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“Travesty” is not a nice word. It usually is applied to gross perversions of justice, and that apparently is the context Attorney General William Barr desired when he dropped it into an interview answer the other day.
His composed, understated delivery almost disguised the weighty magnitude of that disturbing word, and the loaded adjective that preceded it.
“I think what happened to him,” he said, referring to the president and the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into his campaign, “was one of the greatest travesties in American history.”
Okay, it’s important to pause for a moment and absorb what the AG said. He just called an FBI investigation not just a travesty, but one of the “greatest” travesties in the nation’s history. It was an unprecedented statement by an attorney general about his own department’s premier agency.
The FBI has made plenty of mistakes, but never in its 112-year history has an FBI investigation been characterized as a travesty, let alone one that equates to other hall-of-fame travesties in American history.
Is the AG’s assessment fair? The answer is entwined in his next statement:
“Without any basis, the FBI started this investigation into Donald Trump’s campaign ... .”
Oops, stop again right there. Mr. Barr is making a definitive statement about what many have speculated all along, namely that the weirdly unprecedented investigative team put together by former FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe did not have adequate legal reasons to open a case into the Trump campaign in the first place. The attorney general of the United States just confirmed it!
It's his job...but you knew that.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: carewemust
Gee, from Mr. Barr.
What a surprise.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: carewemust
Gee, from Mr. Barr.
What a surprise.
originally posted by: IAMALLYETALLIAM
a reply to: carewemust
Wake me when they start indicting anybody of any note.
"But it's coming it's coming, Hillary and Obama are going to jail". Been how long now?
He's just giving us a head's up.
originally posted by: Sabrechucker
Kevin Clinesmith
Tashina Gauhar
Sally Moyer
"The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine"
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: carewemust
Gee, from Mr. Barr.
What a surprise.
originally posted by: mtnshredder
I have no doubt that this true but I’ll believe it when I see the indictments. Somehow or another I fell this will be nothing more than a “shame on you, don’t do it again”.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: BlueJacket
To be a cheering squad for the president? No, I didn't know that.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: carewemust
He's just giving us a head's up.
Yes. Just like he did when he distorted the findings of the Mueller Report.
His job is not to make political statements. His job is to enforce the law. He should shut up and do it. Keep his mouth shut until he actually does something.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: carewemust
He's just giving us a head's up.
Yes. Just like he did when he distorted the findings of the Mueller Report.