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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Barr: The "Cover-Up General" 1992 article
October 27, 1992
Attorney General William Barr is the Best Reason to Vote for Clinton
A federal judge accuses the Justice Department of trying to shape a case involving illegal loans to Iraq. The House Judiciary Committee blasts federal attorneys for compromising their reputation for impartiality in the investigation of a computer-software theft. CIA officials charge a deputy attorney general with advocating the suppression of evidence in a sensitive sentencing hearing.
To even the most avid scandalmonger, these may sound like the ravings of a fevered Orwellian imagination. But in fact they are all part of a litany of wrongdoing leveled at George Bushs Justice Department in the past two months alone. And at the center of the criticism is the chief articulator of Bushs imperial presidency, the man who wrote the legal rationale for the Gulf War, the Panama invasion, and the officially sanctioned kidnapping of, foreign nationals abroad Attorney General William P. Barr.
So fast has Barrs star dimmed in recent months that even conservative pundits like The New York Timess William Safire have taken to calling him the Cover-Up General. But so poorly understood are Barrs ties to the president himself that the fires now threatening the Justice Department have barely singed the Oval Office.
To some Washington insiders, that comes as a surprise, for Barr is surely the closest thing this administration has to a court philosopher. Through the policy decisions he has authored, first as assistant attorney general and finally as the chief himself, he has fashioned a coherent, radical ideology for a White House that is only ostensibly middle-of-the-road.
While the president, for example, hails a new world order based on the rules of law, Barrs briefs give us broken international covenants. Though conservative purists pretend that the Justice Department remains reactive, the attorney general, bolstered by an activist Supreme Court, sets aggressively conservative social agendas on everything from abortion to immigration while stalling off inquiries into a myriad of scandals. Indeed, nothing better sums up the political gospel and failings of George Bushs reign on the eve of this election than the handiwork of his chief lawyer.
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https://www.villagevoice.com/2019/04/18/attorney-general-william-barr-is-the-best-reason-to-vote-for-clinton/
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Bill Barr: The "Cover-Up General" 1992 article (Original Post)
Cattledog
May 2019
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enough
(13,259 posts)1. Fascinating and beyond timely. Thanks for the post and to the Voice for bringing this back up. NT
dalton99a
(81,475 posts)3. Kick