{"id":48300,"date":"2021-06-13T16:44:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T16:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48300"},"modified":"2021-06-13T16:44:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T16:44:37","slug":"bring-the-ags-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48300","title":{"rendered":"Bring the AGs to Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/barr-and-sessions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48301\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/barr-and-sessions-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/barr-and-sessions-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/barr-and-sessions-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/barr-and-sessions-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/barr-and-sessions-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/barr-and-sessions.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former attorneys general Jeff Sessions and William Barr say they were &#8220;unaware&#8221; of any effort by the Justice Department to snoop into the records of key congressional Democrats during the administration of the individual they both served.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. I believe they need to be summoned to Capitol Hill and forced to testify under oath that they are telling the truth.<\/p>\n<p>We have a case here of a president flouting the rule of law, of ignoring the separation of powers, of intimidating his political adversaries. Sessions and Barr contend they weren&#8217;t party to anything of the sort.<\/p>\n<p>I do not believe them. Nor do I discount the reporting of major media outlets that the ex-president ordered the Justice Department to dig up dirt on House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and his Democratic colleague Eric Swalwell.<\/p>\n<p>We have a reprehensible example of a president not caring one damn bit about the oath he took to protect and defend the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>There needs to be a full accounting of who know what and when.<\/p>\n<p>Bring the ex-attorneys general to Capitol Hill and make &#8217;em tell the truth about what the heck happened during their time on duty.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Former attorneys general Jeff Sessions and William Barr say they were &#8220;unaware&#8221; of any effort by the Justice Department to snoop into the records of key congressional Democrats during the administration of the individual they both served. Hmm. I believe they need to be summoned to Capitol Hill and forced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bring the AGs to Congress<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1414,2434,8203],"class_list":["post-48300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-doj","tag-jeff-sessions","tag-william-barr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48302,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48300\/revisions\/48302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}