interpretation is BS. If you are going to flat out lie, why not redact the stuff that makes it easy for anyone who cares to recognize the lies.

I'm sure he didn't redact more because he knew the report would eventually be released pretty much in its entirty. But still, why lie in Barr's interpretation, then release records that prove you lied?

These f&%#ers are incompetent at all levels.

to his Fox audience? And I don’t think they even know there are contradictions. As you say, the truth would have gotten out and they must have been calculating that.

Barr didn't need the job. He'd been the AG before, he had stellar professional credentials and he was making big bucks in private law practice. He's 67 years old, and he could easily have retired and spent the rest of his life in financial comfort while resting on his professional laurels. He had to have known that many previously well-regarded people had left the Trump administration with their reputations in shreds after being thrown under one of Trump's buses, but he actually auditioned for the job by sending the WH an unsolicited letter outlining his rather extreme opinions relating to presidential power. But now it looks like Barr's reputation, too, is swirling down the toilet because he so blatantly toadied up to Trump and lied on his behalf about the contents and import of the Mueller report.

He's being accused by many - not just Democrats - of violating his duty as AG in order to protect Trump by acting as his personal lawyer. It was not necessary for him to do what he did or make the statements he made. He could have released the report with little or no comment. He didn't have to release a "summary" that mischaracterized the report, or hold a pre-release press conference to claim falsely that the report exonerated Trump. Obviously that's what Trump wanted him to do, but why did he do it? Is he that fanatical about his theory of the unitary executive? Is he so arrogant that he thought he could get away with being an obvious shill for Trump and nobody would notice? I still don't get it.

I read many of his friends were gobsmacked by his behavior. There must be a large group of Republicans who see Trump as the last chance to enact their vision. If Trump goes down, there really is no road ahead for them. I think he sacrificed his reputation on this weird altar.

would explain his behavior. He would be untouchable then.

It is the one thing that makes sense. He would be set for life in his view.

who can plague us for decades.

You’re probably right about Trump, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t drop a large hint about what’s in it for Barr if he protects Trump. He will lie about anything to anyone, even his strongest defenders. He’s an equal opportunity manipulator.

and for manipulating people. Would Barr be foolish enough to believe him if he did promise him the Supreme Court? Maybe...

So far he’s been richly rewarded by past Presidents. Why not with this one?

Everyone who has ever worked for Trump must have believed shit like this. Everyone.

By this time, anybody who goes to work for Trump believing they won't be covered in shit deserves it when it happens, just for being stupid.

1. Compromised by Russian Intelligence
2. Russian asset

And, IMO, the list is long and includes many repukes and we may have others from the 'liberal' side on the list.

They’ll remain loyal as long as possible to achieve the goal of overturning Roe and establishing conservative dominance in the judiciary, a powerful branch of government less subject to future electoral change.

They know he’s illegitimate, immoral, unethical, repulsive, cruel and ignorant, but they’ll use him as long as possible to get what they want.

He is, and always has been, a political hack.

a highly successful political hack. There’s the rub.

On the podcast Skullduggery was giving him a lot of benefits of the doubt before the report was released. That’s what made me think that in spite of Iran Contra, his reputation was still intact. It’s a parallel situation, right? Sacrificing integrity for the sake of the party. But it wasn’t nearly as obviously corrupt back then. Or maybe I just wasn’t paying as much attention back then. But now, he has completely flushed his reputation down the toilet of public opinion. Even Chris Matthews on Fox News went after him.

On the media.

We can liken that to someone today never using the internet or any social media and just relying on televised news for information. Like MAGATs only watching Fox News.

The 1989 OLC opinion that he wrote and tried to suppress, then inaccurately "summarized" under pressure, addressed the legal question as to whether the FBI had the authority to arrest people in foreign countries. Bush I wanted Noriega gone, and Barr was looking at possible ways to do it. As it happened, US troops eventually invaded Panama and captured Noriega, so the opinion was never needed or used. Another difference is that Barr wasn't trying to protect a rogue president (we might not have liked Poppy very much, but he wasn't in Trump's league of rampant, overt criminality and corruption). By the time the actual opinion was subpoenaed and released, it was kind of irrelevant even though it did expose the fact that Barr's summary significantly misrepresented its major points. Anyhow, the matter didn't get much news coverage at all. And maybe that really is the reason Barr thought he could get away with it this time.