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Barr Changes Justice Dept Policy To Allow Federal Prosecutors To Interfere With Elections
SOUND THE ALARMS AT FULL BLAST.
The demonic Bill Barr is setting the stage to disrupt our elections in a matter of weeks. Trump, Barr, and Fox News are working in concert to undermine confidence in the election
The Department of Justice has weakened its long-standing prohibition against interfering in elections... created an exception to a decadeslong policy meant to prevent prosecutors from taking overt investigative steps that might affect the outcome of the vote.
Avoiding election interference is the overarching principle of DOJ policy on voting-related crimes. In place since at least 1980, the policy generally bars prosecutors not only from making any announcement about ongoing investigations close to an election but also from taking public steps — such as an arrest or a raid — before a vote is finalized because the publicity could tip the balance of a race.
Barr is putting not just his thumb but his entire hand on the scales of justice in Trump's favor. He's telling us he'll push phony election fraud narratives to undercut confidence in the outcome of the election.
But according to an email sent Friday [Oct 2, 2020].... if a U.S. attorney’s office suspects election fraud that involves postal workers or military employees, federal investigators will be allowed to take public investigative steps before the polls close, even if those actions risk affecting the outcome of the election.
Specifically citing postal workers and military employees is noteworthy, former DOJ officials said. But the exception is written so broadly that it could cover other types of investigations as well, they said.
Both groups have been falsely singled out, in different ways, by Doald Trump and his campaign for being involved in voter fraud. Trump has repeatedly attempted to delegitimize ballots sent through the postal service, just as the country experiences increased voting by mail spurred by the coronavirus pandemic.
We are in a very dark place. Americans shouldn’t trust DOJ announcements. Justice Department prosecutors need to uphold their oath to Country and NOT to Barr. Now would be a good time to state that they will not comply with Barr's politicalization of the DOJ.
Experts who reviewed the revision said they were concerned it could be exploited to help the DOJ bolster Trump’s campaign.
“It’s unusual that they’re carving out this exception,” said Vanita Gupta, the former head of the DOJ Civil Rights Division under President Barack Obama. “It may be creating a predicate for the Justice Department to make inflated announcements about mail-in vote fraud and the like in the run-up to the election.”