Attorney General Bill Barr Says DOJ Hasn’t Found Any Evidence of Election Fraud That Would Change the Election Outcome

After weeks of silence, US Attorney General Bill Barr told the Associated Press that the DOJ has not uncovered evidence of fraud on a big enough scale that would change the outcome of the 2020 election. Barr claimed that the only mechanism capable of skewing an election would be compromised voting machines, but he hasn’t been able to substantiate that. Evidence of vote fraud is overwhelming, but the DOJ and FBI have chosen to ignore it. -GEG

After weeks of silence, Attorney General William Barr has come out stating the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security haven’t seen any evidence of election fraud that would have changed the election outcome.

In a statement to the AP on Tuesday, Barr said the DOJ and DHS haven’t seen fraud on a scale big enough to change the election.

“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,” Barr said.

Barr claimed that the only mechanism capable of skewing an election would be compromised voting machines, but “so far” haven’t been able to substantiate that.

“There’s been one assertion that would be systemic fraud and that would be the claim that machines were programmed essentially to skew the election results. And the DHS and DOJ have looked into that, and so far, we haven’t seen anything to substantiate that,” Barr said.

Barr then explained that many of the election fraud allegations should be handled in civil lawsuits where “top-down audits” could be conducted, because many of those allegations are not “systemic” and therefore don’t fall under the DOJ’s purview.

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DOJ Investigation into ‘Unmasking’ Ends with No Charges as the Deep State Protects Itself Again


A Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into the “unmasking” requests made by outgoing Obama administration officials in 2016 and 2017 has ended without any criminal charges or findings of wrongdoing. US Attorney John Bash, who left the department last week, had concluded his review without criminal charges or any public report. The deep state has protected itself again.

A Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into the “unmasking” requests made by outgoing Obama administration officials in 2016 and 2017 has ended without any criminal charges or findings of wrongdoing, according to the Washington Post.

The Post did not report whether that included investigations into leaks of the names of Americans who had been “unmasked” in classified reports — specifically, former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, whose name was leaked to the Post.

The Post reported:

The federal prosecutor appointed by Attorney General William P. Barr to review whether Obama-era officials improperly requested the identities of individuals whose names were redacted in intelligence documents has completed his work without finding any substantive wrongdoing, according to people familiar with the matter.
The revelation that U.S. Attorney John Bash, who left the department last week, had concluded his review without criminal charges or any public report will rankle President Trump at a moment when he is particularly upset at the Justice Department. The department has so far declined to release the results of Bash’s work, though people familiar with his findings say they would likely disappoint conservatives who have tried to paint the “unmasking” of names — a common practice in government to help understand classified documents — as a political conspiracy.

In May, then-Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell declassified a list of Obama administration officials who had made unmasking requests related to Flynn. Former Vice President Joe Biden’s name was among those on the list.

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Department of Justice Drops Charges Against General Michael Flynn

In  a stunning reversal for one of the signature cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller, Attorney General William Barr said he was obligated to drop the charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn after he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Recently, unsealed documents revealed that the FBI’s interview of Flynn on January 24, 2017 was “conducted without any legitimate investigative basis.” Initially, Flynn aided the Mueller investigation, but then later switched attorneys, hired Sidney Powell, and withdrew his guilty plea. The case has yet to be dismissed by the federal judge in the case. -GEG




Robert Mueller Says He Could Not Charge Trump While He Is President, So Democrats’ Now Call for Impeachment



Special counsel Robert Mueller gave a speech before he resigned from his two-year investigation into President Trump, saying that a Justice Department ruling prevented him from charging the President with a federal crime while he is in office. The Special Counsel’s report and his statement concluded that his office could not reach a determination about whether the President committed a crime. Mueller refused to testify in front of Congress, saying that the report is his testimony.

A host of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are calling for impeachment. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, are the lawmakers who would actually spearhead an inquiry, and they say they will continue their investigations. -GEG


Special counsel Robert Mueller delivered a valedictory statement Wednesday before he resigned from his two-year investigation into President Trump, saying he could not exonerate the president of criminal wrongdoing.

Though he’d said as much in his 448-page report, hearing it from the mouth of the man who spent two years investigating Mr. Trump was a dam-break moment for many Democrats on Capitol Hill and on the 2020 presidential campaign trail, who said Mr. Mueller’s statement was an invitation to begin impeachment proceedings against Mr. Trump.

In a nine-minute statement from the Justice Department’s headquarters in Washington Mr. Mueller
said his work was done, he was shutting down the special counsel’s
office and would resist calls to testify to Congress or speak publicly,
saying his 448-page report spoke for itself.

But it was his summary that rekindled the impeachment fire for many Democrats.

“If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so,” Mr. Mueller said. “We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime.”



He also signaled that he didn’t bring charges against Mr. Trump because of longstanding Justice Department policy that a sitting president cannot be charged.

Yet he did make such a determination on one
aspect of his investigation, saying there was “insufficient evidence” to
conclude the president or his team conspired with Russia
to subvert the 2016 election. But when it came to whether the president
obstructed justice in trying to stymy investigations into the election,
Mr. Mueller said they didn’t attempt to reach a conclusion because of the department’s policy.

“We concluded that we would not reach a
determination, one way or the other, about whether the president
committed a crime,” he said.

The seemingly contradictory statements fueled
diametrically opposed reactions from the president’s supporters and his
political opponents.

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Another Mole? President Trump’s Nominee for Atty General, William Barr, Is Close Friends with Robert Mueller


President Trump nominated William Barr for the position as attorney general, recently vacated by Jeff Sessions. Barr says he will not hinder or interfere with the Mueller investigation, despite the damage it has done to the President and despite its failure to produce proof of Russian collusion. Barr and Mueller – and their wives – are close friends. Mueller attended the weddings of Barr’s children.  -GEG

The incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday that attorney general nominee William Barr has confidence in special counsel Robert Mueller and will let him complete his Russia investigation.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said after meeting with Barr, who led the Justice Department under President George H.W. Bush, that Barr has a “high opinion” of Mueller. Barr was spending most of Wednesday on Capitol Hill, meeting senators on the committee before his confirmation hearing next week.

“He had absolutely no indication he was going to tell Bob Mueller what to do or how to do it,” Graham said.

President Donald Trump pushed out Attorney General Jeff Sessions in November and made Sessions’ chief of staff, Matthew Whitaker, the acting attorney general before nominating Barr in December.

Trump’s critics have expressed concern that Barr may try to curtail Mueller’s investigation, which Trump repeatedly has called a “hoax” and a “witch hunt.” Also, Barr wrote an unsolicited memo to the Justice Department last year critiquing Mueller’s investigation into whether the president sought to obstruct justice by firing James Comey as FBI director.

Graham said Barr also told him about his longtime relationship with Mueller. Barr and Mueller worked together when Barr was Bush’s attorney general from 1991 to 1993 and Mueller oversaw the department’s criminal division. Graham said that the two men were “best friends,” that their wives attended Bible study together and that Mueller had attended the weddings of Barr’s children.

“So his opinion of Mr. Mueller is very, very high in terms of ethics and character and professionalism,” Graham said.

Graham listed a number of questions that he had put to Barr: “I asked Mr. Barr directly, ‘Do you think Mr. Mueller is on a witch hunt?’ He said no. ‘Do you think he would be fair to the president and the country as a whole?’ He said yes. ‘And do you see any reason for Mr. Mueller’s investigation to be stopped?’ He said no. ‘Do you see any reason for a termination based on cause?’ He said no. ‘Are you committed to making sure Mr. Mueller can finish his job?’ ‘Yes.’”

Graham said Barr said that if he were attorney general, he would “err on the side of transparency” when he eventually received Mueller’s report.

The senator said Barr also told him that he has a high opinion of Rod Rosenstein, the current deputy attorney general who has so far overseen the Mueller investigation and is expected to leave office if Barr is confirmed.

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