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POGO Calls for Inspector General Investigation of Potential Justice Department Lies

Hartford venues look to pandemic aid to turbo-charge arts scene

For Haneef Nelson, Jazz Mondays at Black Eyed Sally's in downtown Hartford are about much more than money. “Everyone wants to get back to performing,” said Nelson, who plays the trumpet and flugelhorn in a jazz quartet. “For us, the musicians, this isn’t just how we make money, this is our life. A large part of our life has been missing.”  Nelson was among a group of Hartford arts leaders who gathered Wednesday to celebrate the city’s cultural scene and plan for a windfall of federal pandemic aid designed to boost the arts. 

DOJ watchdog urged to investigate lawyers behind Barr memo redactions

In a Thursday letter, a government watchdog group asked the DOJ’s independent inspector general to investigate whether department attorneys committed perjury or other crimes through a potentially improper attempt to keep the memo’s contents concealed amid a public records request. “If it turns out that they committed crimes in the process of doing so, they will have magnified the harm to the department’s already damaged reputation and compounded the effect of Barr’s lies to the American people,” read the letter from the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) to the DOJ inspector general.   ADVERTISEMENT DOJ attorneys told a federal judge that the memo, prepared at Barr’s request by the agency s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), provided legal advice that guided Barr s decision not to charge former President Trump

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