Desperate media and other Dems generating fake hysteria over Barr as reckoning looms over Russia hoax

The basic problem that the Dems have now is that the storyline has become simple and direct: Obama administration officials used the FBI, NSA, CIA, and other national security organs to spy on a rival campaign, and then undermine an elected president. They desperately want their followers to ignore the evidence that is on its way.

Stilton's Place: Poking the Barr

Thomas Lifson  "Democrats and their media lackeys are going all out to assassinate the character of AG Barr, fanning of the flames of hysteria. Anna Stark is correct that “The Democrats are worried. They should be,” and because the Attorney General has vowed to investigate the origins of spying on a presidential campaign and then a president, they desperately want to discredit him.

"Kimberly Strassel of the Wall Street Journal has an excellent take:

The only thing uglier than an angry Washington is a fearful Washington. And fear is what’s driving this week’s blitzkrieg of Attorney General William Barr. (snip)

Do not underestimate how many powerful people in Washington have something to lose from Mr. Barr’s probe. Among them: Former and current leaders of the law-enforcement and intelligence communities. The Democratic Party pooh-bahs who paid a foreign national (Mr. Steele) to collect information from Russians and deliver it to the FBI. The government officials who misused their positions to target a presidential campaign. The leakers. The media. More than reputations are at risk. Revelations could lead to lawsuits, formal disciplinary actions, lost jobs, even criminal prosecution.

The attacks on Mr. Barr are first and foremost an effort to force him out, to prevent this information from coming to light until Democrats can retake the White House in 2020. As a fallback, the coordinated campaign works as a pre-emptive smear, diminishing the credibility of his ultimate findings by priming the public to view him as a partisan.

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