AG Bill Barr was on with Laura Ingraham last week and he had some very interesting things to say. First of all, he said there was no reasonable basis for starting an investigation into Donald Trump. That became even clearer on Friday when three footnotes were declassified that showed that the FBI knew the Steele dossier was Russian disinformation but they used the dossier anyway to get a FISA warrant on Carter Page.
They then used the FISA warrant against Page to allow them to spy on President Trump. It turns out that the top FBI officials decided not to share the fact that they knew the dossier was made up of Russian lies. What else does that tell us?
It tells us that the Russians were not trying to help Trump win, they were working to help Hillary win. And why not? They already owned her. The Clinton Foundation received $145 million after she helped therm buy Uranium One.
This is a game changer if I ever saw one.
Barr also said he fully expects US Attorney John Durham to deliver indictments against members of the Deep State. I’ll believe it when it happens and not before.
Barr even went so far as to suggest that there was something more sinister behind the probe.
“My own view is that the evidence shows that we’re not dealing with just mistakes or sloppiness. There is something far more troubling here, and we’re going to get to the bottom of it,” he told Ingraham. “And if people broke the law, and we can establish that with the evidence, they will be prosecuted.”
Last week, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his own report on the Obama administration’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into Trump campaign-Russia connections, and revealed a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) program rife with abuse of power, with warrants issued on faulty evidence and inaccuracies.
This week, Barr told Fox that concerns about the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation go even deeper than requests made to execute surveillance on Trump campaign officials.
“I think the president has every right to be frustrated because I think what happened to him was one of the greatest travesties in American history,” he said. “Without any basis, they started this investigation of his campaign and even more concerning actually is what happened after the campaign, a whole pattern of events while he was president.”