Bill Barr Absolved Trump of Obstruction Without Having the Slightest Clue What He Obstructed

Marcey Wheeler has a post on the Barr hearing. This is just the beginning of her list of amazing stuff:


“Among the opinions the Attorney General espoused are that:

You only need to call the FBI when being offered campaign assistance by a foreign intelligence service, not a foreigner
It’s okay to lie about the many dangles hostile foreign countries make to a political campaign, including if you accepted those dangles
Because Trump was being falsely accused (it’s not clear of what, because the report doesn’t address the most aggressive accusation, and many other accusations against Trump and his campaign are born out by the Mueller Report), it’s okay that he sought to undermine it through illegal means
It’s okay for the President to order the White House Counsel to lie, even about an ongoing investigation”

There’s more to the list. And then she goes on to say,

“The most amazing thing is that, when Cory Booker asked Barr if he thought it was right to share polling data with Russians — noting that had Trump done so with a Super PAC, rather than a hostile foreign country, it would be illegal — Barr appeared to have no clue that Paul Manafort had done so. He even asked whom Manafort shared the data with, apparently not knowing he shared it with a guy that Rick Gates said he believes is a Russian spy.”

https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/05/01/bill-barr-absolved-trump-of-obstruction-without-having-the-faintest-clue-what-he-obstructed/