ormer Attorney General William Barr on Thursday fired back at a top Democrat who has claimed he shut down a probe into Biden bribery allegations being run out of Pennsylvania during the Trump administration, telling Fox News that he is mistaken.
Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, previously claimed the Trump DOJ under Barr and Brady "closed down" a probe into the alleged $5 million cash-for-policy bribery scheme now-President Biden is accused of being involved in while vice president.
Barr said Raskin was "confused" in his description of the "process" and "nature of the exercise in Pittsburgh," telling Fox News he set up the project in the Steel City as an "intake process" to avoid geographically "proliferating" investigations in an election year relating to the family of the Democratic nominee.
"We also wanted to protect the integrity of the investigations that were going on," Barr said. "So this was a screening, a clearinghouse function to check evidence out before sending it to the ongoing investigations."
It was through the Pittsburgh process that the information from the FBI-1023 document came about, Barr said, however disagreeing with Raskin's suggestion that Giuliani played any part in that.
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WAS NOT SHUT DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, previously claimed the Trump DOJ under Barr and Brady "closed down" a probe into the alleged $5 million cash-for-policy bribery scheme now-President Biden is accused of being involved in while vice president.
Barr said Raskin was "confused" in his description of the "process" and "nature of the exercise in Pittsburgh," telling Fox News he set up the project in the Steel City as an "intake process" to avoid geographically "proliferating" investigations in an election year relating to the family of the Democratic nominee.
"We also wanted to protect the integrity of the investigations that were going on," Barr said. "So this was a screening, a clearinghouse function to check evidence out before sending it to the ongoing investigations."
It was through the Pittsburgh process that the information from the FBI-1023 document came about, Barr said, however disagreeing with Raskin's suggestion that Giuliani played any part in that.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...n&cvid=191992e8309c47a5bea5ca8e76611fc7&ei=10
WAS NOT SHUT DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
