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Showing Original Post only (View all)Remember: Barr ignored CIA lawyer's criminal referral of Trump Ukraine call [View all]
CIA's top lawyer made 'criminal referral' on complaint about Trump Ukraine callExperts are raising questions about why the Justice Department did not open an investigation
NBC News, Oct. 4, 2019
By Ken Dilanian and Julia Ainsley
WASHINGTON Weeks before the whistleblower's complaint became public, the CIA's top lawyer made what she considered to be a criminal referral to the Justice Department about the whistleblower's allegations that President Donald Trump abused his office in pressuring the Ukrainian president, U.S. officials familiar with the matter tell NBC News.
The move by the CIA's general counsel, Trump appointee Courtney Simmons Elwood, meant she and other senior officials had concluded a potential crime had been committed, raising more questions about why the Justice Department later declined to open an investigation.
The phone call that Elwood considered to be a criminal referral is in addition to the referral later received as a letter from the Inspector General for the Intelligence Community regarding the whistleblower complaint.
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But a timeline provided by U.S. officials familiar with the matter shows that multiple senior government officials appointed by Trump found the whistleblower's complaints credible, troubling and worthy of further inquiry starting soon after the president's July phone call.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/cia-s-top-lawyer-made-criminal-referral-whistleblower-s-complaint-n1062481
Barr is in the Russia Thing up to his chins.
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Remember: Barr ignored CIA lawyer's criminal referral of Trump Ukraine call [View all]
Kid Berwyn
Nov 2019
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FEC Chair Breaks Silence After Trump's Foreign Interference Comments: 'It's Illegal'
Kid Berwyn
Nov 2019
#19
As a member of several ultra conservative Catholic organizations Barr views everything from the
Pepsidog
Nov 2019
#14
Barr's name was mentioned along with Rudy G's name on trump's phone call with Zelensky
JAD
Nov 2019
#8
DoJ is being replaced by Barr's Dirt Services -- dig it up, make it up, bury it
Hermit-The-Prog
Nov 2019
#10
because we have a compromised DOJ....it works for the president and no one else
spanone
Nov 2019
#21