It looks possible AG Bill Barr is trying to pull a sneaky fast-one against President Trump and the American people. Because what Barr is claiming to do, he really isn’t doing.
According to a stunning article by Associated Press, AG Bill Barr appointed John Durham as a special counsel on October 19th, and did not tell anyone.
[…] Barr told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he had appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham as a special counsel in October under the same federal statute that governed special counsel Robert Mueller in the original Russia probe. He said Durham’s investigation has been narrowing to focus more on the conduct of FBI agents who worked on the Russia investigation, known as Crossfire Hurricane.
[…] “I decided the best thing to do would be to appoint them under the same regulation that covered Bob Mueller, to provide Durham and his team some assurance that they’d be able to complete their work regardless of the outcome of the election,” Barr said Tuesday. (Link)
Today the Attorney General notifies congress in a letter:
However, here’s the issue… under DOJ regulations [28 cfr 600] a special counsel must come from “outside government“; so did John Durham resign his position prior to the appointment, or has Bill Barr just given the appearance of a special counsel appointment while knowing the legal validity of it will collapse upon challenge?
§ 600.3 Qualifications of the Special Counsel.
“(a) An individual named as Special Counsel shall be a lawyer with a reputation for integrity and impartial decisionmaking, and with appropriate experience to ensure both that the investigation will be conducted ably, expeditiously and thoroughly, and that investigative and prosecutorial decisions will be supported by an informed understanding of the criminal law and Department of Justice policies. The Special Counsel shall be selected from outside the United States Government. Special Counsels shall agree that their responsibilities as Special Counsel shall take first precedence in their professional lives, and that it may be necessary to devote their full time to the investigation, depending on its complexity and the stage of the investigation.” (link)
Obviously Bill Barr is not stupid, he would know the regulations he cites would require the special counsel to come from “outside the U.S. government”, so what gives?
(AP cont..) A senior Justice Department official told the AP that although the order details that it is “including but not limited to Crossfire Hurricane and the investigation of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III,” the Durham probe has not expanded. The official said that line specifically relates to FBI personnel who worked on the Russia investigation before the May 2017 appointment of Mueller, a critical area of scrutiny for both Durham and for the Justice Department inspector general, which identified a series of errors and omissions in surveillance applications targeting a former Trump campaign associate.
The appointment:
Sorry.. I lost all faith in Barr a while ago
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I find stuff screwed up here more worse than my ex wife’s checkbook!
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So thankful to see everyone up and running!! General Flynn referred people like us as the Digital Army, that’s us! Thank you Sundance!
Bloated Bill Barr needs to be fired. TONIGHT.
Amen!
Totally agree – Barr should be fired and charged with Treason!
Barr completely beclowned himself with today’s pronouncement of “no evidence of ballot fraud”. As Giuliani pointed out “[T]here hasn’t been any semblance of a Department of Justice investigation” “As far as we know, not a single one has been interviewed by the DOJ. The Justice Department also hasn’t audited any voting machines or used their subpoena powers to determine the truth.” “[H]is opinion appears to be without any knowledge or investigation of the substantial irregularities and evidence of systemic fraud.”
Me too sorry to say.
You and me both. The fact that he hasn’t fired Chris Wray and never criticized the obviously compromised Rod Rosenslime tells us everything we need to know about Bill “Business As Usual” Barr.
Slimeball.
How do we know Trump wasn’t informed?
The pic of Barr is that of a self-satisfied swamprat, satisfied that he has pulled the wool over the sheeples’ eyes; Barr is not PDJT’s wingman, he’s a mirage.
The time for Russia Russia was 3 years ago. This should have been to investigate election fraud except the DOJ seems like they can’t find any. ?
Bag Pipes claims that the “evidence” doesn’t show any fraud that would impact the current vote totals. I’d like to see what exactly his evidence consists of because it surly hasn’t come from DJT’s legal team or anyone else busting their butts to try and right this ship.
Sundance has Bondo Barr pegged long long ago…
So he did. From the very start.
Baghdad Bill: All is well! Nothing to see here!
Unreal. The only thing I fear is this being turned back on President Trump. There’s no way in Hades that anything good for President Trump will be a result of this investigation.
I have zero faith in the DOJ or FIB. Rank and File my eye.
Perhaps they’re thinking they can leverage Biden. Heaven knows there is a wealth of content on that side. In investigating misconduct, you know they will bump up against the DNC, Clinton Foundation, Biden’s Mafia and the Obamas.
Why would they need to leverage biden, he’s already a sock puppet that’s under nefarious control.
Does this also prevent Trump from declassification and set up an obstruction trap? Barr is not looking like a good guy. I don’t trust him.
Excellent point, could be a manipulation to muzzle our president.
Could very well be.
Yeah President Trump you can’t release that info because there is an ongoing investigation! Total bullshit!
Well, we could go by the same umbrella of “…due to ongoing investigations…” that the DeepState so loves to use to hide information until nobody cares or forgets. Or dies.
Sure the President can have the declassification happen, then, if he thinks things might go all awry, grant a full pardon for himself, all his family members, cabinet members and their family members, the VP and his family members, staff, and their family members and then just send an email to himself stating that he did everything by the book!
That’s how it’s done, right?
Right!
Find all the dirt and lawbreaking you want, nothing will be prosecutable. What a scumbag move. Talk about stabbing Trump in the back.
I hope Trump publicly fires him today. This is …. words fail me.
Who convinced President Trump that he should hire Barr as AG because he could get confirmed.
That person is the traitor and I suspect Mitch McConnell had something to do with it.
Christy ?
1-15-2019 Clairvoyant Diana West:
“ In the final pages of Compromised, Terry Reed writes that in 1992, several years after working with CIA-connected Robert Johnson, he made the “miraculous find” that “Robert Johnson” was also William P. Barr.
Yes, that William P. Barr, Donald Trump’s Attorney General [who likely ] pledged deep enough fealty to an unelected and unaccounatble super-dirty super-cop and Barr best friend, Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Ironically, Barr’s tenure as Bush ‘41 AG was noteworthy for his aversion to “special counsels,” and he earned himself the title “Cover-up General” from William Safire….
Barr vanished from Washington’s radar. Then, 28 years later, Trump nominated Barr to be his AG, the most critical cabinet slot in his Swamp-besieged presidency.
Would that a US Senator ask William P. Barr under oath if he ever was known to anyone under the alias “Robert Johnson.”
Of course, even if Barr is if not also “Robert Johnson,” even if he is only a George “New World Order” Bush-retread, my deep concern is that he is nonetheless the ringer of all ringers, another Deep Stater foisted on/welcomed aboard by Donald Trump.
US law enforcement aside: a “fixer” for Bushworld, that vast, submerged continent of the Swamp, does not seem like the man to Drain the Swamp for President Trump and We, the Deplorables.
I wonder if Barr wrote that pro-Trump-firing-Comey brief as a perfectly scrumptious piece of bait Trump would (and did) find irresistible…..”
https://dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/3823/Deep-State-Rides-Again.aspx
“…claiming to do, he really isn’t doing.”
That gets my vote, he’s running the big stall and Durham is part of it. Barr is bigtime swamp.
Is withholding this week information somehow not political?
Coupled with his insulting and embarrassing statement to AP that he’s seen no evidence of enough fraud to alter the (still contested) election results, I have lost faith in him. He should apologize to all of us for being unable or unwilling to control his department, and to those people who tried to report the fraud they witnessed but we’re blown off, assign a special counsel for this on his way out the door, and resign.
Good Grief.
ANOTHER “Special Counsel?”
John BS Durham is now in place to sweep Democrat corruption under the carpet.
WHAT A JOKE
Smoke and mirrors.
Can posture as a “good guy” now and if Beijing Biden takes the oath, Durham gets canned for not being legitimate. OTOH, with Trump taking the oath, as seems increasingly likely, the work can continue on with Barr wearing a cloak of goodness to cover the Deep State slime.
It’s going to be time in a few days to quit chasing the legal sleaze cats around the yard and come to grips with democRat and rhinoe Political Criminals committing Election Fraud and Treason.
https://ncrenegade.com/editorial/a-couple-of-ominous-questions-remain-what-kind-of-country-are-we-going-to-leave-to-our-children-and-grandchildren-what-will-you-say-when-they-ask-what-you-did-to-stop-the-tyranny-and-destruction-of/
I reserving judgement for the time being.
At some point I plan to pee on Barr’s grave.
That’s good because Songbird’s grave is completely saturated.
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Barr’s handling of this coverup is likely moving into its final phase. He’s got to scoop up all of the evidence remaining, and either destroy it or neuter its potency. Mueller and many others broke the law, and now Barr is protecting the lawbreakers. That’s why McConnell put him there.
text of twitter post:
Right now, Barr DOJ protecting Hillary Clinton directly and trying to shutdown all @JudicialWatch Clinton email discovery and suits, holding up release of Obamagate emails/texts of Page/Strzok/McCabe. Outrageous. @RealDonaldTrump should issue an emergency transparency order.
What does PT have to lose by firing that puke today?
And he can declassify EVERYTHING, without the hectoring.
As if we needed any more proof of what a traitorous scumbag Barrzini turned out to be, here’s yet another betrayal of our President Trump.
Slice it and dice it however you want- Barrzini was Swamp/Deep State all the way.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9006889/Barr-No-evidence-fraud-d-change-election-outcome.html
I saw this.
Let me smile to your face and say I’m working on it for you and then shiv you in the back.
Bottom line, it exposes completely how defective our government has become.
There are no white hats, no one in power is riding to the rescue to establish justice. Those that are bucking the RESET are prosecuted. It’s just us and the like minded. I pray we still have the power to right the ship.
Seneca didn’t President Trump fire Chris Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency because of Krebs’ statement that said there “is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.”? Hopefully he will do the same to AG Barr! They are all in on the Dominion voting system scam! Godspeed President Trump!
I thought he was fired for not showing up to work, missing meetings, etc.
Bubby- you are right, that’s why he was fired.
Hey Chief – I just got back “on” and can comment. Is there a trick to get the “Like” thingy back?
I would prefer to never get it back.
It’s a poster’s pellet.
what does “posters pellet” mean?
Yet he didn’t have to do anything. He’s gone as soon as Biden would take office. He has said as much. He goes off into the sunset.
Mission accomplished:
William Barr is an entirely different level of criminal, the antithesis of a “patriot” and the swampiest of swamp monsters.
Trump won the presidency in 2016 on the power of the single mandate to “drain the swamp”, and Destroy the Deep State.
Barr does not want the swamp to be drained. Barr only supports limited investigations and limited hangouts.
The Justice Department has been ground zero in this war.
“Robert Johnson”—is the Deep State swamp’s most loyal operators and protectors, and Barr is deeply connected and loyal to everyone and everything that Trump opposes.
Will Barr go after Bill and Hillary Clinton? Jeb and George W. Bush, with whom Barr managed numerous Iran-Contra operations? Will he go after Robert Mueller and James Comey, and dozens of members of Congress, who were also deeply connected to the CIA MONEY LAUNDERING “Enterprise”?
The atrocities and crimes of the Bushes and Clintons are unspeakable and unimaginable in depravity and scale. These atrocities were facilitated by William “Robert Johnson” Barr. Without arresting Bush-Clinton/Obama, two sides of the same coin, no real swamp draining will take place.
Why would Barr go against everything he helped create and everything he stood for? Why would he undo his own criminal handiwork by prosecuting his own lifelong criminal colleagues and friends? Barr’s career has been about saving the Deep State and the New World Order that he helped make invincible. Why would he do any differently now?
“Once CIA, always CIA.”
Barr and/or his Bush/CIA colleagues have baited the Trump team in order to place him in Trump’s administration as a Trojan Horse.
If Trump thinks that he can control or leverage someone as dangerous as Barr, then Trump is taking the biggest risk of his presidency, and of his life.
He is also placing the country and the world at risk.
I believe this was done so in event Biden get’s away with the steal, Trump can’t declassify anything because – you know – the “investigation is ongoing”!
Great comment. Yep just like Mueller.
The Democommunists are completely in love with Bury It Barr this afternoon. Call a press conference. Play his interviews where he talks a good game about upholding the rule of law. Announce he is being fired for not living up to his own words.
Should there be a Biden administration, I fully expect him to hold over a couple of Trump appointees. All for the sake of continuity and unity when, in fact, it will expose their complicity in DS manipulations.
Sets up PDJT re: No declass
Evil Bastards
If a special counsel must come from the outside then what Barr has done gives the President legal grounds to fire him today. Yes?
I would agree, Yes!
Dereliction of duty
this is a test post.
https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1333875449546551298?s=20
Time to fire AG Bill Barr.
Lies about Dominion. No action on Epstein, Durham, Hunter Biden laptop or Weiner laptop. A stolen election now being ignored.
We need Patriots helping @realDonaldTrump
if we are to save our country & freedom.
Hard to disagree with Lin Wood’s tweet! Did President Trump know AG Barr setup a Special Counsel? If not how is that different than AG Jeff Sessions recusal?
Benedict Barr
Yup..a lifer who remains Teflon.
Oh, stop looking at election fraud. Look at this shiny new item!
Barr, the fourth monkey.
Monkey #1, See no evil. Eyes covered
Monkey #2, Hear no evil. Ears covered
Monkey #3, Speak no evil. Mouth covered
Monkey #4, CYA, Ass covered
Wish I could like that. 😉
It’s bad enough that this particular Attorney General has seen “no evidence of fraud that would have changed the outcome of the election”,
so tells the world he has supposedly made an appointment of a Special Counsel?
Gut says Barr’s making this noise today Because of the excellent work both the Trump Re-election team of lawyers headed by Giuliani and Ellis And the work being conducted for We the people by Atty Sidney Powell and her teams are definitively uncovering fraud that would indeed change the outcome of the election.
AG Barr – perhaps a most dangerous denizen of the swamp, watching this man in operation is akin to the experience of watching a beloved one relegated to die a slow death, knowing that the injury can be fixed but the attending physician, in discussion with his assistant, is overheard saying it’s not cost effective to save the patient – in this case, however, that patient being the United States of America.
Time is indeed of the essence.
Didn’t Barr send a group of DOJ “observers” to places like Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta etc just before Election Day? Whatever became of that?
I remember that. DOJ supposedly were to go to highest expected fraud locations. Another Bury It Barr misdirection.
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Barr was bought by AT&T CNN for $1.73 million dollars. He is corrupt and will get away scott free.
Cheers.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/attorney-general-nominee-william-barr-made-1-73-million-from-at-t-time-warner-deal-51547493385
Right now, Barr DOJ protecting Hillary Clinton directly and trying to shutdown all @JudicialWatch
Clinton email discovery and suits, holding up release of Obamagate emails/texts of Page/Strzok/McCabe. Outrageous. @RealDonaldTrump
should issue an emergency transparency order.
If AG Barr is protecting Hillary his ass needs to be booted out today!
SC shall be selected from outside the USG … perfect cover to fire them both. And as Bogey has suggested many times appoint Scalia as AG. Do it now, do it quickly and then immediately back to stopping the steal.
Did Bagpipe Bill investigate this?
SEC filings: CHINA paid $400,000,000.00 to own
@dominionvoting
we believe just this past October. #ChinaOwnsDominionVoting
https://twitter.com/KMCRadio/status/1333872720594030600/photo/1
Barrf was another wonderful choice; a total swamp creature, and anyone with five minutes to Google his past knew it.
One day after Bush’s funeral, Donald Trump announced Barr would be his next Attorney General. He was seen chatting with Bush 41 at the funeral.
Based on Barr’s history, this will mean no accountability for Deep State criminals. As a result, Trump has all but plugged the drain at the bottom of the swamp – No indictments for Jim Comey, John Brennan, Hillary Clinton or any of the other swamp creature.
A fixer weaned on CIA FRESH CUT FRENCH FIES AND PASTA FRA DIAVOLO
https://www.chilipeppermadness.com/recipes/fra-diavolo-sauce/
IMHO the appointment isn’t to insulate Durham from Biden; the violation of “out of govt” reg negates that approach.
This move is to Block Trump from declassification of material now under Special Counsel review.
Barr is protecting Deep State not investigating it. Prove me wrong
Sundance that’s not going to happen, proving you wrong! AG Barr needs to go! F his Special Counsel President Trump now can’t declassify the info or there would be “obstruction of justice” charges that bastard AG Barr!!!!
But Durham is not from outside the govt. DJT could declass.
Agree! Since Durham wasn’t from outside the government his appointment violated the SC laws why can’t President Trump just void the appointment? But I’m not an attorney.
BTW, Barr didn’t appoint Durham a Special Counsel to protect the investigation from Biden.
It was done to protect the (non-) investigation from President Trump.
You hit the nail on the head……….directly.
The solution was always “in the streets” but we lack will and organization. Pray for 45. Weissmann wants new AG under Biden to go after Trump. He and family is under grave threat.
Psycho Weissmann wants his reputation rehabilitated . The ny slimes was happy to comply
Nothing but PR.stunt.
Besides, the “broke ankle” is just the beginning of putting traitor joe out of sight , mind & commission.
I would bet the ankle got broken because Joe was starting to Chicken out..
Perhaps,
Listen to the 2 videos at the bottom of the page….
https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-11-30-situation-update-nov-30th-is-joe-biden-preparing-to-concede-rumors-emerge-of-biden-seeking-pardon-deal-from-trump.html
I wish I could remember the link that someone posted here. Former military man talking about McInerny, Flynn and also that the DOJ was going after Ezra Cohen-Watnick.
He said ECW was Q so I dismissed it reflexively.
Given the revelations about Barr today, I would not be surprised if ECW has a DOJ target on his back.
Jeffrey Prather is the name you are looking for.
From his website at: https://jeffreyprather.com/
“Jeffrey Prather is a retired army officer, ex-DEA special agent, former DIA intelligence officer turned whistle blower and then targeted by the government.”
Thank you!
Just an extension of the institutional preservation because there is ample evidence and proof of the wrongdoing of many including the Fan Belt Inspectors.
No court will take up these cases for President Trump? Ironic if Sidney gets through on the Dominion machine fraud in Georgia.
I’ve stuck up for Barr until today. I think Barr’s compromised.
I’m back on CTH! THANK YOU!
Wish I was!
Finally! LOL
Unless Bill Barr is playing possum, and is actually putting the finishing touches on the prosecution paperwork of ALL of the traitors, he should be shit canned forth with. It seems curious he hasn’t been, if he’s not actually doing exactly that. Trump had no problem dumping Esper, why wouldn’t he do the same with Barr, if Barr qas just sitting on his hands?
Now that Carter Page has filed a $75 million dollar lawsuit, this is a whitewash against Carter’s discovery.
Songe won’t recover damages & all seditious miscreants will be exonerated by “no intent” as Comey revised the statute for Hillary.
https://twitter.com/rrtodd_/status/1333905479584653318?s=20
It’s nothing more than a effort to silence President Trump so he can’t declassify material or be subject to a charge of obstruction of justice! AG Barr is in on the coup d’etat! Who knew? Senator McConnell!
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We don’t need an investigation. We know what happened. We need indictments.
The most obvious answer is the appointment of a special counsel blocks President Trump from declassifying material under the investigative authority of Durham.
Barr has painted Trump into a legal box, and justified the non-release of evidence adverse to FBI/DOJ and Mueller.
The appointment in October essentially hand-cuffed POTUS regardless of election outcome.
If Trump loses the evidence is forever sealed.
If Trump Wins the SC blocks any release.
Sneaky move by Bill Barr
This will not end well for the Republic. I can’t see a way out short of a violent Civil War now!
Trump can fire Durham for nonfeasance., then release the REAL KRACKEN
he has nothing to lose if he can’t garner a court hearing to overturn the ballots.
This is actually GOOD NEWS!
If Biden and crew can dismiss the Special Counsel appointment because he is illegitimate, the EXACT same attack on the Special Counsel Appointment’s legitimacy can be made by President Trump!!!
Therefore, this in NO WAY ties his hands!
Barr is a Bushy…his job is now and has always been to protect the swamp……..
Declassify it ALL now.
Throw down the gauntlet.
No longer possible. There is no one in the government that is going to help POTUS.
President Trump needs to do a deal with Senate Majority Leader (just) Mitch McConnell.
Trump should use his leverage in the Georgia run-off races to get McConnell to appoint 2 Special Counsels/ Special Prosecutors to look into:
The Biden (“Crime”) Family and possible influence by Communist China and other associated foreign influences.
The 2020 Election.
2 Special Prosecutors on these 2 Matters.
Mitch currently has a 52-48 Senate Majority (including relying on Romney, Murkowski & Collins!!)
President Trump should offer to campaign vigorously in Georgia for the Senate Run-offs and concede after the Electoral College meets (if he doesn’t have the numbers), but only if McConnell appoints these 2 Special Prosecutors NOW.
Also – forget about the 2016 Election – it is now ancient history.
Trump failed to pursue those issues – he had FOUR YEARS.
Hopefully this sort of thing still works – but here’s a picture of Barr with an un-named friend.
Or this perhaps.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/En-KcaUVkAIrFu-?format=png
Beach Friend. ?
Don’t forget “the three amigos” photo.
Julian: Your Twitter post of Barr and his un-named friend worked for me. Not sure if my reply to you will end up in the right place.
I would trust McConnell as far as I could throw Barr.
Remember who Gina Haspel ran to? I do.
Maybe so, but appointing Special Counsels like these would surely be in McConnell’s interests as they tie down the Government to his favor.
I have to believe he wants to remain Senate Majority Leader, what’s the point of being Minority Leader with no power?
Mitch shouldn’t have fixed the vote with Dominion against Doug Collins. Big mistake.
Lol I’m thinking he did fix the vote…..against Doug. But thats just my suspicion as I have no facts or proof.
Go where?
I don’t think any place is outside their reach.
To me, that’s the crux of the matter. Never in my life have I thought I’d like to live in a different country but that’s changing. The trouble is – where? I’ve done a bit of research and have zip. Expat community in Mexico? No way. What an unimaginable dilemma. Which is not to say POTUS won’t prevail. If any person on the planet can do it, he can.
Amen times a million.
As freaky as things are, I’m thinking America is still the only place to be.
There is a survival guide section here I hope will soon be restored, and in which resides a fascinating and deeply revealing look at what has become of Argentina, for example. Unfortunately it’s probably a lot like Venezuela now. The writer has escaped there and now lives in the US.
This is a link to a tweet of Colonel Shaffer commenting on USPS subcontractor’s statement regarding ballots. Just over 4 minutes in length.
“If true” as the saying goes, this goes a long way to explain why Pelosi and her crew had to destroy the work the new Postmaster General was doing to overhaul and update the postal service, and also why it was Judge Emmett Sullivan who was appointed to oversee the postal service was complying with Pelosi’s diktats.
https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1333875528009453574?s=20
Tony Shaffer is a solid guy. The problem is, he can’t prosecute anyone.
The DOJ is compromised. The FBI is now involved to seize evidence and either hide it or destroy it.
Billy Barr just wants to be able to go play golf with his swamp buddies at the country club. He does not want to get involved and in fact may be / is actively fighting against our president.