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• To protect the GOP?
• To protect Trump?
• To protect Russia's kompromat or its oligarchs?
It's sure as hell not to protect America. Vapid idioms like "national security" are dodges.

@theJusticeDept: To protect sources.
MEDIA: What are you doing with the information these sources give you, anything?
@theJusticeDept: It's classified.
MEDIA: How are you protecting America?
@theJusticeDept: It's classified. You have to trust us.

QUESTION: If a counterintelligence investigation by Chris Wray’s @FBI finds one of Trump’s cronies involved, will Barr’s @theJusticeDept make him drop it?
ANSWER: It’s classified.
