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[–] Fried-Laptop ago 

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[–] WillGreeley ago 

HELLO REPUBLICANS! See the speed and fierce attacks by the Coup and the Democrats(Communists) against our Attorney General William P. Barr! See ‘What U Shoulda Done’!

“I never thought we would see a blow-up from him like this,” said Nick Akerman, a former assistant special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal who called the speech “totally unprecedented.”

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/sep/17/william-barr-puts-justice-department-prosecutors-n/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20171227&utm_term=newsletter&utm_content=morning&bt_ee=TnHcqHl%2FFSvQPfGoZJGtIKrJ5%2FWOw4%2BS%2ByYPJzvsN0xxIrKR67UMBDK5ueQoW1HN&bt_ts=1600421901353 ““I never thought we would see a blow-up from him like this,” said Nick Akerman, a former assistant special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal who called the speech “totally unprecedented.”” “There is no reason for him to go after the line prosecutors because he is doing whatever he wants regardless,” he said. “I don’t think this does more than confirm what we already know: that he is an arm of the Trump reelection campaign.”

Mr. Barr assailed prosecutors as part of the “permanent bureaucracy” and said they must follow the directives of politically-appointed leaders such as himself who, because they are nominated by a president and confirmed by the Senate, are accountable in the grand scheme of governance.

“Name one successful organization or institution where the lowest level employees’ decisions are deemed sacrosanct — there aren’t any,” he said. “Letting the most junior members set the agenda might be a good philosophy for a Montessori preschool, but it is no way to run a federal agency.”

The attorney general said he, not career prosecutors, has the final say in cases and he will not “blindly” submit to “whatever those subordinates want to do.”

“They do not have the political legitimacy to be the public face for tough decisions and they lack the political buy-in necessary to publicly defend those decisions,” Mr. Barr continued.

Mr. Akerman agreed that Mr. Barr does ultimately have the final authority when it comes to prosecutions, but argued that Mr. Barr has abused that power.

“I think ultimately those decisions rest with the attorney general of course, but you expect the attorney general to follow certain norms,” he said. “Barr has gone off the reservation with these norms. At the end, he has the authority to run the department like he sees fit and he’s politicized it.”

But former Attorney General Edwin Meese III said Mr. Barr is using his authority to clean up the department, which was dogged by accusations of political partisanship by Obama-era officials, including doctoring a secret surveillance warrant and opening an investigation into the Trump campaign in part based on Democratic opposition research on the Republican nominee.

Mr. Meese suspects Mr. Barr has made similar remarks privately to his prosecutors.

He said Mr. Barr’s speech was designed to reassure the public he’s working to fix problems that have tainted the department.

“You had a real cesspool that had to be corrected,” he said. “[Former Attorney General] Jeff Sessions started the path of cleaning up the Justice Department and I think Bill Barr is continuing that.”

Disagreements between politically appointed Justice Department officials and trial attorneys are nothing new. But earlier this year, two such spats quickly became public and then morphed into a political firestorm.

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Eric Holder (@EricHolder) · Twitter

Though dangerous, Barr is becoming increasingly absurd. When I was at DOJ - regardless of my ultimate authority - I saw the career staff as trusted colleagues, not pre-schoolers. To my friends at DOJ, know that this nation values and supports you. I do. www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/…

Twitter · 2 days ago

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[–] VotingGodWins 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Eric Holder twitter....yeah right, tell us about Fast and Furious dude. and NO, to his friends at the DOJ, this nation does NOT value or support them.

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[–] BigRedDen ago 

Petulent preschoolers raised to defy parents then meet a teacher who holds them accountable to the rules.

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[–] tossitrightinthere ago 

I wish I'd been in the audience I can't find a video of the event anywhere. 😟