# Predictions for the Barr Investigation **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 26, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-for-the-barr-investigation/834558 "2019-05-26T16:46:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-for-the-barr-investigation/834558/21 "2019-05-27T16:34:43Z")
They learned from Benghazi and the Clinton email investigation. As long as they are investigating, it doesn’t matter that there is nothing to investigate. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-for-the-barr-investigation/834558/22 "2019-05-27T17:17:30Z")
Barr has such a fucked up reverse Oedipal fetish for the unitary executive that I think he’ll see evidence of transgressions where no one else would. While nothing would win in court, Trump may get a PR win. ---
**Author:** ![Ambrosio\_Spinola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de0a6/32.png) [@Ambrosio\_Spinola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambrosio_Spinola)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-for-the-barr-investigation/834558/23 "2019-05-27T19:54:09Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Any actions that look remotely partisan or unwarranted will be publicly released with great fanfare. Any evidence that would provide context or justify the actions will be deemed to reveal sources and methods and so will be classified. Of course. > [@](#): > > I doubt that they will indict anyone, because that would mean a trial in which both sides could present evidence, which would defeat the whole purpose of this exercise. I’d like to believe this. But if you follow the arc of Trump’s statements, it’s clear that he wants some show trials and I don’t know that Barr would be willing to prevent them. Even if they result in acquittals, the people in question are going to have to spend five or six figures on attorney bills, and this will have the secondary effect of chilling any future investigations into anything Administration related . . . better to just let it lie, right? ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-for-the-barr-investigation/834558/24 "2019-05-27T22:56:15Z")
Since you asked for a prediction: After everyone has forgotten that Trump asked for this, including Trump himself, there will be a one paragraph summary a few months from now on some obscure website and/or in some newspaper somewhere, describing how the investigation has quietly been brought to and end, with no findings of law-breaking or unethical behavior on the part of the FBI. This paragraph will be read by no one. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-for-the-barr-investigation/834558/25 "2019-05-27T23:58:02Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > Since you asked for a prediction: After everyone has forgotten that Trump asked for this, including Trump himself, there will be a one paragraph summary a few months from now on some obscure website and/or in some newspaper somewhere, describing how the investigation has quietly been brought to and end, with no findings of law-breaking or unethical behavior on the part of the FBI. This paragraph will be read by no one. Just as well, because most of it will be redacted anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-for-the-barr-investigation/834558/26 "2019-05-28T00:04:45Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > How did Liz Cheney, now early in her second term, get to be the third highest person in the GOP House leadership? I don’t see what she brings to the table. Maybe Dad gave her a list of guys to give blow jobs to? ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-for-the-barr-investigation/834558/27 "2019-05-28T00:18:40Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Maybe Dad gave her a list of guys to give blow jobs to? They didn’t call him Dick Cheney solely because his given name was Richard. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-for-the-barr-investigation/834558/28 "2019-05-28T02:05:21Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > Since you asked for a prediction: After everyone has forgotten that Trump asked for this, including Trump himself, there will be a one paragraph summary a few months from now on some obscure website and/or in some newspaper somewhere, describing how the investigation has quietly been brought to and end, with no findings of law-breaking or unethical behavior on the part of the FBI. This paragraph will be read by no one. This is how it should be, in a just and rational world. But given that we have a President with no regard for the truth; an AG who thinks he exists to serve the president, not the constitution; and a state-run media outlet: god only knows what mischief can come of this, regardless of the facts. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-for-the-barr-investigation/834558/29 "2019-05-28T14:25:09Z")
On their end of things, its a win-WIN! scenario. They can go for months darkly referring to “investigations”, releasing misleading tidbits of info until there is more poison in the well than water. That’s a “win”. And if the Dark Lord is willing, they might actually find something to bitch about and exaggerate. Maybe Mueller’s Republican Party registration ends with “Ha! Psych!”. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-for-the-barr-investigation/834558/30 "2019-05-28T15:11:08Z")
What I’m curious to know is whether the ones doing the actual investigating are going through the motions to please their boss, and just trying to look busy, or whether there are some seriously pro-Trump investigators who are taking on this project with zeal. If it’s the former, the results may be “meh”; if it’s the latter, they will turn the justice department into a domestic Wikileaks. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-for-the-barr-investigation/834558/31 "2019-05-28T15:28:50Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > How did Liz Cheney, now early in her second term, get to be the third highest person in the GOP House leadership? I don’t see what she brings to the table. Dad still has his shotgun. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-for-the-barr-investigation/834558/32 "2019-05-28T15:33:05Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > What I’m curious to know is whether the ones doing the actual investigating are going through the motions to please their boss, and just trying to look busy, or whether there are some seriously pro-Trump investigators who are taking on this project with zeal. If it’s the former, the results may be “meh”; if it’s the latter, they will turn the justice department into a domestic Wikileaks. I wouldn’t mind zealous Pro-Trump investigators, so long as they’re actually serious about investigating. Because then they’d most likely find out that Trump’s claims are full of crap, and no one would be able to gainsay that by claiming that they’re “23 angry democrats” or some such thing. After all, that’s pretty much what happened with Trump’s investigation into Voter Fraud. The people he put on the committee were mostly True Believers, and they ended up finding nothing, and shutting down with barely a whisper. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-for-the-barr-investigation/834558/33 "2019-05-28T15:39:04Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > I wouldn’t mind zealous Pro-Trump investigators, so long as they’re actually serious about investigating. Because then they’d most likely find out that Trump’s claims are full of crap, and no one would be able to gainsay that by claiming that they’re “23 angry democrats” or some such thing. > > After all, that’s pretty much what happened with Trump’s investigation into Voter Fraud. The people he put on the committee were mostly True Believers, and they ended up finding nothing, and shutting down with barely a whisper. What really happened was that states told Kobach he was full of shit and to go stuff themselves. Even conservative states don’t like a federal task force demanding records on their own residents. But within a bureaucracy there are bound to be some bad seeds that slipped into the cracks and crevices. Hopefully they’re not too far up the chain of command. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-for-the-barr-investigation/834558/34 "2019-05-28T16:31:59Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > I wouldn’t mind zealous **Pro-Trump** investigators, so long as they’re actually **serious** about investigating. Because then they’d most likely find out that Trump’s claims are full of crap, and no one would be able to gainsay that by claiming that they’re “23 angry democrats” or some such thing. > > After all, that’s pretty much what happened with Trump’s investigation into Voter Fraud. The people he put on the committee were mostly True Believers, and they ended up finding nothing, and shutting down with barely a whisper. “Pro trump” literally means “not serious” in all cases publically observable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/predictions-for-the-barr-investigation/834558.md?page=1)