Why Bill Barr Is So Dangerous

The Atlantic ^ | June 30, 2019 | Donald Belton Ayer, former US Deputy Attorney General under George H. W. Bush

[kiryandil]

He is using the office he holds to advance his extraordinary lifetime project of assigning unchecked power to the president.

Buried behind our president’s endless stream of lies and malicious self-serving remarks are actions that far transcend any reasonable understanding of his legal authority. Donald Trump disdains, more than anything else, the limitations of checks and balances on his power. Witness his assertion of a right to flout all congressional subpoenas; his continuing refusal to disclose his tax returns, notwithstanding Congress’s statutory right to secure them; his specific actions to bar congressional testimony by government officials; and his personal attacks on judges who dare to subject the acts of his administration to judicial review. More blatant yet are his recent assertion of a right to accept dirt on political opponents from foreign governments, and his declaration of a national emergency, when he himself said he “did not need to do this,” he just preferred to “do it much faster.”...

[kiryandil]

Now we know the kind of POS that were selling us out to the Democrats during the Grabby Poppy Bush and Smirking Chimp Bush eras.

Thnaks for lighting up these cockroaches, President Trump!

[JonPreston]

Barr is shaping up to be yet another do-nothing Swamper.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Bush League Republicans MUST become extinct before the Republic does.

[kiryandil]

To have this one speaking up suggests the swamp’s water level has dropped dangerously close to revealing what’s been hidden below.

Here's the Money Quote at the end of Ayers' article:

"His strange pursuit of an investigation of the investigators—on the supposition that the FBI may have been improperly “spying” on the Trump campaign when they investigated Trump associates who were found to have met with various Russians—may be the opening public chapter in that endeavor."

[tired&retired]

The CIA and Pappy Bush (former head of the CIA) have been globalists all along.

[FreeReign]

Barr is shaping up to be yet another do-nothing Swamper.

TBD.

And since he's not recused, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for a little bit longer.

[Taxman]

I, for one, am DELIGHTED that AG Barr is “dangerous!”

He is dangerous to Inside the Evil Beltway Swamp Critters!

A lot of them are going to federal prison!

I AM DELIGHTED!

[kiryandil]

Barr is shaping up to be yet another do-nothing Swamper.

Not if this Swamp Rat Ayers is soiling himself over Barr in print.

[kiryandil]

Not if this Swamp Rat Ayers is soiling himself over Barr in print.

[Mouton]

In other news: another day of no indictments, no predawn raids, no hangings. Another day to sip in the detractions.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I can smell the dripping fear in that piece.

Excellent.

[kiryandil]

Dump out your cereal bowl and rinse it before you fill it again...

[knarf]

Thanks for putting into words thoughts I couldn’t quite gel.

[Magnatron]

So far, Barr has been no more dangerous than Jeff Sessions.

Yup...

[JonPreston]

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt for a little bit longer.

OK, but I'd like some immediate action on Antifa. Some Trump supporter is going to get killed.

[kiryandil]

Well, ‘the atlantic’, so there is that............

People spell "toilet paper" in the oddest ways, sometimes...

[Steely Tom]

For those of you who are experiencing a feeling of Déjà vu, here's a little walk down memory lane:

4 June 2019, Mediaite: Adam Schiff Calls AG Bill Barr ‘The Second Most Dangerous Man in the Country’
3 May 2019, Washington Monthly: William Barr Is a Dangerous Ideologue, Not Just a Trump Enabler
4 June 2019, Daily Caller: Schiff: AG Barr Is 'Second Most Dangerous Man In The Country'
5 June 2019, Town Hall: Top Dem on AG Barr: He's ‘Dangerous’...Because He Makes Democrats Look Like Total Idiots
11 June 2019, Daily Beast: Bill Barr Is the Most Dangerous Man in America
4 June 2019, Politico: Rep. Adam Schiff: William Barr is the 'second-most dangerous man' in America
29 May 2019, DC Report: William Barr: Making America Dangerous
4 June 2019, Washington Examiner: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schiff-ag-barr-dangerous-man-america
4 June 2019, Fox News: Adam Schiff continues attack on Barr, says AG is 'second most dangerous man' in US
5 June 2019, IJR: Graham Reams Adam Schiff for Calling Barr ‘Dangerous’: ‘Democrats in the House Have Lost Their Mind’
5 June 2019, Salon: Rep. Adam Schiff labels Attorney General William Barr "the second most dangerous man in the country"
4 June, 2019, Axios: Schiff on AG Barr: "I think he's the 2nd most dangerous man in the country"
18 May 2019, The Hill: MSNBC host: Barr 'the most dangerous person' who works for Trump
4 June 2019, The Hill: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/adam-schiff-william-barr-second-most-dangerous-man_n_5cf6bb42e4b0aa91151518a2
4 June 2019, Huffington Post: Adam Schiff Calls William Barr ‘Second Most Dangerous Man In The Country’
7 June 2019, Real Clear Politics: Bill Barr's Dangerous Claims
28 May 2019, Just Security: Bill Barr’s Dangerous New Powers
7 June 2019, The Atlantic: Bill Barr’s Dangerous Claims

[MileHi]

Boy, that’s a lot of BS to stuff into one paragraph.

[Gay State Conservative]

I think my tagline (stolen from a recent caller to a Boston talk show host) sums it up nicely.

[Gay State Conservative]

I can smell the dripping fear in that piece.

In the last few months I've heard Joe DiGenova state,categorically,that Comey,Brennan and several others are gonna need good criminal defense lawyers as Barr proceeds.