{"id":36239,"date":"2019-04-16T09:31:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T16:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36239"},"modified":"2019-04-17T03:48:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T10:48:55","slug":"barrf-has-priors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/16\/barrf-has-priors\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrf Has Priors"},"content":{"rendered":"

We already know that Putin’s Puppet hired Coverup General William Barr, aka Barrf, to lie, cheat and abuse the DOJ to protect his Fuhrer from consequences so thoroughly deserved.\u00a0 I wondered how Trump was able to predict that Barrf would protect him so thoroughly.\u00a0 Then I learned that Barrf has priors.<\/span><\/p>\n

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…Barr\u2019s stated position is that the redactions will be as narrow as they can be to ensure transparency. But once the redacted report is released, it\u2019s safe to assume that some skepticism about what was withheld will continue.<\/p>\n

Particularly given Barr\u2019s track record, as New York University professor of law Ryan Goodman wrote<\/a> on Monday at the site Just Security, where he\u2019s a co-editor-in-chief.<\/p>\n

Goodman, who is a former Defense Department special counsel, details a remarkably similar fight from 1989 in which Barr, then head of the Justice Department\u2019s Office of Legal Counsel, was involved. The OLC had determined that the FBI was allowed to take people into custody in foreign countries without the consent of those countries’ governments \u2014 a ruling that seemed to pave the way, Goodman notes, for the eventual arrest of former Panamanian leader Manuel Antonio Noriega.<\/p>\n

This was a contentious position to take, and Barr was asked to provide the memo offering the detailed legal rationale for allowing such detentions. He declined, instead offering a 13-page document that \u201csummarizes the principal conclusions.\u201d When Congress, and then The Washington Post<\/a>, obtained the full opinion in 1991, it was quickly noted that several conclusions from the full document hadn\u2019t been included in Barr\u2019s summary. Foremost among them was that the opinion authorized the president of the United States to ignore the United Nations Charter<\/a>….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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He did the exact same thing in 1989.\u00a0 No wonder the Fuhrer hired him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lawrence O’Donnell<\/a> provides more depth.<\/span><\/p>\n