{"id":1629025,"date":"2022-09-01T07:18:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T11:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1629025"},"modified":"2022-09-01T07:19:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T11:19:02","slug":"bill-barr-is-all-in-with-the-mar-a-lago-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-barr-is-all-in-with-the-mar-a-lago-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Barr is All-in With the Mar-a-Lago Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-barr-is-all-in-with-the-mar-a-lago-raid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1629025&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The defender of the deep state can be no friend of the people.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\u201cNumber one is that I think a lot of the attacks on the FBI are over the top because a decision like this is not made by the FBI,\u201d former Attorney General William Barr told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonsense.news\/p\/bill-barr-calls-bullsht?triedSigningIn=true\">Bari Weiss podcast<\/a> on August 25.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cIn fact, I don\u2019t think the FBI would push a decision that it\u2019s best to go in and search and obtain those documents after being jerked around for a year and a half. The decision would be made at the Department of Justice, by subordinates of the AG, and ultimately signed off on by the AG. The FBI would be told to go and execute it. I think the idea that the FBI is the problem here is misplaced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe former AG was more disturbed by \u201cthe constant pandering to outrage\u201d on the right, without discussion of whether the outrage had any merit. The FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/16\/doj-admits-trump-passports-were-taken-after-cbs-anchor-odonnell-reports-not\/\">seized Trump\u2019s passports<\/a>, leaving the impression that the former president had committed a crime and was now a flight risk. FBI agents also rummaged through the closets of Melania Trump, an act of pure intimidation. With Trump attorneys forced outside, the FBI could easily have planted or destroyed information. If that is not cause for outrage, it\u2019s hard to imagine what might qualify.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWeiss brought up the \u201cRussiagate\u201d episode, as the host explained, \u201cthe idea that Donald Trump was a compromised agent of Moscow. That there were deep connections between Trump\u2019s people and Russian intelligence. That the Trump campaign had colluded with the Russians, including by hacking Democratic National Committee emails.\u201d Barr was all over it.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWell, the Russiagate thing, I think, to the extent the FBI was misused was decisions made toward by high-level officials in the FBI,\u201d the former AG said. Everybody Barr knew in Republican and Justice Department circles was advising Trump to fire Comey \u201cbefore we even knew his role in Russiagate.\u201d Comey had \u201csome of the personality characteristics that can lead people, like J. Edgar Hoover, to run the FBI according to their personal whims. I thought it was dangerous and that he should go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOn the other hand, the former AG explained, \u201cI don\u2019t think that Chris Wray is that type of leader nor do I think the people around Chris Wray are those types of leaders,\u201d people who might \u201cthrow the FBI\u2019s weight around to interfere in the political process.\u201d Barr thinks Wray is \u201cvery cautious about that,\u201d but observers have to wonder.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhen selected as FBI boss, Wray <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/05\/no-wray-hope-fbi-reform-lloyd-billingsley\/\">denied any \u201cspying\u201d<\/a> had taken place against the Trump campaign. As the world now knows, the FBI did spy on the Trump campaign. In 2018, Wray proclaimed, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/fbi-director-russia-investigation-witch-hunt-1032434\">I do not believe<\/a> special counsel Mueller is on a witch hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMueller\u2019s \u201cprofessional investigation,\u201d aided by partisan Democrats, turned up no evidence of collusion with Russia. All told, Christopher Wray doesn\u2019t sound like someone who is \u201cvery cautious\u201d about interfering in the political process. Wray is all-in with the Mar-a-Lago raid, and as it turns out, so is William Barr.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWhat is the nature of the highly classified information?\u201d Barr wondered. \u201cWhat is the evidence, if any, of active conceit by the president or those around him in Mar-a-Lago to mislead the government?\u201d Remember, in Barr\u2019s view, Trump had been \u201cjerking around\u201d the FBI for a year and a half, so they had to launch the raid.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWeiss recalled that Barr \u201chad been in the CIA\u201d and worked as attorney general under George H.W. Bush. Weiss did not recall Barr\u2019s defense of the FBI in a case that marked 30 years only days before the interview.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDuring the Ruby Ridge siege of 1992, the FBI deployed massive military force against a single family. <a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/10\/28\/lady-killers\/\">FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi<\/a> shot unarmed Vicki Weaver in the head as she held her infant child. Snipers are trained carefully to \u201cacquire\u201d the target so the killing was not accidental, as FBI boss <a href=\"http:\/\/law2.umkc.edu\/faculty\/projects\/ftrials\/weaver\/freehtestimony.html\">Louis Freeh claimed in 1995<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBarr spent two weeks organizing former attorney generals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/12\/lowering-barr-lloyd-billingsley\/\">to defend Horiuchi<\/a>, who already had government lawyers working on his behalf. Barr told reporters he was not directly involved in Ruby Ridge but the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0revealed that the DOJ made 20 telephone contacts with the operation, two of them from William Barr. The Weaver family filed a wrongful death lawsuit and the DOJ paid $3 million. When an Idaho county filed criminal charges against Horiuchi, Barr sought immunity for the FBI sniper.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe shoot-without-provocation rules were approved by the FBI\u2019s Larry Potts. When Clinton attorney general Janet Reno nominated Potts for deputy director of the FBI, William Barr told the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0Potts was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1995\/05\/28\/us\/man-in-the-background-at-the-fbi-now-draws-some-unwelcome-attention.html\">deliberate and careful<\/a>\u201d and \u201cI can\u2019t think of enough good things to say about him.\u201d In 2022, Barr has nothing but praise for Christopher Wray, who was all-in with Russiagate.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTo all but the willfully blind, the FBI is now the American KGB, and like that organization engaged in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Special-Tasks-Anatoli-Sudoplatov\/dp\/0316821152\">special tasks<\/a>,\u201d not exactly within the law. The FBI plants evidence (funds planted on Trump associate George Papodopoulos), falsifies evidence (Kevin Clinesmith changing the email about Carter Page), engages in political stagecraft, (the fake Whitmer kidnap plot) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-62688532\">pressures social media platforms<\/a> to avoid news of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop, supposedly \u201cRussian disinformation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBack in 2020, Attorney General Barr hadn\u2019t seen evidence of voter fraud on a scale that would have affected the outcome of the election. Weiss did not press Barr for details on the audits his DOJ conducted on races that suddenly reversed in favor of Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBarr provided no tallies of the number of illegals who had voted in California, where the \u201cmotor voter\u201d program automatically registers illegals to vote. Stuffed ballot boxes, as shown in <em>2000 Mules<\/em>, also escaped his notice. No second thoughts about voter fraud, but the former AG and CIA man remained certain about POTUS 45.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cTrump is his own worst enemy,\u201d Barr told Weiss. \u201cHe\u2019s incorrigible. He doesn\u2019t take advice from people. I said to him when I first started that I thought he was going to lose the election unless he adjusted a little bit. And if he did adjust, he could go down in history as a great president. He continued to be self-indulgent and petty and turned off key constituencies that ultimately made the difference in the election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFor the former AG, voter fraud had nothing to do with it. Embattled Americans can thank Barr for providing a moment of clarity.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDonald Trump is not his own worst enemy. Donald Trump\u2019s worst enemies include his own attorney general, members of his own party, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which has now crossed the line.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhatever special tasks the FBI has planned, former attorney general William Barr will be there to back them up, just as he did with FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi. 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