Barr Screwed the Pooch.

[busterbrown]

Essentially our Attorney General today... stated in so many ways.. That you can't trust the FBI which is according to William Barr is part of the Deep State..Destined to take down our Prez.

Now I gotta tell ya: For the most part that I always thought that 85% of those who make up the Military, FBI, CIA, Secrete Service and all other law and order govt. jobs were
strongly Republican..

This Barr fuck-up today is gonna piss off a ton of Govt.law and order/FBI?CIA employees. Barr essentially called them liars and will continue to degrade them until Trump is convicted.

I think its essential for our side to praise the FBI from here to the end..
I feel a bit more relaxed today knowing that the FBI in its entirety has been denigrated
by a Conservative Republican.. Thank you Barr... You're an idiot!!

[lame54]

1. It should work that way...

No guarantee it will

[RKP5637]

2. Hard to tell sometimes which is the biggest asshole and most corrupt. Barr, McConnell or tRump! n/t

[DENVERPOPS]

17. the three of them

complete a perfect "daisy chain" don't you think/???????

[RKP5637]

34. Yep, and we should add Giuliani too! n/t

[DENVERPOPS]

35. If we keep adding names

we could make a ring the circumference of a football field.......

[RKP5637]

37. Yep!!! lol! n/t

[busterbrown]

36. like it!!! N/T..

[spanone]

3. Just saw him say that 'Russia attempted to interfere...'

'attempted' my ass

Barr is so dangerous

[busterbrown]

4. And again I state: Not a Career Builder for Barr..

Just a freaking disaster for him..

[LastDemocratInSC]

29. Barr will never want for income after this.

If he wasn't considered a made man before he certainly will be from here on out. A cushy job at the Federalist Society or another think tank will probably be endowed for him by some wealthy benefactors.

[panader0]

32. Sadly true.....

[JohnnyRingo]

10. He said that?

holy shit.

WTF is in this for Barr. No normal person devotes himself to a man with such fealty unless there's an incredible pay off, something beyond a temporary AG position. It's not the kind of job that makes millionaires.

Perhaps Trump told Barr to keep his hopeful eye on Ruth B Ginsburg. Now there's a plum gig.

[tblue37]

16. I still think Putin gave Trump kompromat to use against Republicans and that's how

He keeps them in line.

Nothing but kompromat really explains Lindsey's complete 180 after a single private golf game with Trump.

[DENVERPOPS]

19. and don't forget

the kompromat that Putin most assuredly has collected on Trump for a decade before the election.........
Putin's grooming of Trump started way before the election, and probably many other high ranking Republicans.....

[stopbush]

5. I doubt it. As you say, most of them are strongly R, and unless

something effects them personally, they have no problem with others being shat upon.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. each will assume that Barr was criticizing the others

[Liberalhammer]

6. Strange world

When us lefties are on the side of the DOJ and FBI.

[Hekate]

13. Back when Comey got the axe in such a shocking manner, hubby & I said the same thing to each other

Neither of us got on the wrong side of the Law during the '60s, but we were both anti-war and both vividly recall things like COINTELPRO.

I, especially, try to weigh things in the balance. I know there are good and honorable people working in our Intel services -- and also some real bastards who need a tighter leash.

So yeah, it feels odd.

[enki23]

7. I doubt that. All this will do is make the righrtwingers among them even more paranoid

The FBI is a large organization. It's not like fuckwit FBI wingers will have hard time imagining conspiracies embedded in it.

[mgardener]

8. Yes he is

He also cancelled his $30,000.00 holiday party for the Justice Dept at Trumps hotel.
I wonder why?

[tblue37]

18. Not canceled--just moved to a later date. nt

[JohnnyRingo]

9. Maybe he'll start badmouthing the Secret Service.

I don't know why he would, just sayin'.

[Stonepounder]

12. From the FWIW Dept.

Over the course of my lifetime I had a couple of interactions with FBI Agents.

Don't freak, nothing criminal. One was when I needed a Top Secret Clearance to work for a Gov't Contractor as a System Manager for several computers that were doing Classified work. The other time was when it was discovered that one of the computers had been hacked and stolen software had been 'parked' on it.

Both encounters were with extremely professional individuals, who were doing their job in a professional manner. You will never hear me knock the FBI!

[Kid Berwyn]

14. Excellent post.

FBI Director Wray said there was no evidence Ukraine interfered in 2016: It was Russia.

[summer_in_TX]

15. Frank Schaeffer posted a warning about Barr and fundies today

In his blog and video posted today, he says they are waging war against America because of their religious beliefs. Barr's a RW catholic.

https://frankschaefferblog.com/2019/12/trumps-evangelicals-and-ag-barr-launched-a-religious-war-against-america/

[dhol82]

23. Now that makes sense!

Freaking Dominionists will get us all killed yet.

[LastDemocratInSC]

30. He's a member of Opus Dei, as are so many in government.

The group claims that they answer "only to God". Which means that any oath he has taken to protect and defend our Constitution is suspect.

[SCVDem]

20. We have heard repeatedly in the past weeks,

These are career professionals, in their position through many presidents and parties.

They are really non-partisan. That does not make them brain dead to the realities of our current regime.

Strzok and Page come to mind These are professionals and could see what was happening.

They did the only ethical thing they could. Kept it among themselves and not leak to media.

I would send Barr to Devils Island! He's the top lawyer and has sold us out!

[SayItLoud]

21. Hoping that Barr faces judicial music after tRUMP et al are gone AND

before statue of limitations takes effect. WE MUST hold these scum accountable, someway some how, some day soon. Just sayin...

[zentrum]

22. Pretty confused about the FBI.

They spied on MLK and all anti-war groups---so have always seemed very rightwing---protecting the powerful against the rest of us.

I'd have thought they would support Trump as a gun-supportng,militaristic, anti-LGBTQ, Republican.

So I don't know if they'll use what they know against him or not. After all, the alernative might be, horrors, some sort of Lefty Liberal.

[dhol82]

24. Well, for sure the NY FBI was corrupt!

They worked with Giuliani to convince Comey to release that billet doux to Hillary.

[SCVDem]

26. J. Edgar Hoover

That fuck corrupted the FBI into an internal Intel tool.

Why investigate John Lennon?

[muntrv]

25. Barr needs to suffer the same fate as John Mitchell.

[SCVDem]

28. Quarterback for the Lions?

Just kidding. Let me buy you a beer.

It sucks when your starters go down.

[muntrv]

33. It's the curse of......

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/81229-the-detroit-lions-are-suffering-the-curse-ofjoe-schmidt

[paleotn]

27. The FBI joins a rather influential crowed...

of organizations I most definitely wouldn't want pissed at me. Barr, Blotus and the rest of the minions are bat shit insane.

[C_U_L8R]

31. Too many are suckers for the authoritarian.

Barr was channeling his deepest darkest Dick Cheney gravitas to hypnotize the uncritical low-info trumphorde. It doesn't matter that every word he said was a lie. With a determined shake of his jowls, Barr played the suckers with doublethink and newspeak.