{"id":40109,"date":"2019-12-03T02:49:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T02:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40109"},"modified":"2019-12-03T02:49:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T02:49:31","slug":"ag-disputes-ig-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40109","title":{"rendered":"AG disputes IG &#8230; WTF?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23DOJ%20%23Russiaprobe%20%23POTUS%20%23impeachmentinquiry&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AG-Barr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40110\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AG-Barr-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AG-Barr-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AG-Barr-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AG-Barr-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AG-Barr.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>William Barr continues to be a profound disappointment to me as the nation&#8217;s attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>He took office after Donald J. Trump fired Jeff Sessions as AG. I had high hopes that Barr, who served as attorney general in President Bush 41&#8217;s administration, would bring his Washington experience to the job.<\/p>\n<p>Well, he has turned out to be a toadie for Trump. Get this: The Justice Department&#8217;s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, reportedly has determined that the FBI did not spy on Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign in 2016, despite allegations leveled by the president that the FBI spied on him.<\/p>\n<p>Barr&#8217;s response? He said he questions the IG&#8217;s findings. He continues to believe the specious allegation that Trump has leveled against the FBI, that it sought to launch its investigation into Russian interference in our electoral process <em>after spying<\/em> on the Trump campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Horowitz&#8217;s office operates independently of the attorney general, which means that Barr cannot change the IG&#8217;s finding.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the attorney general&#8217;s continued shilling for the president is disturbing to many of us, me included.<\/p>\n<p>Horowitz is going to release his finding to the public in a few days. My hope would be for the attorney general to let the report stand on its own. That&#8217;s my hope. My <em>fear<\/em> is that the attorney general will seek to undermine it, quite likely at Donald Trump&#8217;s bidding.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23DOJ%20%23Russiaprobe%20%23POTUS%20%23impeachmentinquiry&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Barr continues to be a profound disappointment to me as the nation&#8217;s attorney general. He took office after Donald J. Trump fired Jeff Sessions as AG. I had high hopes that Barr, who served as attorney general in President Bush 41&#8217;s administration, would bring his Washington experience to the job. 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