“At the end of the day, history is going to find that [Barr] was compliant, he was timid, and at times he was a sycophant. All to please Trump,' said former federal prosecutor Gene Rossi.
Donald Trump has given Attorney General William Barr permission to declassify intelligence information about the origins of the Russia investigation, a move legal experts say is a gross abuse of power.
Trump’s order also demanded that intelligence agencies fully cooperate with the Justice Department’s latest probe into the origin of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian election meddling and “surveillance activities” during the presidential election. Trump’s latest order for declassification and cooperation from the intelligence community is a direct contrast to his approach to the congressional oversight into his administration and family business. He previously told his team not to cooperate with subpoenas or requests issued by House Democrats.
“This is a danger sign. Barr, who is willing to use criminal investigations as political tools, can now decide to selectively release classified information to further the WH’s false narrative. But he won’t file a motion asking a judge to turnover grand jury material to Congress,” Joyce Vance, a former U.S. attorney, wrote on Twitter.
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