Cuomo Gets Slapped Down By former AG on Impeachment, FBI Spying [Part 2]

Nicholas Fondacaro | December 12, 2019
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Cuomo’s next fact-free gripe was about how Attorney General William Barr was supposedly “going bad on his own inspector general” and was “in lockstep with protecting this President's interest…”

“First off, He’s not going bad on his own inspector general. Secondly, it's not, I mean, the inspector general is the inspector general. It's not his, it's not anybody's in particular. He’s not obligated to walk in lockstep with [the inspector general],” Mukasey schooled the former lawyer.

Continuing to rail against Barr, a far more accomplished attorney than he ever was, Cuomo decried how the current A.G. “accused his own agency of spying, we’ve never heard of that before.” Mukasey put a nail in that misnomer’s coffin by stating the facts: “Look, he characterized surveillance as spying. That's not an incorrect term.”

But you know they don't like the term. They take it as something that is done in a nefarious fashion and they find that objectionable considering what they do to a citizen,” Cuomo whined in response. Mukasey countered by bringing it up the misconducted the FBI pulled against then-Trump campaign aide Carter Page. Cuomo interrupted and didn’t allow Mukasey to fully detail how the FBI lied and fabricated evidence they presented to the FISA court.

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