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.”...

[Jacquerie]

Barr hasn’t done a thing to deserve this derision.

The Atlantic, NPR, . . . this all preemptive, as you relate, to set the stage for physical, violent opposition to the indictments that are coming.

[Valk Rider]

Recently, I watched a video of Barr playing bagpipes and a lot of talk from Hannity and others how Barr’s gonna open up a can of whupass...Still waiting.