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Barr is the brains behind unfolding martial law in the United States https://twitter.com/jessedamiani/status/1286048429546680320
Looking at Barr’s background, several factors jump out: Father was a WWII intel officer, he’s a life long conservative Catholic, & beginning in high school he dreamed of being the head of the CIA. He actually interned at Langley while in law school https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/09/us/politics/who-is-william-barr.html
Barr clerked for DC Circuit Judge Malcolm R. Wilkey. During the Watergate scandal, Wilkey dissented from the majority of the court on whether Nixon had to turn over his tapes to the grand jury. Wilkey bought the argument of executive privilege https://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/13/archives/excerpts-from-opinion-of-court-of-appeals-on-examination-of.html
Barr “worked from 1982 to 1983 at the Reagan White House under C. Boyden Gray, then counsel to [VP] George Bush. Mr. Gray, who shared Mr. Barr’s belief that the post-Watergate reforms had unduly eroded the powers of the presidency, became his patron” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/09/us/politics/who-is-william-barr.html
When George H.W. Bush (former head of the CIA) was elected President, Bill Barr (former CIA analyst) became head of the Justice Department’s powerful Office of Legal Counsel, then Deputy AG, then AG
Barr advised Bush on:
1. Invasion of Panama & arrest of Noriega (international law violation)
2. 1991 invasion of Iraq
3. Preventing mass Haitian immigration to the US after the coup (“You want 80,000 Haitians to descend on Florida months before the election? Gimme a break”)
1. Invasion of Panama & arrest of Noriega (international law violation)
2. 1991 invasion of Iraq
3. Preventing mass Haitian immigration to the US after the coup (“You want 80,000 Haitians to descend on Florida months before the election? Gimme a break”)
Barr’s background & belief in an expansive interpretation of Presidential power put his defense of Trump in context https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/a-brief-history-of-the-unitary-theory-that-trump-and-barr-are-using-to-resist-congressional-oversight/
