In a preview of what is likely to come Attorney General Bill Barr took aim at the FBI over its “very aggressive” approach to investigating...
In a preview of what is likely to come Attorney General Bill Barr took aim at the FBI over its “very aggressive” approach to investigating President Trump and his top staff over ties to “Russia” even when investigators knew their case was falling apart.
Via Fox News:
Barr alleged the bureau was eager to investigate President Trump’s team both before the election and after he won in November 2016.
“I think before the election, I think we were concerned about the motive force behind the very aggressive investigation that was launched into the Trump campaign without — you know, with a very thin, slender reed as a basis for it,” Barr said in the two-part interview. The second part will air Tuesday at 6 p.m. EDT on Fox News’ “Special Report with Bret Baier.”
“It seemed that the bureau was sort of spring-loaded at the end of July to drive in there and investigate a campaign,” Barr added.
Barr went on to say that “there really wasn’t much there to do that on, and that became more and more evident as they went by, but they seemed to have ignored all the exculpatory evidence that was building up and continued pell-mell to push it forward.”
The attorney general said that effort remained intense following Trump’s election, even as – he said – it became “painfully obvious” there was little basis.
“The other area of concern is that after the election, even though they were closing down, some of it as we’ve seen in the [Michael] Flynn case and say there’s nothing here, for some reason they went right back at it, even at a time where the evidentiary support or claimed support, like the dossier, was falling apart,” Barr said, referencing the dossier compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele as part of Democratic opposition research.
“And it’s — it’s very hard to understand why they continued to push and even make public in testimony that they had an investigation going, when it was becoming painfully obvious, or should have been obvious to anyone, that there was nothing there,” he continued.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the Obama administration flagrantly abused government agencies, law enforcement and the intelligence community to spy on and punish their political opponents.
Even worse top personnel at these agencies seem to have been supportive of using their power to go after Obama’s opponents, be it Tea Party organizations, reporters like Sharyl Atkinson, members of Congress or the Trump campaign and Michael Flynn.
It appears no-scandal Obama will at the end of the day be seen as the perpetrator of the greatest political scandal in American history. An attempt to remove a duly elected President of the United States to prevent him from carrying out the will of the American people.
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