Fox Business host Lou Dobbs is having doubts about the Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr.
“Durham, the attorney general, all of the folks at the Justice Department, are creating sort of a confounding atmosphere,” he said Thursday on Lou Dobbs Tonight, during an interview with former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova and his wife and legal partner Victoria Toensing.
Dobbs was referring to Barr as well as U.S. Attorney John Durham, who is leading the DOJ review of the origins of the Russia investigation that has generally been celebrated by GOP allies of President Trump.
But Dobbs, an outspoken Trump supporter, lamented how there are “appearances of peculiar choices being made.” He cited, as an example, how the Justice Department has lawyers arguing against conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch’s efforts to have additional discovery in a yearslong Freedom of Information Act fight over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Dobbs has similarly railed against the shifting release window for the Justice Department inspector general’s report on alleged FISA abuses.
Earlier in the program, Dobbs interviewed Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton, who said Barr “probably wants to do the right thing” but is stymied by “a bunch of lawyers who say, ‘No you can’t do that.'”
Dobbs complained about it “taking so long” to have transparency “that we were led to believe would be there.” He described the Justice Department as a “dumping ground” where “truth” goes to die.
Fitton said Trump should coordinate with his Cabinet to get information out, “direct prosecutions,” and make sure “the coup plotters” against Trump do not escape accountability.
