Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) outlines the political motives of Jerry Nadler (Chair-House Judiciary Committee) and his fellow Democrats in moving to cite AG Barr for contempt of Congress. As Jordan states forcefully, Barr was being cited because he refused to break the law.
In America a person is presumed innocent until the prosecution can convince a judge or jury that that person is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Prosecutors do not “prove people innocent.” They do not exonerate them. Prosecutors either present evidence to a grand jury for indictments or they decline to do so. They either charge a person or they don’t. It is a binary decision that they must make. If they decline to charge, the individual is innocent as a matter of law.
SC Mueller did not make the binary decision he was charged with making. He did not do what the SC regulations required him to do.
Emmett Flood, White House Counsel, has taken the time to point out the defects in the Special Counsel’s Report in a letter to the DOJ.
Flood stated,
Are the Democrats guilty of obstruction of justice? It is clear now that the administrative state needs to remove AG Bill Barr from his office quickly. Failing in this will result in serious legal exposure for many top intelligence officials from the Obama administration. Are the Democrats, who are allies of these officials, obstructing the investigation by trying to oust AG Barr? By trying to smear AG Barr? By trying to get AG Barr to violate the law by releasing a public copy of the unredacted Mueller Report?
The Democratic meltdown continues. The basic problem that the Democrats have is this. Obama administration officials used the FBI, the NSA, the CIA, and other national security organs to spy on a rival campaign and then undermine an elected president. Interviews are being done around the country to try to obfuscate this fact.
On Saturday former FBI Director James Comey went on radio in LA and tried to make the case once again that the Russians won the election for Trump. If there were an annual award for the most fake news items in one interview, Comey would be in the running.
But the president of the United States refuses to acknowledge that the Russians attacked us.
No President in recent memory has imposed more sanctions on Russia than PDJT.
Something a bit different for a Saturday. For sure, this officer saved at least one life and quite possibly many others.
The Democratic Party is in full-blown meltdown mode. During the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Senator Maxie Hirono (D-HI) went off the rails and accused AG Barr of lying on more than one occasion to Congress. A case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) as bad as this has never been seen in public before.
During the committee hearing, Sen. Hirono called on Attorney General William Barr to resign, saying he is no different from others in the Trump administration who have sacrificed “their once decent reputations for the grifter and liar who sits in the Oval Office.” Kamala Harris of California trying to revive her failing campaign for the Democratic nomination joined in the demand for Barr to resign. Although Sen. Hirono asked several questions of Barr, she never gave him a chance to answer.
The term historical revisionism indicates the re-interpretation of the historical record. It usually means challenging the accepted view by introducing contrary evidence. The revision of the historical record can reflect new discoveries of fact, evidence, and interpretation, which then lead to a revised history. In America we have often looked back, particularly after wars, to understand and to learn. This has often led to revisions of what we understood to be the facts at the time. This is good since it helps us to be better in the future.
However, sometimes a group finds that it needs to minimize or erase entirely some aspects of their past history. This often occurs when the events of the past cast a bad light on the current group.
One such example is the incident in China in 1989 known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre. This event, which led to the deaths of some 10,000 people, has been erased from Chinese history books in their schools. The Chinese government wants all knowledge of this incident to be erased from the public’s mind in China. The knowledge of what happened is currently passed on only by word of mouth in China.
On Wednesday AG Bill Barr is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee has requested his presence. There appears to be some problem with the House request since Chairman Nadler only wants Barr to take questions from the committee staff counsels rather than the committee members. Barr is refusing to do this.