‘Unmasking’ probe commissioned by Barr quietly concludes without charges or any public report

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  1. The Mello Guy

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    The federal prosecutor appointed by Attorney General William P. Barr to review whether Obama-era officials improperly requested the identities of individuals whose names were redacted in intelligence documents has completed his work without finding any substantive wrongdoing, according to people familiar with the matter.
    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...b-8074-0e943a91bf08_story.html?outputType=amp

    Of course it did. This was just more investigation theatre to appease trump and convince his supporters that there was some conspiracy against Flynn or the trump admin. but unmasking isn’t illegal. Despite Trumps attempts to politcize the DOJ, the law seems to be mostly winning so far.
     
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    I eagerly await the posts from Trump supporters claiming Barr and Bash creatures of the deep state swamp.
     
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    Trumps already leaning on Barr. Low Oxygen Don doesn’t see the point of the DOJ if they won’t arrest his enemies.
     
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    Why is it when Republicans investigate Democrats the charges usually end up as being false but when a Democrat investigates a Republican dozens go to jail?
     
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    Totally EXPECTED.

    Did anybody REALLY think that Barr was actually going to charge anybody?

    Everybody KNEW that there was going to be no "there", there.

    That said, if anybody is interested, I am sure there are volumes of "Barr is gonna get 'em" posts that didn't age well.
     
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    EXPLOSIVE: UPDATE- CIA Whistleblower Exposes Biden’s Alleged Role with the Deaths of Seal Team- Claims to have Documented Proof

     
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    Not Ms. Anna Khait..... that is for sure......



    Charles Strange (father of Michael Strange) confirms the CIA whistleblower's info
     
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    Dems only investigate crimes, republicans investigate Trump BS
     
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    1,604,064 views..... in just over one day......
    You still laughing......

     
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    Sounds about right lol
     
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    While you are at it...... you will probably get a laugh out of this ....



    Kevin Zadai: What Jesus Told Me About the Election
     
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    :roflol:

    "Hard evidence"?

    Like "sworn testimony" verifying the Roswell Aliens? Got it.:bored:

    [​IMG]...
     
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    dont you think if this was remotely credible at least Fox would cover it?
     
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    I will be sure to remember this the next time the DOJ tells me to swear to tell the truth: "Well, sirs, you seem to be exempt so why should I hold myself to a higher standard than yourselves?"
     
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    What law do you think unmasking broke?
    Aren’t you still ducking why you think John Gotti had a lawyer present when the fbi got a warrant to spy on him?
     
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    I'm not even familiar with the Gotti case(nor do I care.). Maybe this is just limited to unmasking, and not the greater violations of lies and deceits that was Crossfire Hurricane but I'm not giving my hopes up. The fact is, the DOJ is above the law. Worse, the law is not applicable to the department of justice.

    It's not a let down, it's not a disappointment(that as Pollycy would point out, was when HRC escaped even a hearing on her emails.). It's our new norm. If you work for the government, you are exempt from crimes. Be it a Trump Administration, a Biden Administration or any administration.

    The DOJ can lie to the people, it can even lie to courts with impunity, for its word is unassailable and its word is law. It is not a "deep state" as in some hidden conspiracy, it's open corruption in front of our eyes, with no willpower or course correction. So we accept it as daily life and move on.
     
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    Durham is investigating the things you are complaining about.

    Will you accept the results of the Durham investigation?
     
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    Seemed like a good time to revisit some of your more comical claims involving unmasking. It’s perfectly legal.
     
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    First, the fellows investigating Team Trump, Rosenstein and Mueller, both were republicans.

    The Iran Contra investigation, the Independent Counsel appointed to investigate was Lawrence Walsh, who was Eisenhower's DAG, so he was a republican, as well.

    So, you point only carries water with the Watergate Special Prosecutor, Archibald Cox, who was a democrat. However, not so fast, Nixon fired him (well, the only one who carried out the order was Bork, a repub, who, by then, became acting AG ) and ultimately the job of the special prosecutor was turned over to the Justice Department, Nixon's Justice Dept ( repubs) who didn't treat Nixon any differently -- a whole slew of Nixon staff all went to jail.

    In short, your point 'democrats investigating republicans' doesn't really work.

    But ,on the issue of crimes by either party, history will explain it to you, as well. republicans commit all the crimes.

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    What's legal, is whatever the DOJ decides is legal these days. We can throw out statues of law, yes the DOJ has determined that. In a normal world, unmasking is a violation of their right to privacy ensured to them by the constitution. But again, the DOJ makes the laws as it goes along now, hear that legislators, no need to be elected anymore.
     
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    Hearing this from you is very rich. I mean, seriously from the party that continues to question the election results(unless Biden wins, then you won't question it anymore.). If you bothered to pay attention to my posts just above, I gave the DOJ a serious whip lashing on essentially excusing these corrupt and clearly criminal acts(well, criminal if done by anyone who wasn't a DOJ or government member.)

    And because the DOJ has thus debased itself, yes I will 'accept' whatever else comes out of it. They were handed a referral for a McCabe indictment and STILL failed to prosecute him. To me, the department has lost its sacred glow, and is now little more than any other corrupt organization. Actually, let me go even deeper. The mistake was ever giving it that glow in the first place.

    Law is a codified standard of behavior that is expected, it is no more noble or greater than that. The people charged with administering it should be, but aren't impartial. When we gave them that glow, we expected more from them than they were able to deliver. So as I said, they no longer have the right to ask that of us.

    If the DOJ can lie, if Gleeson's argument prevails that the FBI can lie, then I can lie as well. The 14th amendment prevents special privileges being accorded to individuals. I'm disheartened, but also dispassionate, for I expect nothing of them.
     
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    That's one hell of a rant.

    Here's the thing. You rail against how corrupt the DOJ is. Fine. But Trump's appointee Barr has specifically appointed someone to investigate the wrongdoing that you complain about. This is Trump's team looking at it.

    Which leads to a simple question: will you accept the result? Not with all the qualifications. Just - will you accept it.

    I was pretty clear before the Mueller report came out. I said I would accept it. Good, bad or ugly, whether it reached conclusions I liked or not, I would accept it.

    Will you accept the results of Durham's investigation? That means, if he finds that there was criminal activity within the DOJ, will you accept it? If he says the whole department was corrupt and doing Obama's bidding, would you accept it? If he says, "yeah, a few mistakes were made but they weren't intentional, were not made for political purposes and were not criminal" ... would you accept that?

    Because I will accept any of those things. If Durham concludes any of those things, I will accept it. Will you?
     
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