House Speaker Pelosi asserted that AG William Barr had “gone rogue” in his handling of an explosive whistleblower complaint that allegedly implicates him in efforts by Trump to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 election
Thursday that he first discussed the complaint with the White House counsel’s office before consulting with the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, which determined the complaint did not meet the legal definition of “urgent” because Trump is not an employee of the intelligence community.
“To have a Justice Department go so rogue — well, they had been for a while — and now it just makes matters worse that the attorney general was mentioned, that the president was mentioned, and yet the Justice Department directed the director of national intelligence to take this to the White House,” Pelosi said Friday.
Maguire has defended his management of the complaint, telling lawmakers Thursday: “This has never happened before. This is a unique situation.” Pelosi said Friday she “felt sorry” for Maguire, but insisted he “broke the law” by refusing to immediately provide the complaint to members of Congress. His decision to instead approach White House and Justice Department lawyers, she said, was “not highly unusual,” but “unique. Wrong.”
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