re: Where is Bill Barr?

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1. As I’ve been saying since shortly after we learned of Durham’s appointment, the longer his investigation stretched into 2020, the more difficult — if not practically impossible — it would be to announce anything prior to the election. The Justice Department has obviously put a lot of work into what it has always maintained is a good-faith investigation. It does not want that work excoriated as a political campaign stunt. Durham has a well-founded reputation, earned in big assignments under administrations of both parties, as a straight-arrow who does not factor politics into the exercise of prosecutorial discretion.

2. Durham got unlucky: In February/March, the coronavirus pandemic shut down grand juries. For weeks, it was impossible to travel to conduct critical witness interviews. A prosecutor can’t effectively interview key players by Zoom or telephone. You have to get in a room with them, show them documents, and look them in the eye.

3. Barr says Durham is working methodically to try to build cases. If you’re doing serious prosecutions, you can’t indict until a case is so ready you could go to trial. Recall Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of Russian businesses. When it was unexpectedly challenged by an indicted business that demanded its day in court, the case fell apart, and the Justice Department had to dismiss it to avoid further embarrassment. That’s what happens when an indictment is more like a press release than the result of a criminal investigation that diligently nails down all the loose ends.

4. Regardless of whether Durham files indictments, Barr has long indicated there is going to be a narrative report. The Justice Department does not ordinarily publish the evidence against uncharged people, though it is certainly legitimate to publish a report on government misconduct, particularly if DOJ itself is implicated. DOJ’s inspector General routinely does that. There would be tremendous controversy if a report on Obama-administration misconduct were released right before an election in which Obama’s vice president is the Democratic Party candidate. Barr is patently mindful of the condemnation that came former FBI director Comey’s way when, under no obligation to do so, he publicly reopened the criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton just days before the 2016 election.

5. Another major criticism of the Clinton emails investigation was that the FBI and DOJ factored the election calendar into the investigative judgment to close the investigation — doing so by Comey’s highly irregular press conference in early July 2016, which seemingly got Mrs. Clinton out from under in time for her formal nomination at the Democratic convention three weeks later.

6. The Justice Department’s decision does not mean there will be no more “Russiagate” disclosures. DOJ and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have been pushed by Senator Lindsey Graham’s Judiciary Committee investigation of FISA abuse, as well as Senator Ron Johnson’s Homeland Security Committee investigation into other aspects of the Trump–Russia probe, to declassify and disclose important information. There have been significant disclosures in the last three weeks, and I expect that will continue.

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Shouldn't Barr or Wray be answering questions on how long the FBI has had possession of Hunter's laptop?

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Maybe old habits die hard, and I know I will be mocked for this - but I “Trust Barr.” He is my sexy unsexy old boyfriend and I stand by my man.

In the Ukrainian phone call - Trump told Zolensky that Barr would be reaching out to him, and so would Rudy. It is a dual track Y’all. Trump is fighting a war on 2 fronts - information and legal. Rudy-Information; Barr-legal.

I know y’all get sick of hearing it but any kind of litigation takes time, and this Biden shite is bad. Not only bad - but that’s a LOT of information. There’s no way other prominent politicians are not involved in this shite or else Biden would have been busted a long time ago. Those assholes are perfectly willing to throw each other under the bus; Biden did it with his own fricking children. That’s a lot of info to process, in a lot of different languages and alphabets and not a lot of time.

I think Barr/Trump/Rudy realized they ran out of time for indictments, so they got the info to Rudy for him to use to make sure Trump got re-elected. I think if Trump loses (and I’m NOT putting that in the universe bc TRUMP IS GOING TO WIN), the contingency plan is to announce an indictment(S).

If Trump was pissed at Barr - he would be bitching about him all the time. He’s not.

Now Wray. Can get fricked. Trump needs to fire him. And my girl Sidney needs to take over and clean house

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I know y’all get sick of hearing it but any kind of litigation takes time,

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while it was flimsy, clearly politically motivated, and unethical was it technically illegal? That is what Barr is struggling with and the the answer is maybe not.

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