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riversedge

(69,719 posts)
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 09:05 AM Sep 2020

DOJ Says Top Officials Will Snub Congress Because Committee Was Mean To Barr

Seems Barr has his loyalists in place to obstruct The House hearings.



DOJ Says Top Officials Will Snub Congress Because Committee Was Mean To Barr


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WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 28: U.S. Attorney General William Barr hears from Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Stephen Boyd as Barr testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in the Congressional Audi... MORE



By Matt Shuham September 22, 2020 10:55 a.m.


The Justice Department on Monday told the House Judiciary Committee that several high-profile witnesses would not testify as requested because legislators had been rude to Attorney General Bill Barr.



The Judiciary Committee in recent weeks had requested testimony from the directors of the Bureau of Prisons and the U.S. Marshals Service, as well as from the assistant attorney general leading the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, Eric Dreiband. Writing in response to Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) on Monday, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd’s letter might as well have been one word: No.

Instead, Boyd wrote at length about the indignities the attorney general experienced during his July 28 appearance before the committee, when Boyd said members of Congress chose “to use their allotted time to air grievances.” .........................

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DOJ Says Top Officials Will Snub Congress Because Committee Was Mean To Barr (Original Post) riversedge Sep 2020 OP
We must win this election. The White House, and both Houses of Congress, and kick these thugs still_one Sep 2020 #1
Sounds like contempt or at least contemptuous C_U_L8R Sep 2020 #2
House should end all DOJ funding. sinkingfeeling Sep 2020 #3
Elementary school? . . Iliyah Sep 2020 #4
Traitorous snowflakes will appear only if showered with praise and compliments dalton99a Sep 2020 #5
Subpoena them and if they don't show put them in jail. blueinredohio Sep 2020 #6
Add them to the list of folks... 2naSalit Sep 2020 #7

still_one

(91,947 posts)
1. We must win this election. The White House, and both Houses of Congress, and kick these thugs
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 09:07 AM
Sep 2020

back to the hole they came from

C_U_L8R

(44,892 posts)
2. Sounds like contempt or at least contemptuous
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 09:08 AM
Sep 2020

Maybe they need to be escorted to testify before committee.

2naSalit

(86,048 posts)
7. Add them to the list of folks...
Wed Sep 23, 2020, 11:37 AM
Sep 2020

who will be scrutinized come January.

I'm putting this mildly so as to avoid being targeted myself. I am anticipating some serious measures being undertaken when our capsizing ship is returned to corrected course next year.

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