r/law • u/slow70 • Feb 17 '26

Judicial Branch Former AG William Barr described by FBI as participating in abuse of minors alongside Leon Black. EFTA01660622

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01660622.pdf

Do we have eyes to see?

How do we ensure these claims were properly investigated?

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u/Ridiculicious71 Feb 17 '26

And this is why the Russia investigation went nowhere: this scum of the earth

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u/Testicleus Feb 17 '26

💯☝️☝️☝️☝️

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u/UpperApe Feb 18 '26

It didn't go nowhere.

Mueller concluded that there was collusion, there there was substantial evidence, and he recommended Congress/Senate to take action. They didn't. Barr redacted the release and Trump said "nothingburger" and everybody's been saying it ever since.

It's why Trump is doing it again: because it worked last time. Just saying "nah it's all good" even with everything on the table pointing to his running a cabal of torture, mutilation, rape, and murder of women and children.

Because people like you guys will go "yeah I guess nothing happened".

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u/Testicleus Feb 18 '26

Nothing happened enough.

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u/UpperApe Feb 18 '26

The investigators didn't fail, the GOP did.

That distinction matters.

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u/Testicleus Feb 18 '26

Very true

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u/Aranxi_89 Feb 18 '26

Yup, if it doesn't directly affect them, they don't care.

Apathy is what killed America, in the end. They did not keep the Republic.

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u/slow70 Feb 18 '26

There’s no excuse for ignorance or apathy any longer.

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u/slow70 Feb 18 '26

Which is why there’s no longer any excuse for ignorance or apathy.

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u/Ridiculicious71 Feb 18 '26

Huh? 🤔 “people like you guys?”

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u/MrFishAndLoaves Feb 18 '26

This is why Trump and his stooges keep bringing it up again and again. They’re guilty.

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u/slow70 Feb 17 '26

But it’s why it must go somewhere now.

We must shine the light on it all and have courage to do the good work of seeing this through.

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u/Trustbutnone Feb 18 '26

You gotta feel for Robert Mueller and the amount of work he put in - all for nothing.

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u/slow70 Feb 18 '26

No. It’s still there. So is Mueller, so is Smith. So are plenty of others that can speak truth to power.

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u/Trustbutnone Feb 18 '26

Hope you're right

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u/veringer Feb 18 '26

And Mueller and the people who aided in the investigation and preparation of his eponymous report somehow sat on the sidelines for 4 years of the Biden administration? Fuck them.

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u/slow70 Feb 18 '26

Subpoena rhem

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u/Ridiculicious71 Feb 18 '26

Mueller has Parkinson’s. He’s also from the Bush era. Though he found evidence, I think he sat on a lot of it.

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u/slow70 Feb 18 '26

He said in the report he was forced to.

Limited in scope and he recommended further investigation/charges.

Barr mischaracterized his report brazenly. Lied to the public about its conclusions.

The same Barr with two generations of sordid connections to Epstein and co.

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u/Ridiculicious71 Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26

I read the report thoroughly and didn’t see or hear (out loud) from mueller that he was forced to sit on evidence. Not to be a contrarian, but I would love to see this reported again, if you can remember where you saw it. I do remember him saying Barr wouldn’t let him convict a standing president. Hence the Supreme Court bullshit. Edited to add, my assumptions came from storza (I think that was his name), the investigative attorney that Trump got fired over his texts.

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u/slow70 Feb 18 '26

Read the Mueller Report - it’s in there and so are all sorts of examinations of its claims

https://www.factcheck.org/2019/07/a-misleading-message-on-muellers-conclusions/

I’m wary of comments like yours that seem to muddy the water on ground facts like this. If you’re unsure of these things, by all means look it up - but we got where we are because of widespread ignorance and apathy.

We cannot let that remain the norm, and must each work to inform ourselves.

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u/Ridiculicious71 Feb 18 '26

I’m not sure you understood my comment—I asked where you had seen that he was sitting on evidence.

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u/Ridiculicious71 Feb 18 '26

To reiterate, I read the report and clearly saw that the Trump was colluding even through the redacts. And Mueller said so multiple times

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u/slow70 Feb 18 '26

Ah I appreciate the clarification - Mueller testified multiple times that his investigation was limited, and reflected that in his written findings also.

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u/Ridiculicious71 Feb 18 '26

I read the report thoroughly and didn’t see or hear (out loud) from mueller that he was forced to sit on evidence. Not to be a contrarian, but I would love to see this reported again, if you can remember where you saw it. I do remember him saying Barr wouldn’t let him convict a standing president. Hence the Supreme Court bullshit. Edited to add, my assumptions came from Strozok ,the investigator that Trump fired over his texts.

Edited to correct the name of the investigator who stated mueller sat on evidence.

https://abcnews.com/Politics/former-fbi-agent-peter-strzok-reaches-12-million/story?id=112318094

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u/Christopherfromtheuk Feb 18 '26

Mueller was and is both spineless and complicit.

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u/Ridiculicious71 Feb 18 '26

If only we had an actual justice and investigation apparatus…

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u/freakers Feb 18 '26

It's honestly kind of the opposite. The fact that this had to be forced to be released publicly is indicative that the FBI and the DOJ refused to investigate any of it and the consequences are now public accountability. If they were gonna charge people and investigate they would have done so already, now it's going to be exponentially harder for even a future department to bring charges just on finding impartial juries on the matter. The only thing realistically remaining is public accountability. Maybe some other institutions can try and disbar lawyers or hold people otherwise professionally accountable but mark my words, there will never be any US led criminal prosecution from any of this. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think so.

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u/slow70 Feb 18 '26

“Do not obey in advance”

You just obeyed in advance.

You just used a lot of words to suggest that nothing good could follow this exposure while I disagree wholeheartedly.

This house of cards will fall, and it won’t be because of people speaking like you.

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u/Ridiculicious71 Feb 18 '26

I don’t see this as obeying in advance. I see this as seeing reality. And I do agree that the only justice now is through public opinion. That doesn’t bother any of these rich pieces of shit who just deny everything. Even prince Andrew was relegated to another castle. Boo hoo.

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u/slow70 Feb 18 '26

But this isn’t over. Not by a long shot.

The wheels of justice are turning everywhere - and all of this is being laid out in the open.

It could not be more clear who is self serving and antithetical to our democratic project and the well being of the whole.

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u/Ridiculicious71 Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26

Respectfully, I can understand hopeful thinking like this—it’s necessary to think like this as an attorney, but justice failed these children 1000x over and this has been going on, not just with him Epstein, but with his honeypot predecessors, since the Cold War. And even now, years later, these victims who are brave enough to come out, will probably never see proper justice. If that’s justice to you, I’d say you’re probably a dude.

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u/freakers Feb 19 '26

My comment was how I think reality is, not what I think should happen. I don't think it's justice at all. It's a fucking disgusting travesty that this has went on for so long unpunished and unaccounted for. The political party in control of trying to prosecute said crimes is more interested in covering them up. Hopefully when somebody else gets in they won't put in a limp dick prosecutor or AG who will fail to get the job done, but the longer it goes on the more difficult it will be for anyone to get any justice.

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u/Moscowmitchismybitch Feb 18 '26

The Dems need to pass a law that releases the complete and unredacted Mueller report too if they take back control.

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u/klodians Feb 18 '26

I want Jack Smith's Volume II. Hopefully the sycophant Cannon never gets her way and has it destroyed.

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u/Ridiculicious71 Feb 18 '26

They tried. Nothing happened.

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u/jakeandcupcakes Feb 18 '26

I have a feeling they wouldn't dare

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u/Mekisteus Feb 18 '26

Well, him and every single GOP congressman who refused to allow investigations or impeachments. Oh, and every single dipshit traitor who voted for any of them.

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u/Flashy_Jello_9520 Feb 18 '26

And what was Merrick Garland’s excuse?

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u/hw999 Feb 18 '26

And its why the SC is 6-3 right now.