Barr seeks to dissociate himself from move on demonstrators outside Lafayette Square

[alp227]

Source: The Washington Post

Attorney General William P. Barr sought to dissociate himself Friday from police’s move earlier this week to push back a crowd of largely peaceful demonstrators using horses and gas, claiming that he did not give the “tactical” order for law enforcement on the scene to move in.

The Associated Press reported that Barr told the news organization that the move against the protesters — which has been widely condemned — was already in process when he was spotted at the scene near the White House early Monday evening conferring with law enforcement on the ground.

“I’m not involved in giving tactical commands like that,” Barr told the Associated Press. “I was frustrated and I was also worried that as the crowd grew, it was going to be harder and harder to do. So my attitude was get it done, but I didn’t say, ‘Go do it.’ ”

The Washington Post reported Tuesday that Barr personally ordered the crowd of protesters be pushed back as part of a plan hatched far earlier in the day. According to a Justice Department official, law enforcement authorities, including Barr, had decided to extend the security perimeter outside the White House after earlier demonstrations over the death of George Floyd at police hands in Minneapolis turned violent. When Barr came to the scene Monday afternoon, the official said, he was “surprised” to see that hadn’t been done.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/barr-seeks-to-dissociate-himself-from-move-on-demonstrators-outside-lafayette-park/2020/06/05/47cb96b6-a78e-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html

[Turbineguy]

1. He'll need a fall guy.

[Bengus81]

2. So what Barr..too FUCKING late. Your a Trump enabler just like the rest of Trumps circle..........

These clowns are now like rats leaving the ship...........

[agingdem]

10. Hey, Barr you fat fuck (apologies to the weight-challenged)

you did this...your hate and bend-over allegiance to your master isn't on the surface, it's skin deep and to the bone..

[Hugin]

3. Mr Trump Attorney... Tear down that chicken coop! n/t

[exboyfil]

4. Did you order the Code Red?

[Walleye]

5. This is the guy, that in answer to a question from Kamala Harris,

Under oath in his Senate hearing said, “I’m grappling with the word suggest.” The GOP merrily voted him in anyway.

[ashredux]

6. LOL....sure Bill....these guys are hilarious...and damn dangerous

[dhill926]

7. own it you fucking coward....

[bucolic_frolic]

8. LOL oh man that's a good one

a real knee-slapper! No-responsibility-at-all-itis. Must be going around the Oval Office.

[paleotn]

9. Ha! That's funny, Bill......

" I said, go kick their asses. But I didn't mean for them to actually go and kick their asses." That's the weakest, most sniveling excuse I've heard in a long time.

[Iliyah]

11. It was leaked that they were laughing in the WH . .

when the protestors were pushed back by horse riders, rubber bullets shot at them while gassed.

[Archetypist]

13. link please

I would love to read more about that!

[niyad]

22. Welcome to DU.

[Archetypist]

28. Thx

I've actually been on here since 2003 or so.. couldn't change my username so I just created a new account.

[Brother Buzz]

34. Curious, what's your old DU username?

[Archetypist]

38. I'm not posting that

[Demsrule86]

40. Why not?

Maybe send a PM?

[Archetypist]

45. I asked to have it deleted.

Because I don't want ties to my personal name. I'd rather not share that and am not sure why you're asking.

[Archetypist]

12. Oh OK

So he explicitly condoned it, he just did not give a specific order. Such leadership. He could come out and say what happened was wrong, but noooo..

[mahatmakanejeeves]

14. "So my attitude was get it done, but I didn't say, 'Go do it.' "

"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"

[JudyM]

19. Exactly! "Attitude."

[Girard442]

15. Imagine working for Barr. Anything goes wrong -- your fault.

[turbinetree]

16. So the Federalist Society enabler is talking out of the side of his mouth again..............

since he likes to play semantics with words...........

[George II]

17. Sure, after he said it was his decision. It's getting to the point that we can't even keep up...

...with the ever changing stories.

[KPN]

18. WTF? "My attitude [while he was conferring there on the ground

with law enforcement] was get it done, but I didn’t say Go do it!”

“I’m not involved in giving tactical commands like that.” So whatever means of force law enforcement chose to use was okay by him then? Coulda been live rounds?

So basically, he led the charge but takes no responsibility — the privilege of royalty.

This bastard needs to be strung up by his toes over a warm fire in Lafayette Park ... maybe that’ll melt away his veneer of royalty.

[William Seger]

20. When you lie about it, Mr. Barr, you're really admitting you know it was wrong

If we actually had congressional oversight, Barr would be forced to resign.

[chia]

21. "So my attitude was get it done, but I didn't say, 'Go do it.' "

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

27. This is looking like a mob organization more and more each day.

No one ever says anything directly: "This bothers me. I wish someone would do something about it" has as much force as saying, "Do this." Michel Cohen testified about this before Congress.

[elleng]

30. Exactly,

no 'concrete' evidence, but as we're not in a court of law (yet,) what we see is perfectly sufficient.

[BlueIdaho]

23. Why would anyone believe a word this guy says?

He’s done nothing but lie since he started kissing Shitler’s ass.

[NNadir]

24. He's going to have a hell of a time dissociating himself from prison in 2021. n/t,.

[Kid Berwyn]

25. Barr's paving the way for the intelligent fascist to come...

Pompeo, Cotten, some Ralph Reed like turd...

[DemoTex]

26. Out, damned spot!

"Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why,
then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my
lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we
fear who knows it, when none can call our power to
account?--Yet who would have thought the old man
to have had so much blood in him."

The Tragedy of Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Act 5, Scene 1

[elleng]

29. 'my attitude was get it done'

that's quite enough.

[Yeehah]

31. Central casting couldn't find a better "cowardly villain"

I hope these bootlickers get their justice soon.

[obamanut2012]

32. Roundly condemend, and AG's are not LEOs or Military

He had no right to order this.

[beachbumbob]

33. Barr is nothing more than a liar

he speaks NO truth

[Marcuse]

35. Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?

[cp]

36. Nice try, Fat Boy

[Grokenstein]

37. "Out, damn'd spot!"

EDIT: Oh dammit, someone beat me to it.

[Andy823]

41. Well at least

he didn't blame it on President Obama like trump always seems to do.

[usajumpedtheshark]

42. I didn't order the use of chemical weapons, honest.

Barr: I only directed them to illegally attack peaceful protesters so the BOB (Big Orange Baby) could have his picture taken while profaning a religious instrument and building. It was those park rangers that wanted to use chemical weapons.

I hear they will be changing his department's name to the Dept of Injustice

[ProfessorGAC]

43. "I Completely Approve, But Not My Fault"

But, we'd hear a different tune had the move been seen as triumphant instead of idiotic, worldwide.
And by the way Billy Boy, it's still your fault!

[McCamy Taylor]

44. What a pussy!

And not the good kind.