A lot of idiots here claimed that he was a "career Swamp creature." Apparently they didn't know that he had been out of government for more than 25 years before he accepted the AG role.
The thing I've always liked about Barr is that he shares one important characteristic with his boss: Neither one of them needs the job they have right now.
FYI Barr was intimately involved in the Iran Contra scandal. When a large sum of money went missing, Barr was charged with investigating who was skimming the drug money. Barr narrowed it down to Clinton, Barry Searles, and/or Noriega. Searles was eliminated ( as in killed) almost immediately, Clinton was spared for future use, and Noriega was extradited to this country. To prosecute Noriega on phony charges, the CIA called in “the mule,” aka Robert Mueller. And so began a long and profitable friendship.
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Doesn’t matter that Barr had been out of government. He had been corrupt CIA and in on Iran Contra on multiple levels. Poppy’s fixer in and out of the DoJ.
Big pals with all the Mueller, Rosenstein crew.
Swamp Creature.