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Other comments have pointed out that he is pushing the timeline against the advice of career lawyers. Everything this Attorney General does should be scrutinize
by zapita 6y ago
Other comments have pointed out that he is pushing the timeline against the advice of career lawyers. Everything this Attorney General does should be scrutinized for underlying partisan motivation.
My guess is that he has ulterior political motives linked to the 2020 presidential election, and he wants to build leverage with Google in relation to those motives.
- EricE 6y agoCareer lawyers can’t have underlying partisan motivations either? This article is scant on real facts, instead it’s just more rumor and innuendo from “anonymous sources”. Which apparently is just fine even though in the majority of these stories once the bombastic claims are dropped and more facts come out later, revealing thatthe claims are either grossly overstated or outright lies it doesn’t matter because everyone has moved on to the next “ooh shiny”. People used to ostracize organizations that take such continual gaslighting to performance art levels, but apparently its the new normal because “orange man bad” or something.
- vharuck 6y agoBarr is a political appointee who replaced Sessions, who was dismissed by Trump for being "disloyal." Barr plays the public political game well. Career workers in Federal agencies can be partisan, but it's harder to think they're more influenced by politics than the politician. Secret conspiracies are really hard to believe, because they're really hard to pull off. I'm more willing to believe investigators always want more time, and this is a case where our hunger for political reasoning colors our interpretation. Not saying this is the case, just my Occam's Razor.
- beervirus 6y agoCareer workers in federal agencies have routinely worked toward anti-Trump ends.
- zapita 6y agoSure any lawyer can have ulterior motives. It just so happens that this particular AG has a well established track record of politicizing his work in public office, dating back to the Nixon and Reagan years. It doesn’t seem like a stretch to take that track record into consideration when analyzing his move against Google.
- Jtsummers 6y agoI'm not a fan of the man, but if you're trying to make a case against him you should make it accurate. He did not hold any public office position under the Nixon administration, he was in college during it. He then became a civil servant in the CIA starting in 1973.
- zapita 6y agoYou are correct. It's Roger Stone who was a Nixon advisor. Stone is the federal felon which AG Barr recently freed from prison by overriding his sentencing guideline, for purely political reasons. I had my criminals mixed up.
- rat87 6y ago> Career lawyers can’t have underlying partisan motivations either? They can, we know that the current Attorney General is a hack that eagerly ignores betrays his duties to play politics, doing offense/defense for Trump Anonymously sources are standards procedure and the majority of these stories are verified. And yes it is an undeniable fact that Trump is terrible, putting it in baby language (orang man bad)doesn't change it one bit. And it's a fact that he has abused the law and his office to go after his perceived opponents, even if regulatory action is needed if it comes from corrupt motives it's much more likely to be overturned in court.