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"Attorney General William Barr is testifying before the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday for the first time in his year-and-a-half long tenure as the nation's top law enforcement official.
Democrats are grilling him over a long list of controversies and his repeated interventions in matters of interest to President Donald Trump.
MORE: Democrats to grill AG Barr over interventions in matters of interest to Trump
Barr's appearance follows more than a year of stand-offs and delays -- he hasn't appeared before any congressional committee since May 2019 when he testified to a Senate panel on his handling of former special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russia's interference in the 2016 election -- later declining to appear before the House.
Here's how the hearing unfolded, please refresh this page for updates:
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Attorney General William...
Attorney General William Barr testifies before the House Judiciary Committee hearing in the Congressional Auditorium at the Capitol Visitors Center, July 28, 2020, in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/AFP via Getty Images
1:21 p.m. Barr vents anger in exchange on Stone, faces questions on 2020 election
Barr appears to be growing increasingly rankled as Democrats lob accusation after accusation against him, while either declining to let him respond or interrupting him saying they are reclaiming their time when he tries to answer.
During a probing line of questioning about Barr's intervention in the sentencing recommendation for longtime Trump ally Roger Stone, Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Pa., attempts to drill down why Barr would overrule prosecutors who had issued their recommendations for Stone's sentencing based on clearly spelled out DOJ guidelines, as well as who raised the case with Barr in the first place.
Barr fires back, noting that Judge Amy Berman Jackson eventually sentenced Stone to three years in prison, below the original recommendation Barr had overruled.
"The Judge agreed with me, congressman, the judge agreed with me!" Barr said as Deutch pressed him.
"The issue here is whether Roger Stone was treated different because he was friends with the president," Deutch said. "Mr. Attorney General, can you think of any other cases where the defendant threatened to kill a witness, threatened a judge, lied to a judge, where the Department of Justice claimed that those were mere technicalities?"
Barr declines to answer the question directly, instead repeating his previous statement that Judge Berman Jackson "agreed" with his lowered recommendation...."
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(9,187 posts)They are presenting false info that presents a state of anarchy under Democrats. Meanwhile the Putin method of controlling the citizenry is being made legal by unconstitutional actions of a US Attorney General and being promoted by lying about protests. And they can only do this with help from fox and the crazies on the right.