Attorney General Bill Barr might as well have scrawled “WRONG!” across the front of this with a Sharpie

In Case You Were Wondering Which Side Bill Barr’s Bread Is Buttered On…

The Attorney General’s response to the Department of Justice Inspector General’s Report on the Trump/Russia investigation leaves no doubt.

There shouldn’t have been much doubt anyway. He’s a Trump cheerleader. And now he’s working hard to debunk an exhaustive report emanating from behind his own walls (although the Inspector General operates mostly independently).

The 476 page report states (among other things):

• “The FBI had reason to believe that Russia may have been connected to the WikiLeaks disclosures that occurred earlier in July 2016….[and] was aware of Russia’s efforts to interfere with the 2016 U.S. elections. Given the low threshold for predication in the AG Guidelines and the DIOG (F.B.I.’s Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide), we concluded that the FFG (Friendly Foreign Government) information…was sufficient to predicate the full counterintelligence investigation because it provided the FBI an articulable factual basis that, if true, reasonably indicated activity constituting either a federal crime or a threat to national security may have occurred or may be occurring.”
• “The quantum of information articulated by the FBI to open the…