Nice essay here detailing the other side of the story regarding Bill Barr--who holds himself in high esteem as a Catholic and Ranking Member, Ruling Class.
A few excerpts, in the ironic/sarcastic style earned by such as Barr:
...Barr, a veteran of the CIA, shows no curiosity about the strange career of Brennan, a key player in the Russia hoax. Barr is quite familiar with other cast members.
“I had known [James] Comey for more than twenty years,” Barr reveals, and “helped him become US Attorney in New York.” In 2016, FBI Director Comey held a news conference “sharply criticizing Clinton for her mishandling of classified emails.” Readers might think that a former attorney general and CIA man would outline the federal statutes Clinton violated.
Barr fails to detail the big fix that kept Hillary in the campaign, so he doubtless shares Comey’s belief that “no reasonable prosecutor” would have indicted her. By extension, former first ladies must be above the law, along with FBI bosses. ...
'Above the law' to the eternal regret of Jeffrey Epstein and several others in Arkansas and D.C.
...Trump wanted Barr to indict Comey for giving out memos containing confidential information. Barr told the president “everyone at the department agreed the evidence showed Comey lacked criminal intent. No one thought that the prosecution could be justified.”
As Barr explains, criminal intent is hard to prove unless an official commits “an inherently wrongful act—like altering a document.” FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith altered a document about Trump adviser Carter Page. Clinesmith got probation and Comey and Peter Strzok never endured a criminal prosecution. ...
Remember all those taxes you didn't pay, without 'intent'? Come to think of it, did Al Capone intentionally mis-report his income for tax purposes? Can that be proven??
Then there's Barr's most horrific action: Horiuchi at Ruby Ridge.
...During the Ruby Ridge siege of 1992, FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shot unarmed Vicki Weaver in the head as she held her infant child. Snipers are trained carefully to “acquire” the target so the killing was not accidental. Barr spent two weeks organizing former attorney generals to defend Horiuchi, who already had government lawyers working on his behalf.
The shoot-without-provocation rules were approved by the FBI’s Larry Potts. Barr told the New York Times Potts was “deliberate and careful” and “I can’t think of enough good things to say about him.”
In his January 2019 Senate confirmation hearings, Democrats asked Barr if he had ever undertaken pro bono activities to serve the “disadvantaged.” As James Bovard observed, “nobody is asking about Barr’s legal crusade for blanket immunity for federal agents who killed American citizens.” That seems to be an ongoing problem....
Indeed. Barr's Government has no limits and no constraints. But simple justice?
Nah. There's no 'intent', or there's 'deliberate and careful' executions, like the one in the Capitol on January 6th.
Being blind at his age is unusual.
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