Jumped by the anti-Trump mob in Congress and the media, 69-year-old Atty. Gen. William Barr finds himself in the center of the latest Trump hubbub, this time over 67-year-old Roger Stone. When four of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors asked for seven-to-nine years of prison for Stone Feb. 11, 73-year-old President Donald tweeted his displeasure over what he thought was an overly harsh sentence. “This is a horrible and very unfair situation. The real crimes were on the other side, as nothing happens to them. Cannot allow this miscarriage of justice,” Trump tweeted Feb. 11. When Barr intervened Feb 12, changing the DOJ’s recommended sentence for Stone, Democrats and the media mob demanded Barr’s resignation. Barr wasn’t intervening for Trump, he was trying to get justice right knowing all the problems with the DOJ’s Stone prosecution.
When Trump talks about “the other side,” he’s referring to the illegal FBI counter-intelligence investigation against his campaign in 2016. Only recently have the facts come out about the illegal use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] court to investigate former Trump foreign policy aid Carter Page. Former FBI Director James Comey insisted he was within his legal rights to investigate the Trump campaign based on “probable cause” presented to the FISA court. Comey told the FISA court he had sufficient probable cause to investigate Page, when, in fact, he used former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s paid opposition research AKA “the Steele dossier,” an unsubstantiated file of fabrications to hurt Trump politically, giving Hillary the edge in the 2016 election. Former FISA Court chief judge Rosemary Collier rebuked the FBI Dec. 18, 2019 for giving fake information.
When Trump talks of the “other side,” he’s referring to Comey and his FBI’s top brass illegally wiretapping his campaign to help Hillary in the 2016 presidential election. Mueller snared former National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, former Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and Stone in making false statements to FBI agents. While Mueller busted Manafort for shady business dealings in Ukraine in 2012, the charges against Flynn and Stone were inconsequential. Process crimes of “lying to FBI agents” are not crimes other than not giving factual statements to federal investigators. When it came to Flynn, the FBI charged Flynn with perjury related to conversations with 69-year-old former Russian U.S. Amb. Sergey Kislyak. Flynn didn’t think that innocuous cocktail-party conversations constituted “talking to the Russians,” the exact charge against former Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions.
Sessions was exposed by the FBI in his confirmation hearings of “talking to the Russians” because he shot-the-breeze with Kislyak during the 2016 presidential campaign. Because of that, Sessions, for some unknown reason, recused himself in the Special Counsel’s Mueller investigation. Democrats and media went wild when Trump fired 58-year-old former FBI Director James Comey May 9, 2017. Democrats and the media insisted Trump interfered with an FBI investigation, when, in fact, he fired Comey for cause, for conducting an illegal counter-intelligence investigation into the Trump campaign. Since Stone was one of the players Mueller investigated, he was snared in another process crime. Mueller’s prosecutors accuse Stone of talking to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to gain information on Hillary and the DNC’s leaked emails in the 2016 campaign.
Given that Mueller ended his investigation March 23, 2019, finding that neither Trump nor anyone in his campaign conspired with the Russians to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, Stone’s process crimes of perjury with the FBI are meaningless. In that context, Barr felt it appropriate to mitigate the DOJ’s srecommended sentence. “It is unheard of for the Department’s top leader to overrule line prosecutors, who are following established policies, in order to give preferential treatment to a close associate of the President’s,” said 1,100 former federal prosecutors and DOJ officials in a letter to Barr. Those same prosecutors and DOJ officials all participated in a witch-hunt against Trump and his campaign because if dirty police tactics by the FBI under Comey. Barr’s not trying to do Trump’s bidding, he’s trying to get justice right for a circumstance that screams out for justice.
When you consider that the entire FBI counter-intelligence investigation against the Trump campaign could result soon in indictments of high-ranking FBI officials, it only makes sense of mitigate Stone’s sentence. It also makes sense to reevaluate the cases against Flynn and even Manafort. Currently, U.S. Atty. John Durham is completing his probe of FBI conduct during the 2016 election. If Durham returns indictments against FIB and DOJ officials, it only makes sense that anyone indicted under the Special Counsel probe would get reevaluated. Former U.S. prosecutors and DOJ officials calling for Barr’s removal expose their extreme political bias against the Trump administration. Any cursory review of the FBI’s illegal counter-intelligence investigation against the Trump campaign would require that all criminal charges and sentences should be reevaluated in the name of justice.
