William Barr's Perversion of Justice

[Zorro]

The attorney general is turning the Justice Department into a political weapon for the president.

“History is written by the winners,” William Barr, the attorney general, said Thursday when asked how he thought future generations would assess his decision to drop all criminal charges against Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, who had pleaded guilty twice to breaking the law. “So it largely depends on who’s writing the history.”

In service to Mr. Trump, Mr. Barr is abusing his power not to write, but to erase, some of the most important lessons of American history.

The Watergate scandal, with its revelations of how dangerous a renegade White House could be, led to reforms meant to ensure an independent Justice Department, one faithful to the law rather than to the Oval Office.

The nation had seen firsthand how much harm a president with no respect for the rule of law could do — particularly when he used the Justice Department, under a compliant attorney general, to protect allies, punish adversaries and cover up wrongdoing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/opinion/sunday/michael-flynn-william-barr-justice-department.html

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Trump owes Putin.

What that is, they won’t say.

One thing’s become obvious: the United States of America today is the least united it’s been since the Civil War.