[162], On January 14, 2019, a day before Barr's confirmation hearing for Attorney General, Barr sent written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the eventual final Mueller report, saying "it is very important that the public and Congress be informed of the results of the special counsel's work ... For that reason, my goal will be to provide as much transparency as I can consistent with the law. A top aide in the investigation quietly resigned on September 10; she gave no reason, but colleagues said she was concerned about political pressure from Barr. [120] In August 2020, he invoked qualified immunity before a federal court to protect himself from liability in a lawsuit regarding the Lafayette Square incident. Barr replied that "people sometimes plead to things that turn out not to be crimes ... the Department of Justice is not persuaded that this was material to any legitimate counterintelligence investigation. Just had a very nice meeting with Attorney General Bill Barr at the White House. [59], On December 24, 1992, during his final month in office, Bush, on the advice of Barr, pardoned Weinberger,[15][60] along with five other administration officials who had been found guilty on charges relating to the Iran–Contra affair. Mass arrests in 2018? I accept responsibility for not vetting Bill Barr after-the-fact. Actually, there have been dozens of assertions to that effect submitted in sworn affidavits, but who’s counting, right? In a five-month period from October 2018 to February 2019, Barr donated five times (around $10,000 every month) for a total of $51,000. Looking at the picture of Barr (above) reminds me of Jabba the Hut of Star Wars. William P. Barr resigned as attorney general, indicating in a letter that his last day would be Dec. 23 (David Burnett for The Washington Post) William P. Barr is … When someone is given the keys to the car, so to speak, and doesn’t drive it within a month or so, it is time to get a new driver. Don’t we all have computers? [192], On May 8, 2019, the House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to hold Barr in contempt of congress for failing to comply with a subpoena which requested the full and unredacted Mueller Report. given that the Southern District of New York was actively pursuing criminal investigations into several persons and companies associated with President Donald Trump and The Trump Organization. Walton made his comments while presiding over a lawsuit on whether the Mueller report should be released without redactions. [72][73] In 2000, when GTE merged with Bell Atlantic to become Verizon Communications, Barr became the general counsel and executive vice president of Verizon until he retired in 2008. [245] Trump said Wray's statement was "ridiculous. But if Durham did not resign his old office prior to being appointed, then an incoming Biden administration can simply dissolve his new office as being illegitimate under the law. We fight not against flesh and blood but powers, principalities and spiritual wickedness in high places. For those of you Believers in the surrounding areas: be ready to flee to the mountains (stay clear of Lewisburg, home of a CIA training center.) Hillary Clinton sold 20% of our uranium stocks to Russia; she had also intended to stop fracking, and decimate our energy supplies, putting us in the grip of anyone who sold us energy: Trump made us energy independent, which he considered a national security issue. Two years later, the Washington Post revealed that “top officials of the [George H.W.] Just a lotta “Barr sucks.”. Says", "Mueller report expected to be released Thursday morning", "How Barr's Excerpts Compare to the Mueller Report's Findings", "What Attorney General Barr said vs. what the Mueller report said", "3 times Mueller and Barr gave different pictures of Trump obstruction probe", "William Barr's incredibly misleading words", "What Mueller, Barr Say About Obstruction of Justice", "AP fact check: Trump, AG Barr spread untruths about Mueller report", "Did Trump 'fully' cooperate with Mueller investigation? I just don’t understand how President Trump, for all his political savvy keeps appointing AND KEEPING all these Do nothing Deep State Hacks and Saboteurs of his administration. [39], During his first tenure as AG, media characterized Barr as "a staunch conservative who rarely hesitates to put his hardline views into action. As far as we know, not a single one has been interviewed by the DOJ. [78][79], In 2017, Barr said there was "nothing inherently wrong" with Donald Trump's calls for investigating Hillary Clinton while the two were both running for president. Better if Ra’s al Ghul went in and finished the job. From 1971 to 1977, while attending graduate school and law school, Barr worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Indeed, contemporaneous accounts of that stolen election invariably discuss the fact that the FBI was not only swarming Duval County but scouring the entire state, trying its best to root out voter fraud in real time. - after which the Department recommended an unspecified jail term. Same situation with Barr, albeit Barr did put an end to the Mueller crap and stopped an inevitable prosecution of Trumps family members. [40], Barr is the brother of Stephen Barr, a physics professor at the University of Delaware. He then served as a law clerk to judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey. [34] Asked whether he thought a constitutional right to privacy included the right to an abortion, Barr responded that he believed the Constitution was not originally intended to create a right to abortion; that Roe v. Wade was thus wrongly decided; and that abortion should be a "legitimate issue for state legislators". Swamp creatures don’t change their stripes anymore than a zebra does. "[257] The Washington Post reported on November 22, 2019 that the Justice Department inspector general had aggressively investigated the allegation that Mifsud had been directed to entrap Papadopoulos, but found it was without merit. I’ve never heard of any of that crap. [171], On March 27, Mueller sent Barr another letter describing his concerns of Barr's letter to Congress and the public on March 24. Waiting on some mommygov appaRATchik to save the republic? He chose military men for his administration, thinking that loyalty and honor are part of their DNA – not so with the disloyal slimeball McMasters and “Backstabber” Kelly, as well as a huge part of the NSC. Attorney General William Barr is testifying before the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday for the first time in his year-and-a-half long tenure as the nation's top law enforcement official. "[2], Upon leaving the DOJ in 1993, Barr was appointed by Virginia Governor George Allen to co-chair a commission to implement tougher criminal justice policies and abolish parole in the state. Appoint General Michael Flynn as Tribune, have him throw out the millions of crooked Biden votes by the Chicoms and Iranians, the fake paper ballots by the Biden syndicate, and and put those electoral college votes before Vice President Mike Pence in the Senate to accept as Donald Trump won 360 electoral college votes. Barr's conduct was seen as sacrificing the independence of the Department of Justice to protect Trump and his allies. The House instructed the Justice Department to prosecute Barr, but the Department refused. So who would choose the military panel?? There are a number of questions to consider. Fighting for what is right doesn’t entail trashing the leader who does fight for what is right. Barr clarified on the intention of his letter both in his phone call with Mueller and in another letter to Congress that his letter had not been intended to be a summary of the report, but rather a description of the principal findings of the report. His father, Donald Barr, taught English literature at Columbia University before becoming headmaster of the Dalton School in Manhattan and later the Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York, both members of the Ivy Preparatory School League. Nothing. After high school, he attended Columbia University, where he majored in government and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1971. Priebus (sounds like a hybrid car?) Guess you don’t like the wall, either. But if Trump is still in office, we will at least be prepared as the Chinese perform their final phase of their global takeover. Thus, Walton decided to personally review the redacted material to check if the redactions were justified. Serving once with honor does not preclude later dishonor. Judge a man by what he does, not what he says. Before becoming Attorney General in 1991, Barr held numerous other posts within the Department of Justice, including leading the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and serving as Deputy Attorney General. This is reflected in their law enforcement. [14], In February 2020, Senator Lindsey Graham stated that the Justice Department "is receiving information coming out of the Ukraine from" Rudy Giuliani, a personal lawyer to president Donald Trump. But the Swamp is wider and deeper than we ever thought, and we were naive and deceived again. Today’s FBI has 1,000 times the resources that the agency possessed in 1948, yet it could not be bothered to lift a finger to work proactively to try to prevent any of the massive fraud we have all known was coming as a part of this election for eight long months. Or did he? He has been entirely too patient with all the schiff-bag rats in DC and it probably will come back to bite him and us. William Barr has been found and we now know what he has and hasn’t been doing. As I read in a Disqus forum yesterday, just more clickbait material to keep the money flowing in.