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Bill Barr was in Rome to hear a secret tape from the Maltese professor who kicked off the Russia investigation: report rawstory.com/2019/10/bill-b…
.@thedailybeast reported that one of the primary purposes for AG Barr’s mysterious trip to Italy with U.S. Attorney John Durham was to hear a secret tape from Joseph Mifsud, the shadowy Maltese professor whose actions helped to trigger the Russia investigation.
“The Daily Beast has learned that Barr and Durham were especially interested in what the Italian secret service knew about Joseph Mifsud, the erstwhile professor from Malta who allegedly promised...George Papadopoulos he could deliver Russian ‘dirt’ on Hillary Clinton,”
“The Italian Justice Ministry public records show that Mifsud had applied for police protection in Italy after disappearing from Link University where he worked and, in doing so, had given a taped deposition to explain just why people might want to harm him. ”
“A source in the Italian Ministry of Justice, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told The Daily Beast that Barr and Durham were played the tape,”
“A second source within the Italian government also confirmed to The Daily Beast that Barr and Durham were shown other evidence the Italians had on Mifsud.”
