Thread by @moscow_project

"In your time at the department, you have aided and abetted the worst decisions of the president." -@RepJerryNadler

The Barr hearing is live NOW >> c-span.org/video/?473384-…

@RepJerryNadler Nadler: "In this Justice Department, the President’s enemies will be punished and his friends will be protected, no matter the cost."

More on Barr's pattern of intervention and abuse of power themoscowproject.org/dispatch/how-d…

Jim Jordan is yelling again, and while we don't have enough characters to debunk his entire meaningless ramble ("spy lady???"), here is what you need to know about why the "unmasking" thing isn't a thing themoscowproject.org/dispatch/creat…

@RepTedDeutch is hammering Bill Barr on the Stone sentencing: "Can you think of any other cases where the defendant threatened to kill a witness, threatened a judge, lied to a judge, where the DOJ claimed that those were technicalities?" Barr doesn't answer.

Bill Barr keeps yelling "THE JUDGE AGREED WITH ME!" But the judge did not agree with Bill Barr. And he cannot name ANY other case where he has treated a defendant the same as Stone or Flynn. More in our earlier thread:

https://twitter.com/moscow_project/status/1281742675239071744?s=20

Per usual, Barr is not being truthful about Judge Amy Berman Jackson agreeing with him.

https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1288156529452093442

Rep. Hank Johnson saw through this earlier in the testimony, asking Barr if he expected "the American people to believe that you did not do what Trump wanted you to do when you changed that sentencing recommendation and lowered it for Roger Stone" c-span.org/video/?c489563…

@CedricRichmond gets Barr to state, on the record, that he "has to assume" Russia is attempting to interfere in the 2020 election.

So why isn't Barr doing anything to stop it? Is it because the interference benefits his boss?

.@RepSwalwell tells Barr that "Americans in both parties are concerned that there are two systems of justice - one for Trump and his cronies, and one for regular Americans."

@RepSwalwell ! @RepSwalwell asks Barr if he's investigating Trump commuting Roger Stone sentence.

Barr says "no, why should I?"

https://twitter.com/moscow_project/status/1288173795010916353

.@RepValDemings asks Barr if he’s every interfered in an SDNY investigation, especially in light of the firing of US Attorney Geoffrey Berman

Barr says he’s only “asked questions.” #BarrHearing

@RepSylviaGarcia notes that only 5% of federal inmates have been released due to COVID.

Vulnerable prisoners with high-risk health conditions have sought early release and been denied by Barr’s DOJ.

Yet, Paul Manafort was released early. #BarrHearing

In response to @RepJoeNeguse, Barr twists himself into a pretzel to claim that he didn’t lie in saying Berman had stepped down ... it was just that Berman “did not know he was stepping down”. 🥨🥨🥨

🚨Barr tells @RepDMP that he will NOT commit to withholding any report by Barr’s latest political hatchet man, US Attorney John Durham, until after the election