Who at the FBI was driving this?

Well, this particular episode, it looks like the impetus came from the seventh floor.

The seventh floor is Director Comey.

I believe it's Director Comey and the deputy's office.

He called out Comey by name.

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He was saying to the Russians, you know, “Don’t escalate.” And they asked him if he remembered saying that, and he said he didn’t remember that.

That was the "lie" he is guilty of.

What a sad time for America. That kind of shit should be illegal.

How many pansy assed wrist slaps will each traitor get, Mr. Barr?

Is there a full video of the interview anywhere?

Fucking do something about this DoJ/FBI overreach, fatass!

Q: Was it an easy decision?

BARR: It was an easy decision, yes. I think easy because once I saw all the facts and some of the tactics used by the FBI in this instance and also the legal problems with the case, it was an easy decision. You know, one thing people will see when they look at the documents is how Director Comey purposely went around the Justice Department and ignored Deputy Attorney General Yates.

Deputy Attorney General Yates, I’ve disagreed with her about a couple of things, but, you know, here she upheld the fine tradition of the Department of Justice. She said that the new administration has to be treated just like the Obama administration, and they should go and tell the White House about their findings. They and, you know, Director Comey ran around that.

Either Yates was really duped or Barr really wants her to look like a sympathetic figure.

♦ Q: Uh-huh.

BARR: I mean, it’s not gonna be the end of it.

♦ Q: What do you mean, it’s not the end of it?

BARR: Well, I said we’re gonna get to the bottom of what happened.

♦ Q: And later this year, do you expect a report from U.S. Attorney John Durham? Or do you expect indictments?

BARR: Well, as you know, I’m not gonna predict the outcome. But I said that we’re certainly — there probably will be a report as a byproduct of his work. But we also are seeing if there are people who violated the law and should be brought to justice. And that’s what we have our eye on.

♦ Q: And that would include individuals involved in the Flynn case?

BARR: I don’t wanna get into particular individuals.

♦ Q: Attorney General William Barr, thank you very much for joining us here at CBS News.

Barr: Thank you.

Barr keeps the enemy on his toes. I trust the guy but he's not frothing at the mouth like we are. But he doesn't seem to have any misconception that Comey is behind a lot of this.

I have to believe they are not stupid. I am sure Trump will win in 2020 -- but there's always a chance that without voter ID the Dems could cheat.

So they have to know the plotters have to be indicted before then (and thus rendered ineligible to run, assist in conniving, or spreading their usual falsehoods via a corrupt media, pulling false flags to sway public opinion, and whatever else lies in their bag of tricks). Hopefully, because they'd be behind bars.

Presumably -- this will come to a head before the 2020 election cycle comes to an end or it will become a completely dead issue if 2020 is lost to the Democrats. They should dump all the garbage they have on these people in time to wreck any credibility their party has for 2020.

That's a good strategic move and probably why the wheels have been turning so slow. They may have been timing this to hit now and continuing until November 2020.

Now if that's the case, it's going to be very chaotic with campaigns and trials going on at the same time. Though considering almost nobody in the Democratic party isn't going to be implicated somewhere in this massive scheme -- I wonder if they will have anybody left to run as a Democrat in 2020.

I hope that it sends the message that there is one standard of justice in this country.

Dropping charges on the good guys is simple, hanging traitors is about the only thing that'd restore any confidence in justice.

He plays it close to the vest with his answers, but Wray should be replaced with someone like Grennell, at least in an acting capacity.

It seems like shill accounts have really been ramped up since the beginning of yesterday. Be on the lookout for accounts trying to steer the conversation towards apathy.

After reading that, I for some reason have this strange desire to put used teabags over my eyes

Come on Herridge !!!

You are talking with the AG about Wray and you don't ask him why FBI Wray hasn't produced the original Flynn 302s and the subsequent changes ( rewriting ) to this document despite Sydney Powell's multiple requests ???

This is actually good news.

When you hear these faggots name the ringleaders by name we might actually be moving towards what we've all been dreaming of.

BARR: Well, you know, people sometimes plead to things that turn out not to be crimes. And as I said, the question of lying, you know, it’s something he would know about. On its face, as Director Comey said, it’s not so clear. But the question of materiality is not something he would know about. That’s something that the government knows about. And we have now gotten into it, drilled down, obtained new information. And the Department of Justice is not persuaded that this was material to any legitimate counterintelligence investigation. So it was not a crime.

It seems to me like this would have been a perfect opportunity to mention that Flynn's family was being threatened as a chip to blackmail him to get this plea. It would have been great to see that. However, he says this, prior

♦ Q: You know more about the investigation since Horowitz, since December. Do you see more evidence of personal or political bias today?

BARR: You know, I’m not gonna, again, get into reaching a conclusion at this point till I see everything. There’s certainly more information that has come out that, you know, points in that direction. But I haven’t reached a final conclusion.

At the end they had this exchange that I find hopeful

♦ Q: In closing, this was a big decision in the Flynn case, to– to say the least. When history looks back on this decision, how do you think it will be written? What will it say about your decision making?

BARR: Well, history is written by the winner. So it largely depends on who’s writing the history. But I think a fair history would say that it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law. It helped, it upheld the standards of the Department of Justice, and it undid what was an injustice.

♦ Q: Uh-huh.

BARR: I mean, it’s not gonna be the end of it.

♦ Q: What do you mean, it’s not the end of it?

BARR: Well, I said we’re gonna get to the bottom of what happened.

♦ Q: And later this year, do you expect a report from U.S. Attorney John Durham? Or do you expect indictments?

BARR: Well, as you know, I’m not gonna predict the outcome. But I said that we’re certainly — there probably will be a report as a byproduct of his work. But we also are seeing if there are people who violated the law and should be brought to justice. And that’s what we have our eye on.

As badly as the press maligns Barr and accuses him of being some kind of Hammer of Trump, which we actually wish he was, he seems to be stepping very lightly, threading the needle very carefully and cutting very surgically, doing the least damage possible.

He was concerned that the law was being used unjustly, he is aware that the public has lost confidence and is incensed with the injustice. He doesn't seem to be as concerned with that as I wish he would be though.

I just hope that when the time is come and he can completely justify it, via the law, that he will act decisively with that scalpel and totally excise the cancer that the last administration infected us with.