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In Preparation For Bill Barr’s Redemption Tour, Let’s Review – Above the Law

(Photo
by
Win
McNamee/Getty
Images)

Bill
Barr
has
never
lacked
for
chutzpah.

This
is
a
guy
who
worked
for
the
CIA
and
Justice
Department,
but
sailed
to
office
as
someone
who
would
take
on
the
“Deep
State.”
He’s
a
former
Verizon
lawyer
who

threatened

to
bring
the
government
down
on
Big
Tech.
FFS,
this
is
a
guy
who
pretending
he
was
rooting
out
corruption
even
as
he

booked

a
$30,000
Christmas
party
at
his
boss’s
hotel

the
one
that
was
leased
from
the
federal
government.

But
even
by
his
own
standards,
Bill
Barr’s
latest
book
is
an
exercise
in
just
goin’
for
it.

Amazon’s
blurb

for
“One
Damn
Thing
After
Another:
Memoirs
of
an
Attorney
General”
promises
a
“vivid,
forthright”
comparison
of
his
first,
normal
stint
in
the
executive
branch,
where
he
came
in
at
the
end
to
help
sweep
the
Iran-Contra
affair
under
the
rug,
to
his
second,
when
he
helped
hide
the
president’s
attempted
extortion
of
a
foreign
government.

Apparently
Barr’s
“second
tenure
under
President
Donald
Trump
[was]
a
deliberate
and
difficult
choice.”
Cue
the
world’s
tiniest
violins.
But
at
least
he
got
to
lock
up
a
whole
bunch
of
Black
and
brown
people
both
times,
right?

Lest
we
forget,
Bill
Barr
presided
over
an
absolute
orgy
of
inappropriate
interference
with
the
supposedly
independent
Justice
Department.
From
the

mash
note

cum

job
application

he
sent
to
Trump
in
June
of
2018,
expounding
on
his
theories
unlimited
presidential
power
and
crapping
on
the
Mueller
investigation,
to
his

obsequious
resignation
letter

in
December
of
2020,
offered
up
as
a
bribe
to
get
him
out
the
door
without
being
fired
via
tweet,
Barr
never
failed
to
put
his
own
political
interests
first.

Before
the
Mueller
Report
was
even
released,
Barr
famously
announced
hopped
in
front
of
a
microphone
to

announce

that
the
it
had
fully
exonerated
the
president.
In
reality
Mueller
laid
out
multiple
counts
of
obstruction
of
justice,
before
concluding
that
only
congress
had
the
right
to
try
a
sitting
executive.
Barr
then
proceeded
to
blow
up
the
prosecution
of Michael
Flynn

and
undercut
line
prosecutors’
sentencing
recommendation
for

Roger
Stone
.
And
for
good
measure,
he
tried
to

Saturday
Night
Massacre
the
SDNY

in
an
apparent
attempt
to
protect
Rudy
Giuliani.

The
president’s
enemies
got
a
different
treatment,
however.
The
investigation
into
Hillary
Clinton’s
email
server
went
on
until
October
of
2019.
And
the
Durham
investigation
looking
for
someone

anyone!

to
punish
for
the
Russia
investigation,
is
ongoing.
Perhaps
Perkins
Coie
should
be
grateful
they
didn’t
get
teargassed.
Unfortunately
the
protestors
in
Lafayette
Park
weren’t
so
lucky
the
day
Trump
needed
to
trespass
at
a
church
so
he
could
get
his
photo
taken
manhandling
a
bible.

In
the
Ukraine
scandal,
Trump’s
trusty
adjutant buried
the
whistleblower
complaint
about
his
“perfect,
perfect
phone
call”
in
the
Criminal
Division
and
obediently
dummied
up
memos
insisting
that
the
executive
branch
was
immune
from
congressional
oversight.
And
he
wasn’t
above
helping
his
boss’s
reelection
efforts
either,
even
going
so
far
as
to
set
up
an

intake
mechanism

at
DOJ
for
Rudy
Giuliani’s
fantastical
slanders
about
Joe
Biden
and
his
son.

In
fact,
there
was
no
Republican
culture
war
issue
that
Barr
didn’t
weigh
in
on.
From
his

preposterous
lies

about
Antifa
supersoldiers
flying
around
America
wreaking
havoc,
to
his

preposterous
lies

about
election
fraud,
Barr
was
willing
to
put
the
credence
of
his
office
behind
any
GOP
talking
point.
He
even
went
on
Fox
and
whined
about
a

“jihad”

on
hydroxychloroquine.
And
what
Grand
Old
Party
would
be
complete
without

“Black
on
Black
crime?”

Drink!

And
now
for
just
$35
you
can
get
a
hard
copy
of
Bill
Barr’s
“candid
account
of
his
historic
tenures
serving
two
vastly
different
presidents,
George
H.W.
Bush
and
Donald
J.
Trump.”

Because
if
there’s
one
thing
Bill
Barr
is
known
for,
it’s candor.

Or
you
could
take
that
money
and
spend
it
on
literally
anything
else.





Liz
Dye
 lives
in
Baltimore
where
she
writes
about
law
and
politics.