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Barr: Justice Department Has Process to Take Ukraine Info From Giuliani

Associated Press

   WASHINGTON - Attorney General William Barr said Monday the Justice
   Department is taking information that President Donald Trump's personal
   lawyer Rudy Giuliani is gathering in Ukraine about the president's
   Democratic rival Joe Biden and his son.

   But Barr cautioned that federal officials have "to be very careful"
   with information coming from Ukraine. The attorney general's comments
   at an unrelated news conference in Washington come a day after Sen.
   Lindsey Graham said Barr told him the department had "created a process
   that Rudy could give information and they would see if it's verified."

   "The DOJ has the obligation to have an open door to anybody who wishes
   to provide us information that they think is relevant," Barr said. "But
   as I did say to Senator Graham, we have to be very careful with respect
   to any information coming from the Ukraine. There are a lot of agendas
   in the Ukraine, a lot of cross currents. And we can't take anything we
   received from Ukraine at face value."

   The prospect that Giuliani is providing potentially damaging
   information about one of the president's political rivals to the
   Justice Department while Giuliani is under federal investigation is
   likely to deepen criticism from Democrats that Barr acts more like the
   president's personal lawyer than the attorney general.

   Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating Giuliani's business
   dealings, including whether he failed to register as a foreign agent,
   according to people familiar with the matter. They were not authorized
   to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke on the condition of
   anonymity.

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