CTH | AG Bill Barr notes John Durham will bring criminal charges against those
in the previous administration: “he is looking to bring to justice
people who were engaged in abuses if he can show that there were
criminal violations; and that’s what the focus is on.”
INGRAHAM – John Brennan was smashing the President’s firing of Inspector General Michael Atkinson, let’s listen:
BRENNAN
– “By removing Mr. Atkinson, and I think also sending a signal to
others, Mr. Trump continues to show his insecurity in terms of trying to
stop anybody who was going to expose, again the lawlessness, that I
think he not only has allowed to continue, but also that he abets.”
BARR – “I think the
president did the right thing in removing Atkinson. From the vantage
point of the Dept. of Justice, he had interpreted his statute; which is a
fairly narrow statute that gave him jurisdiction over wrong-doing by
intelligence people; and tried to turn it into a commission to explore
anything in the government, and immediately report it to congress
without letting the executive branch look at it and determine whether
there was any problem. He was told this in a letter from the department
of justice, and he is obliged to follow the interpretation of the
department of justice, and he ignored it. So I think the President was
correct in firing him.”
INGRAHAM – “An it’s the
second inspector general he’s fired since the beginning of this
pandemic. And of course that’s used to say: ‘well, the president doesn’t
want a watchdog’.”
BARR – “No, I think that’s true. I think he want’s responsible watchdogs.”
INGRAHAM
– What can you tell us about the state of John Durham’s investigation?
People have been waiting for the, the final report, on what happened
with this, what can you tell us?
BARR – “Well I think a
report y’know, may be, and probably will be, a by-product of his
activity; but his primary focus isn’t to prepare a report, he is
looking to bring to justice people who were engaged in abuses if he can
show that there were criminal violations; and that’s what the focus is
on. And, uh, as you know, being a lawyer yourself, building
these cases, especially the sprawling case we have between us that went
on for two or three years here, uh…, it takes some time, it takes some
time to build the case.”
“So he’s diligently pursuing it, uh.. My own view is that, uh, the
evidence shows that we’re not dealing with just mistakes or sloppiness,
there was something far more troubling here; and we’re going to get to
the bottom of it. And if people broke the law, and we can establish that with the evidence, they will be prosecuted.”
