BARR WAS FOUND BY A FEDERAL COURT TO HAVE LIED TO THE COUNTRY ABOUT THE MUELLER INVESTIGATION. IN A FEDERAL COURT DECISION THAT WILL FOLLOW BILL BARR AROUND FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE LIKE TOILET PAPER STUCK TO HIS SHOE, A FEDERAL JUDGE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. FOUND LAST YEAR THAT WHEN ROBERT MUELLER TURNED IN HIS REPORT ON THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION TO THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR LIED TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT WHAT WAS IN IT. THE JUDGES RULING SAID QUOTE ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR FAILED TO PROVIDE A THOROUGH REPRESENTATION OF THE FINDINGS SET FORTH IN THE REPORT CAUSING THIS COURT TO QUESTION WHETHER ATTORNEY GENERALS BARRS INTENT WAS TO CREATE A ONE SIDED NARRATIVE ABOUT THE MUELLER REPORT, A NARRATIVE THAT IS CLEARLY SUBSTANTIALLY AT ODDS WITH THE ACTUAL REPORT. THAT WAS LAST YEAR. A FEDERAL COURT FINDING THAT TRUMPS ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR TOLD THE PUBLIC A PORKY PIE, TOLD THE PUBLIC AN UNTRUE STORY ABOUT WHAT WAS IN THE MUELLER REPORT. WELL, NOW, TODAY A SECOND FEDERAL JUDGE HAS JUST RULED THAT BILL BARR AND THE TRUMP ERA JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WERE ALSO DISINGENUOUS WITH THE COURT. THEY IN EFFECT LIED TO THE COURT WHEN THEY TOLD HER AND THEY TOLD THE PUBLIC A MADE UP STORY, A LIE, ABOUT WHY FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WAS NOT PUT ON TRIAL, WAS NOT CHARGED WITH OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE ON THE BASIS OF THE EVIDENCE THAT WAS COLLECTED AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP IN MUELLERS INVESTIGATION. YOU MIGHT REMEMBER MUELLERS REPORT STARTED WITH VOLUME ONE, THAT WAS ABOUT WHAT RUSSIA DID TO INTERFERE IN THE ELECTION, AND THEN VOLUME TWO, YOU PROBABLY REMEMBER, IT LAID OUT MORE THAN TEN INSTANCES IN GREAT DETAIL OF POTENTIALLY CRIMINAL OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE COMMITTED BY THEN PRESIDENT TRUMP. NOW, WHEN MUELLER FINISHED THIS REPORT, YOU MIGHT REMEMBER THAT TRUMPS ATTORNEY GENERAL BILL BARR TOLD THE PUBLIC THAT HE, WILLIAM BARR, HAD CONSULTED WITH JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ATTORNEYS, AND DECIDED ON THEIR ADVICE THAT DESPITE THESE TEN PLUS DETAILED INSTANCES OF ALLEGED CRIMINAL OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE BY PRESIDENT TRUMP LAID OUT MUELLER REPORT, BILL BARR CONSULTING WITH JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ATTORNEYS HAD DETERMINED THAT DESPITE ALL OF THAT NOTHING TRUMP DID WAS REALLY A CRIME. AND SO TRUMP SHOULDNT BE PROSECUTED. REMEMBER BARR SAID THAT THEY DIDNT RELY ON THIS PROHIBITION ON A PRESIDENT BEING PROSECUTED WHILE HES SITTING IN OFFICE. HE SAID, ACTUALLY, WE DECIDED AT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, I DECIDED IN CONSULTATION WITH JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ATTORNEYS NONE OF THOSE THINGS DESCRIBED CONSTITUTE A CRIME, THATS WHY TRUMP WONT BE CHARGED. THATS THE STORY THEY TOLD THE PUBLIC. THAT APPARENTLY IS NOT WHAT HAPPENED. FEDERAL JUDGE AMY BERMAN JACKSON RULING TODAY THAT THIS SUPPOSED ADVICE THAT WILLIAM BARR GOT FROM THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT THAT SUPPOSEDLY LED HIM TO CONCLUDE THAT THESE WERENT CRIMES AND THEREFORE TRUMP SHOULDNT BE CRIMINALLY CHARGED, SHE RULED TODAY THAT THAT ADVICE TO WILLIAM BARR HAS TO BE RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC. THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT UNDER WILLIAM BARR WITHHELD THAT. PEOPLE FILED REQUESTS FOR THAT, AN OVERSIGHT GROUP CALLED CREW FILED A FOIA LAWSUIT, THE JUSTICE DEMURRED, SAID, NO WERE NOT GOING TO RELEASE THAT DOCUMENT, THATS REAL LEGAL ADVICE, AND WE DONT RELEASE THOSE THINGS TO THE PUBLIC. THE JUDGE RULED THAT THAT DOCUMENT WASNT REAL LEGAL ADVICE. IT WASNT ANYTHING. THE TRUMP ERA JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SAID THAT THAT DOCUMENT WAS. SHE SAYS THEY HAVE BEEN DISINGENUOUS ABOUT THIS PART OF THE PROCESS, TOO. SHE SAYS, IN FACT, WILLIAM BARR DECIDED FROM THE OUTSET THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP WOULDNT BE CHARGED WITH ANY CRIMES, AND WHAT HE HAD THE JUSTICE COOK UP FOR HIM WAS AN AFTER THE FACT RATIONALIZATION OF THAT DECISION THAT HE HAD ALREADY MADE. AND IF YOU DO THAT, THATS NOT SOME PROTECTED, PRIVILEGED LEGAL ADVICE THING THAT CAN BE SHIELDED FROM THE PUBLIC. PARTICULARLY IF YOU LIE TO THE COURT ABOUT IT. BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IF YOURE THE U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, IF YOURE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES AND YOU LIE TO A FEDERAL JUDGE AND THE JUDGE FINDS OUT ABOUT IT, PARTICULARLY IF THIS IS THE NOT THE FIRST TIME YOUVE DONE IT, THE FEDERAL JUDGE IS GOING TO BE MAD. AND THEYRE GOING TO RULE AGAINST YOU. AND FRANKLY, KIND OF CINEMATIC SERMS. TERMS. THIS IS FROM THE VERY TOP, THE VERY START OF JUDGE JACKSONS RULING TODAY. QUOTE. ON FRIDAY, MARCH IT 22nd, 2019, SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT MUELLER DELIVERED HIS REPORT OF THE INVESTIGATION INTO RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TO THEN ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WILLIAM P. BARR. BUT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL DID NOT SHARE IT WITH ANYONE ELSE. INSTEAD, BEFORE THE WEEKEND WAS OVER, HE SENT A LETTER TO CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS PURPORTING TO SUMMARIZE THE PRINCIPLE CONCLUSIONS SET OUT IN THE REPORT, COMPRESSING INTO LESS THAN FOUR PAGES THE APPROXIMATELY 200 HIGHLY DETAILED AND PAINSTAKINGLY FOOTNOTED PAGES OF VOLUME ONE WHICH DISCUSSES RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN THE ELECTION AND THE EQUALLY DETAILED PAGES OF VOLUME TWO WHICH CONCERNS ACTS TAKEN BY PRESIDENT TRUMP IN CONNECTION WITH THE INVESTIGATIONMENT INVESTIGATION. THE ATTORNEY GENERALS FOUR PAGE LETTER SAYS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL DID NOT DRAW A CONCLUDE WHETHER THE EXAMINED CONDUCT CONSTITUTED OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE. IT WENT ON TO ANNOUNCE ATTORNEY GENERAL BARRS OWN OPINION THAT ITS NOT SUFFICIENT TO ESTABLISH THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP COMMITTED AN OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE OFFENSE. JUDGE BERMAN-JACKSON CONTINUES QUOTE, THE PRESIDENT THEN DECLARES HIMSELF TO BE FULLY EXONERATED. THE ATTORNEY GENERALS CHARACTERIZATION OF WHAT HE HAD TIME TO SKIM, MUCH LESS STUDY CLOSELY PROMPTED AN IMMEDIATE REACTION AS POLITICIANS AND PUNDITS TOOK TO THEIR MICROPHONES AND CRITICS TO HIDE THE BALL, AN ESPECIALLY TACITURN SPECIAL COUNSEL WAS MOVED TO A REBUKE, CHBS IN PART, THE SUMMARY LETTER SENT TO CONGRESS AND RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC LATE IN THE AFTERNOON ON MARCH 24th DID NOT CAPTURE THE CONTEXT OF THE SPECIAL COUNSEL OFFICES WORK. THERES NOW PUBLIC CONFUSION ABOUT CRITICAL RESULTS ABOUT OUR INVESTIGATION. THIS THREATENS TO UNDERMINE A CENTRAL PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE DEPARTMENT APPOINTED THE SPECIAL COUNSEL, TO ASSURE FULL PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE OUTCOME OF THE INVESTIGATIONS. THE JUDGE CONTINUES. MUELLER CALLED FOR THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF HIS REPORT BUT ARE REMAINED UNDER WRAPS FOR ANOTHER THREE WEEKS. ON APRIL 18th, 2019, ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR APPEARED BEFORE CONGRESS TO DELIVER THE REPORT. HE ASSERTED THAT HE REACHED THE CONCLUSION HE DENOUNCED ABOUT NOT PROSECUTING PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE QUOTE IN CONSULTATION WITH THE OFFICE OF LEGAL COUNSEL AND OTHER JUSTICE DEPARTMENT LAWYERS. THE OVERSIGHT CREW, CITIZENS RESPONSIBILITY FOR ETHICS IN WASHINGTON FIRED OFF A FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST FOR ANY RECORD RELATED TO THE CONSULTATIONS. THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DEMURRED MEANING REJECTED THE REQUEST FOR RELEASE OF DOCUMENTS. WHAT REMAINS AT ISSUE TODAY IS A MEMO TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL DATED MARCH 25th4th, 2019, THAT SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSES THE SUJTS MATTER OF THE LETTER TRANSMITTED TO CONGRESS, THE QUESTION OF WHETHER PRESIDENT TRUMP WOULD BE CRIMINALLY PROSECUTED FOR OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE. WHAT REMAINS AT ISSUE TODAY IS THAT MEMO. THE JUDGE CONCLUDES QUOTE, IT IS TIME FOR THE PUBLIC TO SEE THAT TOO. IT WAS TIME FOR THE PUBLIC TO SEE THE MUELLER REPORT RATHER THAN ATTORNEY GENERAL BARRS MISREPRESENTATIONS ABOUT WHAT WAS IN IT. IT IS NOW TIME FOR THE PUBLIC TO SEE THAT ADVICE TO HIM ON WHETHER THE PRESIDENT WOULD BE PROSECUTED. THAT SUPPOSED ADVICE TO HIM ON WHETHER PRESIDENT TRUMP WOULD BE PROSECUTED. THIS IS JUDGE AMY BERMAN JACKSON RECORDING THE RELEASE OF A JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DOCUMENT WEVE NEVER SEEN, WHICH WAS THE SUPPOSED JUSTIFICATION FOR NOT BRINGING CRIMINAL OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE CHARGES AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP. IN HER RULING TODAY, SHE ORDERS THE RELEASE OF THAT NEVER BEFORE SEEN DOCUMENT. SHE ALSO JUST RANSACKS THE TRUMP ERA JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, AND BILL BARRS JOB RUNNING IT, CALLING HIM PERSONALLY DISINGENUOUS,
SAYING THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SAYING THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TOOK STEPS TO OB FIU TRUE PURPOS WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN DOING, TO SEE THE DOCUMENT THEY HAD BEEN TRYING TO KEEP SECRET AND WHEN SHE DID SEE IT, SHE UNDERSTOOD WHY THEY HAD BEEN TRYING TO KEEP IT UNDER WRAPS. THE REVIEW OF THE DOCUMENT REVEALS THAT ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR WAS NOT THEN ENGAGED IN MAKING A DECISION ABOUT WHETHER PRESIDENT TRUMP SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, THE FACT THAT HE WOULD NOT BE PROSECUTED WAS A GIVEN. SHE SAYS QUOTE THERE WAS NO DECISION ACTUALLY BEING MADE AS TO WHETHER THE THEN PRESIDENT WOULD BE PROSECUTED. SO SURPRISE. WHAT WE THOUGHT HAPPENED HAPPENED. ROBERT MUELLER AND HIS TEAM OF PROSECUTORS LAID OUT OVER SEVERAL HUNDRED PAGES DETAILED EVIDENCE OF ALL THE MULTIPLE TIMES THEY BELIEVED PRESIDENT TRUMP COMMITTED CRIMES BY OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE WHILE HE WAS IN OFFICE. WHEN THAT REPORT WAS COMPLETED AND SUBMITTED TO THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, WILLIAM BARR SAID INSTANTLY THAT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HAD CAREFULLY REVIEWED EVERY LITTLE BIT OF THAT EVIDENCE AND CONCLUDED THAT NOTHING THE PRESIDENT DID SEEMED LIKE A CRIME, AND THATS WHY PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS NEVER PROSECUTED FOR THIZHIS ACTIONS. WELL, NOW, THIS FEDERAL JUDGE HAS SEEN WHAT HAPPENED BEHIND THE SCENES, AND IT TURNS OUT, THEIR PUBLIC REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON INSIDE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WITH CONSIDERING THIS EVIDENCE WERE LIES. IT TURNS OUT THEY NEVER SUBSTANTIVELY CONSIDERED TRUMPS ALLEGED CRIMES. THEY JUST DECIDED IN HER WORDS, AS A GIVEN, FROM THE OUTSET, THAT TRUMP WOULDNT BE CHARGED WITH ANYTHING NO MATTER WHAT, AND THEN THEY CREATED A PSEUDO LEGAL PAPER TRAIL TO COVER THEIR TRACKS ON THAT AFTER THE FACT. AND THEN, ACCORDING TO THE JUDGE, THEY LIED TO A FEDERAL JUDGE ABOUT WHAT THEY HAD DONE, AND NOW SHE HAS CAUGHT THEM. SHE HAS THEIR INTER-OFFICE E-MAILS, DESCRIBING THE PRODUCTION OF THIS DOCUMENT THAT PURPORTED TO JUSTIFY THE EXPLANATION. SHE HAS THE CHRONOLOGY OF WHEN THE DECISION WAS MADE AND WHEN THEY PRODUCED THE DOCUMENT THAT PURPORTEDLY WAS THE ADVICE THAT LED BARR TO MAKE THAT DECISION, WHICH WAS BACK ASSWARDS IN TERMS OF ITS CHRONOLOGY, AND SHES NOW ORDERING THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO RELEASE THE PAPER TRAIL THAT THEY CONCOCTED IN ORDER TO SUPPORT THIS LIE, THAT THEY SUSPECTED WOULD NEVER BE SHOWN TO THE PUBLIC. BUT HERES THE THING, UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT, RIGHT, MERRICK GARLAND IS NOW THE NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL. MAY APPEAL HER RULING AND STILL TRY TO KEEP THIS THING UNDER WRAPS. THIS IS A HECK OF A THING, RIGHT? I MEAN, THIS IS AN ADMINISTRATION THAT IS IN EVERY WAY LOOKING FORWARD AND NOT BACK. MERRICK GARLAND IS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL NOW, ALL NEW LEADERSHIP AT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, ALL NEW PRIORITIES, MOVING FORWARD WITH A MILLION THINGS AT ONCE, AND HERES A JUDGE SAYING, YOU KNOW, YOUR IMMEDIATE PREDECESSOR IN THIS JUDGE LIED TO ME, LIED TO THE COURT AND LIED TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC ABOUT SOMETHING AS FREAKING SERIOUS AS WHY THE FORMER PRESIDENT WAS NOT CHARGED WITH CRIMES. YOU COOL WITH THE EVIDENCE OF
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Are there going to be any real consequences? Barr doesn't give a crap if some judge has a bad opinion of him
Sounds like an airtight case that no one will spend a day in prison for
Sounds right