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Showing Original Post only (View all)Bill Barr: No future counter-intel investigations into presidential campaigns without my approval [View all]
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/bill-barr-no-future-counter-intel-investigations-into-presidential-campaigns-without-my-approval/Attorney General Bill Barr is changing the rules on how the Dept. of Justice and the FBI can open investigations into possible foreign interference in presidential campaigns or counterintelligence investigations of presidential candidates.
The FBI opened the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, including Russias interference, with the approval of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
But Attorney General Barr wants to make any future investigations harder to open. On Monday he told reporters that any counterintelligence investigations into presidential campaigns will require his approval, and that of the FBI Director, The Hill reports.
One of the things that we agreed on is that the opening of a counterintelligence investigation of a presidential campaign would be something that the director of the FBI would have to sign off on and the attorney general, Barr said.
CNN reports Barrs decision is also certain to renew criticism that Barr has undermined the Justice Departments independence and is injecting politics into a significant and sensitive decision-making process.
Barrs announcement came on the same day The New York Times reported Russia hacked Burisma, the Ukraine gas company at the center of the Trump impeachment, meaning Russia is already interfering in the 2020 election.
The FBI opened the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, including Russias interference, with the approval of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
But Attorney General Barr wants to make any future investigations harder to open. On Monday he told reporters that any counterintelligence investigations into presidential campaigns will require his approval, and that of the FBI Director, The Hill reports.
One of the things that we agreed on is that the opening of a counterintelligence investigation of a presidential campaign would be something that the director of the FBI would have to sign off on and the attorney general, Barr said.
CNN reports Barrs decision is also certain to renew criticism that Barr has undermined the Justice Departments independence and is injecting politics into a significant and sensitive decision-making process.
Barrs announcement came on the same day The New York Times reported Russia hacked Burisma, the Ukraine gas company at the center of the Trump impeachment, meaning Russia is already interfering in the 2020 election.
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Bill Barr: No future counter-intel investigations into presidential campaigns without my approval [View all]
CousinIT
Jan 2020
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How about investigations into Bolshevik Barr WITH MY APPROVAL that I now consent to.
abqtommy
Jan 2020
#4
Also no investigations into campaigns that can be relied on to take some Dem votes.
tanyev
Jan 2020
#31
Barr is a cabinet member. They are political appointees,and they all leave with their president.
hedda_foil
Jan 2020
#49
I made calls to my congress rep & senators to urge resignation/removal/censure (whatever is
diva77
Jan 2020
#50