Posted on 01/16/2019 2:26:42 PM PST by detective
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Attorney General nominee William Barr have focused heavily on Barr’s views on Special Counsel Robert Mueller. But nobody is asking about Barr’s legal crusade for blanket immunity for federal agents who killed American citizens.
Barr received a routine questionnaire from the Judiciary Committee asking him to disclose his past work including pro bono activities “serving the disadvantaged.” The “disadvantaged” that Barr spent the most time helping was an FBI agent who slayed an Idaho mother holding her baby in 1992. Barr spent two weeks organizing former Attorneys General and others to support “an FBI sniper in defending against criminal charges in connection with the Ruby Ridge incident.” Barr also “assisted in framing legal arguments advanced… in the district court and the subsequent appeal to the Ninth Circuit,” he told the committee.
That charitable work (for an FBI agent who already had a federally-paid law firm defending him) helped tamp down one of the biggest scandals during Barr’s time as Attorney General from 1991 to early 1993. Barr was responsible for both the U.S. Marshals Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, two federal agencies whose misconduct at Ruby Ridge “helped to weaken the bond of trust that must exist between ordinary Americans and our law enforcement agencies,” according to a 1995 Senate Judiciary Committee report.
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Anyone that defends the cold blooded murder of an infant baby has mental problems to go with their defects of character.
Wounded Knee 2 was in 1973. Wasn’t the govt. at fault there. That was AIM starting crap. Horiuchi was still in school then.
Read that President Trump took the George W. Bush’s recommendation and nominated Barr.
Big mistake if true.
Or newbies, ignorants. There should be some questions asked of Barr as to issue allegiance.
LH went for a twofer but wound up only killing Weaver’s wife who was holding a child. Weaver was awarded (5?) Millions for wrongful death, if I recall correctly.
From my perspective all these sons of Belial are murderously corrupt and deserve Federal prison or the gallows.
Deuteronomy 32:35 —
Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.
Justice can’t come quickly enough.
I’m liking this nominee less and less.
PULL this nominee!
The only way to tell if a nominee is good or bad is too see if the Senate confirms him. If confirmed he’s bad.
Hearsay alert: A very conservative freeper told me that the wife was the leader of the group.
The rules of engagement called for shooting 'armed males'.
She was holding a baby, I believe.
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