Bill Barr in discussions to cooperate with Jan. 6 committee

[Kid Berwyn]

This would be nice.

Scoop: Bill Barr in discussions to cooperate with Jan. 6 committee

Jonathan Swan
Axios.com, May 19

President Trump's attorney general Bill Barr is in active discussions with the Jan. 6th investigative committee to appear for a formal transcribed interview, according to two sources with direct knowledge.

Driving the news: Barr is likely to cooperate with the committee, according to a source familiar with his thinking.

Snip…

Barr told Trump in a meeting on December 1, 2020 that his theories about a stolen election were "bullshit."

Barr also called Trump's new legal team at the time "clownish."

"I'm a pretty informed legal observer and I can't fucking figure out what the theory is here," Barr added. "It's just scattershot. It's all over the hill and gone."

https://www.axios.com/2022/05/19/bill-barr-jan6-committee

[cilla4progress]

1. ...

[Kid Berwyn]

4. If Billy Boy spills the beans...

…the Party’s over. At least the GQP. Free to remain looting and trashing around the country is the BFEE.

Fishwrap from Murdoch details:

Ex-AG Bill Barr calls Donald Trump ‘responsible’ for Jan. 6 Capitol riot

By Callie Patteson
New York Post, March 4, 2022

Former Attorney General Bill Barr has said he believes former President Donald Trump “was responsible” for last year’s Capitol riot, arguing in a new special that “the whole idea was to intimidate Congress.”

“I do think he was responsible in the broad sense of that word, in that it appears that part of the plan was to send that group up to the Hill,” Barr told NBC News’ Lester Holt in an exclusive interview. “I think the whole idea was to intimidate Congress, and I think that that was wrong.”

However, Barr added that he had not “seen anything to say he [Trump] was legally responsible for it in terms of incitement.”

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https://nypost.com/2022/03/04/bill-barr-calls-donald-trump-responsible-for-jan-6-capitol-riot/

That must be where J6C comes in.

[alittlelark]

2. F bILL Barr

He spread the 10w40 to allow this slide into the abyss.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Absolutely. I'd like his ties to Jeffrey Epstein explained.

The ‘Epstein-Barr’ Problem of New York City’s Dalton School

JERRY LAMBE
July 13th, 2019, 10:50 am

Excerpt...

Epstein, who was charged last week by federal authorities in the Southern District of New York with sex trafficking with sex-trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex-trafficking, was a 20 year old college drop-out when he was hired to teach at Dalton by the school’s headmaster Donald Barr in the mid 1970’s. Donald Barr was the father of current United States Attorney General William Barr, who is currently overseeing Epstein’s prosecution.

According to at least one former student, Dalton alums have long joked about Barr’s hiring of Epstein..

“The joke has been [that] this is the Epstein-Barr problem at Dalton, said Harry Segal, a 1974 graduate who is now a senior lecturer at Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical College, in an interview with the Huffington Post. Epstein-Barr is a type of herpes virus best known as the cause of infectious mononucleosis.

Scott Spizer, who graduated in 1976, said that Epstein was most remembered for his “persistent attention” on teenage girls in the hallways, recalled a night when the young educator showed up at a party where Dalton students were drinking.

“I can remember thinking at the time, ‘This is wrong,’” Spizer said in an interview with the New York Times.

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https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-epstein-barr-problem-of-new-york-citys-dalton-school/

It’s a small world, but not that small.

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. I think Barr's main value will be to testify that The Big Lie was indeed a lie

He said as much in his book and in interviews, so I don’t think he would have a problem saying so under oath to the committee, stating that there was no evidence of fraud.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Excellent observation. The Emperor's tailor saw the naked truth.

The thought of what Barr knows must get to Dimdonnie.

More from Rupert’s fish wrap:

Ex-AG Bill Barr calls Donald Trump ‘responsible’ for Jan. 6 Capitol riot

By Callie Patteson
New York Post, March 4, 2022

Excerpt…

Trump fired back on Friday, saying in an email blast, “Former Attorney General Bill Barr wouldn’t know voter fraud if it was staring him in the face—and it was.”

“The fact is, he was weak, ineffective, and totally scared of being impeached, which the Democrats were constantly threatening to do. They ‘broke’ him. He should have acted much faster on the Mueller Report, instead of allowing the fake Russia, Russia, Russia, Hoax to linger for so long, but it was the Election Fraud and Irregularities that he refused to act on because he wanted to save his own hide—and he did.

“He never got impeached, contempt charges never went forward, and the Democrats were very happy with him—but I wasn’t,” Trump said. “The Unselect Committee of Political Hacks continues to spin its wheels in trying to fabricate a narrative that doesn’t exist.”

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https://nypost.com/2022/03/04/bill-barr-calls-donald-trump-responsible-for-jan-6-capitol-riot/

The public hearings will be must-watch TV. May the testimony under oath and the evidence accumulated expose the traitors, mass murderers, gangsters, criminals and hypocrites in full and for all history.

[kentuck]

8. His history indicates that he will attempt to save the Republican Party from the ruins...

So they can continue on their mission to destroy this country.

[kentuck]

6. What's his game??

He cannot be trusted. We know that.

Is it CYA time for Bill Barr?

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Guys done all he could for Big Oil & Old Money.

Bill Barr works fir a higher power, like the Federalist Society and Ed Meese.

Bill Barr: The “Cover-Up General”

“At the center of the criticism is the chief artic­ulator of Bush’s imperial presidency,” we reported in 1992, “the man who wrote the legal rationale for the Gulf War, the Panama invasion, and the officially sanctioned kidnapping of foreign nationals abroad.”

by Frank Snepp
The Village Voice, Oct. 27, 1992

Excerpt...

SON OF THE CIA

It was 21 years ago, in 1971, that I first encountered William Barr. Both of us were working for the CIA at the time, he as a novice China analyst, I as a member of the agency’s Vietnam task force. Jovial and un­assuming, he took his cues easily from an overly politicized office chief. It was a to­ken of things to come.

Three years before, we had brushed shoulders unknowingly on Columbia Uni­versity’s roiling campus. Both of us were on the other side of the barricades as antiwar demonstrations there blasted our genera­tion into a decade of rage. Barr, a conserva­tive student spokesman, preached tough­ness to the university administration, of which his father, then dean of the engineer­ing faculty, was a leading light. Years later, this same damn-the-torpedoes zeal would commend Barr to his ultimate father figure, George Bush. When Cuban refugees penned up at an Alabama prison rioted and took hostages in the summer of 1991, depu­ty attorney general Barr ordered the place stormed. Soon afterward, Bush tapped him for the attorney general slot itself.

Barr first met Bush in the CIA. In 1976, having shifted to the agency’s legislative office, he helped write the pap sheets that director Bush used to fend off the Pike and Church committees, the first real embodiments of Congressional oversight of the CIA. Intimates say the experience was for­mative for Barr, turning him into an impla­cable enemy of congressional intrusions on executive prerogative.

“The most radical period I had probably was when I was sort of a moderate Republi­can,” he later acknowledged. Sure enough, Barr stayed safe within conservative clutch­es even after leaving the agency in 1977. Armed with a night-school law diploma, he asked for — and got — Bush’s backing for a clerkship appointment to Malcolm Wilkey of the Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. Years later, as attorney general, Barr would name Wilkey to investigate the House Banking scandal. Wilkey repayed the favor with a wrenchingly partisan in­quiry. Feeding the press overheated charges of wrongdoing, he scored points off the Democratic Congress just as the adminis­tration itself was being pilloried for its failed economics.

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https://www.villagevoice.com/2019/04/18/attorney-general-william-barr-is-the-best-reason-to-vote-for-clinton/

Wouldn’t be surprised to learn Bill runs our agents in Moscow. If he needs to, he’ll leave Pisswig hanging, “turning slowly, slowly in the wind.” And the BFEE will ride off into the sunset, free to continue its long game of creating heaven on earth for the Have-Mores and a labyrinthine hellscape for the 99.9%.