CNN: Barr Was ‘Intentional’ With ‘Spying’ Comment, Thought It Was Reasonable

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 10: U.S. Attorney General William Barr testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. Barr is appearing before t... WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 10: U.S. Attorney General William Barr testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. Barr is appearing before the Senate committee one day after testifying to the House where he faced many questions about the Mueller report. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Attorney General William Barr was “intentional” when he said Wednesday that he believed “spying” had occurred against the 2016 Trump campaign, even though he later admitted he had no evidence for the claim, CNN’s Laura Jarrett reported on air Thursday, citing “a person familiar with Barr’s thinking,” and “talks that Barr is having with his advisers.”

“This was not a gaffe,” Jarrett reported on-air, citing her source. “He knows what he’s saying, he is quite savvy. He’s very well aware of his words and how they have meaning. So this was intentional, he meant what he said.”

At the same time, Jarrett reported, “he doesn’t view the word ‘spying’ in a derogatory sense. He actually thinks that it’s a perfectly reasonable thing if it’s adequately predicated.”

“And so that’s what he was trying to say when he further explained at the hearing yesterday that what he’s really worried about is unauthorized surveillance.”

While the attorney general said at first during the hearing that “I did think spying did occur” — a gift for conspiratorially minded Trump supporters — he later said that he had “no specific evidence” for the claim.

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  1. “At the same time, Jarrett reported, “he doesn’t view the word ‘spying’ in a derogatory sense. He actually thinks that it’s a perfectly reasonable thing if it’s adequately predicated.””

    “Adequately predicated” = Democrat is being “spied” upon.

  2. scum bag.

  3. Avatar for cd cd says:

    a great follow up would be to ask him if he thought that the “deep state” was spying on the Clinton campaign as well.

    If not, why not? Could it be because she didn’t have an ongoing real estate deal with the President of Russia, and that her campaign wasn’t a fully engulfed conflagration of russian intelligence?

  4. Attorney General William Barr was “international” when he said Wednesday that he believed “spying” had occurred against the 2016 Trump campaign

    Was using the word spying “international” or “intentional?”

  5. When I refer to Attorney General William Barr as a fucking douche tool, I don’t mean that in a derogatory sense, I just think it’s a perfectly reasonable definition that is adequately predicated.

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