re: NYT : Barr's belief that FBI probe was not legitimate is based directly on Durham findings

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They should get jail time and lose their pension for attempting to set up innocent people.
We are supposed to have a rule of law, and it requires the law holders to give exemplary examples and to be far above the appearance of wrong doing. These people put innocent people in jail, such as Poppa D and have tried to put Flynn in jail. Sadly they knew all along that both were completely innocent.

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That "Lying to Federal Investigators" charge is straight star chamber bullshite devised solely as a tool to compel desired testimony, whether truthful or not. False testimony under oath is perjury, false testimony germane to a pending court proceeding is likely obstruction of justice. Even with a loose reading of "germane" those standards are based on reasonable expectations of citizenship. But criminalizing statements that fail to meet either of those reasonable standards is not worthy of a Republic of free and equal citizens. Peasants have to agree to be peasants. The dice are still tumbling, we don't where they'll land.