Lowering the Barr:
Barr came into the job, Crawford said, with a good reputation on the right and the left and now he stands “accused of protecting the president, enabling the president, lying to Congress.”
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Barr is not so much the attorney general as the minister of [DIS]information. His interview with Crawford was tactically brilliant. Barr once more deftly took advantage of the fact that Mueller, with his impenetrable legalese and double negatives, has handcuffed himself.Even when the reclusive and mute Mueller finally stepped up to the lectern on Wednesday, he was still hiding.
“If we had had confidence that the [UN]president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so,” said Mueller, sounding like Odysseus struggling to navigate between Scylla and Charybdis. “We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime.”
Mueller is as elliptical as Barr is diabolical. The special counsel is clearly frustrated that we don’t understand his reasoning. But his reasoning is nonsensical. [Barr needn't worry, DUHnocchio's dupees are morally- and cognitively-challenged.]
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But talking to Crawford, Barr took the knife he had already stuck in his old friend and twisted it, using St. Mueller’s prestige against him. He said Mueller, in fact, was not barred from reaching a conclusion, and this is why a “surprised” Barr and his former deputy, Rod Rosenstein, had to step in and reach a conclusion on obstruction, one ending up favoring Obstructive-Collusionist-in-Chief.
After indicating that Mueller was derelict and misguided, Barr went ahead and belittled him and his dream team as inept.
Dismissively noting he and Rosenstein did not agree with a lot of the legal analysis in the Mueller report, Barr said he applied what he considered to be “the right law,” though he confusingly said he didn’t rely on that when pronouncing Mueller’s evidence “deficient” on the 11 instances of potential obstruction laid out in the report.
When Barr moved on to his investigation of the investigators who worked on the case of possible collusion between Russia and the Puppet-in-Chief campaign, he really bared his claws.
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