WIlliam Barr misled Congress when he omitted parts of DOJ memo in 1989
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On Friday the thirteenth October 1989, by happenstance the same day as the “Black Friday” market crash, news leaked of a legal memo authored by William Barr. He was then
serving as head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). It is highly uncommon for any OLC memo to make headlines. This one did because it was issued in
“unusual secrecy” and concluded that the FBI could forcibly abduct people in other countries without the consent of the foreign state.
Members of Congress asked to see the full legal opinion. Barr refused, but said he would provide an account that “summarizes the principal conclusions.”
Over one and a half years after his testimony, Congress finally subpoenaed Barr’s 1989 opinion. Another House Judiciary subcommittee issued the subpoena on July 25, 1991.
That same month, the Washington Post’s Michael Isikoff obtained a copy of the OLC opinion.
Professor Jeanne Woods, in a 1996 law review article in Boston University International Law Journal, also observed the large discrepancy between Barr’s 13-page testimony and
what it failed to disclose. “Barr’s congressional testimony attempted to gloss over the broad legal and policy changes that his written opinion advocated.… A careful analysis of
the published opinion, and the reasoning underlying it, however, reveals the depth of its deviation from accepted norms,” Professor Woods wrote.
lol remember when people said Barr wouldn't lie/omit things because people in his job position just aren't supposed to do that?
Barr is such a yes man. "Oh we wanna abduct people legally? sure, oh you want to go to war without congress? sure! Oh you want to rendition and torture americans? sure!"
That was the dumbest fucking logic I have ever seen for a Trump crony. Like really? You think ethics are a consideration?
It was believed he would ensure Trump only would take the fall and keep the GOP alive.
Nor intelligence.
I remember people posting “he wouldn’t omit anything important, do you even know how dumb that would be?”
As if Trump doesn’t think he and his cronies are geniuses because their IQs are number 1.
Huh, so he has a habit of hiding information and providing deceptive "summaries" to Congress.
Well then it’s a good thing he hasn’t released a misleading summary of a super important report that....oh....right....
Wonder if he's got an obstruction of justice charge coming his way?
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