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25 May 2019, 7:19 am by John Floyd
  Under the advice of Attorney General William Barr, who acts as the president’s quasi-official personal attorney, Mnuchin and Rettig will not honor the subpoena. [read post]
24 May 2019, 8:22 pm by Tom Smith
WASHINGTON (AP) — Intelligence professionals warned Friday that President Donald Trump’s decision to give his loyal attorney general carte blanche to disclose still-secret material from the Russia investigation will let William Barr cherry-pick intelligence to paint a misleading picture about what started the probe. [read post]
24 May 2019, 11:35 am by Sean Gallagher
Enlarge / Trump's memorandum to agency heads gives Attorney General William Barr authority to declassify or downgrade classification of anything he sees fit in his investigation into "intelligence activity" around the 2016 presidential election. [read post]
24 May 2019, 11:08 am by Michael Barber
US President Donald Trump issued an order to eight agency officials on Thursday directing full cooperation with Attorney General William Barr’s probe into activities relating to the 2016 presidential election. [read post]
24 May 2019, 7:58 am by Tom Smith
Late this evening, the White House announced that Donald Trump authorized Attorney General William Barr to declassify any documents related to his probes of the FBI counterintelligence operation: via hotair.com [read post]
24 May 2019, 5:55 am by Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has directed the U.S. intelligence community to “quickly and fully cooperate” with Attorney General William Barr’s investigation of the origins of the multiyear probe of whether his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia. [read post]
23 May 2019, 8:35 pm by Tom Smith
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday granted Attorney General William Barr new powers to review and potentially release classified information related to the origins of the Russia investigation, a move aimed at accelerating Barr’s inquiry into whether U.S. officials improperly surveilled Trump’s 2016 campaign. [read post]
23 May 2019, 7:08 am by Jack Goldsmith
I argued earlier this month that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report misapplied the presidential clear statement rule and improperly exposed many of President Trump’s actions in response to the Russia investigation to potential criminal liability. [read post]
23 May 2019, 4:52 am by Bob Bauer
President Trump has tweeted out his unhappiness about a potential appearance by Mueller, but he also stated that the decision rests with Attorney General William Barr. [read post]
22 May 2019, 3:42 pm by Margaret Colgate Love
I served as pardon attorney during William Barr’s first turn in the Justice Department leadership 30 years ago, and I worked directly with him on a number of pardon matters, including some controversial ones. [read post]
22 May 2019, 8:14 am by Sarah Grant
The Justice Department offered to “expedite” the House Intelligence Committee’s access to foreign intelligence and counterintelligence information related to Mueller’s investigation, as long as the panel dropped its threat to pursue enforcement action against Attorney General William Barr for his refusal to comply with a subpoena for Mueller’s full unredacted report, according to The Hill. [read post]
21 May 2019, 10:57 am by Molly E. Reynolds, Margaret Taylor
As the confrontation escalates between the House of Representatives and the White House over the production of documents, the appearance of witnesses and compliance with congressional subpoenas, so too have calls for Democrats to initiate impeachment proceedings. [read post]
20 May 2019, 2:22 pm by Scott R. Anderson, Benjamin Wittes
Nor have these unsubstantiated claims been limited to the president’s Twitter account; they have been echoed by officials as senior as Attorney General William Barr and become an increasingly commonplace part of the rhetoric put forward by the president’s supporters, both in and out of government. [read post]
More recently, the issue came to the foreground when Attorney General William Barr cleared President Trump of obstruction of justice based on a factual record compiled by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, which others argued pointed strongly toward multiple instances of criminal obstruction. [read post]
17 May 2019, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
”  DRE   We didn’t realize that Attorney General William Barr contributed an oral history to the Miller Center for Public Affairs series on the George W. [read post]
16 May 2019, 9:01 pm by Jim Sedor
How William Barr, Now Serving as a Powerful Ally for Trump, Has Championed Presidential PowersConnecticut Post – Tom Hamburger (Washington Post) | Published: 5/14/2019 Embracing a theory that the Constitution grants presidents sweeping authority, Attorney General William Barr is part of a group of conservative intellectuals who have been leading the charge to expand the powers of the executive branch over the past four decades. [read post]
16 May 2019, 10:15 am by Henry Chang
The Mayor of Denver even wrote a letter to Attorney General William Barr, requesting formal guidance from the US Department of Justice, which would clarify and adjust policies that are negatively impacting the legal immigration status of individuals who work, or who have previously worked, in Colorado’s legal cannabis industry. [read post]
This survey was the third in a series; we conducted corresponding surveys immediately before the delivery of the Mueller report and after Attorney General William Barr’s summary letter. [read post]