Opinion: After Barr’s betrayal, DOJ and FBI employees must speak out
Attorney General William P. Barr appears before a House Appropriations subcommittee on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 11 at 12:45 PM Attorney General William P.
Barr’s effort to ingratiate him to an unhinged president was done so blatantly that he’s now blown his cover. He’s plainly not acting on the people’s behalf, but rather on Trump’s. But of course there is no there there, as we know. The investigation into Russian interference was predicated on statements an Australian official heard from George Papadopoulos. Carter Page had long been suspected of being a Russian agent. Multiple Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act judges, all appointed by Republicans, approved warrants to conduct surveillance. What in all that is of “concern” to Barr? He wouldn’t say.
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