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KING BARR

#Barr accuses Justice Department of headhunting and meddling with politics

He insisted on his absolute authority to overrule career staff, whom he said too often injected themselves into politics

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#ImpeachBarr
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“What exactly am I interfering with?” he asked.

“Under the law, all prosecutorial power is invested in the AG”

#Barr’s comments were remarkable, in that the head of the Justice Department catalogued all of the ways in which he thought his agency had gone astray over the years

#Barr said it was he, not career officials, who have ULTIMATE AUTHORITY to decide how cases should be handled, and derided less-experienced, less-senior bureaucrats who current and former prosecutors have long insisted should be left to handle their cases free from interference

Barr did not cite any particular cases, his remarks seemed to defend his recent intervention in two prosecutions of Trump’s allies.

In the case against the president’s longtime friend #RogerStone and #Flynn

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#Barr never mentioned how often his boss, the president, calls for people he dislikes to be charged with crimes. As a candidate in 2016, Trump rallies frequently featured chants of “lock her up,” in reference to his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

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Since becoming president, the list of officials Trump has called to go to jail has expanded to include former FBI Director James B. Comey, former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and others at the FBI involved with investigating his campaign.