And now we learn he apparently covered up Trump’s link to Russia (the Mueller Report) & his scheme to fix the 2016 election by shutting up Stormy Daniels, Karen MacDougal & the Trump Tower doorman…
History all Americans should know, but few will care to learn. Personal to me. I sat next to one of those pardoned, Elliott Abrams, in a first year class at Harvard Law School. Always in a suit with Avery thinking tie, I remember vividly his scanning of our class through narrowed eyes as he said quietly to me “There are Communists here, you know.” Maybe there were. But that Elliott was paranoid, not a little sketchy, even a tad scary, was certainly true. Needless to say, we did not become friends.
Every article Thom writes just makes it clearer and clearer. We are on the precipice, and teetering. If we are not to fall, and our country, indeed probably the world, with us, we must do all within our power to maximize the blue vote in November. Because right here, right now, warts and all, the worst blue candidate is better than the best red one. Vote as if your life and those of your partners, children, grandchildren, other relatives and friends depended on it. Because they do.
Barr and John Durham held two secret meetings with Italian intelligence agencies as part of an investigation by Trump's administration into the origins of the inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 American election. They found nothing to undermine the Mueller Report, found nothing to implicate Hilary Clinton or the Democrats.
What they did find was the Italian CIA had discovered more evidence to implicate Trump.
They buried that info. "Mr. Barr and Mr. Durham never disclosed that their inquiry expanded in the fall of 2019, based on a tip from Italian officials, to include a criminal investigation into suspicious financial dealings related to Mr. Trump. The specifics of the tip and how they handled the investigation remain unclear, but Mr. Durham brought no charges over it." NYT How Barr’s Quest to Find Flaws in the Russia Inquiry Unraveled. The review by John Durham at one point veered into a criminal investigation related to Donald Trump himself, even as it failed to find wrongdoing in the origins of the Russia inquiry. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/politics/durham-trump-russia-barr.html
Cover-up. Also makes both of them hostile witnesses in another Trump case.
Thanks (?), Thom, for another depressing and disheartening piece on the GQP and Barr. My simple understanding of G.H.W.B was that he was, like Cheney, an oilman, as well as his sonny, "W", who appears to have killed a million Iraqi's and totally destabilized their nation for oil. I have been searching the net for research articles teasing out the contributions to global heating from fossil fuel burning, as opposed to solar radiation. Plenty challenging the common narrative of GHGs (CO2, et.al.) having no research to support ANY role at all, but only one "Thermal pollution causes global warming", by the Swede Bo Nordell, 2003.
It is a cover-up of enormous proportions that has hidden the role of, yup, you guessed it, fossil fuel corporations and their henchmen to defraud the American public, yet again. Retired polymath Eliot Jacobson has posited that we are generating the heat equivalent of 12 Hiroshima yield (63 trillion BTUs) nuclear bomb blasts PER SECOND into the already massively overheated global environment, which I make out to be 1, 036,800 PER DAY. The hoopla over CO2 appears to be just another distraction/misdirection from the fossil fuel story: 8 billion tons of coal per year, and 100 million barrels of oil PER DAY. Not too great a leap to trace the whole extinction level global heating nightmare back to the fossil fuel overlords. The greenhouse effect is real, but solar radiation appears to play second fiddle to "thermal pollution" from fossil fuel burning. Thanks, again, for your sincere, thorough investigative journalism!
It is abundantly clear that the GOP has been corrupt since WWII. Not all at once but a slide in that direction and along came Joe McCarthy. With J. Edgar Hoover running the show behind the scenes, they haven't looked back since. J. Edgar may be long dead but his legacy lives on in people like Bill Barr, who will do anything for anyone in power behind the scenes because now they become indispensable and that is were the the real power lies.
Back to back corrupt attorney generals. It feels like the fix is in. Purge all the Democrats from the voting booths! Don't prosecute the leader of the insurrection or his GOP minions!
Maga would be easy to beat at the poles if they were not backed by the fascist, traitorous, billionaires and their right wing media outlets, who are always rowling up the maga base. mAGAS have a tendency to forget anything with over two syllable words involved.
Looks like there is no one , it seems who wants to go after Barr for his unceasing corruption.
It is utterly disturbing to see that the whole Republican machine from the Federalist Society, Supreme Court, the wealthiest Robber Barons ,Trump, backed by Putin and Orban have been seething corruption on every level
Throughout these years.
Let me not forget every Republican
Presidency since Eisenhower has thrown their hat into this ring.
It becomes hard to believe anyone will ever be held accountable.
And we never have talked to the folks who know about the Pandemic Botch job, those who did not sign an NDA and can speak….. Just waiting for the ‘Elephant’ in the room to be acknowledged instead of reporting on the never ending Saga of Trump sucking the life out of our whole Country….. Why aren’t messages being received? Why do we spend all day everyday talking about the Circus that never ends. Talk about the 1 million who died for no reason….
This gets right to the heart of the perpetual Republican treasonous and lawless behavior. They have betrayed America economically, environmentally, and politically. Trump is not an anomaly, he is the embodiment.
There are few heroes - except for Nancy Pelosi and Liz Cheney. Democrats never follow up on Republican corruption. Biden should have ordered the Justice Department to investigate Jan. 6 and report to the American people. He didn't. Even worse he appointed a milquetoast Attorney General who appears to have done nothing until he was forced. We have learned that American Justice is a joke that can only be purchased by the rich and powerful. Numerous Trump collaborators remain in the Congress, and the media have normalized aberrant behavior. We are a disgrace to honesty, integrity and justice. Shame on us.
I thought why the heck didn’t he get barred? His criminality was so blatant. I’m the president’s attorney general! Traitor and no one in the system did a damn thing!
Bill Barr is like the evil version of Forrest Gump, cropping up in all the historical legal messes throughout decades. He served as AG less than 2 years in the 90's and just over a year for Trump.
When he returned to DC to join the Trump Administration I read various articles where they discussed why he would do that. Some thought he needed some cash---he has millions but that doesn't mean it's fluid or enough for what he feels wants for his lifestyle. Goodness knows what money he is getting and who is paying him. OR, does Putin have something on him too?
One thing I noticed, Barr is a lousy liar. Watch his interviews. His tell? He's a blinker.
Is it possible to dig out from the wreckage caused by the long and ongoing career of highest level criminal corruption perpetrated by Bill Barr? He's been the brains and the sustaining pillar of the Bush and Trump crime families, and through his actions has probably done more to destroy what we had of a democracy than any other individual. Is there any way, other that campaigning hard for Democrats this year, to turn the tide?
The Church knows lies when they see them so the only way this can continue in society is the willingness for to take stances despite lies. They want these positions rather than stand with Jesus. The lack of truth in the individual highlights the real problem. They are at war with the truth which has become unconscious because they need the cover of false piety to continue in a state of unawareness. They run to the old Adam to blame everyone else for the consequences of their own actions. Lost souls.
History all Americans should know, but few will care to learn. Personal to me. I sat next to one of those pardoned, Elliott Abrams, in a first year class at Harvard Law School. Always in a suit with Avery thinking tie, I remember vividly his scanning of our class through narrowed eyes as he said quietly to me “There are Communists here, you know.” Maybe there were. But that Elliott was paranoid, not a little sketchy, even a tad scary, was certainly true. Needless to say, we did not become friends.
Every article Thom writes just makes it clearer and clearer. We are on the precipice, and teetering. If we are not to fall, and our country, indeed probably the world, with us, we must do all within our power to maximize the blue vote in November. Because right here, right now, warts and all, the worst blue candidate is better than the best red one. Vote as if your life and those of your partners, children, grandchildren, other relatives and friends depended on it. Because they do.
Barr and John Durham held two secret meetings with Italian intelligence agencies as part of an investigation by Trump's administration into the origins of the inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 American election. They found nothing to undermine the Mueller Report, found nothing to implicate Hilary Clinton or the Democrats.
What they did find was the Italian CIA had discovered more evidence to implicate Trump.
They buried that info. "Mr. Barr and Mr. Durham never disclosed that their inquiry expanded in the fall of 2019, based on a tip from Italian officials, to include a criminal investigation into suspicious financial dealings related to Mr. Trump. The specifics of the tip and how they handled the investigation remain unclear, but Mr. Durham brought no charges over it." NYT How Barr’s Quest to Find Flaws in the Russia Inquiry Unraveled. The review by John Durham at one point veered into a criminal investigation related to Donald Trump himself, even as it failed to find wrongdoing in the origins of the Russia inquiry. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/politics/durham-trump-russia-barr.html
Cover-up. Also makes both of them hostile witnesses in another Trump case.
Thanks (?), Thom, for another depressing and disheartening piece on the GQP and Barr. My simple understanding of G.H.W.B was that he was, like Cheney, an oilman, as well as his sonny, "W", who appears to have killed a million Iraqi's and totally destabilized their nation for oil. I have been searching the net for research articles teasing out the contributions to global heating from fossil fuel burning, as opposed to solar radiation. Plenty challenging the common narrative of GHGs (CO2, et.al.) having no research to support ANY role at all, but only one "Thermal pollution causes global warming", by the Swede Bo Nordell, 2003.
It is a cover-up of enormous proportions that has hidden the role of, yup, you guessed it, fossil fuel corporations and their henchmen to defraud the American public, yet again. Retired polymath Eliot Jacobson has posited that we are generating the heat equivalent of 12 Hiroshima yield (63 trillion BTUs) nuclear bomb blasts PER SECOND into the already massively overheated global environment, which I make out to be 1, 036,800 PER DAY. The hoopla over CO2 appears to be just another distraction/misdirection from the fossil fuel story: 8 billion tons of coal per year, and 100 million barrels of oil PER DAY. Not too great a leap to trace the whole extinction level global heating nightmare back to the fossil fuel overlords. The greenhouse effect is real, but solar radiation appears to play second fiddle to "thermal pollution" from fossil fuel burning. Thanks, again, for your sincere, thorough investigative journalism!
It is abundantly clear that the GOP has been corrupt since WWII. Not all at once but a slide in that direction and along came Joe McCarthy. With J. Edgar Hoover running the show behind the scenes, they haven't looked back since. J. Edgar may be long dead but his legacy lives on in people like Bill Barr, who will do anything for anyone in power behind the scenes because now they become indispensable and that is were the the real power lies.
Release the Mueller report unredacted.
Back to back corrupt attorney generals. It feels like the fix is in. Purge all the Democrats from the voting booths! Don't prosecute the leader of the insurrection or his GOP minions!
Maga would be easy to beat at the poles if they were not backed by the fascist, traitorous, billionaires and their right wing media outlets, who are always rowling up the maga base. mAGAS have a tendency to forget anything with over two syllable words involved.
Looks like there is no one , it seems who wants to go after Barr for his unceasing corruption.
It is utterly disturbing to see that the whole Republican machine from the Federalist Society, Supreme Court, the wealthiest Robber Barons ,Trump, backed by Putin and Orban have been seething corruption on every level
Throughout these years.
Let me not forget every Republican
Presidency since Eisenhower has thrown their hat into this ring.
It becomes hard to believe anyone will ever be held accountable.
And we never have talked to the folks who know about the Pandemic Botch job, those who did not sign an NDA and can speak….. Just waiting for the ‘Elephant’ in the room to be acknowledged instead of reporting on the never ending Saga of Trump sucking the life out of our whole Country….. Why aren’t messages being received? Why do we spend all day everyday talking about the Circus that never ends. Talk about the 1 million who died for no reason….
This gets right to the heart of the perpetual Republican treasonous and lawless behavior. They have betrayed America economically, environmentally, and politically. Trump is not an anomaly, he is the embodiment.
Nail them Mr Bragg.
There are few heroes - except for Nancy Pelosi and Liz Cheney. Democrats never follow up on Republican corruption. Biden should have ordered the Justice Department to investigate Jan. 6 and report to the American people. He didn't. Even worse he appointed a milquetoast Attorney General who appears to have done nothing until he was forced. We have learned that American Justice is a joke that can only be purchased by the rich and powerful. Numerous Trump collaborators remain in the Congress, and the media have normalized aberrant behavior. We are a disgrace to honesty, integrity and justice. Shame on us.
Wow...love the synopsis!
I thought why the heck didn’t he get barred? His criminality was so blatant. I’m the president’s attorney general! Traitor and no one in the system did a damn thing!
Bill Barr is like the evil version of Forrest Gump, cropping up in all the historical legal messes throughout decades. He served as AG less than 2 years in the 90's and just over a year for Trump.
When he returned to DC to join the Trump Administration I read various articles where they discussed why he would do that. Some thought he needed some cash---he has millions but that doesn't mean it's fluid or enough for what he feels wants for his lifestyle. Goodness knows what money he is getting and who is paying him. OR, does Putin have something on him too?
One thing I noticed, Barr is a lousy liar. Watch his interviews. His tell? He's a blinker.
Is it possible to dig out from the wreckage caused by the long and ongoing career of highest level criminal corruption perpetrated by Bill Barr? He's been the brains and the sustaining pillar of the Bush and Trump crime families, and through his actions has probably done more to destroy what we had of a democracy than any other individual. Is there any way, other that campaigning hard for Democrats this year, to turn the tide?
The Church knows lies when they see them so the only way this can continue in society is the willingness for to take stances despite lies. They want these positions rather than stand with Jesus. The lack of truth in the individual highlights the real problem. They are at war with the truth which has become unconscious because they need the cover of false piety to continue in a state of unawareness. They run to the old Adam to blame everyone else for the consequences of their own actions. Lost souls.