Greg Sargent: A judge just brutally rebuked William Barr. Democrats must act.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/06/judge-just-brutally-rebuked-william-barr-democrats-must-act/
By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
March 6, 2020 at 10:06 a.m. EST
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The new rebuke of Barr, courtesy of federal district judge Reggie Walton, bluntly suggests Barr misled the U.S. public for the express purpose of aiding Trump politically. The judge accuses Barr of a lack of candor in his representations of special counsel Robert S. Mueller IIIs report, citing Barrs highly dishonest summary that appeared designed to pre-spin its findings to protect Trump politically.
This validated what weve been saying from the beginning -- that Barr deliberately distorted the contents of the Mueller report to pull the wool over Americas eyes, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, told me.
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Barrs Justice Department worked to keep the whistleblower complaint detailing Trumps corrupt Ukraine scheme from Congress. Barr has undertaken a review of the Russia investigation thats plainly designed to discredit its conclusions that Russia did interfere to help Trump. Barr has opened up a special channel to receive information about Joe Biden and his son Hunter directly from Rudolph Giuliani, who is Trumps private lawyer and who is still apparently seeking such information.
Those last two undertakings have direct relevance to the coming election: Trump likely wants Barrs help in undermining the idea that Russia helped him last time, in the apparent willingness to benefit from foreign interference again. And now that Biden is Trumps likely opponent, the pipeline of information from Ukraine may suddenly become more important to Trump.
Lets face it: Given what weve seen, we cant rule out the possibility that Barr might use the tools of law enforcement to cast public doubt on the Democratic nominee and/or members of his family in some way.
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Something *has* to be done at this point. He's destroying what's left of the Rule Of Law.