This is gonna be a long thread abt the IG Report on the Roger Stone sentencing, which shows that in extraordinary but not illegal move, Barr's DOJ intervened to override the sentencing recommendations from the prosecutors.
DOJ IG only got jurisdiction bc Aaron Zelinsky alleged political pressure in Congressional testimony, and others accused him of lying about that.
A bunch of people refused to cooperate with this investigation:
Bill Barr
Jeffrey Rosen
[probably] Kerri Kupec
Barr's incoming CoS
One of the AUSAs
Based on that available testimony, it's not that Barr was following Stone's sentencing. It's that Tim Shea reached out to Seth DuCharme and asked for a "steer."
The witness tampering sentencing had to rely on what got introduced at trial, which includes Stone's threat against Credico's dog Bianca and Stone's use of a crosshairs graphic targeting ABJ.
It did not include the FBI warning abt Stone's militia.
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Also, she claims there has been little judicial scrutiny of this, ignoring the 4 precedents and Hunter Biden's similar challenge rejected by 2 Trump appointees.
1) We've talked about little but Biden's age since January. Yet certain hacks with a gripe claim they were the only one telling that secret that led all the news.
2) CREDIBLE stories -- that is, the ones that quote people on the record and/or very specifically described people anon, rather than just inventing a conspiracy retroactively based on feels -- all describe a decline since January, and more in recent months.
3) MANY of the people posing as journalists appear not to understand there are two questions: Does he drop from the race, does he drop from the presidency.
Given that the more detailed reports are about STAMINA and speaking (not dementia), those are different things.
Aileen Cannon is doing her best to prevent a trial before the election, but by all means make sure we get more pictures like this one (my annotations). This box had the most sensitive docs found.
DOJ reiterates their assertion that the cover sheets in the famous photo, AND close to 50 empty cover folders, were in the blue leatherbound box when they found it.
Let's correct the false claims here. 1) Egypt National Bank convinced Beryl Howell they complied with this subpoena -- it's unclear how the Chinese records resolved. 2) Mueller didn't tank this investigation. After a long subpoena fight, he handed it over to DCUSAO.
3) That's precisely the same thing he did with Roger Stone investigation: After year-long subpoena delay, he handed over still ongoing investigation into whether Stone conspired w/RU on CFAA. 4) We know what happened to Stone investigation: Barr killed it, Trump killed it more.
5) We don't know, for sure, what happened to suspected Egyptian funding (via way of China??) investigation; it was killed in same weeks when Barr was killing most of the rest of Mueller. It's possible that refusal to subpoena Trump Org killed it.