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May 4, 2021 20:54:20   #
moldyoldy
 
jeff smith wrote:
just more bimbo lies .
with all of the investigations , and there were a lot of them . there has never been a thing to see .
just the thought of President Trump running again has scared the bimbos . they even raided Giuliano's home .
you do know the real reason the bimbos and certain rino's h**e Trump ?
it is because he was making waves . he was disrupting there get rich plans while supposedly serving the American people . but only serving themselves . it is called CORUPTION . they tried at every turn and FAILED to oust thePresident and they even had msm doing their bidding across the tv and cable and satellite and radio networks telling all of you dem followers who sucked it in hook line and sinker .
YOU HAVE ALL BEEN HAD
just more bimbo lies . br with all of the investi... (show quote)


Trump lined his pockets with federal funds.

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May 4, 2021 21:13:39   #
moldyoldy
 
Barr lied, we knew he was lying. Mueller said that trump obstructed justice ten times. Now the facts are coming out.

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May 4, 2021 21:47:16   #
jeff smith
 
moldyoldy wrote:
Trump lined his pockets with federal funds.


oh he did ? when and how ?
wasn't he suppose to go to jail/prison when he was out of office ?
Mara Lago must be one heck of a cushy prison .

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May 4, 2021 21:53:56   #
jeff smith
 
moldyoldy wrote:
Barr lied, we knew he was lying. Mueller said that trump obstructed justice ten times. Now the facts are coming out.


are they? OR is it just another b.n.c.p. LIE ? OR is it just another lie to get you bimbo followers all worked up like the last 4 plus years with one lie after another just keep taking that hook , line AND sinker .
little fishes , little fishes you'll be our puppets for ever .

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May 4, 2021 21:57:12   #
moldyoldy
 
jeff smith wrote:
are they? OR is it just another b.n.c.p. LIE ? OR is it just another lie to get you bimbo followers all worked up like the last 4 plus years with one lie after another just keep taking that hook , line AND sinker .
little fishes , little fishes you'll be our puppets for ever .


Barr protected him as long as he could.

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May 4, 2021 22:21:50   #
Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon
 
moldyoldy wrote:
US Attorney General William Barr testifies during a US House Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing on the Department of Justice Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 10, 2019.

The Department of Justice must produce a memo cited by then-attorney general Bill Barr as his justification for not charging then-president Donald Trump with obstruction of justice following the release of the Mueller report, a federal judge ruled on Monday.


After special counsel Robert Mueller released his findings in March 2019, Barr purported to “summarize the principal conclusions” in a letter to congressional leaders that condensed the nearly 400-page report into just over three pages, which did not include a single completed sentence from the report.

“[Barr’s] characterization of what he’d hardly had time to skim, much less, study closely, prompted an immediate reaction, as politicians and pundits took to their microphones and Twitter feeds to decry what they feared was an attempt to hide the ball,” U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote in a scathing 41-page order.

The nonprofit government watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) “immediately fired off” a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for any records related to Barr’s considerations but the DOJ “demurred on the grounds of the deliberative process and attorney-client privileges,” the court noted.

After that initial denial, CREW sued, alleging wrongful withholding of various records not subject to FOIA exemptions. After years of legal wrangling, the group “accepted the bulk of” the DOJ’s efforts to withhold various pieces of information, the court notes, except for Document 6 and Document 15. The court ruled that DOJ was correct to withhold Document 6 under a relevant FOIA exception–but that the agency must provide CREW with Document 15.

Jackson’s opinion offers a detailed description of the document by way of the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) [emphasis in original]:

As indicated in the portions of the memorandum that were released, it was submitted to the Attorney General to assist him in determining whether the facts set forth in Volume II of Special Counsel Mueller’s report “would support initiating or declining the prosecution of the President for obstruction of justice under the Principles of Federal Prosecution.” The released portions also indicate that the memorandum contains the authors’ recommendation in favor of a conclusion that “the evidence developed by the Special Counsel’s investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense.” The withheld portions of the memorandum contain legal advice and prosecutorial deliberations in support of that recommendation. Following receipt of the memorandum, the Attorney General announced his decision publicly in a letter to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees…

DOJ argued that Document 15 is “predecisional” and therefore subject to a specific exemption from the federal t***sparency law.

Judge Jackson, however, disagreed “because the materials in the record, including the memorandum itself, contradict the [DOJ’s] assertions that the decision-making process they have identified was in fact underway” and “the record supplies reason to question whether the communication preceded any decision that was made.”

CREW argued, on the other hand, that Mueller “already had made final prosecutorial judgments, and the time for [Barr] to challenge those judgments had passed.”

“The absence of a pending decision for [Barr] to make necessarily means the memo did not make a recommendation or express an opinion on a legitimate legal or policy matter,” one of CREW’s court filings said. “Instead, it was part of a larger campaign initiated by Attorney General Barr to undermine the Special Counsel’s report and rehabilitate the President.”

The court generally agreed with CREW regarding Document 15.

Jackson, without describing the contents of the document itself, explains that one of the sections of the memo “offers strategic, as opposed to legal advice, about whether [Barr] should take a particular course of action, and it made recommendations with respect to that determination.”

That first section, the court noted, is essential for understanding the “proper context” of the second section, in which the Justice Department discusses whether Mueller’s evidence “would amount to obstruction of justice.”

“Moreover, the redacted portions of Section I reveal that both the authors and the recipient of the memorandum had a shared understanding concerning whether prosecuting [Trump] was a matter to be considered at all,” Jackson continues. “In other words, the review of the document reveals that the Attorney General was not then engaged in making a decision about whether the President should be charged with obstruction of justice; the fact that he would not be prosecuted was a given.”

The upshot of the memo, the court determined, “calls into question the accuracy of Attorney General Barr’s March 24 representation to Congress.” The judge also noted that the Justice Department’s prior description of the memo “served to obscure the true purpose of the memorandum.”

Jackson determined that her secret “in camera review of the document, which DOJ strongly resisted, raises serious questions about how the Department of Justice could make this series of representations to a court.”

Jackson went on to note that “while CREW had never laid eyes on the document, its summary was considerably more accurate than the one” given by the Justice Department to the court.

“What remains at issue today is a memorandum to the Attorney General dated March 24, 2019, that specifically addresses the subject matter of the letter t***smitted to Congress,” the order notes. “It is time for the public to see that, too.”

The Justice Department has two weeks to respond to the court’s order.

The post DOJ Must Turn Over Secret Trump-Era Memo That Judge Finds ‘Calls Into Question’ Bill Barr’s Statement to Congress About Obstruction, Mueller Report first appeared on Law & Crime.


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Billy Barr is a t*****r to the union....and he never did squat to benefit Trump.

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May 4, 2021 22:53:13   #
moldyoldy
 
Michael Rich wrote:
Billy Barr is a t*****r to the union....and he never did squat to benefit Trump.


He lied repeatedly about the mueller report.

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May 4, 2021 23:02:18   #
nwtk2007 Loc: Texas
 
moldyoldy wrote:
US Attorney General William Barr testifies during a US House Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing on the Department of Justice Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 10, 2019.

The Department of Justice must produce a memo cited by then-attorney general Bill Barr as his justification for not charging then-president Donald Trump with obstruction of justice following the release of the Mueller report, a federal judge ruled on Monday.


After special counsel Robert Mueller released his findings in March 2019, Barr purported to “summarize the principal conclusions” in a letter to congressional leaders that condensed the nearly 400-page report into just over three pages, which did not include a single completed sentence from the report.

“[Barr’s] characterization of what he’d hardly had time to skim, much less, study closely, prompted an immediate reaction, as politicians and pundits took to their microphones and Twitter feeds to decry what they feared was an attempt to hide the ball,” U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote in a scathing 41-page order.

The nonprofit government watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) “immediately fired off” a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for any records related to Barr’s considerations but the DOJ “demurred on the grounds of the deliberative process and attorney-client privileges,” the court noted.

After that initial denial, CREW sued, alleging wrongful withholding of various records not subject to FOIA exemptions. After years of legal wrangling, the group “accepted the bulk of” the DOJ’s efforts to withhold various pieces of information, the court notes, except for Document 6 and Document 15. The court ruled that DOJ was correct to withhold Document 6 under a relevant FOIA exception–but that the agency must provide CREW with Document 15.

Jackson’s opinion offers a detailed description of the document by way of the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) [emphasis in original]:

As indicated in the portions of the memorandum that were released, it was submitted to the Attorney General to assist him in determining whether the facts set forth in Volume II of Special Counsel Mueller’s report “would support initiating or declining the prosecution of the President for obstruction of justice under the Principles of Federal Prosecution.” The released portions also indicate that the memorandum contains the authors’ recommendation in favor of a conclusion that “the evidence developed by the Special Counsel’s investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense.” The withheld portions of the memorandum contain legal advice and prosecutorial deliberations in support of that recommendation. Following receipt of the memorandum, the Attorney General announced his decision publicly in a letter to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees…

DOJ argued that Document 15 is “predecisional” and therefore subject to a specific exemption from the federal t***sparency law.

Judge Jackson, however, disagreed “because the materials in the record, including the memorandum itself, contradict the [DOJ’s] assertions that the decision-making process they have identified was in fact underway” and “the record supplies reason to question whether the communication preceded any decision that was made.”

CREW argued, on the other hand, that Mueller “already had made final prosecutorial judgments, and the time for [Barr] to challenge those judgments had passed.”

“The absence of a pending decision for [Barr] to make necessarily means the memo did not make a recommendation or express an opinion on a legitimate legal or policy matter,” one of CREW’s court filings said. “Instead, it was part of a larger campaign initiated by Attorney General Barr to undermine the Special Counsel’s report and rehabilitate the President.”

The court generally agreed with CREW regarding Document 15.

Jackson, without describing the contents of the document itself, explains that one of the sections of the memo “offers strategic, as opposed to legal advice, about whether [Barr] should take a particular course of action, and it made recommendations with respect to that determination.”

That first section, the court noted, is essential for understanding the “proper context” of the second section, in which the Justice Department discusses whether Mueller’s evidence “would amount to obstruction of justice.”

“Moreover, the redacted portions of Section I reveal that both the authors and the recipient of the memorandum had a shared understanding concerning whether prosecuting [Trump] was a matter to be considered at all,” Jackson continues. “In other words, the review of the document reveals that the Attorney General was not then engaged in making a decision about whether the President should be charged with obstruction of justice; the fact that he would not be prosecuted was a given.”

The upshot of the memo, the court determined, “calls into question the accuracy of Attorney General Barr’s March 24 representation to Congress.” The judge also noted that the Justice Department’s prior description of the memo “served to obscure the true purpose of the memorandum.”

Jackson determined that her secret “in camera review of the document, which DOJ strongly resisted, raises serious questions about how the Department of Justice could make this series of representations to a court.”

Jackson went on to note that “while CREW had never laid eyes on the document, its summary was considerably more accurate than the one” given by the Justice Department to the court.

“What remains at issue today is a memorandum to the Attorney General dated March 24, 2019, that specifically addresses the subject matter of the letter t***smitted to Congress,” the order notes. “It is time for the public to see that, too.”

The Justice Department has two weeks to respond to the court’s order.

The post DOJ Must Turn Over Secret Trump-Era Memo That Judge Finds ‘Calls Into Question’ Bill Barr’s Statement to Congress About Obstruction, Mueller Report first appeared on Law & Crime.


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But you don't believe in memo's!

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May 4, 2021 23:04:46   #
nwtk2007 Loc: Texas
 
moldyoldy wrote:
He lied repeatedly about the mueller report.


How bout those memo's where Hillary declares that she is going to manufacture a Russian collusion scandal about Trump to help hide her illegal server? That's a good memo, especially since it also involves Obama giving it his stamp of approval. Then there are the FBI memo's where they decide to entrap Flynn. K**ler, right??

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May 5, 2021 04:11:17   #
moldyoldy
 
nwtk2007 wrote:
How bout those memo's where Hillary declares that she is going to manufacture a Russian collusion scandal about Trump to help hide her illegal server? That's a good memo, especially since it also involves Obama giving it his stamp of approval. Then there are the FBI memo's where they decide to entrap Flynn. K**ler, right??



Now, if only you could find it.

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May 5, 2021 04:19:16   #
Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
 
moldyoldy wrote:
trump and company are all crooks who should be in jail. Barr, Sessions, and the whole GOP conspired to protect him.
In the Mueller case, the appointment of a special counsel investigation violated the constitution, Mueller's hit squad broke DOJ rules, guidelines, protocols, and the supervisory command chain.

A special counsel is not authorized to investigate, prepare, and submit Articles of Impeachment to congressional democrat committees.

I read the actual Mueller report, both sections.

And, for the record. Only dictators, tyrants, and police state despots pursue, prosecute, persecute, and attempt to eliminate former political opponents AFTER they are out of office.

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May 5, 2021 07:02:02   #
America 1 Loc: South Miami
 
moldyoldy wrote:
Compare Obama’s cabinet to Trump's. Trump was reportedly selling pardons.


Trump used his clemency power sparingly despite a raft of late pardons and commutations
Trump:
Trump granted 237 acts of clemency during his four years in the White House, including 143 pardons and 94 commutations.
Obama:
His predecessor, Barack Obama, granted clemency 1,927 times over the course of eight years in office, the highest total of any president going back to Harry Truman.

Looking at the same data another way, Trump granted clemency to just 2% of the 11,611 people who petitioned him for it.
Only George W. Bush granted clemency to a similarly small proportion of applicants (2%).
Trump’s final percentage still could end up being the lowest on record because the Justice Department has not yet published data on the number of applications he received in January 2021, during his final three weeks in office.
Overall, Obama received more than 36,000 clemency petitions during his time in office, by far the largest total of any president on record. Petitions declined sharply after Trump took office.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/01/22/trump-used-his-clemency-power-sparingly-despite-a-raft-of-late-pardons-and-commutations/

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May 5, 2021 07:50:36   #
nwtk2007 Loc: Texas
 
moldyoldy wrote:
Now, if only you could find it.


"Ratcliffe said that Brennan’s handwritten notes from a briefing to Obama refer to the “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.”

“To be clear, this is not Russian disinformation and has not been assessed as such by the Intelligence Community,” he said in a statement issued through the Office of the Director of National Intelligence."

https://newspunch.com/hillary-clinton-manufactured-russia-collusion-to-destroy-trump-obama-docs-show/

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May 5, 2021 08:00:35   #
nwtk2007 Loc: Texas
 
moldyoldy wrote:
Now, if only you could find it.


https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/allegation-hillary-clinton-orchestrated-collusion-h**x-to-distract-from-her-emails-according-to-russian-intel/

https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2020/09/29/declassified-intelligence-memo-claims-hillary-clinton-fabricated-russia-collusion-story/

https://winteryknight.com/2020/10/08/dni-report-trump-russia-collusion-h**x-was-hillary-clintons-plan-to-distract-from-e-mail-server/

https://www.uncomanor.com/articles/hillary-clinton-orchestrated-russia-scandal-documents-say

https://nypost.com/2020/09/29/cia-told-obama-of-claim-clinton-conjured-trump-russia-scandal-spy-chief/

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May 5, 2021 08:31:35   #
moldyoldy
 



Ratcliffe said the intelligence community was unable to confirm the validity of the claim that Clinton cooked up the scandal. He wrote the information was derived from “Russian intelligence analysis ” that could have been an “exaggeration or fabrication.” Sources told Politico that members of both parties on the Senate Intelligence Committee previously discounted the claim as unsupported by fact.

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