The real story behind AG Barr authorizing
investigations of vote fraud blows away
the MSM narrative
American Thinker,
by
Thomas Lifson
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
11/11/2020 7:34:36 AM
Even some of my most respected conservative correspondents have been taken in by pessimism over Attorney General William Barr’s authorization of investigation of vote fraud. The media cabal seeking to oust President Trump focused on the abrupt purported “resignation” (he is keeping his federal paycheck and transferring to a different post) of Richard Pilger, director of the DOJ Criminal Division’s Election Crimes Branch. The narrative Pilger offers, all but universally adopted by the media, is that Barr is violating established norms and acting out of (corrupt) political motives. (snip) Barr’s order is hugely significant, for it removes the obstacle that has prevented serious investigations of vote fraud up to now. Correction*
*Headlines should be split every six words or so.
This article has calmed me down quite a bit.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 11/11/2020 7:59:34 AM (No. 602177)
Must read!!!!!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Daisymay 11/11/2020 8:21:58 AM (No. 602207)
WOW! This is SO important! It explains why Barr decided to step in. Sounds like there is a lot of Housecleaning needed at DOJ! I hope the FBI can find the Fraud and turn this election around. We can't allow Biden and Company to dismantle our country. Just the few things he's announced make my skin crawl! Trump MUST keep Biden's Transition Team out of the White House. Not one person on that so called Team has the credentials as of today to do anything!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
janjan 11/11/2020 8:24:21 AM (No. 602211)
Who wants to bet that Richard Pilger is a Biden supporter?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 11/11/2020 8:25:34 AM (No. 602215)
Must read. This article is right on.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Califedup 11/11/2020 8:41:50 AM (No. 602239)
Right, we are now supposed to believe Bagpipes Barr who has taken years to investigate the felony crimes and coup attempt committed by Ex-Dictator Obama and his feral band of democrat communists including Vice President Biden, against President Trump and the American People, and decided against releasing the coup and corruption report before the election knowing full well it would torpedo the democrat communists election chances, is now going to vigorously unleash the full Power of a corrupt and democrat communist infested DOJ to "investigate voter fraud"? Why did Barr not indict Hunter Biden and Big Daddy months ago?
I always read anything written by Thomas Lifson but he is living in a fantasy world if he expects Barr to defend the constitution and our rights to a free and fair election. Barr should have been investigating fraud before the election. Trump should have fired him a year ago.
Mr. Lifson in this case is whistling past the graveyard. Barr will accomplish nothing.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
spacer 11/11/2020 8:45:49 AM (No. 602242)
Maybe America will see what Hannitys "boots on the ground" 99% er FBI will accomplish.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
smokincol 11/11/2020 8:48:28 AM (No. 602246)
why does being "fired" have a different meaning when it pertains to federal bureaucrats? this wholesale BS as far as job security for federal hacks is disgusting and must be stopped. when I got "fired" from a job I wasn't given another job with the same company, I was, as they say, severed without pay or benefits. ie: left out in the cold. the federal government has become a hideaway for so many losers and political hacks, it's disgusting.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
anniebc 11/11/2020 8:59:57 AM (No. 602264)
One has to question if Barr has gotten involved to get a handle on things, if you know what I mean. How does Pilger get to resign and go to another government post? How could he not know that Pilger was blocking investigations into election fraud? (see quote below) Maybe Pilger was told to resign, I don't know, but it's hard to trust Barr. He hasn't exactly been killing it with indictments and convictions. We see nothing much that he's done to warrant trusting him at this critical time; talk is cheap. Maybe I just don't trust anyone at this point, but for me lately, everyone around President Trump has something to prove, because there are so many traitors and undercover enemies deeply entrenched in government as part of the deep state. The article says Barr is surrounded by enemies in his own department; that's highly believable. All we can do is wait and see. I still find it hard to believe the deep state threw everything behind Joe Biden, the one with the least to offer the world. The least likely candidate the American people would swoon over. That takes a whole bunch of psyops, but are the deceivers the greatest deceived in this case?
"What happened today, and what prompted Pilger to "quit" was that AG Barr said to US Attorneys – "If you have substantial allegations of election fraud in your district, you have authority to investigate that." Basically, Barr cut Pilger and Election Crimes Branch out of the picture as "gatekeepers" to starting investigations in places like Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Detroit, and Atlanta."
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MissGrits 11/11/2020 9:20:47 AM (No. 602289)
25 years this Pilger scum was in office supposedly guarding election integrity ... said another way, the fox guarding the henhouse! Despicable!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rinktum 11/11/2020 9:44:56 AM (No. 602319)
I am sorry, I am not calmed down. How could I be knowing what has transpired in the FBI and DOJ. Wray sitting on exculpatory evidence for a year? Barr promising defense of churches that were shut down by tyrannical governors. Still waiting on that one. Big tech runs wild censoring the free speech of conservatives. Where is Barr? Say what you want about Barr but his actions do not give me much hope that he is as committed to rooting out corruption as he should be or protecting our rights under the Constitution. I think we all know that the Swamp creatures are busy protecting each other and their favored agencies. Start unraveling the Obama conspiracy to unseat a duly elected President, the corruption of HRC, and Biden’s pay for play and you will expose a massive amount of criminals that the deep state wants to protect. Nevertheless, Donald Trump has exposed so much of their treachery and corruption and in doing so made himself their mortal enemy. And they will use every trick in the book to destroy him. Their efforts would have broken most men, but he is still standing and fighting. Who has helped him? A few committed Republicans and the vast majority of Americans. Most everyone else is crying for his blood. I want to trust that AG Barr is on board with the President, but his history does not give me confidence. The time for choosing is upon the men and women in Washington, and my fear is that they will choose the path of least resistance. Ultimately, it all boils down to loyalty. Will it be loyalty to the Deep State or United States Constitution?
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#8 - Key phrase in the article: ...protected by civil service laws...
Pilger is a career civil "servant" and was promoted into the position and not appointed. Thus, cannot be fired for poor judgment or not doing something the way a Cabinet-level individual wants it done.
I would like to believe Lifson but nowhere in the article is the name Wray mentioned - and that worries me.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 11/11/2020 10:19:42 AM (No. 602380)
When AG Barr “stepped in”, Mr. Pilger (Barack Obama, Eric Hoder) suddenly came to the conclusion that he could no longer “work” in that position.
The sad thing is that he Is still in government, just transferred to a different post.
Don’t think Billy Jeff and Barry did it thataway.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 11/11/2020 10:21:12 AM (No. 602384)
Eric Holder, of course.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Chiritwo 11/11/2020 11:00:36 AM (No. 602428)
#11 - I agree with you totally. Barr has done nothing while all the criminals not only are running around free but have run for public office. What does that tell our teenagers - they are not dumb. They know what is going on.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 11/11/2020 12:09:33 PM (No. 602534)
What are the chances that Trump's recent EO, authorizing him to remove civil service employees for cause, was prompted by Pilger's behavior? Many other players could have contributed (Comey, Fauci, etc etc), but Pilger may have been the last straw....
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
kono 11/11/2020 12:30:51 PM (No. 602558)
And for obvious reasons the MSM isn't reporting this. Yet another aspect of reality that half the country will never know about.
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Nice that Barr did what he did but it means nothing. No cases are going to be developed in the few weeks ahead. The stuffed ballot boxes can't be unstuffed and the new Biden AG (Sally Yates?) and new local US Attorneys - they will all be replaced in a new administration will simply drop the cases. Barr's intentions have always been good but as aggressive as he has been it has not been nearly aggressive enough. He is surrounded by vipers. The federal bureaucracy is just stock full of partisans who converted to civil service status at the switch of every administration. Draining the swamp is a generational effort. It can't be done in a single administration and in 4 or 8 years of a new Dem administration it will be even bigger and swampier and more feudal than even today.
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