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Today attorney general william barr is telling a story that literally the reverse happened. >> i think probably from a civil liberties standpoint the greatest danger to our free system is that the incumbent government use the apparatus of the state, principly the law enforcement agencies and the intelligence agencies, both to spy on political opponents but also to use them in a way that could affect the outcome of the election. as far as im aware this is the first time in history this has been t...

There has to be some basis before we use these very potent powers in our core first amendment activity. and here i felt this was very flimsy. >> there is a kernel of a point here. in the abstract barr is correct. if president obama had ordered the fbi to open an investigation and then use the existence of that investigation to tip the scales to hillary clinton, that would be wildly wrong and dangerous and a threat to democracy. but we know that is not what happened thanks to the newly released i...