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6-2-2021

Bill Barr had an 'intake process' to evaluate the 'dirt' on Joe Biden given to Rudy Giuliani from a Russian agent.

In an exclusive report Tuesday, TIME Magazine revealed that Russian foreign agents called Rudy Giuliani "useful" in their efforts to undermine the 2020 election.

Andriy Derkach wrote to reporter Simon Shuster that he would meet to answer questions. The man has been called an "active Russian agent" by both President Donald Trump's administration and Joe Biden's.

He said that the idea that he was involved in the 2020 election, "rumors and gossip." He only went after the Biden family to expose corruption. He dodged any questions about the U.S. about being a Russian operative, saying instead he wanted to talk about Biden.

"In the fall of 2019, he gained access to Trump's inner circle through Rudy Giuliani, the President's personal lawyer," the report explained.

"He then provided Giuliani with documents purporting to show that Joe Biden and his family were involved in corruption.
After their first meeting, Derkach even posted a photo of himself with Giuliani on Facebook, mugging for the camera as they exchanged a stack of documents.

In the months before Election Day, he released a series of secret recordings of Biden pressuring top Ukrainian officials to fight corruption. The source of those tapes remains a mystery to this day."

The story cited both the FBI and CIA who warned Trump's team that Derkach was pushing a Russian disinformation effort, but his allies didn't care and continued promoting the conspiracy all over social media.
A month before Election Day and the first debate, QAnon cult members, and Q himself, began promoting Derkach too.

"The plot served multiple interests," the report continued.
"Derkach could not have gotten through
to American voters without help from Trump and Giuliani.
While the Trump campaign's attacks against the Biden family relied in large part on the ammunition Derkach provided.
Whatever the truth of the U.S. allegations against Derkach, Russia benefited from his efforts."

"Giuliani is a very capable lawyer. I appreciated his meticulousness," Derkach said. "When we spoke, it was very useful for me. He records everything. He writes everything down in his notebook. He never relaxes."

Trump had pressed Ukraine's president to investigate the Bidens based on the documents given by the Russians.
That ended up in the first Trump impeachment.
So, Giuliani embarked on his own rogue investigation.

Among those who helped him was former diplomat Andriy Telizhenko, a big Trump Fan who loved cigars and whisky as much as the former mayor did, the report said.

"His function, Telizhenko told me, was 'just to help Mr. Giuliani connect to the right people in Kyiv, filter the evidence, what is true, what is not true.'

The information came from every corner of Ukraine's political swamp:
local tycoons, political operatives, corrupt cops and prosecutors. 'We were getting stuff from everywhere,' Telizhenko says. 'Documents, tapes, you name it.'"

Telizhenko would tell Giuliani who was reliable or not, then they would pass the findings onto Trump's allies in Washington, including Republican lawmakers and Attorney General Bill Barr.

According to the TIME report, Barr created something he called an "intake process" to evaluate the credibility of the evidence.
Without so much as a google search, Giuliani begged to meet with Derkach while they were both in Ukraine.

"Two Republican Senators, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Chuck Grassley of Iowa, used some of Giuliani's material in their own investigation of the Biden family," said the report.

It's unclear if Giuliani gave Johnson the documents or Derkach handed them over directly. A Congressional watchdog group demanded to know the details of meetings that Johnson had with the Russian agent.

Johnson is on the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Foreign Relations Committee despite his contact with someone deemed to be a sanctioned Russian spy by the U.S. Government.

Telizhenko tried to warn Giuliani about the reliability of Derkach and his ties to Russia but Giuliani continued anyway.

Nothing that Guiliani ever collected was deemed credible enough for Barr to act on it. At the same time, not even Fox News would run Giuliani's mini-documentary on what he "found" in Ukraine.

Ultimately, Trump's own administration officials debunked the conspiracy theories that Giuliani was pushing.
Still, he maintained, "I can prove it!" Telling ABC News in late Sept. 2019 that members of the Clinton campaign "were colluding with the Ukrainians, conspiring with the Ukrainians!"

The rest of his conspiracies continue to this day as the Justice Department is investigating his work as an unregestered foreign agent.

Read the rest of the story at TIME Magazine.

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6-10-2021

'William Barr was truly out of control':
Legal experts stunned by Trump's DOJ spying on Democrats.

Legal experts blasted the Trump-era Department of Justice after a bombshell report on the department spying on Democrats in Congress.

"As the Justice Department investigated who was behind leaks of classified information early in the Trump administration, it took a highly unusual step:

Prosecutors subpoenaed Apple for data from the accounts of at least two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, aides and family members.
One was a minor," The New York Times reported Thursday.

"All told, the records of at least a dozen people tied
to the committee were seized in 2017 and early 2018, including those of Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, then the panel's top Democrat and now its chairman, according to committee officials and two other people briefed on the inquiry."

"Prosecutors, under the beleaguered attorney general, Jeff Sessions,
were hunting for the sources behind news media reports about contacts between Trump associates and Russia.

Ultimately, the data and other evidence did not tie the committee to the leaks,
and investigators debated whether they had hit a dead end and some even discussed closing the inquiry."

"But William P. Barr revived languishing leak investigations after he became attorney general a year later.
He moved a trusted prosecutor from New Jersey with little relevant experience to the main Justice Department to work on the Schiff-related case and about a half-dozen others, according to three people with knowledge of his work who did not want to be identified discussing federal investigations."

(((( the separation of powers constrains Congress’s ability to investigate the President but not the President’s ability to investigate Congress.))))

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10-10-2021

Bill Barr could lose his law license over Trump DOJ spy scandal:
Legal expert says ‘expect a lot of legal fallout’.

On CNN Thursday, Norm Eisen, who acted as counsel for House Democrats during the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump, expressed outrage at the New York Times report that the Justice Department secretly spied on members of Congress investigating Trump's ties to Russia — and predicted that former Attorney General William Barr could face the loss of his law license over the scandal.

"In my 30 years in Washington representing people in front of Congress, and at DOJ working in government and the executive branch as a staff member like those staff members who got subpoenaed in congress, it is completely without a precedent," said Eisen. "It's groundbreaking and earth-shaking. And there are going to be consequences. There's going to be fallout."

"You're going to see congressional observations, you're going to need a policy or laws to protect reporters and members of Congress."

"They even went after the child of one of these targets on the Hill to get information about a child's account from Apple!
And then there's the question of Bill Barr ... we've already had two judges criticize him for a coverup in connection with protecting Trump from obstruction charges.
Now people are going to be looking at his law license afresh.
So expect a lot of legal fallout from this."

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6-28-2021

On Monday, The Washington Post editorial board tore into the Republican Party for advancing former
President Donald Trump's "big lie" that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

Even though, according to a new interview with ABC News' Jonathan Karl, former Attorney General William Barr
knew it was "bullshit" and worked with now-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to try to talk him down.

"Former attorney general William P. Barr was one of Donald Trump's most loyal lieutenants," wrote the board.
"He roiled the department helping the former president's criminal friends, and his public praise of Mr. Trump redefined effusive.

So the week after the 2020 presidential election, when he unleashed U.S. attorneys across the country to investigate voting irregularities, it seemed as though he was preparing to use the Justice Department's powers to bolster the lie that the Democrats had stolen the election."

And yet, the board noted, it turned out Barr privately knew all of it was "absurd."

"It was not until Dec. 1 that Mr. Barr finally announced publicly what he had known for weeks, telling an Associated Press reporter__

'To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,'" wrote the board.

"It took Mr. McConnell even longer to denounce Mr. Trump's lies.
One can only wonder, if Mr. Barr and Mr. McConnell had spoken out sooner, whether the 'big lie' might have struggled to deepen and fester among Republicans the way it has.
But at least they acknowledged reality, a fact that to this day distinguishes them from a shockingly large number of their fellow Republicans."

There are Republicans even now who refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of President Joe Biden's win — and are proud of it.

"Trumpworld's facially ridiculous fraud allegations did not pass the smell test last November, and they got only less credible under scrutiny," concluded the board.
"Those who persist in advancing the 'big lie' today are either unhinged or so disinterested in the nation's welfare that they are willing to indulge dangerous conspiracy theories to retain power and stay in Mr. Trump's good graces. Either one should be disqualifying for public office."

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