It’s fitting that William Barr’s confirmation as attorney general happened just as two powerful law-enforcement figures were trading accusations involving President Trump. Barr’s greatest challenge isn’t antitrust deals, immigration policy or even handling special counsel Robert Mueller. His overriding challenge is to reboot a Justice Department that has shredded its reputation and lost the confidence of Congress and the public.
It’s hard to feel confident in law enforcement when a former deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Andrew McCabe, reveals that a small cabal of unelected senior law-enforcement officers held meetings in May 2017 to plot Trump’s removal from office. In an interview with “60 Minutes” that aired Thursday and a forthcoming book, McCabe says he and other officials, including Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, did head-counts of which cabinet officials might vote to declare the president “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office” under the 25th Amendment. McCabe claims Mr. Rosenstein repeatedly offered to wear a wire when meeting with Trump.
Rosenstein, who’s expected to resign soon, responded Thursday with a Justice Department statement blasting the claims as “factually incorrect” and highlighting that McCabe was fired for lying to the department’s inspector general. The rest of the statement was pure spin, in which Rosenstein never denied the McCabe claims. read more
The corruptacracy is still firmly entrenched in the Washington bureaus!
After chihuahua Sessions, I hope Barr is a pitbull.
The political hacks in the DOJ and FBI must be eliminated.
My grandchildren will be six feet under before the DOJ and the FBI are scrubbed clean.
Just imagine all the nervous nellies with scripts having to be rewritten, rerewritten and checked and crossed rechecked with ‘each other’ trying to make the current narratives fit past actions.
Cold Coco Water Fusions
When it comes to the 2nd amendment he supports it but only so far. From his confirmation hearing.
https://www.ammoland.com/2019/01/ag-nominee-william-barr-on-second-amendment-during-confirmation-hearings/#axzz5fjeeIR5Z
We best keep in eye on him.
But it’s got to be a step up from Sessions
It used to be that local governments were corrupt, and the feds the honest group. The script has flipped. Eight years of that corrupt traitor put us where we are now. The GOPe, of course, willing accompliced.
Nothing to see here. The lying bunch of treasonous bastids would have us believe their statements and actions were just “taken out of context”. Burn em down.
What did anyone expect of an FBI under a president whose hero, mentor and friend is a guy who was hunted by them for eleven years and then walked? Do we think obama really cared about integrity in the nation’s top cop shop? Wouldn’t that run counter to everything he believes in? The only reason I can imagine obama wanted an FBI is to go after enemies of his radical, fanatical, anti-American agenda. And he damn near pulled it off, didn’t he?