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Garland changed the policy after the revelation in 2021 that the #DOJ, under #Trump AG #BillBarr, had secretly pursued email records of reporters at The NYT, WaPo & CNN during Trump’s first term. At the time, Garland said that a flat ban on such tactics was necessary to “allow #journalists to perform the crucial work of informing the public without fear of legal consequences.”

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@randahl Why “if”?

Please read the redacted #MuellerReport. It contained plenty of evidence of #TrumpRussiaCollusion , some of which was on live TV!

Yes, Mueller said there was not “sufficient evidence” of a “criminal conspiracy”, but his report also said that “collusion is not a federal crime”! vox.com/2019/4/18/18484965/mue

#Resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion and release the *unredacted* Mueller Report, or at least one that was NOT redacted by Trump stooge #BillBarr. #USpol

Vox · The Mueller report’s collusion section is much worse than you thinkBy Zack Beauchamp
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"Read the speeches given by Leonard Leo at Benedictine, or Bill Barr at Notre Dame. Read the quotes from McCloskey, or Kevin Roberts’s forward to Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership. One of the themes is the idea that this is a holy war…."

McCloskey was John McCloskey, an Opus Dei priest who functioned as a kingmaker for that group in D.C. for years.

#OpusDei #Catholic #LeonardLeo #SupremeCourt #theocracy #Project2025 #HeritageFoundation #KevinRoberts #BillBarr #JohnMcCloskey
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The Dangers of Donald Trump,
From Those Who Know Him

91 close associates of #Trump "have raised alarms about his character and fitness for office"

"“He will always put his own interests and gratifying his own ego ahead of everything else, including the country’s interest. There’s no question about it.”
- #BillBarr was attorney general from 2019 to 2020. He held the same position under George H.W. Bush."

#GiftArticle #GiftLink
nytimes.com/interactive/2024/0

#FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

September 17, 2020 – Taking a rare political stance for a U.S. attorney general, William Barr likened stay-at-home orders to house arrest. “It’s — you know, other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history,” he said. “As an attorney general, I’m not supposed to get into politics,” he said.

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When #KashPatel was installed as chief of staff to the acting secretary of #defense just after the #2020election, #MarkMilley, the chairman of the #JointChiefs of Staff, advised him not to break the #law in order to keep #Trump in power. “Life looks really shitty from behind bars,” Milley reportedly told Patel. (Patel denies this.)

When Trump entertained naming Patel dpy dir of the #FBI, AG #BillBarr confronted the WH chief of staff & said, “Over my dead body.”