I was shocked to hear AG Bill Barr state that the Durham Report doesn’t have the involvement of looking into Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
I’m not going to feel good about anything unless and until I see the indictments come down. Obama deserves scrutiny and investigation, but I’ll be very unhappy if Comey gets to walk on this.
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I don’t know what Barr is thinking. Time is not on his side. If the charges don’t being forth before the election, he may never be able to deliver justice should the Democrats win.
Baier: You always get lumped in with being political and you’ve pushed back against that, the characterization that you’re the president’s attorney. But as you get closer to an election, doesn’t releasing this report, make it more at risk for falling into that political bucket?
Barr: I’m sure there are people who might say that I’ve publicly made clear that this has not involved looking at President Obama or Vice President Biden.I think the people that we’re looking at are not at that level. And I think what–
Baier: Names we would be familiar with?
Barr: Some of them.
Barr: But, you know, here’s the thing. For the first time in American history, the police organizations and the national security organizations were used to spy on a campaign and there was no basis for it. The media largely drove all kinds of sensational claims were being made about the president. That could have affected the election. And then and then later on in his administration, there were actions taken that really appear to be efforts to sabotage his campaign. And that has to be looked at. And if people want to say that I’m political because I am looking at those potential abuses of power, so be it. But that’s the job of the attorney general.
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Baier: If you had to characterize the Durham report as, you know, what now? Is it going to be eye opening for Americans or is this can be kind of a blip?
Barr: I you know, I’m very troubled by it. What has been called to my attention so far, but I’m not going to characterize it beyond that.
Baier: Can you tell us anything about the investigation to unmasking?
Barr: You know, unmasking is not by itself illegal, but the patterns of unmasking can tell us something about people’s motivations at any given point of time. So we’re trying to take a look at the whole waterfront on unmasking what was done, especially in 2016.
Baier: And are there criminal implications?
Barr: No. As I say, it’s not it’s not against the law to unmask anyone. But I mean, for example, let’s say suppose for a period in the spring, there was a lot of heavy unmasking done on people involved with the Trump campaign. That would be very relevant as to what people were thinking at that time and what their motivations were.
They already know they are being investigated. They all understand that they have been exposed, and they hope that the uncovered evidence and their scheming will allow them enough wiggle room to not be in direct line of the fan, which has the shot hitting it. Every bank robber knows that someone is looking for him.
I think if anything happened now, the information would be shoved to the back of the defund police movement in the news. Virtually all things are political in DC, so I wonder if they are waiting for this to be a September or October surprise.
Play the long game for a moment. If the timing of this investigation is carefully controlled, it has the potential to recreate the circumstances that got Trump elected in the first place. As long as the investigation is aired publicly and charges are filed before election day, I’m good with it. Also, remember that Biden was a part of the administration that did this.
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While it is frustrating for Barr to keep teasing us like this, the hard details of this investigation need to be held close until it’s time to indict. The less likely the culprits are to suspect they’re being investigated because Barr isn’t running his mouth, the more likely they are to slip up and build the case for the DOJ.
I like Barr, and I want to give him the benefit of the doubt that that’s what he’s up to. I’ll reserve my ultimate judgment of him until this investigation closes, and he proves he’s not a coward like Jeff Sessions.
This piece was written by Wayne Dupree on June 10, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com [4] and is used by permission.