![]() So, the ways in which Giuliani and members of the - Republican members of the House were promulgating these conspiracies around Georgia and how the election had been run, that actually pushed pressure inside the Justice Department, that it wasn’t just Bill Barr, but it’s other senior members of the Justice Department and the FBI say, “Oh, we have to open these investigations to respond to what the public is conceiving of in these elections,” not to predicate their investigations, as they’re supposed to do, which is evidence that a crime has been committed, but instead they open up these investigations based on the effectiveness of the disinformation campaign. ![]() The other high point - or, in a certain sense, low point for our nation - is it also demonstrates the power of disinformation. But this is even more nefarious, in a certain sense, because he was trying to affect how people were going to vote. And many people have thought about Barr’s actions and the like, post the presidential election, as being nefarious, in different ways, after people voted. But that’s an extraordinary politicized use of the Justice Department and the FBI to do anything like that, to try to use it to shape the outcome of an election. And this is now in December, where they had given up on Trump. We have, from very good reporting, that the speaker of the - the majority speaker of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, and Bill Barr engaged in a side agreement that they wanted to convince Republican voters in Georgia that Biden had won and that the election was conducted fairly. RYAN GOODMAN: So, the high point is that the Justice Department used a lot of its resources, including the FBI investigations, to basically affect the outcome of the Georgia runoff. Talk about the high points or low points of this timeline that you have laid out, beginning with January 5th. Welcome to Democracy Now!, Professor Goodman - no relation. 5, 2021 Georgia Senate runoff may easily be lost in the mix.”įor more, we’re joined by Just Security co-editor Ryan Goodman, professor of law at New York University, former special counsel at the Department of Defense. ![]() AMY GOODMAN: We end today’s show looking at the “Timeline for Anniversary of January 5: DOJ Election Fraud Investigations and GA Senate Runoff,” that was just published by Just Security and argues that while we mark the first anniversary of January 6th insurrection, quote, “an important episode involving the Jan.
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