to rebuild that."
Barr isn't winging this, it's what Durham's investigations are telling him.
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Thanks for validating Amash’s comments about Bill Barr. Let’s take it a step further:
How come Bill Barr can’t let any independent judges handle these obviously impermissible cases?
I mean, if it’s so obvious that these poor innocent trump toadies were being railroaded why has not one single independent fact finder made that determination?
Every. Single. Time. That the courts or a jury has been handed evidence from this investigation the result has been a conviction. The only vindicating events for the people who believe in this have been the result of DOJ brass (Bill Barr) involvement.
He can’t leave it in the hands of Judges because they’re impartial and the things he’s saying are legal fiction. The public record speaks for itself and the public record shows that when Trump Co’s minions go in front of judge or jury, they lose.
The rest of the post seems devoid of any relation to what I’ve said. Pretty weak, IMO, but maybe I wasn’t clear. I’ll just clarify and restate what I said.
The omissions/errors/fabrications in the Carter Page FISA application, regardless of materiality (which hasn’t been established), are evidence that the FBI cannot be afforded the discretion they have been. They do not absolve Trump of anything. They are not evidence of Trump et al’s innocence, they’re simply evidence of wrongdoing by someone else. The case have no heightened significance. Its being used as a scapegoat to deflect attention from evidence of Trump’s corruption.
The omissions/errors/fabrications in 29/29 other applications are overwhelming evidence that FBI and law enforcement discretion should be limited or subject to more thorough oversight. It also proves that the Page App wasn’t a coup.
That is the logical line between the best I can recall of Amash’s explanation of his thoughts on the Special Counsel investigation and the tweet that I spent 30 seconds finding this afternoon.
The other argument, which seems to have you horribly confused, is not that Trump deserved it, but that Trump’s position is less desirable than Amash’s, and yet is not disqualifying to you. Therefore your shrieking about Amash and your hysterical, performative nonsense about how much you care about “
our rights,” just doesn’t move the needle. It doesn’t carry any weight because as I’ve said in several posts now: the issues is clearly all partisan and no principle, for you.