Trump's AG Bill Barr has a history of cover-ups -- and he just struck again
Trumps AG Bill Barr has a history of cover-ups and he just struck again
March 25, 2019
Back in 1992, the last time Bill Barr was U.S. attorney general, iconic New York Times writer William Safire referred to him as Coverup-General Barr because of his role in burying evidence of then-President George H.W. Bushs involvement in Iraqgate and Iron-Contra.
General Barr has struck againthis time, in similar fashion, burying Muellers report and cherry-picking fragments of sentences from it to justify Trumps behavior. In his letter, he notes that Robert Mueller leaves it to the attorney general to decide whether the conduct described in the report constitutes a crime.
As attorney general, Barrwithout showing us even a single complete sentence from the Mueller reportdecided there are no crimes here. Just keep moving along.
Barrs history of doing just this sort of thing to help Republican presidents in legal crises explains why Trump brought him back in to head the Justice Department.
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dalton99a
(81,590 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)He will pay for his lies this time.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Only if WE make him pay.
There is no karma ... and there doesn't seem to be any justice in the halls of D.C.