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Bill Barr's Attorney Generalship
i was an a usa. attorney in the early nineties at the southern district of new york. When i heard that he was replacing mat whittaker, who was acting attorney general, you know, i was thrilled. Naively, i thought exactly that here is a kind of old school republican, george h w. Bush era, institutionalists. And boy was i wrong about that,. because as soon as he came in, the pressure, the political pressure and interference with the southern district was pretty much non stopped. It had gone on before a bar became attorney general, but it accelerated once bar was in. We've had people in the office for forty years who
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