When GHW Bush pardoned the Iran-Contra villains...

[TygrBright]

...it was on the advice of....

....wait for it...

William Barr.

And it was a successful effort to deflect attention from his own involvement in the Iran-Contra skull dugging.

Deja vu...

Of course, GHW was a ONE TERM officeholder there... Someone oughta remind [Redacted] of that.

nauseatedly,
Bright

[redstatebluegirl]

1. I forgot about that.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Why do you think they brought Barr back?

He's the king of the cover up. Tossed a few sacrificial lambs out and saved everybody at the top.

[The Blue Flower]

2. Thank you for pointing that out

Not everyone has that long a memory.

[ArtTownsend]

3. The Cover-Up General William Barr.

[volstork]

5. Of course it was.

The longer we let them get away with things, the bigger their crimes become because they come to understand that there are no consequences.

[gratuitous]

6. GHW Bush was a lame duck at the time of the pardons

Bush issued his pardons in the dead of night on Christmas Eve 1992, after he'd already lost the presidency to Bill Clinton. His pardons had the salutary (and totally coincidental, I'm sure) effect of decapitating the Iran/contra investigation just before Caspar Weinberger and the rest were to go on trial. In Lawrence Walsh's final report, he detailed the evidence he would have presented during the trial, which would have put the lie to Bush's claim that he was "out of the loop" on the whole affair.

[ProfessorPlum]

7. thanks, was just about to post this

[Hekate]

8. Well well well

[Evolve Dammit]

9. The American ADHD problem. That's why Barr is known as "the fixer." Drumpf got his Roy Cohn.

[Nitram]

10. On his business card: "Doing the GOP's dirty work since 1973."

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. and now: "Billy Barr's Dirt Services (formerly DoJ)"

[gembaby1]

12. Institutionalist, my ass!

Some of these talking heads on t.v., in the beginning, acted like he was a by the book guy. He is nothing but the official presidential ass kissing kingmaker..

[Nitram]

13. That's right. Barr has never been anything but the guy who did the dirty work for the bosses.