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Earlier this week, Bill Barr went full Nunes, spreading the same “Spygate” conspiracy theories Trump’s Republican accomplices have been pushing for more than two years now. (1/5) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/bill-…
We ran down the lineage of those conspiracy theories, how they’ve blown up in Republicans’ faces, and the actual facts here: (2/5)
Nobody should’ve expected anything less from “Cover-up General” Bill Barr, who told The New York Times back in 2017 that the DOJ should investigate the long-debunked anti-Clinton conspiracy theories rather than Russia. (3/5) nytimes.com/2017/11/14/us/…
That's on top of his track record from last time he was Attorney General, when he helped cover up Iran-Contra and referred Senate Republicans' unfounded complaints about the Special Prosecutor in that case to the DOJ’s criminal division. (4/5) washingtonpost.com/archive/opinio…
We knew Barr wouldn’t hold the president accountable. There was never any reason to expect he would. The question now is whether Congress will step up and fulfill its constitutional duty to do so. (5/5) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/bill-…
