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Commentary: I won’t work in Attorney General William Barr’s Justice Department any longer
San Diego Union Tribune ^ | Oct. 14, 2020 | Phillip Halpern

Posted on 10/15/2020 1:25:29 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

After 36 years, I’m fleeing what was the U.S. Department of Justice — where I proudly served 19 different attorneys general and six different presidents. For the last three-plus decades, I have respected our leadership regardless of whether we were led by a Republican or a Democrat. I always believed the department’s past leaders were dedicated to the rule of law and the guiding principle that justice is blind. That is a bygone era, but it should not be forgotten.

Maybe I should’ve seen this coming, but like many of my colleagues, I fervently hoped that Attorney General William Barr’s preemptive misrepresentation of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report was an honest mistake or a solitary misstep — rather than a deliberate attempt to conceal potential presidential misconduct. After all, Barr has never actually investigated, charged or tried a case. He’s a well-trained bureaucrat but has no actual experience as a prosecutor.

Unfortunately, over the last year, Barr’s resentment toward rule-of-law prosecutors became increasingly difficult to ignore, as did his slavish obedience to Donald Trump’s will in his selective meddling with the criminal justice system in the Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn and Roger Stone cases. In each of these cases, Barr overruled career prosecutors in order to assist the president’s associates and/or friends, who potentially harbor incriminating information. This career bureaucrat seems determined to turn our democracy into an autocracy.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boiledropeforphil; doj; halperin; halpern; ismellbs; philliphalpern; tds; trump; trustbarr; williambarr
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To: yesthatjallen

Neither will William Barr.

Lack of action will be discussed in his final personnel review. Then, bye Bill...never knew ya.


101 posted on 10/15/2020 2:57:18 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: yesthatjallen

Here comes the waaaambulance.


102 posted on 10/15/2020 2:59:51 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (Biden's)
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To: yesthatjallen

That is the best description I have ever seen of why the DOJ has been so inept. The career employees are part and parcel of the deep swamp. The AG must look behind every corner not knowing which of them will sabotage proceedings, misrepresent the AG, etc. Thank you Phillip for explaining why the AG has such a tough job!!!


103 posted on 10/15/2020 3:27:57 PM PDT by elpadre
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To: yesthatjallen

Trying to outrun his pink slip...


104 posted on 10/15/2020 3:30:35 PM PDT by TXnMA (The Democrat Party has a single-plank platform:g of war" HATRED...)
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Yeah, the 3-year, multi-million, Rat driven Russia investigation was an “honest mistake.”

Good riddance, jackass.

PS — Barr hasn’t done much anyway.


105 posted on 10/15/2020 3:31:49 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: yesthatjallen

So he saw nothing wrong with Holder or Reno? Good riddance!


106 posted on 10/15/2020 3:32:08 PM PDT by rcofdayton
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To: yesthatjallen

So he saw nothing wrong with Holder or Reno? Good riddance!


107 posted on 10/15/2020 3:32:48 PM PDT by rcofdayton
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To: rcofdayton

This bum is your typical life-long government “worker”. The loser should be arrested, taken to GITMO and waterboarded.


108 posted on 10/15/2020 3:35:20 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: yesthatjallen

Another swamprat exposed! Drain the swamp!


109 posted on 10/15/2020 3:53:41 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: yesthatjallen

So this scumbag worked for Eric Holder and never uttered a peep.


110 posted on 10/15/2020 4:02:10 PM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: z3n

Methinks he doth protest too much!


111 posted on 10/15/2020 4:21:30 PM PDT by TStro (Better to die on your feet than live on your knees)
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To: FLT-bird

There was no problem with Holder’s Fast and Furious gun running.

What a douchbag.


112 posted on 10/15/2020 4:25:02 PM PDT by zek157
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To: yesthatjallen

I just have to laugh. He acts like he is important and will be missed.


113 posted on 10/15/2020 4:58:21 PM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: yesthatjallen

The Opus of an Idiot. <oh what will we do without 1 less useful idiot in the DOJ.


114 posted on 10/15/2020 7:00:42 PM PDT by HP8753 (Live Free!!!! .............or don't.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Attorney General William Barr’s preemptive misrepresentation of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report

All we need to know about this person's credibility who wrote this. It was not a misrepresentation at all. Barr's statement was reviewed and approved as representative of the report. Nothing which followed contradicted it at all.

115 posted on 10/15/2020 8:37:26 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: yesthatjallen

F*** you Phil, you participated in Eric Holder’s roughshod run through our justice system and that’s just one example of your lack of character. You’re a fraud and a jackass pal. GET LOST!


116 posted on 10/15/2020 9:21:50 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: yesthatjallen

But he had no problem with Eric Holder being “Obama’s wingman”.


117 posted on 10/15/2020 9:42:29 PM PDT by Ronin (White privilege is not having to fake your own hate crimes. (HT: CrappieLuck))
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To: yesthatjallen

Autocracy? He cannot have his anarchic obermeister privileges in government so he is leaving.

How cute.


118 posted on 10/15/2020 10:13:41 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: olezip

... deep state folks, who do not know how to retire with grace and dignity.
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Would this guy have been included in PDJT’s recent request for resignation letters?

I’m heartened he is so affected by Barr.


119 posted on 10/16/2020 6:01:11 AM PDT by reformedliberal (Make yourself less available.)
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