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Appellate court exposes Bill Barr's lies about secret DOJ memo used to protect Trump from charges
by Glenn Kirschner
Aug 20, 2022
Recall that federal judge Reggie Walton found that former Attorney General Bill Barr spun the conclusions of the Mueller report, mischaracterized its findings, and announced that "Bill Barr lacks candor."
Now a federal appellate panel has ruled that Bill Barr also lied when he claimed that a secret memo compelled him to decline to charge Donald Trump with the obstruction of justice crimes documented by Bob Mueller's investigating into Trump-Russia coordination in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.
This video discusses the new court finding that a secret memo that Bill Barr mischaracterized must be released in its entirely.
Transcript
0:00
so former Attorney General Bill Barr is
0:04
the corrupt gift that just keeps on
0:07
giving.
0:08
wish we could return some of these gifts,
0:11
but a federal court just told us, once
0:15
again, that bill Barr is Unworthy of
0:19
belief.
0:21
let's talk about that,
0:22
because Justice matters.
0:32
[Music]
0:34
hey all. glenn kirschner
0:40
here. so former Attorney General Bill
0:44
Barr has been caught, again,
0:46
deceiving the court, and by extension
0:49
deceiving the American people.
0:52
now, before I go to the new Washington
0:54
Post reporting, let me set this one up,
0:56
because it's a little bit convoluted.
1:00
so, remember when Bill Barr lied to us
1:03
about the Mueller report?
1:05
federal court judge Reggie Walton said,
1:08
you know, "he lied; he deceived; he
1:10
dissembled; he mischaracterized." and he
1:13
said Bill Barr "lacks candor."
1:15
and remember, Bill Barr told us all, "no, no,
1:18
no obstruction. Donald Trump can't be
1:21
charged with any crimes."
1:23
well, it turns out that bill Barr
1:27
used as a basis to say, oh, he can't be
1:31
charged with any obstruction, a doj memo
1:34
that had been written.
1:36
and Bill Barr said, "it's a secret memo. I
1:39
can't show it to anybody. but trust me.
1:41
it's an analysis of, you know, the facts,
1:45
and the law, and it reaches the
1:46
conclusion that, well, Donald Trump just
1:48
can't be charged with obstructing
1:50
justice, with obstructing Bob Mueller's
1:53
probe of all things Trump Russia. but
1:56
just trust me."
1:57
well, there's an organization called "crew":
2:00
citizens for responsibility and ethics
2:04
in Washington, and they didn't trust Bill
2:06
Barr,
2:07
and they filed suit, Freedom of
2:09
Information Act, seeking this memo that
2:13
bill Barr said "we can't show you, but
2:16
trust me. it says Donald Trump can't be
2:19
charged with obstructing justice." against
2:22
that backdrop, here is the new reporting
2:26
from The Washington Post about how a
2:29
federal appeals court just smacked down
2:32
Bill Barr again.
2:35
headline: "court orders release of doj
2:39
memo on Trump obstruction in Mueller
2:42
probe." and that article begins:
2:45
"a federal appeals court has ordered the
2:48
release of a secret justice department
2:50
memo discussing whether president Donald
2:52
Trump obstructed the investigation into
2:55
Russian interference in the 2016
2:58
election.
3:00
the unanimous panel decision issued
3:02
Friday Echoes that of a lower Court
3:05
Judge, Amy Berman Jackson, Who last year
3:09
accused Bill Barr's justice department
3:11
of dishonesty in its justification for
3:16
keeping the memo hidden." now. I'm going to
3:18
take a pause, and we're going to jump
3:20
over to the earlier reporting about
3:24
Judge Amy Berman Jackson's ruling
3:27
slamming Bill Barr, accusing him of
3:30
dishonesty, and then we're going to go
3:33
back to this new reporting about how the
3:35
Appellate Court just upheld Judge Amy
3:39
Berman Jackson's ruling. so here is the
3:42
earlier Washington Post reporting:
3:44
headline: "judge blast's barr, justice
3:48
department for disingenuous handling of
3:51
secret Trump obstruction memo."
3:54
and that article reads in part:
3:57
"a federal judge has accused the justice
3:59
department, and then Attorney General
4:01
William Barr, of misleading the court ,and
4:04
the public, to hide how he decided that
4:08
President Donald Trump should not be
4:10
charged with obstructing special counsel
4:13
Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
4:16
U.S District Judge Amy Berman Jackson of
4:19
Washington D.C.,
4:21
ordered the release Monday of a 2019
4:24
memo, prepared by the Department's office
4:26
of legal counsel.
4:28
barr, and a string of Justice Department
4:30
officials, had sought to keep the
4:33
memo secret asserting, 'it was part of the
4:37
Department's internal decision-making
4:39
process' before he selectively and
4:42
misleadingly announced the Mueller
4:45
reports findings that March. Judge Amy
4:49
Berman Jackson wrote in a blistering
4:51
opinion, after viewing the memo and other
4:54
evidence, that the Department's claims
4:57
are so inconsistent with evidence in the
5:00
record they are not worthy of credence."
5:04
so she ordered it released, but that
5:07
decision was appealed, and now
5:09
the Appellate Court just
5:12
sided with Judge Amy Berman Jackson,
5:15
and they also slammed Bill Barr. so let's
5:18
go back to the first Washington Post
5:21
reporting. I know it takes some time to
5:24
walk through this one,
5:26
and then we're going to recap after we
5:29
get through these two Washington Post
5:30
articles, and kind of put it all into
5:33
layman's terms.
5:35
back to the new Washington Post
5:37
reporting:
5:39
"a panel of three judges said that
5:42
whether or not there was bad faith, the
5:44
government created a misimpression, and
5:47
could not stop release under the Freedom
5:49
of Information Act.
5:51
the memo was written by two senior
5:54
Justice Department officials for then
5:56
Attorney General William Barr, who
5:59
subsequently told Congress that there
6:01
was not enough evidence to charge Trump
6:03
with obstruction of special counsel Bob
6:06
Mueller's inquiry. a redacted version was
6:10
released last year, but left under seal
6:13
the legal and factual analysis.
6:16
Department of Justice officials argued
6:19
that the document was protected because
6:21
it involved internal deliberations over
6:25
a prosecutorial decision." but friends.
6:27
that turned out to be untrue.
6:30
it had nothing to do with internal
6:33
decisions about a prosecutorial decision.
6:37
rather, "the discussion in the memo was
6:41
over how Barr would publicly
6:44
characterize the obstruction evidence
6:47
Mueller had assembled. the justice
6:49
department conceded on appeal" -- in other
6:53
words,
6:55
the memo was all about how Bill Barr
6:57
would spin it
6:58
to Congress, and to the American people.
7:03
the article continues:
7:05
"the Court's review of the memorandum
7:07
revealed that the department in fact
7:10
never considered bringing a charge of
7:14
obstruction against Donald Trump, the
7:16
panel wrote. instead, the memorandum
7:19
concerned a separate decision, that had
7:22
gone entirely unmentioned by the
7:24
government in its submissions to the
7:27
court,"
7:27
and that decision? "what if anything to
7:31
say to Congress and the public about the
7:35
Mueller report." in other words, how to
7:38
spin the Mueller report.
7:42
admittedly, friends, that is kind of a
7:45
convoluted tale, so let's do it again in
7:47
layman's speak:
7:49
Bob Mueller investigated Donald Trump,
7:51
and the Trump campaign, for contacts and
7:55
coordination with Russia, by which they
7:58
sought and obtained Russia's assistance
8:01
in the 2016 presidential election.
8:05
and Bob Mueller found quote, "substantial
8:10
evidence of obstruction by Trump."
8:13
but Bill Barr didn't care.
8:15
Bill Barr was going to protect Donald
8:17
Trump at all costs. so Bill Barr falsely
8:21
announced "no obstruction;
8:23
no evidence that Donald Trump obstructed
8:26
Justice; Donald Trump can't be charged
8:29
with any crime,"
8:31
and Bill Barr pointed to a secret memo,
8:34
a memo that he had some Department of
8:37
Justice lawyers draft up, and he claimed
8:39
"this memo was a detailed analysis of the
8:42
facts and the law, and led to only one
8:45
conclusion, that Donald Trump did nothing
8:47
wrong; no obstruction; he can't be charged
8:49
with any crime." and Bill Barr said, "just
8:52
trust me on this, because the Memo's
8:54
secret. we're not going to show it to
8:56
anybody, because it involves, you know,
8:59
prosecutorial deliberations."
9:02
well,
9:04
Judge Amy Berman Jackson figuratively
9:07
wrestled that secret memo away from Bill
9:10
Barr's Department of Justice.
9:12
turns out, it had no prosecutorial
9:17
discussions about the facts and the law,
9:20
and about whether Donald Trump committed
9:22
obstruction of justice, or he didn't.
9:24
rather,
9:26
the memo was all about how Bill Barr
9:30
could spin the Mueller report to
9:33
Congress, and to the American people, to
9:36
try to protect Donald Trump.
9:39
and that is why Judge Amy Berman Jackson
9:43
said, essentially, "Bill Barr is a great
9:46
big liar. he can't be credited." and a
9:52
three-judge Appellate Court just said
9:55
the same thing.
9:57
and they said, "give the entire memo over
10:01
to crew,
10:03
the organization that filed a Freedom of
10:07
Information Act request seeking that
10:10
memo." so now we see, once again, Bill Barr
10:14
is exposed
10:16
as deceiving Congress, deceiving the
10:19
American people, corruptly protecting
10:22
Donald Trump from being held accountable
10:25
for his crimes.
10:28
you know, I really don't want to hear
10:30
anything from Bill Barr on his
10:32
reputation Rehabilitation tour, where
10:35
he's now telling the January 6 committee,
10:38
perhaps telling a Federal grand jury, all
10:40
about Donald Trump's misdeeds, his crimes,
10:44
his corruption.
10:46
you know, the only way I'm willing to
10:48
listen to anything Bill Barr says,
10:50
is for him to be charged with his own
10:52
crimes, plead guilty, accept
10:54
responsibility, and then Bill, you can
10:57
talk, you can talk as a cooperating
10:59
Witness.
11:01
because frankly, that is the only way
11:03
anything Bill Barr says today
11:06
could be credited.
11:10
because Justice
11:12
matters.
11:15
friends, as always, please stay safe,
11:17
please stay tuned, and I look forward to
11:19
talking with you all again tomorrow.
11:23
[Music]
by Glenn Kirschner
Aug 20, 2022
Recall that federal judge Reggie Walton found that former Attorney General Bill Barr spun the conclusions of the Mueller report, mischaracterized its findings, and announced that "Bill Barr lacks candor."
Now a federal appellate panel has ruled that Bill Barr also lied when he claimed that a secret memo compelled him to decline to charge Donald Trump with the obstruction of justice crimes documented by Bob Mueller's investigating into Trump-Russia coordination in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.
This video discusses the new court finding that a secret memo that Bill Barr mischaracterized must be released in its entirely.
Transcript
0:00
so former Attorney General Bill Barr is
0:04
the corrupt gift that just keeps on
0:07
giving.
0:08
wish we could return some of these gifts,
0:11
but a federal court just told us, once
0:15
again, that bill Barr is Unworthy of
0:19
belief.
0:21
let's talk about that,
0:22
because Justice matters.
0:32
[Music]
0:34
hey all. glenn kirschner
0:40
here. so former Attorney General Bill
0:44
Barr has been caught, again,
0:46
deceiving the court, and by extension
0:49
deceiving the American people.
0:52
now, before I go to the new Washington
0:54
Post reporting, let me set this one up,
0:56
because it's a little bit convoluted.
1:00
so, remember when Bill Barr lied to us
1:03
about the Mueller report?
1:05
federal court judge Reggie Walton said,
1:08
you know, "he lied; he deceived; he
1:10
dissembled; he mischaracterized." and he
1:13
said Bill Barr "lacks candor."
1:15
and remember, Bill Barr told us all, "no, no,
1:18
no obstruction. Donald Trump can't be
1:21
charged with any crimes."
1:23
well, it turns out that bill Barr
1:27
used as a basis to say, oh, he can't be
1:31
charged with any obstruction, a doj memo
1:34
that had been written.
1:36
and Bill Barr said, "it's a secret memo. I
1:39
can't show it to anybody. but trust me.
1:41
it's an analysis of, you know, the facts,
1:45
and the law, and it reaches the
1:46
conclusion that, well, Donald Trump just
1:48
can't be charged with obstructing
1:50
justice, with obstructing Bob Mueller's
1:53
probe of all things Trump Russia. but
1:56
just trust me."
1:57
well, there's an organization called "crew":
2:00
citizens for responsibility and ethics
2:04
in Washington, and they didn't trust Bill
2:06
Barr,
2:07
and they filed suit, Freedom of
2:09
Information Act, seeking this memo that
2:13
bill Barr said "we can't show you, but
2:16
trust me. it says Donald Trump can't be
2:19
charged with obstructing justice." against
2:22
that backdrop, here is the new reporting
2:26
from The Washington Post about how a
2:29
federal appeals court just smacked down
2:32
Bill Barr again.
2:35
headline: "court orders release of doj
2:39
memo on Trump obstruction in Mueller
2:42
probe." and that article begins:
2:45
"a federal appeals court has ordered the
2:48
release of a secret justice department
2:50
memo discussing whether president Donald
2:52
Trump obstructed the investigation into
2:55
Russian interference in the 2016
2:58
election.
3:00
the unanimous panel decision issued
3:02
Friday Echoes that of a lower Court
3:05
Judge, Amy Berman Jackson, Who last year
3:09
accused Bill Barr's justice department
3:11
of dishonesty in its justification for
3:16
keeping the memo hidden." now. I'm going to
3:18
take a pause, and we're going to jump
3:20
over to the earlier reporting about
3:24
Judge Amy Berman Jackson's ruling
3:27
slamming Bill Barr, accusing him of
3:30
dishonesty, and then we're going to go
3:33
back to this new reporting about how the
3:35
Appellate Court just upheld Judge Amy
3:39
Berman Jackson's ruling. so here is the
3:42
earlier Washington Post reporting:
3:44
headline: "judge blast's barr, justice
3:48
department for disingenuous handling of
3:51
secret Trump obstruction memo."
3:54
and that article reads in part:
3:57
"a federal judge has accused the justice
3:59
department, and then Attorney General
4:01
William Barr, of misleading the court ,and
4:04
the public, to hide how he decided that
4:08
President Donald Trump should not be
4:10
charged with obstructing special counsel
4:13
Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
4:16
U.S District Judge Amy Berman Jackson of
4:19
Washington D.C.,
4:21
ordered the release Monday of a 2019
4:24
memo, prepared by the Department's office
4:26
of legal counsel.
4:28
barr, and a string of Justice Department
4:30
officials, had sought to keep the
4:33
memo secret asserting, 'it was part of the
4:37
Department's internal decision-making
4:39
process' before he selectively and
4:42
misleadingly announced the Mueller
4:45
reports findings that March. Judge Amy
4:49
Berman Jackson wrote in a blistering
4:51
opinion, after viewing the memo and other
4:54
evidence, that the Department's claims
4:57
are so inconsistent with evidence in the
5:00
record they are not worthy of credence."
5:04
so she ordered it released, but that
5:07
decision was appealed, and now
5:09
the Appellate Court just
5:12
sided with Judge Amy Berman Jackson,
5:15
and they also slammed Bill Barr. so let's
5:18
go back to the first Washington Post
5:21
reporting. I know it takes some time to
5:24
walk through this one,
5:26
and then we're going to recap after we
5:29
get through these two Washington Post
5:30
articles, and kind of put it all into
5:33
layman's terms.
5:35
back to the new Washington Post
5:37
reporting:
5:39
"a panel of three judges said that
5:42
whether or not there was bad faith, the
5:44
government created a misimpression, and
5:47
could not stop release under the Freedom
5:49
of Information Act.
5:51
the memo was written by two senior
5:54
Justice Department officials for then
5:56
Attorney General William Barr, who
5:59
subsequently told Congress that there
6:01
was not enough evidence to charge Trump
6:03
with obstruction of special counsel Bob
6:06
Mueller's inquiry. a redacted version was
6:10
released last year, but left under seal
6:13
the legal and factual analysis.
6:16
Department of Justice officials argued
6:19
that the document was protected because
6:21
it involved internal deliberations over
6:25
a prosecutorial decision." but friends.
6:27
that turned out to be untrue.
6:30
it had nothing to do with internal
6:33
decisions about a prosecutorial decision.
6:37
rather, "the discussion in the memo was
6:41
over how Barr would publicly
6:44
characterize the obstruction evidence
6:47
Mueller had assembled. the justice
6:49
department conceded on appeal" -- in other
6:53
words,
6:55
the memo was all about how Bill Barr
6:57
would spin it
6:58
to Congress, and to the American people.
7:03
the article continues:
7:05
"the Court's review of the memorandum
7:07
revealed that the department in fact
7:10
never considered bringing a charge of
7:14
obstruction against Donald Trump, the
7:16
panel wrote. instead, the memorandum
7:19
concerned a separate decision, that had
7:22
gone entirely unmentioned by the
7:24
government in its submissions to the
7:27
court,"
7:27
and that decision? "what if anything to
7:31
say to Congress and the public about the
7:35
Mueller report." in other words, how to
7:38
spin the Mueller report.
7:42
admittedly, friends, that is kind of a
7:45
convoluted tale, so let's do it again in
7:47
layman's speak:
7:49
Bob Mueller investigated Donald Trump,
7:51
and the Trump campaign, for contacts and
7:55
coordination with Russia, by which they
7:58
sought and obtained Russia's assistance
8:01
in the 2016 presidential election.
8:05
and Bob Mueller found quote, "substantial
8:10
evidence of obstruction by Trump."
8:13
but Bill Barr didn't care.
8:15
Bill Barr was going to protect Donald
8:17
Trump at all costs. so Bill Barr falsely
8:21
announced "no obstruction;
8:23
no evidence that Donald Trump obstructed
8:26
Justice; Donald Trump can't be charged
8:29
with any crime,"
8:31
and Bill Barr pointed to a secret memo,
8:34
a memo that he had some Department of
8:37
Justice lawyers draft up, and he claimed
8:39
"this memo was a detailed analysis of the
8:42
facts and the law, and led to only one
8:45
conclusion, that Donald Trump did nothing
8:47
wrong; no obstruction; he can't be charged
8:49
with any crime." and Bill Barr said, "just
8:52
trust me on this, because the Memo's
8:54
secret. we're not going to show it to
8:56
anybody, because it involves, you know,
8:59
prosecutorial deliberations."
9:02
well,
9:04
Judge Amy Berman Jackson figuratively
9:07
wrestled that secret memo away from Bill
9:10
Barr's Department of Justice.
9:12
turns out, it had no prosecutorial
9:17
discussions about the facts and the law,
9:20
and about whether Donald Trump committed
9:22
obstruction of justice, or he didn't.
9:24
rather,
9:26
the memo was all about how Bill Barr
9:30
could spin the Mueller report to
9:33
Congress, and to the American people, to
9:36
try to protect Donald Trump.
9:39
and that is why Judge Amy Berman Jackson
9:43
said, essentially, "Bill Barr is a great
9:46
big liar. he can't be credited." and a
9:52
three-judge Appellate Court just said
9:55
the same thing.
9:57
and they said, "give the entire memo over
10:01
to crew,
10:03
the organization that filed a Freedom of
10:07
Information Act request seeking that
10:10
memo." so now we see, once again, Bill Barr
10:14
is exposed
10:16
as deceiving Congress, deceiving the
10:19
American people, corruptly protecting
10:22
Donald Trump from being held accountable
10:25
for his crimes.
10:28
you know, I really don't want to hear
10:30
anything from Bill Barr on his
10:32
reputation Rehabilitation tour, where
10:35
he's now telling the January 6 committee,
10:38
perhaps telling a Federal grand jury, all
10:40
about Donald Trump's misdeeds, his crimes,
10:44
his corruption.
10:46
you know, the only way I'm willing to
10:48
listen to anything Bill Barr says,
10:50
is for him to be charged with his own
10:52
crimes, plead guilty, accept
10:54
responsibility, and then Bill, you can
10:57
talk, you can talk as a cooperating
10:59
Witness.
11:01
because frankly, that is the only way
11:03
anything Bill Barr says today
11:06
could be credited.
11:10
because Justice
11:12
matters.
11:15
friends, as always, please stay safe,
11:17
please stay tuned, and I look forward to
11:19
talking with you all again tomorrow.
11:23
[Music]