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2020-12-11 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Barr labored to conceal Hunter Biden inquiries from public during election
[Washington Examiner] Attorney General William Barr reportedly worked to keep investigations involving Hunter Biden's business affairs out of the public's view during the 2020 election.

A source told the Wall Street Journal that Barr knew since the spring about federal investigations centered in Delaware and Manhattan looking into Biden's business and financial dealings. This was around the time his father, former Vice President Joe Biden, became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

The news comes shortly after reports said Barr plans to stay at the Justice Department until President Trump's term ends in January, tamping down speculation that he wants to step down early.

Neither inquiry is said to implicate the elder Biden, but Justice Department guidelines advise against overt investigatory actions that could disrupt an election. Still, Republicans have long called for investigations into Hunter Biden, and such a demand by Trump to Ukraine's president even paved the way to impeachment.

The report said Barr has resisted demands by Republicans in Congress for information on any investigations involving Hunter Biden. In the final weeks leading up to the election, which Joe Biden won, there had been scarce reporting on federal investigatory action related to his son, but there was a great deal of coverage dedicated to the controversy surrounding Trump allies' efforts to draw attention to Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings and potential for the involvement of a foreign disinformation campaign.

The Justice Department did not return the Washington Examiner's request for comment on the report.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-11 02:46|| || Front Page|| [8 views ]  Top

#1 So federal investigation of potential wrong-doing and corruption by Biden family is masked and withheld until after the American people have cast their ballots.

Looks like collusion and deception to me. Although I could be wrong, it could actually be labeled a co-conspiracy.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-11 02:56||   2020-12-11 02:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Please tell me this is all a dream. A hallucination. A take told by an idiot, full of sound and fury etc

This isn't happening, is it? Can't happen in America, right?

Please tell me it ain't so. Please
Posted by Gerthudion Sneretle8609 2020-12-11 03:01||   2020-12-11 03:01|| Front Page Top

#3 On what should we place our reliance?
Sez Hunter, "Muh humble appliance."
And Harris? "Not Drumpf,
But my marvelous-- mmmph!"
"Fancy words?" Thank you, Nancy. "The skyence!"
Posted by Hupinelet B. Hayes3113 2020-12-11 03:43||   2020-12-11 03:43|| Front Page Top

#4 
UP FRONT - I have made it clear in my postings, I am NO Fan of AG Barr.

But his role as the DOJ AG is to investigate and dispense Justice, not support a Political Narrative.

Please allow me to play Devils Advocate a little..

I can see a number of reasons for handling this on the QT.

* Threats to investigators and their families.

* Congressional Oversight Committees demanding to be included in the investigation loop.

* Blackmail, bribery and sex-exchanges in the investigative food chain to miss or omit evidence.

* Sudden fake criminal arrests of Investigative family members.

* A Lois Lerner type political motivated IRS audits.

* The Media running with another ANTI-TRUMP false narrative just before election.

* Left Wing Political groups stirring up public problems, screaming it is a Political Election stunt. Possibility shifting some independent sympathetic voters to Biden. Because of the likely newspeak claiming Trump was abusing his Political pull over the DOJ AG to rig the election.

* plus likely a 1/2 dozen more legal challenges and issues if it went to trial and what a jury pool would think from the flood of NEWSPEAK.

With that said I still feel Barr is not moving to indict the well documented crimes of the DC/Deep State Elitists.
Posted by NN2N1  2020-12-11 06:27||   2020-12-11 06:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Barr is a China agent. He's just doing China bidding.
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-12-11 07:40||   2020-12-11 07:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Frankly, Barr, the FBI and the DOJ has no credibility whatsoever.
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-12-11 07:44||   2020-12-11 07:44|| Front Page Top

#7 We gave him the benefit of the doubt. We had high hopes for him, but in the end, he betrayed our President. He betrayed America. He should be dismissed from the post as soon as possible.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-11 07:54||   2020-12-11 07:54|| Front Page Top

#8 The DOJ is rotten at the head. and what other departments. Move the government offices to the Topeka area and provide the legislators with a remote vote ability. Keep the museums and art galleries in DC to provide employment for trhe residents but please separate lobbying and legislation.
Posted by irish rage boy  2020-12-11 10:51||   2020-12-11 10:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Barr and Durham have been dismal failures. Time to move them aside and clean out the garbage. Barr's connection to China to the tune of 40 million dollars would give pause to anyone reviewing his credibility and or balanced objectivity.
Posted by Dale 2020-12-11 12:39||   2020-12-11 12:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Rule of law in America is a bad joke. A joke at our expense, we the dumb saps
Posted by Bob Javiling7634 2020-12-11 17:49||   2020-12-11 17:49|| Front Page Top

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