AG Bill Barr killed 7 Robert Mueller investigations -- 10 days after he submitted his report

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story


Published 1 min ago on June 24, 2019 By Bob Brigham

Attorney General Bill Barr killed seven different investigations started by special counsel Robert Mueller just ten days after he submitted his report.

CNN’s Katelyn Polantz had filed a request to unseal documents related to the special counsel’s investigation and on Monday the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia agreed.

Chief Judge Beryl A Howell ordered the release of multiple documents, including Attachment B, which listed information on applications for court orders requested by Mueller.

The 65-page document shows seven cases that were closed on April Fools Day — only ten days after Mueller submitted his report.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/ag-bill-barr-killed-7-robert-mueller-investigations-10-days-after-he-submitted-his-report/?utm_source=push_notifications

[tazkcmo]

1. Amazing.

Another day, another step over the edge.

[bluestarone]

2. THIS has got to be soo fucking wrong!

RUMPS personal lawyer and NO FUCKING RETHUG gives a shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There goes our country!

[SayItLoud]

3. I'm sure we all felt this would happen. Now confirmed it did. Will anything ever get these

creeps and hold them accountable? Mueller MUST testify in public and be grilled about the facts AND his opinions.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. REPUBLICAN COVER-UP!!!

[certainot]

28. one of those might include hannity, talk radio, limbaugh- the root of russian cooperation

hannity's name was redacted from the mueller report glossary even though he was mentioned 5 times in the report. why? i'll bet that was one they stopped

mueller team probably recognized trump team studied talk radio in 2014 (sam nunberg told gabriel sherman NY magazine 4/3/16) so they could coordinate with the russian troll ops without direct communication --

it was outside their time range so they passed it on and the cons killed it. it would threaten the entire republican operation.

dem investigators will be derelict if they don't ask public questions to relate this disaster to talk radio, the main culprit

[Baitball Blogger]

29. And of course, they will leap frog each other, providing protection and support for each other when

needed. Hannity handles media, Barr squelches investigations, Mitch McConnell blocks the House Dems and the conservatives on the Supreme Court are locked and loaded to neutralized the courts, oh, and Trump is ready to pass on pardons...SHIT! Our U.S. Constitution is trashed!

[certainot]

31. it all changes when americans finally protest RW talk radio stations and end the

biggest political mistake in history. or protest the 88 unis that support 260 limbaugh stations

[Baitball Blogger]

45. Agree.

[certainot]

70. thanks. best thing americans can do to support and encourage mueller

limbaugh has attacked him since he took the job and was attacking the 'deep state' since inauguration day as if he was working directly for putin.

he's going to get attacked every day for 3 weeks to intimidate him, led by limbaugh who knows when he attacks someone, like AOC, colin kaepernick, christine 'balsey' ford, anita hill, it sends death threats their way

[Progressive Jones]

72. This is the right wing coup that I've been talking about for years.

Trump is merely their WH puppet.

When Trump acts, he's following orders.

Yes, Our Constitution is trashed.

[YOHABLO]

34. They stomped on the FCC Fairness Doctrine years ago, and why RW talk is so overwhelmingly powerful.

[certainot]

37. easy way to destroy trump's real support is to stop ignoring rw radio. i turned on

the local dipshits and they were making the excuses for trump's child abuse.

and that included a call from a 'concerned citizen' making excuses for brown child abuse at the border who the hosts agreed with continued the meme that dems encouraged 'illegals' to vote for democrats.

and they attacked AOC. that's why she's getting death threats.

the left's ignorance of rw talk radio is truly the biggest political mistake in history

and so the idiot now who just bragged about being on 100 plus stations attacks sanders student debt relief plan - " why not cancel my car payment?"

[orangecrush]

64. THIS

But I've given up on trying to get anyone to pay attention to it.

[Hoyt]

5. If I'm reading link correctly, it says, "orders involved the companies AT&T, Twitter and Facebook.

Not sure what those would have shown, and I am sure if Mueller was involved he would have worked overtime to let trump and his family off the hook if there was anyway they were implicated.

Sounds to me that all those investigations that Mueller supposedly offloaded are dead, or going nowhere fast. And the man in the know -- Mueller -- has taken his money and is in hiding.

[AlexSFCA]

19. it would have shown trump's direct involvement into russian interference

that spread military grade disinformation via facebook and twitter.

[Hoyt]

22. How is that? You can tell trump was directly involved from a Tweet or fake FB post.

Don't think so. I'm sure he knew about it, but I seriously doubt there is anything tying him to it. Worse, 60% or more of the people wouldn't care if was directly tied to with photos, cancelled checks, or whatever.

[brush]

36. Come on, he asked on public TV: "Russia if you're listening..."

We all saw that, and five hours later Russian hackers were busy going after DNC correspondence.

[Hoyt]

40. Agree with that, but that has nothing to do with Twitter and FB.

Plus, Boy Scout Mueller all but absolved him of any charges for that.

[LanternWaste]

47. That is an inaccurate statement.

"Mueller all but absolved him of any charges for that."

That is an inaccurate statement.

[Hoyt]

48. Read the report-- 21 times Mueller said "We found no evidence," numerous

other times he concluded there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Kush, Jr, etc., for meetings with Ruskies. He even let Manafort off for providing polling data to Russians, with similar BS.

But, will be glad to look at any conclusions you want to quote, and will admit if I’m wrong.

[brush]

50. Wasn't it not enough evidence of "conspiracy" not collusion?

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And there wasn't enough evidence because of encrypted messaging, deletions and wiping of communications? In other words, he couldn't reach conclusions because evidence was disappeared.

[Hoyt]

53. So what? The chief investigator couldn't find enough evidence. That would

go over well in a trial.

Look, I despise trump and think there are probably dozens of reasons to Impeach him. But the Mueller investigations failed, just like Fitzgerald’s. Still hope I’m wrong, but would bet not.

[brush]

55. Not so. Part 1 of the report didn't reach conclusions on conspiracy because there wasn't enough...

evidence but Part 2 declared ten instances of obstruction of justice so you are wrong that the report failed. What has failed is Barr lying about the report (sorry, but you seem to be buying his spin that the report exonerates trump) and acting as the nations chief LEO instead of trump's personal attorney and going along with all the stonewalling of House investigations by the trump admin.

You seem to be ignoring Part 2. Mueller in his brief public press conference even said if he would've found trump exonerated of obstruction he would've said so.

It's in Congress' hands now, and the courts who should uphold Congressional subpoenas for testimony from admin figures.

[Hoyt]

56. I can see that trial. Trump's attorney calls the chief investigator

who spent 2 years and millions of dollars only to conclude 21 times they identified no evidence, and came up with legal BS in other instances that let trump or his family off.

You are much more optimistic than me. I learned my lesson with Fitzgerald after waking up at night for months to see if they arrested bush and Cheney.

[brush]

57. So you won't acknowledge that Part 2 lays out ten instances of obstruction?

[Hoyt]

58. We aren't talking Obstruction. We've been talking collusion, conspiracy, playing nice with Ruskies,

etc., whatever you call it.

Of course trump Obstructed, we watched it live — firing Comey, threatening to shut investigations down and fire Mueller, refusing documents, etc. Heck, even firing Sessions was Obstruction.

But Obstruction, was never going to bring trump down. Of it would, they could have impeached trump when he told Lester Holt that he fired Comey to obstruct the investigations.

While I don’t agree with Barr that one can’t Obstruct if underlying crimes can’t be proven, it does make it much tougher.

[brush]

59. BS, you said the report failed now you're moving the goal posts. It's ok to admit when you're wrong.

[Hoyt]

65. Look at my first post. We were talking about collusion, conspiracy, etc. There are two distinct

parts of Mueller’s Report. You jumped in, totally oblivious to the discussion. Sorry.

[brush]

69. Oh, right. You said the report failed but didn't mention Part 2. Gotcha.

[Hoyt]

74. Unfortunately, Part 2 is quite dependent on Part 1's findings, which is what this thread

is about.

[ProfessorPlum]

51. " all those investigations that Mueller supposedly offloaded are dead, or going nowhere"

Really? Based on what?

[Hoyt]

52. Article says a bunch were closed. Do you have any citations on progress of other investigations,

or are you one of those clinging to hope that Mueller is a hero? I gave up on him before his report, and cursed him after reading his efforts to let trump and his family off the hook.

[dem4decades]

6. If this is true, Mueller is a jerk for not publicly speaking out about it.

[Evolve Dammit]

9. Agree with this 100%.

[watoos]

10. Dems need to subpoena him now.

[Lulu KC]

11. We do not know the whole story n/t

[LiberalLovinLug]

24. Mueller is the enemy

His only job was to take all the evidence and frame it all in such a way as to be able to claim that he had no authority to indict. Or in the case of collusion, not enough evidence. He's a good Republican who lives and dies by Ronnie's 11th commandment.

Of course he should be called before Congress immediately. Although I think he'd be as obtuse as he possibly could.

[Cosmocat]

46. Quit dicking around and subpeona him

nm

[dem4decades]

61. What are the Democrats afraid of, offending him?

The Republicans trash him on a regular basis, why are the Democrats treating him with kid gloves?

[Evolve Dammit]

7. Ultimate inside job hitman, for hire. And all in supporting a dictator in training. Vile.

[watoos]

8. Too bad we don't have

An impartial MSM, this should be front page news.

[Hoyt]

23. The Mueller report was front page news for quite a while before and after. Nothing.

This would likely be no different.

[certainot]

38. whenever and whatever the left protests at rw talk radio stations will be front page

or the 88+ universities that use their majority black athletes to attract advertisers to 260 of those KKK radio stations

the cons can ignore protests everywhere else because a few hundred ignorant liars on those radio stations yell over the protestors as long as it takes.

protests directed directly at the problem will freak the cons out. they'll howl "free speech!!", media will notice, and that will send advertisers to the hills. the cons will have to fund it directly and that will end the 'market demand' for lies and hate bullshit

[bluestarone]

12. When we win in 2020 we better not EVER FORGET these lowlife scum

The INVESTIGATION should START right after we win in 2020.

[Jarqui]

13. I bet we're just scratching the surface on Barr

I still think he shut Mueller down in some fashion whether by killing his budget or using his argument on obstruction.

[Merlot]

54. I've always thought the timing was to convenient

barr gets the AG job, and then the Mueller investigation is done, just like that.

That's why the WH kept saying that the investigation was almost over a few months before barr, they planted the seeds to make this not look so obvious.

[SunSeeker]

14. K & R for exposure.

[Lulu KC]

15. On Twitter, people are checking for accuracy n/t

[jalan48]

16. And without a peep from straight shootin Bob.

[milestogo]

20. That's good boy Republican Bob.

Good ol boy.

[jalan48]

21. Yep-Image is everything.

[FiveGoodMen]

62. ...or anyone else!!!

[Lulu KC]

17. But since CNN was the one asking for records, why

aren't they reporting on it. Maybe there's more!

[Lulu KC]

18. hints--

CNN, court records, Mueller, but not this detail.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/24/politics/cnn-mueller-court-documents-unsealed/index.html

[Judi Lynn]

42. Thanks for the link. n/t

[Igel]

25. Might be interesting to see the entire document rawstory refers to.

The two that they show were started in Aug. 2017. Apparently they went nowhere. Mueller didn't stress out over them for 18 months. If the documents requested had turned up, the requesting office wasn't open and they'd have been shunted elsewhere--but since they were requested under the authority of the SP, who had concluded his work, it looks like they were dead letters. Either Mueller got the information some other way or decided that, since he wasn't getting the information, he'd do without. It might just be that there was legal stonewalling, and so those issues would never have been pursued. Dunno. (Like I said, might be interesting to see the entire 65-page doc.)

That's those two, at least.

The others, who knows.

[LiberalFighter]

26. This is how Trump got away with committing crimes in NY.

He had people like Barr working for him in the NY District office.

[pangaia]

33. And I will bet, the FBI.

[Blue Owl]

27. Fucking enabler

This is how the loser "wins" thanks to enabling fucks like Barr -- how utterly amoral and disgusting...

[onenote]

30. This is why I dislike Raw Story --

The article says that seven "cases" were closed. But these weren't "cases" -- they were requests for access to electronic information. From what is disclosed in the article, it cannot be determined if the request was never granted or whether it was granted. In either instance, that could be the reason that they were "closed" after Mueller finished his report.

[emmaverybo]

32. OK. Makes sense. I also dislike RS.

[SkatmanRoth]

41. This information is still leads for the House investigations to pursue

The House investigators can reopen the requests and get the information. Trump will not walk away while Nadler, Schiff, and Cummings are after him.

[Judi Lynn]

43. Please don't hesitate to look around for the missing information. I couldn't find anything else. n/t

[czarjak]

35. Cheating fair and square...

You almost have to give it to them.

[ffr]

39. Jail is too good for Barr, tRump and McConnell.

Unamericans.

[Achilleaze]

44. Evil shittery (R)

raw fascist truth execution & power grab (R). They are intent on destroying US democracy.

[Hugin]

49. Of course he did...

That was why Sessions was fired and Barr was brought in... To fire Mueller!

[still_one]

60. Even more reason why Mueller must testify before Congress

[tymorial]

66. There still wont be any impeachment.

I have lost all faith in the house under Pelosi's leadership.

[warmfeet]

67. Things are looking pretty grim

right now.

The repugs can, seemingly, do anything and get away with it without even the threat of accountability. I have no answers.

All I have to offer is that what we are currently doing is not working. We need to try something else. All Democrats need to try something else.

[Ferrets are Cool]

68. Oh come on...don't get so riled up...

we must keep our powder dry.

[Kid Berwyn]

71. It's not obstruction of justice when the Attorney General does it.

It’s criminal.

[onetexan]

73. yep, we need to demand his resignation and prosecution for his crimes