Justice Dept.'s Dismissal of Ukraine Call Raises New Questions About Barr.

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'At the end of August, when two top intelligence officials asked a Justice Department lawyer whether a whistle-blower’s complaint should be forwarded to Congress, they were told no, Attorney General William P. Barr and his department could handle the criminal referral against the president of the United States.

About four weeks later, the department rendered its judgment: President Trump had not violated campaign finance laws when he urged Ukraine’s president to work with Mr. Barr to investigate a political rival, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

The very same evidence, a reconstructed transcript of a July call between Mr. Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, has whipped Washington into an impeachment crisis in a matter of days.

The sharply different responses to the call’s reconstruction, released by the White House on Wednesday, has helped further the perception that Mr. Trump regards Mr. Barr not as the nation’s highest law enforcement officer but as his political ally and legal protector.

After congressional intelligence committees examined the full whistle-blower complaint on Wednesday afternoon, the House Intelligence Committee chairman, Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, said, “The idea that the Department of Justice would have intervened to prevent it from getting to Congress throws the leadership of the department into further ill repute.”'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/us/politics/william-barr-trump-ukraine.html?

[DURHAM D]

1. Did he work for organized crime before he came to DOJ?

It seems like he thinks his job is to protect his client no matter the number of laws he breaks in the process.

[elleng]

2. nope 'Before becoming Attorney General in 1991, Barr held numerous other posts

within the Department of Justice, including serving as Deputy Attorney General. From 1973 to 1977, he was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency. Barr is a longtime proponent of the unitary executive theory of nearly unfettered presidential authority.[1][2][3] The author of the 1992 report The Case for More Incarceration, Barr has argued for an increase in the United States incarceration rate and been an influential advocate for tougher criminal justice policies. . .

Upon leaving the DOJ in 1993, Barr was appointed by Virginia Governor George Allen to co-chair a commission to implement tougher criminal justice policies and abolish parole in the state.[60][61] Barr has been described as a "leader of the parole-abolition campaign" in Virginia.[62]

In 1994, Barr became Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the telecommunications company GTE Corporation, where he served for 14 years. During his corporate tenure, Barr directed a successful litigation campaign by the local telephone industry to achieve deregulation by scuttling a series of FCC rules, personally arguing several cases in the federal courts of appeals and the Supreme Court.[63][64] In 2000, when GTE merged with Bell Atlantic to become Verizon Communications, he left that position.

From 1997 to 2000, Barr served on the Board of Visitors of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg.[65]

In 2009, Barr was briefly of counsel to the firm Kirkland & Ellis. From 2010 until 2017, he advised corporations on government enforcement matters and regulatory litigation; he rejoined Kirkland and Ellis in 2017.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barr

[lagomorph777]

6. Yes, he worked for Reagan and Bush.

[Nevermypresident]

3. Did the DNI contact Barr/WhiteHouse or did Barr/WhiteHouse contact the DNI about the Whistleblower

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complaint. Great question by Rep. Jackie Speier (on Maddow). We all know this complaint normally goes to IG then DNI then Intelligence Committees.

Instead, Barr torpedoed the law. I also want to know who informed trump/Bar about the whistleblower.

[yellowcanine]

4. "new questions?" Nope. Confirms old suspicions of treason.

Just sayin.'

[lagomorph777]

5. Barr is directly implicated in the complaint and in Trump's self-written "notes" of the call.

Barr was trying to cover his own ass in the coverup.