Left Goes Bananas On Barr’s DOJ After Ignoring Far Worse Under Obama

Barr is still the steady hand at the helm.


Rules of civility apply

You got that right.  He’s doing a great job.  👍👏🦅

A man of strength, who arrived not a moment too soon!

A man of strength, who arrived not a moment too soon!

If Trump had lost in 2016, Hillary would have continued the Obama corruption because doing so would have also hidden her family's own corruption.

What corruption by the Obama administration?

If Trump had lost in 2016, Hillary would have continued the Obama corruption because doing so would have also hidden her family's own corruption.

Can you imagine?  We wouldn't have known a thing about Fusion GPS, Comey, Brennan, Strzok & Page or McCabe. Michael Flynn might still be working somewhere in government. Manafort and Stone despite anything they did would never have been indicted. They would have continued on like many other Washington insiders. So much would never have seen the light of day. Perhaps it's no wonder why Hillary Clinton turned to apologize to Barak Obama the night she lost. 

What corruption by the Obama administration?

That's a very myopic understanding of my comment 1.2.2 . Here's a hint:

The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them.

L. Neil Smith

Can you imagine?  We wouldn't have known a thing about Fusion GPS, Comey, Brennan, Strzok & Page or McCabe.

Or James Clapper. He's a singing bird trying to save his perjured neck ...

As U.S. Attorney John Durham continues his criminal investigation into the origins of the government's targeting of the 2016 Trump campaign, former Obama administration intelligence officials are denying any wrong doing and justifying their actions.  Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is arguing he was concerned about the Russians interfering in the election, which is why his agency gathered "information." During a recent interview with CNN, Clapper admitted he was simply following orders from the "commander-in-chief," who had ordered intelligence agencies to do so.  

townhall

Yep, not a "smidgen of corruption" in the Obama administration!  /sarc

Or James Clapper.

He looks like something out of a Dickens Novel, doesn't he?


He's a singing bird trying to save his perjured neck ...

Yup, I recall that very article you posted.


Yep, not a "smidgen of corruption" in the Obama administration!  /sarc

Unfortunately, Obama is an untouchable. 

Obama is an untouchable. 

As is reverently and dutifully noted in comment 3.1.2 !

Done there with a dual purpose. Best performed by Chris Matthews every time he would mention Obama as "our first black president."  The template forever after.

He looks like something out of a Dickens Novel, doesn't he?

Dickens was a verbal sculptor who would have had a field day with the real life villains of the Obama Administration. Uriah Heep would be appropriate for several of them.

Under Holder, the notorious “Fast and Furious” operation was carried out. In it, guns were run to Mexican drug cartels, resulting in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. Holder refused to cooperate with House investigators to turn over information.

Started under Bush Jr - investigated and punished those that were actually at fault. 

Holder encouraged President Obama to use executive power to unconstitutionally and illegally give status and benefits to both children and parents illegally present in the United States after failing to pass legislation. In other words, the chief law enforcement officer encouraged an end-run of the Constitution and the law, one of which courts have already struck down, while the other is being litigated.

The courts did not agree this was "unconstitutional". 

Holder effectively dismissed the Lois Lerner Internal Revenue Service’s clear targeting of conservative groups and refused to carry out a true investigation into this corruption.

The IRS were investigating all groups that were using the cover of religion to influence politics. 

Holder corrupted the Civil Rights Division, turning it into a radical political organization—led once by Tom Perez, who is now the head of the Democratic National Committee. DOJ’s own inspector general concluded in a report that the division was guilty of “deep ideological polarization” and a “disappointing lack of professionalism.”

AND

That same radical Holder-Perez Civil Rights Division was repeatedly smacked down by the courts for its egregious positions and overreach. For example, the division was rebuked in a Florida case where the DOJ abusively prosecuted peaceful abortion protesters. It argued that the First Amendment did not protect the hiring decisions of a church in the  Hosanna-Tabor  decision. There were similar decisions involving voter ID and immigration issues, among countless others.

Those two are the parts of the same issue. It's not right and they got stopped in the courts like many of the Trump over reaches.

Holder used race as a political weapon. He declared voter ID a racially charged “poll tax,” and used immigration and cases like the tragic events in Ferguson and Sanford, Florida, as political events to whip up President Obama’s base while completely ignoring the constant terrible gang violence in Chicago, for example, all while leaving law enforcement (of all races) dangling in the wind.

We have Republicans on record saying the Voter ID bills in states were setup to shave 1 to 4 percentage points off Democratic vote totals because of race. 

Holder used civil rights as a hammer to prevent states from trying school choice to help move children out of poverty.

Fuck school choice! It's a disguise to cherry pick students and end run state guidelines.

And books will long be written about the politicization of the DOJ, the FBI, and countless government officials in the Obama administration all through the 2016 elections involving Russia collusion and targeting Donald Trump and his campaign.

Word salad bullshit, but as long as conservatives waste their money buying it, whatever...

Started under Bush Jr - investigated and punished those that were actually at fault.

That is not a fact. 

The operation began on October 31, 2009, when a local gun store reported to the Phoenix ATF that four individuals had purchased multiple AK-47 style rifles. In November 2009, the Phoenix office's Group VII, which would be the lead investigative group in Fast and Furious, began to follow a prolific gun trafficker.
ATF gunwalking scandal - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal

Now, in your little world, who was President then?????

The courts did not agree this was "unconstitutional". 

A SCOTUS ruling is expected in June of this year.

The IRS were investigating all groups that were using the cover of religion to influence politics. 

Pray tell how the words "Tea Party" is related to any religion in any way. The fact is the IRS admitted to targeting. Based on nothing, really.

ATF  sting operation Project Gunrunner started in 2005 .  In my "little world" I was serving under George Bush at the time. 

The ATF kept resurrecting similar schemes, the most infamous becoming know as Operation Fast and Furious under the next Administration.

To help combat firearms trafficking into Mexico, ATF began Project Gunrunner as a pilot project in Laredo, Texas, in 2005 and expanded it as a national initiative in 2006. Project Gunrunner is also part of the Department’s broader Southwest Border Initiative, which seeks to reduce cross-border drug and firearms trafficking and the high level of violence associated with these activities on both sides of the border. In June 2007, ATF published a strategy document, Southwest Border Initiative: Project Gunrunner (Gunrunner strategy), outlining four key components to Project Gunrunner: the expansion of gun tracing in Mexico, international coordination, domestic activities, and intelligence. In implementing Project Gunrunner, ATF has focused resources in its four Southwest border field divisions. In addition, ATF has made firearms trafficking to Mexico a top ATF priority nationwide. oig.justice

If you choose to ignore the start date, I really can't help you understand.

Looks like Obama was President when Fast and Furious started.

A SCOTUS ruling is expected in June of this year.

They are not ruling on Obama's EO. They are ruling on Trump's EO rescinding the Dreamers Act. I expect the Trump Administration will win this one. That would be consistent with past rulings.

Pray tell how the words "Tea Party" is related to any religion in any way.

Much of the Tea Party was infested (yes I'll use that word) with Evangelicals. Those hard core Trump Humpers that can't help themselves but to push the boundaries of rules, regulations and civility. 

Much of the Tea Party was infested (yes I'll use that word) with Evangelicals. Those hard core Trump Humpers that can't help themselves but to push the boundaries of rules, regulations and civility. 

So now you are claiming that the IRS targeted them because of their religious beliefs--as if THAT is somehow better and more acceptable?

LMFAO

What did ANY of the groups targeted DO that was so bad?

Much of the Tea Party was infested (yes I'll use that word) with Evangelicals. Those hard core Trump Humpers that can't help themselves but to push the boundaries of rules, regulations and civility. 

Good try, but Evangelicals never caused as much, if any, physical and monetary terrorist damage that Occupy, BLM, Antifa, and Hate-Trump groups have.

And as I wrote, and provided documentation for, the ATF's first project started during the Bush Administration

and continued during the Obama Administration.

The field agents really did not care who was the POTUS  or who was the AG when they came up with these crazy "ideas" about infiltrating the cartels to take them down.

The final report on Project Gunrunner was completed by the DOJ IG in November 2010,

13 months after the Jeremy Chambers case began in Oct 2009

and still known as Operation Wide Receiver until February 2010 when it was changed to Operation Fast & Furious.

Wikipedia actually has a pretty decent history of what happened and why.

en.wikipedia

oig.justice

en.wikipedia

The ATF loves nicknames, Project Gunrunner, Operation Wide Receiver, the Hernandez Case and the Mendrano Case involving the same agents and same Tuscon gun dealer from Operation Wide Receiver, and finally the Chambers Case eventually renamed Fast & Furious because

Jeremy Chambers was a member of some car club which emulated the Fast & Furious movies...

But, but, Obama...

So now you are claiming that the IRS targeted them because of their religious beliefs--as if THAT is somehow better and more acceptable?

No, I said the IRS was investigating religious tax except groups for meddling in politics.

What did ANY of the groups targeted DO that was so bad?

Is tax fraud ok if it follows your political ideology?

Good try, but Evangelicals never caused as much, if any, physical and monetary terrorist damage that Occupy, BLM, Antifa, and Hate-Trump groups have.

Is everything black & white - either/or - left & right in your world, Jasper? Just because I don't agree with the hyper partisan propaganda written in the article doesn't mean I must support the hyper partisan cause de jour of the left. 

No, I said the IRS was investigating religious tax except groups for meddling in politics.

you did no such thing.

Here is YOUR statement which I responded to:

Much of the Tea Party was infested (yes I'll use that word) with Evangelicals. Those hard core Trump Humpers that can't help themselves but to push the boundaries of rules, regulations and civility.

That does NOT state what you claimed later.

Is tax fraud ok if it follows your political ideology?

WTF? Where did I even hint at that??

What tax fraud are YOU referring to? Lots of liberals loved to claim that NO groups were denied tax exempt status, so where the hell is any fraud?

I was specifically referring to Fast and Furious.

Deny it all you want, but it DID start under Obama.

Like it or not.

I was specifically referring to Fast and Furious. Deny it all you want, but it DID start under Obama.

Which is like saying the Civil War started at Gettysburg...

it just defies the actual history of the ATF.

you did no such thing.

In 2.0 I said  - The IRS were investigating all groups that were using the cover of religion to influence politics. 

WTF? Where did I even hint at that?? What tax fraud are YOU referring to?

Arguing every single one of those 501c4 groups in the IRS investigations were lilly pure ignores the fact that partisan groups were using tax exempt status to cover for anonymous political donations. Hell both left and right were doing it. The IRS was simply filtering groups by key words such as -  "tea party," "patriot," "9/12" "occupy," "progressive," and "green energy."

Lots of liberals loved to claim that NO groups were denied tax exempt status, so where the hell is any fraud?

I don't know but where is that 501c4 group Ohioans United to Defeat Barack Obama's Un-American Agenda now? 

Pretty damn funny when so many leftwing idiots were pushing that the IRS did absolutely nothing wrong because no groups were denied. Shoots your little fantasy of tax fraud ALL to hell and back.

if you have evidence of REAL fraud--produce it or I will just know that you got zip.

Did you read your own link? The only reliable one you posted. It didn't change names. The investigation ended in 2007, period. Now the prosecutions went on until 2009/2010; but the program was long over.

oig.justice

This is Operation Wide Receiver it has definite beginning and ending dates. It was not ongoing when Obama took over the White House.  The Operation also has several differences from Fast & Furious. It had tracking of the guns both on the ground and through electronic devices planted within the guns. Arrests were made at the straw purchasers level. Also, the Mexican government was informed and was in on the operation.

From page 27

One such case, Operation Wide Receiver, was
noteworthy because it informed our understanding of how these tactics were
used by ATF more than three years before Operation Fast and Furious was
initiated. Further, unlike in Operation Fast and Furious, where some ATF
agents told us that they could not arrest straw purchasers because the U.S.
Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona had an unreasonable position on
the evidence required in order to make an arrest, we found that this issue was
not present in Operation Wide Receiver. Additionally, Operation Wide Receiver
illustrated the failure of management in ATF’s Phoenix Field Division to alert
ATF Headquarters to the use of these tactics, and the knowledge of the U.S.
Attorney’s Office in their use. 

From page 28

Operation Wide Receiver was conducted in two parts between March
2006 and December 2007 by agents in ATF’s Tucson Office, which is part of
ATF’s Phoenix Field Division.

From page 30

The next section covers Operation Wide Receiver II, the part of the
investigation that was conducted from February to December 2007. We
describe the suspected criminal activity that caused agents to resume the
investigation and the efforts ATF made to develop the case beyond the straw
purchaser level. These efforts included the use of court-authorized electronic
surveillance and attempts to coordinate the investigation with the Government
of Mexico. We describe the results of these efforts and how the investigation
came to a close, again, without any prosecutions. 

Now for Fast & Furious

Definitely not the same program; nor the did it start under Bush.

From page 103

The investigation began at the end of October 2009 when
agents obtained information about some suspicious firearms purchases made
from a Phoenix-area Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL). By the end of the year,
agents had identified a significant firearms trafficking group operating in the
Phoenix area that was responsible for the purchase of over 600 firearms for
approximately $350,000. However, for reasons described in this Chapter, ATF
and the U.S. Attorney’s Office agreed on a longer term investigative strategy
that broke from the traditional approach of confronting suspected straw
purchasers. Instead, the offices deferred taking action against the subjects
who had been identified in order to pursue a larger case, primarily through the
use of several wiretaps, that sought to dismantle the entire trafficking group
and identify how the firearms were being paid for and transported to Mexico. The consequences of adhering to this strategy for several months without
modification were extraordinary. During the course of the investigation,
Operation Fast and Furious subjects were responsible for purchasing nearly
2,000 firearms for $1.5 million, hundreds of which were recovered in the
United States and Mexico. The vast majority of these purchases were made by
individuals after ATF agents had identified them as suspects. Yet there were
no arrests or indictments in the case until it was learned that two weapons
found at the scene of Customs and Border Protection Agent Brian Terry’s
December 14, 2010, murder had been purchased by an Operation Fast and
Furious subject who agents had identified in November 2009, and who had
bought the two guns found at scene in January 2010. For the reasons
described in this chapter, we concluded that the individuals at ATF and the
U.S. Attorney’s Office responsible for Operation Fast and Furious failed to
conduct the investigation with the urgency, oversight, and attention to public
safety that was required by an investigation that involved such extraordinary
and consequential firearms trafficking activity. 

Not even Politico believes the tripe that they are the same operation.

politifact

Jane Harman, a former Democratic congresswoman from California and CEO of the Wilson Center, argued Holder accomplished many good things as the nation’s first black attorney general, but he could be faulted "for being politically tone-deaf."

"And some of the things he did I think backfired. Not dropping Fast and Furious, which started in the Bush administration, was a mistake," she said during a Sept. 28 Fox News Sunday panel. "Not notifying people about the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial in New York before he announced it, was a mistake. And not -- and the timing of the indictments of the Chinese was a mistake. But on balance is, I think his tone and his professionalism and his focus on race were pluses."

Harman’s claim about the origin of the Justice Department’s controversial "Fast and Furious" program was flagged by one of our readers. It is inaccurate.

President Barack Obama made the same error during the 2012 election season in describing the program’s launch. PolitiFact rated his claim that it started "under the previous administration" as False .

The "Fast and Furious" operation started in October 2009, about 10 months into Obama’s first term. Under the program, federal agents based in Arizona allowed straw buyers to buy guns in the United States and cross into Mexico so the weapons could be traced to, in theory, high-level drug cartel members.

The idea backfired when two guns that the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had lost track of were found at the crime scene of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, who was killed Dec. 14, 2010.

Investigations launched by Congress and the Justice Department in the wake of Terry’s death found many flaws with the "gun-walking" program designed by ATF’s Phoenix Field Division to go after cartels.

CNN even agrees.

cnn

CNN) Here's a look at Operation Fast and Furious. From 2009-2011, the Phoenix Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), along with other partners, allowed illegal gun sales in order to track the sellers and purchasers, who were believed to be connected to Mexican drug cartels.

Facts:
During the Fast and Furious investigation, nearly 2,000 firearms were illegally purchased for $1.5 million, according to a DOJ inspector General report. Hundreds of guns were later recovered in the United States and Mexico.

In 2010, two of the weapons linked to Fast and Furious turned up near the scene of the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in the Arizona desert.

Whistleblowing led to investigations by the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. During the House investigation, Attorney General Eric Holder was cited for contempt.

Fast and Furious was one of the operations under Project Gunrunner, part of the Department of Justice's broader National Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy.

Operation Fast and Furious was not the ATF's first "gun walking" investigation, which allowed illegally purchased firearms to "walk" out of gun shops. It was preceded by Operation Wide Receiver, which began in 2006.

Which is like saying the Civil War started at Gettysburg...
it just defies the actual history of the ATF.

What preposterous nonsense.

The Civil War had a start date.

So did Fast and Furious.

Your claims don't match facts.

You tell ME when exactly Fast and Furious started. THAT program, not similar ones. When, or IF, I should say, you can do that, I might actually think you have a valid point. Until then, you got squat.

Obviously the analogy was lost on you.  No surprise.

The same ATF agents were involved using the same gun dealers in at least 6 separately named cases,

between 2005 and 2009, one of which fell in the Obama term of office.

The blame lies somewhere in the ATF / DOJ chain of command over at least 6 years

BUT OBAMA & HOLDER!!!!!!!

Fast & Furious did not "start under Bush." That's simply false.

investigated and punished

Sure, Holder looked into his department's Fast And Furious like OJ hunted for the real killers.

With a jury foreperson with questionable objectivity? 

Who just happens to be a lawyer whose personal social media posts are anti-Trump. While being interviewed as a prospective juror, she didn't reveal that information to the judge.

The selection of the Juror was agreed to by Stones' Attornies. Our Justice System allows for Stones Attorney to deny certain sitting of Jurors. They did not do so in this case. You disrespect our Jurisprudence system and trial by Jury by your comment.

The selection of the Juror was agreed to by Stones' Attornies. Our Justice System allows for Stones Attorney to deny certain sitting of Jurors. They did not do so in this case. You disrespect our Jurisprudence system and trial by Jury by your comment.

She was not truthful when questioned under oath by the lawyers, so don't tell ME that I'm disrespectful of our jurisprudence system, dude.

She was not truthful when questioned under oath by the lawyers, so don't tell ME that I'm disrespectful of our jurisprudence system, dude.

Stone must have really incompetent lawyers then.  They didn't make a peep.  And other than you and propaganda sites, where is the proof SHE lied about anything? 

Stone must have really incompetent lawyers then.  They didn't make a peep.  And other than you and propaganda sites, where is the proof SHE lied about anything?

If Stone's lawyers knew about this woman and still seated her on the jury, then he has a real case for ineffectual representation.

If she didn't disclose info pertinent to the case, then there is a case for a mistrial.

Stone must have really incompetent lawyers then.  They didn't make a peep. 

In a federal case lawyers on either side submit questions. The judge then has the final say on jurors. Do I think Judge Amy Berman Jackson will do the right thing?   Not a chance.   She is moving towards sentencing and leaving execution of the sentence until the court addresses Stone's request for a new trial.

The prosecutors were biased, the foreperson on the Jury was biased and the Judge seems biased. Look at the world Obama has left us.

and the Judge seems biased.

Amy Berman Jackson, liberal political activist and Obama appointee.

In 2013 Judge Jackson  rejected arguments from the Catholic Church  that Obamacare’s requirements that employers provide cost free coverage to contraceptive services is contrary to their religious beliefs and violated their religious and free speech freedoms. This was overturned by the Supreme Court.

In 2017 Judge   Jackson dismissed the wrongful death suit against Hillary Clinton   filed by two of the families who lost loved ones in Benghazi. The families argued that Clinton had done little to help their sons and then lied to cover it up.

Then on January 19th of this year [2018], a Paul Manafort’s case was   reassigned to Judge Jackson on January 19 ^th , a few weeks after being filed.

It is unknown why she was assigned to this case or by whom.

thegatewaypundit

And if Stone's lawyers knew this and let it go, counting on her becoming a possible cause for mistrial,

they could be disbarred ( no pun intended ).

And if Stone's lawyers knew this and let it go, counting on her becoming a possible cause for mistrial,
they could be disbarred ( no pun intended ).

So, it is like I stated above--there is either a case for ineffectual representation or a mistrial if the juror withheld info or lied.

A fair assessment

A fair assessment from a source we are not allowed to use as the basis for an article?

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I agree with you about the source. They did, however, manage to reach the right conclusion - an obvious one!

A fair assessment from a source we are not allowed to use as the basis for an article?

Since I did not use The Gateway Pundit as the basis for an article or seed in comment 4.1.5 , what's your point?

Feel free to fact check Judge Amy Berman Jackson's history for yourself, and you'll find the same that I posted in comment 4.1.5 within other sources.

Amy Berman Jackson, liberal political activist and Obama appointee.

You expressed a partisan opinion backed up by what you and others believe is some sort of evidence of bias.

She's as much a liberal political activist as you are.

How are judges assigned to cases?

Judge assignment methods vary. The basic considerations in making assignments are to assure equitable distribution of caseloads and avoid judge shopping. By statute, the chief judge of each district court has the responsibility to enforce the court's rules and orders on case assignments. Each court has a written plan or system for assigning cases. The majority of courts use some variation of a random drawing. One simple method is to rotate the names of available judges. At times judges having special expertise can be assigned cases by type, such as complex criminal cases, asbestos-related cases, or prisoner cases. The benefit of this system is that it takes advantage of the expertise developed by judges in certain areas. Sometimes cases may be assigned based on geographical considerations. For example, in a large geographical area it may be best to assign a case to a judge located at the site where the case was filed. Courts also have a system to check if there is any conflict that would make it improper for a judge to preside over a particular case.

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NOT ONCE has Mr. Barr intervened in a sentencing guideline filing. Only now that it is tRumps political hack that he does.

Show us the pattern of concern for similar defendants CONVICTED of a crime being reviewed. Obviously Barr can not. The sheer perversion of our Rule of Law by the Grifter King is bad enough. But the wholesale sellout of the Rule of Law by the GOP is a mortal sin against our Constitution than tRump's venereal one.

The Democratic opposition takes ordinary behavior and turns it into a scandal. It has been going during the entirety of this administration and even before.

"The Democratic opposition takes ordinary behavior and turns it into a scandal. "

Would that be like taking an electoral loss and fabricating things to come up with fictitious charges?