Democrats, instigating
a contempt vote against Attorney General William Barr over a lightly redacted
report is the best way to pretend we are living through a constitutional
crisis.
Democrats who hold the
majority on the House Judiciary Committee aren’t content with simply holding
Barr in contempt, they want to arrest him and slap him in the jail located in
the basement of the Capitol. “His day in the sun is coming,” Rep. Jamie Raskin
(D-MD) said.
They have moved from
conspiracies about Russia to conspiracies about the report debunking the
conspiracy; and they are unnerved. Attorney
General Barr is pursuing an inquiry into the Obama Administration’s decision to
conduct a foreign counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign.
Bill Barr is following the law. What's his reward? Democrats are going to hold him in contempt. pic.twitter.com/slK3cXf3k2— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) May 8, 2019
After a week of
histrionics about Attorney General Bill Barr, who had offended Democrats and
their media allies by writing a letter that accurately laid out the
findings of the Special Counsel’s two-year investigation fat, fat water rat Jerry
Nadler began demanding the release of the unredacted report. The White House,
as expected, asserted executive privilege.
Though the law clearly
places discretion over the redaction with the Attorney General, Nadler claimed
assertion had triggered a “constitutional crisis.”
Democrats, in fact,
were so exceptionally uninterested in specifics of the redactions that when
Barr offered a dozen members of Congress, six Democrats and six Republicans,
the option of reviewing the minimally redacted report, not a single Democrat —
not Chuck Schumer, not Nancy Pelosi and
not Jerry Nadler — showed up to take a look.
It’s all an act meant
to create the perception that Barr, in cahoots with Trump, is hiding the
findings of Mueller’s unimpeded and open-ended investigation.
If they had taken the
time to review the Mueller Report, Democrats would have found they had access
to more than 98% of the report, including 99.9 percent of the politically
charged Volume II, according to DOJ. Nadler knows very well the sliver of
redacted material consisting of grand jury material and classified information
related to ongoing investigations shouldn’t be made public.
There is a legitimate
need for congressional oversight of the executive branch. For far too long,
partisans have abdicated their constitutional duty. And when people like Humpty
Dumpty use that power as a political cudgel, they corrode the public’s trust.
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