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struggle4progress

(118,281 posts)
Sun Jun 16, 2019, 06:45 PM Jun 2019

Barr looks for answers that are already available

CNN News
4:29 am
June 15, 2019

... In a letter this week to New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, the Justice Department said that the review is “broad in scope” and will address “open questions” about “the activities of US and foreign intelligence services” as it related to the presidential campaigns in 2016 ...

... critics of the Russia probe return to a similar set of facts that have already been reviewed, including hundreds of pages of documents that provide a deeper explanation of the origins of the investigation.

In all of it, there is scant evidence to support President Donald Trump’s allegations that hostile and partisan forces inside the Obama-era Justice Department abused their powers to stymie his campaign ...

The President and his supporters have repeatedly insisted, despite substantial evidence to the contrary, that the Russia investigation began as a sham and was triggered by “the Steele dossier” ...

The special counsel investigation and the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee inquiry both determined that the Russia probe was started because of Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, contradicting Trump’s unverified claims ...

https://krtv.com/cnn-us-politics/2019/06/15/with-his-russia-probe-review-barr-looks-for-answers-that-are-already-available/

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Barr looks for answers that are already available (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2019 OP
It's a Repub talent, looking for shit that ain't there... Wounded Bear Jun 2019 #1

Wounded Bear

(58,648 posts)
1. It's a Repub talent, looking for shit that ain't there...
Sun Jun 16, 2019, 07:05 PM
Jun 2019

Hell, they looked for something in the Benghazi hearings for years and found nada.

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