Looking at Barr's Recent Behavior, It Looks Like He Shut Down the Mueller Investigation Early

[dlk]

I’m concerned about what information he might be passing along and to whom.

[eleny]

1. Barr acts like it's still 1992

Communications have come a long way since then.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Oh so right!!!!

[eleny]

3. I wouldn't be surprised if someone is already shopping a thumb drive around

[Wellstone ruled]

18. I have said this more than on one ocassion.

You cut the Agencies throat,well,get ready those Agencies will take you down.

Just waiting for Nance,Brenen ,Comey,Rice,and Klapper to start naming names. These are all career Professionals who have served in confidential positions for decades,and they know what Robert Barr and others are truly all about .

[manor321]

4. He can't do that.

The AG CANNOT shut down a special counsel investigation. I'm tired of repeating this. He could only fire the SC with cause. He didn't do that. And Mueller has agreed that none of the AGs prevented him from doing anything he wanted.

Jesus Christ I wish people would just learn the basics of how the SC law works.

[dlk]

12. This Administration Continually Thumbs Their Nose at Precedent and the Law

It’s not a matter of understanding how the special counsel law was written or is supposed to work. The current administration couldn’t care less about following the law. That should have been obvious by now. The fascists are here and they’re doing things their way.

[SHRED]

14. Bingo

The trust in the system and law is out the window with these crooks.

[EleanorR]

15. Sure he can. He can cut the budget to zero or he

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“has the power to block any “investigative or procedural step” Mueller recommends, such as bringing an indictment or subpoena, if he determines it to be “inappropriate or unwarranted under established Departmental practices.””

He’s supposed to notify Congress, but why would he do that when he was expressly hired to shield trump?

[Scotch-Irish]

16. Formally, you're absolutely correct. But this is a new world, and the old rules

have been thrown out the door. Barr didn't need to "fire" Muller: the guys are friends, and members of the republican party, from many years back. Decades. Barr wouldn't even have to threaten to fire Muller to get him to stop. They'd just go have a beer and it would be a done deal. Barr wouldn't even have to ask him. He would just make it seem like a really good idea.

[Control-Z]

21. Did Mueller agree that

none of the AGs prevented him from doing anything he wanted? Or did Barr say that Mueller agreed to that?

[NotAPuppet]

22. Barr can't shut down the probe,

but he could have asked Mueller for a preliminary report. I am not saying that’s the case here, but it’s a possibility. It’s a “Mueller report” per Barr, but is it the final report?

Unless the details are released, people will continue to ask questions and speculate.

[Tiggeroshii]

5. Am i the only one that finds that super obvius？

[Takket]

6. well, some interesting things happened..........

as soon as Barr got in a flurry of "Mueller is pretty much done" and "any down now" reports hit the media and started leaking on.

DU was awash with people saying it was BS... the grand jury probe was extended until June being the primary reason.

Then last week Mueller team members were said to be "too busy" to comment on some case before a court, forget which one. They were clearly in a HURRY. And Friday the report hits.

Over the weekend we learn "three weeks ago" Mueller told Barr he could not reach a conclusion of obstruction. Was the word "YET" in there anywhere?

Everything that happened this month seems to indicate Mueller was suddenly in a hurry to get done and I wonder if Barr told him three weeks ago "if you don't know yet, you never will. write up your findings. it is over".

[rockfordfile]

7. I don't think that's true. The so-called investigation was just a Republican white wash.

[triron]

8. I think Rachel was secretly suggesting that tonite.

[democratisphere]

9. Bet the entire drumpf family knew the rigged outcome of the Mueller Report

weeks before it was officially ended and announced. Jr. shooting his mouth off, before the official announcement, confirms it.

[onecaliberal]

10. It appears it was a sham on some level. Obviously barr shut down whatever was going on when he was

Confirmed. He said mueller was done.

[politicaljunkie41910]

20. But remember when Barr was nominated, they tried to convince us Barr and Mueller were not just

friends, but very good friends. Their families were friends. Their spouses were friends; and had been so for many, many years. I said then, that Barr having introduced his large family of lawyers, that Barr was looking for jobs for his children and in-laws, as there were a lot of them on the public dole as Public Defenders and Prosecutors. As Atty Gen he was in a position to elevate their status, and shortly after Barr was appointed Atty Gen, his son went to work in the White House working as a member of Trump's legal team. We are officially a Banana Republic.

[Hoyt]

11. It was time to turn whatever Mueller had over to Congress. Mueller could have kept digging for years

and I doubt he would have found enough new to impress GOPers in the Senate, or trumps ignorant white wing supporters.

[dlk]

13. There is No Amount of Evidence That Would Ever Convince Them

The truth is they really don’t care.

[at140]

17. But we the people who vote care?

Congress critters can be voted out by us voters and we have NO TERM LIMITS!
We can continue to vote until death.

[uponit7771]

19. Barr Wont Release FULL Report In Weeks Only Another "Summary" !!!

Barr To Release Another Summary

[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/us/politics/mueller-investigation-watergate.html[/url]

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[Baitball Blogger]

23. Yup. Giving them time to start their own strategies

No wonder the Republicans are going on the offensive with calls for revenge. They have nothing else. Stay strong Dem leaders!

[Vinca]

24. Barr was hired for one reason: make it go away. The history books will make a note of it.

He's nothing more than a better-paid-than-most cult member.