Attorney General Bill Barr has been traveling overseas personally meeting with intelligence officials of foreign nations, asking for their help to investigate the FBI and CIA in an attempt to try to discredit investigations into President Donald Trump.
The Washington Post reports Bar has been “seeking their help in a Justice Department inquiry that President Trump hopes will discredit U.S. intelligence agencies’ examination of Russian interference in the 2016 election.”
Barr has contacted officials in the UK and Australia, and made several trips to Italy to meet intelligence officials there.
Americans in the past few days were stunned to learn Barr was in Italy despite his trip having not been disclosed, even to the press. The Dept. of Justice appeared flustered in responding to reporters’ inquiries.
Intelligence experts are flabbergasted.
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“David Laufman, a former Justice Department official who was involved in the early stages of the Russia probe, said it was ‘fairly unorthodox for the attorney general personally to be flying around the world as a point person to further evidence-gathering for a specific Justice Department investigation,’ and especially so in Barr’s case.”
Some experts weigh in:
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