Partisan AG Barr to Investigate the FBI for His Personal Client

U.S. Attorney General William Barr is supposed to represent the American people, not President Trump. But in his job application, an unsolicited 19-page essay explaining that he believes that the president of the United states is above the law and can't be indicted no matter what he does, he made it clear that his client -- should he become attorney general, would be Donald Trump.

No American, no matter his rank or wealth, is above the law. To suggest otherwise is to make the president an autocrat or a king. The fact that wealth inequality is growing and inequality in justice is continuing depending on one's race, social status, and wealth is undermining the rule of law and our democratic values. Trumpism is undermining our republic and potentially leading the United States toward autocracy.

AG Barr now wants to investigate the FBI for investigating Trump, who the FBI suspected of being a Russian agent. Trump and his minions lied about meeting with Russian diplomats. Former Trump-appointed AG Jeff Sessions met with Russian Ambassador Sergei Lavrov at least twice during the 2016 campaign, including once at the GOP convention, according to Andy McCabe, former deputy director of the FBI in his recent book "The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump" (p. 240). Sessions also lied about meeting with the Russian ambassador to Congress.

As far as investigating the investigators goes, Andy McCabe wrote, "If the FBI found itself in circumstances like these, where the facts and our obligations under the guidelines were clear, and we chose not to open a case because it might involve government officials in the highest ranks, the Bureau would be guilty of dereliction of duty."

So there's no reason to investigate the FBI for doing their job.

Trump has accused the Mueller investigation of being "illegal." It was not. He has accused the investigation of being an attempted "coup." It was not. We still don't know why Trump insisted on meeting with Vladimir Putin one on one on multiple occasions with only a translator(s) present and insisted on taking the translator's notes so there would no record of his one-on-one conversation with Putin.

The FBI had to know whether Trump, who continued to seek permission from Putin to build a Trump Tower in Moscow throughout his presidential campaign and offered Putin an elaborate, large penthouse inside the proposed Trump Tower, was or is a Russian agent. That's the FBI's job.

As to whether Trump is a useful idiot to Putin or genuinely a Russian agent, I think it's likely Trump is a useful idiot looking to make money in Moscow and currying favor with Putin in his quest.

As for who is a "traitor" or committed "treason," I think Trump and his minions, especially Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn, should look in the mirror. Trump is known for projecting his own folly and malfeasance onto others.