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Why Did The Obama Administration Ignore Reports Of Russian Election Meddling?
[The Federalist] During her hour-long interview last week of Attorney General William Barr, "CBS This Morning" journalist Jan Crawford focused mainly on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of President Trump. She also, however, questioned Barr on the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) efforts to ensure that Russian attempts to interfere in our elections are not repeated in 2020.This revealed the attorney general is probing a second scandal of the Obama administration related to the 2016 presidential election. Or it would be regarded as a second scandal if it garnered more attention: Why the Obama administration failed to forcefully respond to intelligence of Russian interference in our elections. The DOJ has "an increasingly robust program that is focusing on foreign influence in our election process, with the FBI obviously taking the lead," Barr told Crawford. But not enough was done in 2016, Barr acknowledged. "Bob Mueller did some impressive work in his investigation, you know, identifying some of the Russian hackers and their influence campaign and you sort of wonder if that kind of work had been done starting in 2016, things could have been a lot different," he said. Crawford replied, "It’s just hard to understand why it wasn’t taken more seriously." Barr agreed, saying he had no idea why it wasn’t. "That’s one of the things I’m interested in looking at as part of my review of the Russia collusion investigation," Barr stressed. With people warned as early as April 2016, "I’m wondering what, exactly, was the response to it if they were alarmed. Surely the response should have been more than just, you know, dangling a confidential informant in front of a peripheral player in the Trump campaign," the attorney general told Crawford before she moved to another topic. Posted by: Besoeker 2019-06-05 |
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