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AG spox tells @seanhannity that Bill Barr has appointed another US Attorney to probe issue of interest to POTUS. At Barr request, @USAttyBash will look at “unmasking.” AG spox notes unmasking “inherently isn’t wrong,” but “frequency” & “reasoning behind unmasking” can problematic
In total for Trump admin...
US Atty Huber tapped to investigate Clinton & other GOP concerns
US Atty Durham to investigate Russia investigators
US Attys Donoghue & Brady to handle Ukraine/Giuliani
US Atty Jensen to probe Flynn & other DC cases
US Atty Bash to explore “unmasking”
This doesn’t count, after public Trump request, expansion of Justice Dept. IG investigation of Russia probe washingtonpost.com/politics/justi…
Huber’s probe, we know, effectively ended with a whimper... washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
But these investigations are demoralizing for those inside the department, who fear that any sensitive investigation they do — especially those involving Trump associates — will be forever second guessed washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
& they could have real impacts. Jensen, for example, recommended the Flynn case be dropped. AG spox said tonight (in explaining how DOJ will press its position w/ appeals court) that Jensen told AG no US Attorney “in the country” would prosecute Flynn case washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
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Barr tells Fox News he supports Trump's removal of Michael Atkinson as IG for the intelligence community. "I think the president did the right thing in removing Atkinson," he says, then repeats Justice's previous dispute with Atkinson's legal analysis. video.foxnews.com/v/614845318600…
Barr also tells Fox that John Durham probably will do a report. "I think a report may be, & probably will be, a byproduct of his activity, but his primary focus isn’t to prepare a report. He is looking to bring to justice people who were engaged in abuses" video.foxnews.com/v/614845432900…
The full recap of Barr’s Fox News interview, part 2:
*He supports Trump’s firing of the ICIG
*He says Durham is probably doing a report, though that’s not the goal
*He, like Trump, is skeptical of mail-in voting
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AG Bill Barr, on Fox News, refers to current restrictions as "draconian measures" and says at end of April, he thinks we should "allow people to adapt more than we have, & not just tell people to go home and hide under their bed."
Barr, a major proponent of executive power, adds "I am concerned that we not get into the business of declaring everything an emergency & then using these kinds of sweeping, extraordinary steps. But given where we were back in March, I think the president made the right decision"
Barr also criticizes “snarky, gotcha questions from the White House media pool” and says of Trump & hydroxychloroquine, "As soon as he said something positive about it, the media’s been on a jihad to discredit the drug."
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AG Barr, speaking to NRB Christian Media Convention: "Politics is everywhere. It’s omnipresent. Why is that?" He says it results from conflict between 2 views: (1) limited govt that preserves liberty (2) govt that submerges individual in "collectivist agenda"
The speech is pretty broad and philosophical, but the upshot seems to be themes that Barr has hit previously: He supports a small government, and he does not believe a political system can be substituted for religion.
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