Why, on G-d’s green earth, was this Obama radical still there?
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Justice Dept. election crimes head quits after Barr memo over ‘voter fraud’
By: Don Jacobson, UPI, November 10, 2020:Nov. 10 (UPI) — The head of the Justice Department office that looks into potential election crimes has resigned in protest following an order from U.S. Attorney General William Barr instructing federal prosecutors to be prepared to look, if necessary, into accusations of voter fraud in the presidential race.
Richard Pilger, director of the department’s Election Crimes Branch, suggested in a memo to colleagues late Monday that his departure is a direct result of Barr’s instruction.
AdvertisementBarr had told prosecutors that they could investigate “substantial allegations of vote tabulation irregularities” before the election results are certified — a move that goes against longstanding tradition and policy at the Justice Department, which is intended to be the federal government’s independent, apolitical investigative arm.
Barr’s memo followed repeated and unsupported accusations by President Donald Trump and some Republicans that there was widespread mail voter fraud during the 2020 campaign. No one has yet produced any evidence of widespread voter fraud.
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Trump made repeated accusations all of last week and particularly after the race was called Saturday in former Vice President Joe Biden’s favor.
“Having familiarized myself with the new policy and its ramifications, and in accord with the best tradition of the John C. Keeney Award for Exceptional Integrity and Professionalism (my most cherished departmental recognition), I must regretfully resign from my role as director of the Election Crimes Branch,” Pilger wrote in the letter, which was posted to Twitter by advocate and former Justice Department assistant attorney for civil rights Vanita Gupta.
Trump has not conceded the race and his appointed administrator at the General Services Administration has not yet affirmed Biden as the presumptive winner, a step that unlocks millions in federal funds that allow presidents-elect to begin forming their administrations.
RELATED China, Russia wait for official U.S. election results as Trump refuses defeatSome experts have expressed concern that delaying the start of the Biden’s transition could put the country even more behind the COVID-19 pandemic and open the United States to national security risks.
In his letter, Pilger said Barr’s memo amounted to “an important new policy abrogating the 40-year-old Non-Interference Policy for ballot fraud investigations in the period prior to elections becoming certified and uncontested.”
Barr’s memo doesn’t order prosecutors to investigate fraud, but rather instructs them to be prepared to do so if evidence or the need arises. Barr also hasn’t given any indication that the department has any evidence to support Trump’s claims.
RELATED Trump campaign picks Rep. Doug Collins to lead Georgia recountNevertheless, Gupta said Barr’s memo is an attempt at “scaremongering” intended to cast an even greater cloud over the election results.
“Trump is furious, demanding all ‘his’ lawyers take action,” she wrote. “They have no evidence, so they’ll push the [narrative].”
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interesting. 2 points. why in the world is a lawyer appointed by the muslim still embedded within the doj after 4 years? i just don’t understand trump’s blindness to this. secondly, if this pos suddenly quit his post (but is still employed at the doj!) he obviously is in on the fraud and knows he needs to start distancing himself from what’s coming. my guess is that he directed these election crimes. wow, every day gets more interesting. i just hope the donald stays on the warpath for the next 3 months.
Former A.G. Sessions let them off the hook. Sessions should have fired all of them.
If he was appointed then Trump could have fired him but if he was hired like any other government employee, and Sessions didn’t fire him, I don’t think there is much Trump can do when Sessions let them slide.
It sure is odd he suddenly resigned…
He doesn’t want to change a 40 year old policy. He fails to understand that the political climate of this election is different from any we have seen in 50 years. The Justice Dept is not being partisan by breaking a 40 year policy, but is literally promoting justice. He does not understand that crimes against the Constitution and “the people” have likely been committed on an unprecedented scale.
You need evidence and you need to prove it. That’s the tough part. You can’t just fire people at will. Yeah, I know the other side does that but if we start doing that, then all is lost. I completely understand your frustration and share
it.
A lot of the establishment people and voters don’t get the bigger picture.. I think a light bulb in Lindsey’s head went off. He is realizing this will be his last term as a Senator if Trump is not re-elected. They live in a bubble.
Sorry sir but a President cannot go around firing everyone who is not of his party. I was a teacher in NYC. Does it mean that this overwhelmingly Dem/commie stronghold should not have hired me? Should a Republican fear being treated by a Democrat doctor? If bias is that intense then we are already lost. That may be the case, but we can’t be firing everyone based on their voter registration.
But completely in his right to fire those he feels are not team players or incompetent regardless of party affiliation. Remember he is not a politician, he doesn’t care about the party, but about the country as a whole.
We do have employment laws….
It’s unlikely Trump had any contact with him.
Sorry sir but a President cannot go around firing everyone who is not of his party. I was a teacher in NYC. Does it mean that this overwhelmingly Dem/commie stronghold should not have hired me? Should a Republican fear being treated by a Democrat doctor? If bias is that intense then we are already lost. That may be the case, but we can’t be firing everyone based on their voter registration.
Thanks to bizarre Jeff Sessions, he let them off the hook.
I will never understand him…
IMO he was allowed to stay where he was so he would prove himself a criminal.
Let’s face it. We are screwed. Evil triumphs. I feel nauseous and hopeless ????
I’m not flying the white flag yet.
Why make it easy for them?
You can’ t win having that attitude….
They can hoot and holler all they like but the GSA is standing firm not giving Biden transitional fund money until a winner is officially declared. Biden is pressuring them for millions to set up and start his agenda. All he can do now is announce craziness
Barr’s memo doesn’t order prosecutors to investigate fraud, but rather instructs them to be prepared to do so if evidence or the need arises. Barr also hasn’t given any indication that the department has any evidence to support Trump’s claims.
Bizarre!
How strange that a man like Trump with a lifetime in corporate politics, mergers, and takeovers has never cleaned house, I just don’t get it.
Rule number one, you clean house, you put in your loyal soldiers. Chop, chop, chop.
“repeated and unsupported accusations” of fraud.
It doesn’t matter how many examples of fraud you produce, it will always be denounced as “unsupported accusations” because you didn’t catch them all. Like roaches when you see one there are hundreds more that you don’t see, but that doesn’t mean the sighting is unsupported and you should ignore it.