Now we learn Barr apparently went so far as to cover up Trump's involvement with Putin, providing opportunities for Trump to extort Ukraine and pass classified documents along to Russian Intelligence.

The Manchurian Candidate was apparently more than just a movie.

A Russian agent in the employ of one of Putin's oligarchs was paid millions to run Trump's campaign and was passing secret campaign information to Russian intelligence that they used to target specific groups of American voters via Facebook and Twitter.

When this treachery was referred to the FBI, the lead agent there was later, it turns out according to The New York Times, also in the employ of Putin's oligarchs.

And his bosses' boss, Bill Barr — who has a new book out and is on what New York Times columnist David Firestone refers to as a "desperate salvage operation for what's left of his legal and ethical reputation" — apparently tried to cover up much of it.

The depth and breadth of Bill Barr's possible crimes against democracy while Attorney General for Trump are just now coming into clearer focus. We shouldn't be surprised: like Ghostbusters, Bill Barr has been the "Who ya gonna call?" guy for Republican presidents committing treason for 30 years.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

"I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved anyone. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: "I am busy with matters of consequence!" And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man—he is a mushroom."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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-Thom

The Best of the Rest of the News.

— Tyre Nichols: We've Seen Too Many People Murdered By American Police.
— Can the debt ceiling be abolished or will the GOP dig in on slashing Social Security & Medicare?
— Bill Barr was the most corrupt Attorney General in modern American history, both when he helped George HW Bush avoid prosecution for Iran/Contra in 1992 and when he helped cover up Trump's multiple connections to Russia and that nation's help for him in the 2016 election.
— How is the manufactured outrage going for Fox-So-Called-News?
— Hispanic voters are the target of a new multi-million dollar effort to swing that voting block to the right.
— How is Chevron getting away with a $75 billion stock buyback after price-gouging Americans & slamming the climate crisis?
— Fascism Alert! Major corporations are backing book banning politicians.
— Students are suing Ron DeSanctimonious over AP African American studies.
— Crazy Alert! You'd think George Santos would be more careful now that everybody in the country has figured out that he lies almost as often as Donald Trump, but…no.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: ""Ghostbuster" Bill Barr was the "Who Ya Gonna Call?" Guy for Three Treasonous GOP Presidents" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Trump's disclosure endangered spy placed inside ISIS by Israel, officials say" by Brian Ross, James Gordon Meek, Randy Kreider.

Article: "Yep, Trump Did Sign a Letter of Intent For a Trump Tower in Moscow" by Emily Price.

Article: "Will Trump End Up In Prison?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "William P. Barr Oral History" by Jim Young.

Article: "White House Says Trump Called Putin to Talk About Wildfires" by Joshua Keating.

Tweet: "OK, so after two years of hard work and each party trying their best to make the other party look as bad as possible, it's time to get back to business. The Mueller Report strongly stated that there was No Collusion with Russia (of course) and, in fact, they were rebuffed....." by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Trump sides with Russia against FBI at Helsinki summit" by BBC.

Article: "John McCain says Rand Paul is "working for Vladimir Putin"" by CBS News.

Article: "Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017" by Jim Sciutto.

Article: "'Argo' helps Iran's dictatorship, harms democracy" by Abolhassan Bani-Sadr.

Article: "Why is McConnell Getting Away with the Deripaska Scandal?" by Yosef 52.

Article: "Putin languages: Why he won't speak English - Inside Putin's bizarre power play" by James Gray.

Article: "Manchurian Candidate" by IMDB.

Article: "Essay; Justice Corrupts Justice" by William Safire.

Article: "Essay; The Patsy Prosecutor" by William Safire.

Article: "The Pardons; Bush Pardons 6 In Iran Affair, Aborting A Weinberger Trial; Prosecutor Assails 'cover-up'" by David Johnston.

Article: "Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia" by Eric Lichtblau and Steven Lee Myers.

Article: "Bob Mueller's Extraordinary Letter to Bill Barr" by NY Times.

Article: "27 Years Later, Senators Want Inquiry Into Barr's Blessing of Call Logs Collection" by Charlie Savage.

Article: "Captured, Killed or Compromised: C.I.A. Admits to Losing Dozens of Informants" by Julian E. Barnes and Adam Goldman.

Article: "How Barr's Quest to Find Flaws in the Russia Inquiry Unraveled" by Charlie Savage, Adam Goldman and Katie Benner.

Article: "Read the Mueller Report: Searchable Document and Index" by David Firestone.

Article: "U.S. Department of Justice" by Bill Barr.

Article: "10 episodes where Trump might have obstructed justice" by Politico.

Article: "Senator Paul delivers letter from Trump to Putin's government" by Doina Chiacu, Jeff Mason.

Article: "White House Asks for List of Top Spies During Intelligence Shakeup" by Betsy Swan.

Article: "Manafort ally Konstantin Kilimnik gave polling data to Russian spies in 2016, Treasury says" by Jerry Dunleavy.

Article: "How a McConnell-backed effort to lift Russian sanctions boosted a Kentucky project" by Tom Hamburger, Rosalind S. Helderman.

Video: President Ronald Reagan - Address on Iran-Contra.

Article: "Valerie Plame" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hungarian Revolution of 1956" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia" (1968) by Wikipedia.

Article: "December 1980: The Soviet invasion of Poland" by Tomasz Kozłowski.

Article: "Tankie" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What we know about the 5 Memphis police officers charged with beating Tyre Nichols to death" by Marlene Lenthang, Melissa Chan, Antonio Planas, Corky Siemaszko.

Article: "If the Memphis Cops Were White" by Rich Lowry.

Article: "Tyre Nichols And The Race-Baiting Left" by Scott Morefield.

Article: "Dems to Turn Tyre Nichols into George Floyd II" by Daniel Greenfield.

Article: "Christian Cops Not Wanted" by Rod Dreher.

Article: "Galveston police chief on leave over miscommunication after SWAT raid" by Trace Harris.

Tweet: "If you think the Memphis police officers had to be white in order to exhibit anti-Blackness, you need to take that AP African American Studies course Ron DeSantis just banned." by Mondaire Jones.

Article: "71 Commands in 13 Minutes: Officers Gave Tyre Nichols Impossible Orders" by Robin Stein, Alexander Cardia and Natalie Reneau.

Article: "We've Seen Enough People Murdered By American Police: It's Time for Genuine Reform" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Ron DeSantis bans African American studies class from Florida high schools" by Abené Clayton.

Article: "Parents start homeschooling group to help others raise their children as Nazis " by Sarah K. Burris.

Tweet: "NEW: Inside a Nazi homeschooling group run by the Lawrences, a couple from Upper Sandusky, OH, and parents of four young children.
The group has almost 2,500 member and the founders say its aim is "making sure that children become wonderful Nazis"" by David Gilbert.

Article: "Inside a US Neo-Nazi Homeschool Network With Thousands of Members" by David Gilbert.

Article: "Inside The Online Community Where Home-Schoolers Learn How To Turn Their Kids Into ‘Wonderful Nazis'" by Christopher Mathias.

Article: "Kremlin preparing new major offensive in Ukraine, believes ISW" by The New Voice of Ukraine.

Article: "GOP tax plan denounced as 'one of the most regressive proposals in a generation'" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Robert Hanssen" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "Breach".

Article: "Blix casts doubt on WMDs".

Article: "Former weapons inspector exposes "Big Lie" of Iraqi WMD" by Joanne Laurier.

Article: "Hans Blix" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "Django".

Movie: "Django Unchained".

Article: "Shooting of Tamir Rice", 2014 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Death of Sandra Bland", 2015 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Killing of Breonna Taylor", 2020 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Three more Memphis officials fired and 6th police officer suspended in wake of Tyre Nichols beating" by Graig Graziosi.

Site: Medium - Rohn Kenyatta.

Tweet: "They removed every single book from my children's classrooms... I read books about the consequences of this when I was in school..." by JagsFanBrian.

Article: "The German 'Index': first official list of banned books - archive 1933" by The Guardian.

Article: "Banning books about Martin Luther King Jr. and opposing school district desegregation efforts: Inside Moms for Liberty's deep ties to the anti-civil rights movement" by Olivia Little.

Case: "Brown v Board of Education".

Article: "We Need to Talk About Ron DeSantis's Fascist Paradise" by umair haque.

Article: "‘I've never seen anything like it': Florida teachers strip classroom shelves of books in response to DeSantis ban" by Richard Hall.

Tweet: "Thanks Seattle Times for this list of people who made fun of Paul Pelosi. Hold them accountable:" by Adam Kinzinger #fella.

Book: Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor's Code and Corrupted the Justice Department by Elie Honig.

Article: "This $60k, 641-Mile Range EV Is Ready To Upend The Automotive World" by Will Lockett.

Article: "Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call" by BBC.

Article: "Putin denies planning to revive the Russian empire after declaring that Ukraine is not a real country and sending troops there" by Sinéad Baker.

Article: "Mitt Romney says 47 percent of Americans pay no income tax " by Molly Moorhead.

Article: "Rumsfeld 'helped Iraq get chemical weapons'" by William Lowther.

Article: "Iran–Iraq War" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rupert Murdoch calls off proposed Fox-News Corp merger" by Lillian Rizzo.

Article: "List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Military Service of Ronald Reagan" by Reagan Library.

Article: "Harry Truman 1918 Soldier France" by pince_nez2008.

Case: "Brown v. Mississippi (1936)".

Article: "Doris Miller" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Frank Serpico" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Missouri bill would ban critical race theory in schools and offer teacher training in ‘patriotism'" by Shawna Mizelle.

Article: "Tucker Carlson Talks Nonsense About U.S. Invading Canada To Remove Trudeau" by Ron Dicker.

Article: "The Bay of Pigs" by JFK Library.

Article: "Trump says he's proud to have trusted Putin over 'slime' US intelligence agencies " by Brad Reed.

Article: "Allen Dulles" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Foster Dulles" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Giuliani says Trump did sign letter of intent for Moscow project" by Yaron Steinbuch.

Article: "Putin 'plans new pre-emptive strike': Russia will launch assault West by February 24, warns Ukraine as satellite photos show troops building up fortifications and fierce fighting rages in East" by Matt Powell.

Article: "Zelensky blasts Olympic committee move: ‘Any neutral flag of Russian athletes is stained with blood'" by Joe Jacquez.

Article: "President Carter announces Olympic boycott" by History.com.

Article: "List of wars involving Sweden" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Can the World Learn from the Failure of the Budapest Accords?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Ukraine war must end with liberation of Crimea – Zelensky" by Francesca Gillett.

Article: "Crimea" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sevastopol" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Facebook and Instagram to end Trump's suspension from platforms" by Hallie Jackson and Dareh Gregorian.

Article: "Elon Musk reinstates former President Donald Trump's Twitter account" by David Ingram.

Site: Thom Hartmann on Mastodon.

Site: Tribel.

Site: Post.

Site: Thom Hartmann on LinkedIn.

TV: "Exterminate All the Brutes" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Richard Dreyfuss" by Wikipedia.

Article: "One of America's most popular police trainers is teaching officers how to kill" by Kelly McLaughlin.

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