A few things we’d like to add in order to cement William Barr’s disgraceful legacy as Attorney General:
– Among the things Mr. Barr assured the American people was that he would take a sober and aggressive look at the Hillary Clinton email ‘episode’. At this time of AG Barr’s departure from the Justice Dept. for the second time, we’ve heard not a word from either he nor the vaunted John Durham about the Clinton ‘situation’.
As we have noted, maybe we’re a bit too hard on Mr. Barr…perhaps he should be pitied, more than censured. Could be, as we’ve noted, Mr. Barr, at only 70, may have ‘lost a step or two.’ In other words, in his second turn in the DOJ “wheelhouse’, maybe Bill just wasn’t up to the task.
After all, who did Bill get his information regarding Hillary’s email ‘troubles’, and the widely held belief that the 2020 election doesn’t smell right?
Did Bill go to his FBI Director, that would be Christopher Wray, for all his information on those two topics? Was Mr. Wray the one who assured Bill that, regarding both the Hillary Clinton email investigation and the review of 2020 election fraud suspicions that ‘there was nothing to see there’?
And, would that be the same “Christopher Wray” who unarguably ‘stonewalled’ Congress on information it sought concerning the Russia hoax and “drug the feet of his agency” relative to the Obama administration’s role in “spying” on the Trump campaign and Administration?
Maybe the ‘former Bill Barr’ would have been more perceptive in assessing the information his subordinate, Wray, was feeding him on those matters. Or, maybe not.
But one thing seems clear to this layman: If the destruction of 30,000 emails which were under active investigation, if not subpoena, is not the very definition of “obstruction” and “destroying evidence in a possible criminal matter”, then, what is?!
It would seem no small matter that there were serious legal issues when a government official admittedly violates ‘policy’, or law, regarding the government’s ownership of all correspondence related to the official performance of the office. (If the official correspondence associated with the job duties and performance of the U.S. Secretary of State can be maintained as ‘personal’, and destroyed at the whim of that officeholder, then why do we even have a National Archives? Just askin’)
Maybe we’ll wrap up our critique of Bill Barr’s second tenure as Attorney General with his own words to the WSJ’s Kimberly Strassel in a recent interview…on why he took the job, ” The Dept. of Justice was being used as a political weapon by a “willful and small group of people…in an attempt to topple an administration.”
Finally, Barr made one curious comment that more or less, says it all: he understands, he says, “It’s painful that the system is used against Republicans and there is an AG not willing to do the same thing against Democrats”.
NO BILL, WHAT “REPUBLICANS” (Americans) WERE ASKING IS THAT YOU DO YOUR DAMN JOB, AND ASSURE THAT ‘ONE STANDARD OF JUSTICE’ (his words) IS APPLIED! dlh
