Attorney General William Barr during a recent speech alluded to his past statements that the investigation into Russia interference in the 2016 election had been improperly initiated by career department employees who could not accept the results of the race, reported the New York Times. That assertion has been disproved by a Republican-led Senate intelligence panel and the Justice Department’s inspector general.
“I’d like to be able to say that we don’t see
headhunting at the Department of Justice, but that would not be truthful,” Mr.
Barr said. “It is a temptation sometimes to go after people rather than
crimes.”
“Advocating for clear and defined prohibitions will
sometimes mean we cannot bring charges against someone whom we believe engaged
in questionable conduct,” he said. “But that is what it means to have a
government of laws and not of men. We cannot let our desire to prosecute ‘bad’
people turn us into the functional equivalent of the mad emperor Caligula.”
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