Posted on 01/16/2020 3:13:33 PM PST by nickcarraway
Bill Barr is plugged into, and gets his marching orders from, a network of reactionary Catholics, whose tentacles reach into the highest echelons of power. At the center is a sinister, secretive organization with a Latin name: Opus Dei, “the Work of God.”
That’s the impression you might take away from a new profile of the attorney general in The New Yorker. All that’s missing are the hair shirts, cilices and murderous albino monks — the kind of thing too many secular elites believe about the lives of devout Catholics generally and members of Opus Dei especially.
The winding and often tendentious essay paints Barr as President Trump’s wartime consigliere, out to dish payback to the US intelligence community for launching #RussiaGate — rather than, you know, look into real abuses recognized as such by foreign-intelligence judges and even FBI honcho Christopher Wray.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Feel stupid yet?
Interesting. I clicked through to the New Yorker article as well. I admire Barr and find his involvement with Opus Dei, even as just a cooperator, to be a good thing and now see why he became a Trump guy
The same was used against JFK.
Time to party like it’s 1959 again.
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