By Savannah Behrmann and Kristine Phillips
More than 2,000 ex-employees (click here) of the Department of Justice have signed a letter calling on Attorney General William Barr to resign, writing that his handling of the Roger Stone case "openly and repeatedly flouted" the principle of equal justice under the rule of law.
The letter, published Sunday, comes after a contentious week for the Justice Department, which already faces allegations of succumbing to political pressure from President Donald Trump.
"Although there are times when political leadership appropriately weighs in on individual prosecutions, it is unheard of for the Department’s top leaders to overrule line prosecutors, who are following established policies, in order to give preferential treatment to a close associate of the President, as Attorney General Barr did in the Stone case," the letter reads....
They have good reason to ask for Barr's resignation other than just the Roger Stone case. The problem is who will he be replaced with and how do Americans know they won't be effected by a DOJ supervised by Putin?
And don't tell me there is nothing supporting such concerns:
October 4, 2019
By Adam Taylor
President Trump (click here) has spoken privately with Russia’s Vladimir Putin at least 16 times since he entered office in 2017. These conversations have long been the subject of scrutiny and speculation, given the Kremlin’s interference in the election that brought Trump to power.
Now, with Trump’s private interactions the subject of a broader scandal after the release of a partial rough transcript of his July 25 conversation with Ukraine’s president, Trump’s conversations with Putin are being viewed with renewed interest.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) has said that Congress is particularly interested in finding the records of Trump’s calls with Putin, especially if they had been stored in an unorthodox way. The Kremlin initially said it did not want the conversations made public, though Putin said Wednesday that he would not be against it....
Well, the Secretary of the Treasury simply can't print money fast enough.
February 10, 2020
By Leah Nylan
The Trump administration (click here) is asking for 71 percent more money in congressional appropriations for the Justice Department’s antitrust division in the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1 — an increase that would allow the agency to hire 87 additional staffers.
The increase — the biggest increase sought for antitrust in recent memory, according to DOJ officials — is another indicator that the agency is serious about its pending investigations into tech giants like Google and Facebook...
Last month, (click here) the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released updated Vertical Merger Guidelines in draft form. These guidelines provide a useful resource for aerospace and defense contractors involved in M&A transactions. Vertical competition issues frequently arise in this industry given the nature of the supply base and contracting and supply relationships between companies operating at different levels of the supply chain.
This is the first time the antitrust agencies have released updated guidelines for analyzing vertical mergers since 1984. Although the agencies have updated the Horizontal Merger Guidelines several times since then (most recently in 2010), they have not provided similar updated guidance to businesses regarding vertical merger enforcement until now. The new guidelines summarize the practices, standards, and theories the agencies have used in evaluating vertical mergers for a number of years. Although the guidelines do not signal any shifts in current agency practice, they do provide the business community greater transparency about how the agencies analyze vertical mergers. This is helpful for the aerospace and defense industry, which is particularly susceptible to vertical competition issues given the heavy reliance on contracting out important elements at different levels of the supply chain....
Ever wanted to hold power over a sector of the USA economy to dictate what happens and what doesn't happen? Any form of anti-trust is a huge issue and a lot of power over any sector of the USA economy.
Aerospace is a huge industry and directly is involved with some of the most sensitive defense hardware of the United States of America.
If the USA is going to be hobbled in technology and advancement, this is the way to do it. I would seriously like to know why this is an issue and DOES THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION KNOW WHERE ANTITRUST WILL LEAD? THIS IS THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF THE USA, THE TRUMP-BARR-PUTIN CABAL NEEDS TO KNOW WHAT THE FINAL OUTCOME IS GOING TO BE.
I would think the Secretary of Defense is already aware of the final outcome, right?
Who's ambition is this, Barr or Espers? The DOD is nowhere in this draft.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION (click here)
DRAFT VERTICAL MERGER GUIDELINES
RELEASED FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON JANUARY 10, 2020
