Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said in a recent interview that he thought that Attorney General William Barr handled himself “extremely well” with the release of the special counsel’s final report on the Russia collusion probe amid accusations that the attorney general was protecting the president.

Jordan made an appearance with fellow Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) on Fox News to discuss the release of the Mueller report. During the interview, Jordan praised the attorney general when asked whether Barr was acting as President Donald Trump’s lawyer rather than the nation’s top lawyer.

“No, I think the attorney general handled himself extremely well,” Jordan said. “I think he said that he will hold people accountable last week when he talked about the fact that there was spying that took place. And I think that he presented the conclusions, and the conclusions speak for themselves—no new indictments, no sealed indictments, no obstruction, no collusion.”

“I think he has handled himself exactly the way the American people want their attorney general to operate. And I think what’s most important now, lots of people Mark and I talk to, they want us to get to the bottom of this,” he added.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/rep-jim-jordan-praises-ag-barr-for-his-handling-of-the-mueller-report-release_2887430.html

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The ambulances and police cars came to a screeching halt outside the Gowanus Inn and Yard, a hip, ultramodern hotel that had recently opened on an edgy strip of Union Street in Brooklyn.

But the first responders were 48 hours late. James Dolan, a 36-year-old former Marine and computer security expert, had hanged himself in his room two days before, on Dec. 26, according to the NYPD.

“What could have been so bad for him to do that?” he asked.

The answer may never be known. What is known is Dolan was the second member of a small team of brilliant Internet activists who developed SecureDrop — a whistle-blower submission system — to commit suicide by hanging in Brooklyn.

The first was Aaron Swartz, the wunderkind computer programmer, entrepreneur and activist who co-founded the social news site Reddit when he was still in his teens. According to the NYPD, Swartz, 26, hanged himself with a belt in the Crown Heights apartment he shared with his girlfriend in January 2013. His death came a month before he was scheduled to go on trial in federal court on wire-fraud and hacking charges. Swartz faced 35 years in jail and more than $1 million in fines for allegedly downloading millions of files in 2011 from the online academic archive JSTOR at MIT. Prosecutors said Swartz intended to distribute the articles for free online.

“Aaron did not commit suicide,” said Robert Swartz. “He was killed by the government. Someone who made the world a better place was pushed to his death by the government.”

There were no such blunt pronouncements at James Dolan’s New York funeral earlier this month — even if his closest friends and family might have felt the same way. Like Swartz, Dolan was a digital activist, working to help non-profits and reporters expose government corruption without putting their lives at risk. But unlike Swartz, Dolan did everything to make himself invisible. In an age dominated by social media, the computer security expert and Iraq war veteran had virtually no online presence.

Yet, shortly after his death was announced in a blog post earlier this month, the Internet lit up with questions, hinting at conspiracies. WikiLeaks noted in a tweet: “Second developer of WikiLeaks inspired submission system ‘SecureDrop’ security expert James Dolan, aged 36, has tragically died. He is said to have committed suicide. The first, Aaron Swartz, is said to have taken his own life at age 26, after being persecuted by US prosecutors.”

https://nypost.com/2018/01/27/these-hackers-suicides-are-eerily-similar/