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Undated: William Pelham Barr (born May 23, 1950) is an American attorney who served as the 77th United States Attorney General from 1991 to 1993 during the first Bush administration.[1] He is a member of the Republican Party.
On December 7, 2018, President Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Barr to again serve as Attorney General of the United States.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barr
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December 7: William Barr hearing: attorney general nominee’s immigration record aligns with Trump’s
Barr was building a border wall back in 1991.
https://www.vox.com/2018/12/7/18128926/barr-confirmation-senate-immigration-trump
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January 14: Trump Pick for Attorney General to Tell Senate He Would Allow Special Counsel to Finish Investigation
William Barr to testify it is ‘vitally important’ Robert Mueller be allowed to complete probe amid heightened scrutiny of Trump’s interactions with Russia
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-pick-for-attorney-general-to-tell-senate-he-would-allow-special-counsel-to-finish-investigation-11547479995
January 14: Attorney General nominee William Barr shared a controversial memo last year with nearly all of President Donald Trump's lawyers concluding that an aspect of special counsel Robert Mueller's case could be "fatally misconceived," Barr acknowledged Monday.
... the revelation comes as Democrats have pledged to make Barr's criticisms of Mueller's investigation a centerpiece of the hearings, particularly because Barr would be poised to oversee Mueller's work if confirmed.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/14/politics/barr-mueller-letter/index.html
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January 14: William Barr once warned of need for 'political supervision' at Justice Department
Attorney General nominee Barr said in 2001 the idea the Justice Department "has to be independent" gained ground after Watergate and risked going too far.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/william-barr-once-warned-need-political-supervision-justice-department-n958576
January 15: Meet William Barr: What you need to know about the possible once and future attorney general
https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-william-barr-former-attorney-general-could-get-old-job-back-2018-12
January 15: President Donald Trump's attorney general nominee, William Barr, repeatedly sought to reassure senators Tuesday that he would not interfere with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, claiming he wouldn't be "bullied" into doing anything he deemed improper.
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"I am not going to do anything that I think is wrong, and I will not be bullied into doing anything I think is wrong," Barr told the Senate Judiciary Committee. "By anybody. Whether it be editorial boards, or Congress or the President. I'm going to do what I think is right."
... he sympathized [sic] the President, saying it's "understandable" someone would view an investigation as a "witch hunt" -- Trump's preferred moniker for the special counsel probe -- if they felt they were wrongly accused. But Barr also asserted that Mueller wouldn't be involve in a "witch hunt," defending the special counsel's integrity.
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein zeroed in on a memo Barr sent last year to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, in which he called the obstruction of justice aspect of the Mueller investigation "fatally misconceived" and said, "Mueller should not be permitted to demand that the President submit to interrogation about alleged obstruction."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/15/politics/william-barr-hearing/index.html
January 15: William Barr, Trump’s Attorney General Nominee, Held Immigrants in ‘HIV Prison Camp’
Under Attorney General William Barr, 310 Haitian immigrants became prisoners of the world’s first detention camp for refugees with HIV. Now, a key Democratic senator wants answers.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-attorney-general-nominee-held-immigrants-in-hiv-prison-camp
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January 15: William Barr May Be Worse on Immigration Than Jeff Sessions
Though a lot of attention will be on attorney general nominee William Barr’s stance on executive power, and how it could affect the Mueller investigation, during the Senate confirmation hearings starting today, his legacy on immigration also merits strict scrutiny. Since he likely will be confirmed, Barr’s hard-line immigration stance, which runs lockstep with President Donald Trump’s, may set the stage for a new volley of attacks against immigrants and asylum-seekers. Migrants, attorneys, and advocates should be prepared.
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/15/william-barr-confirmation-hearings-immigration/
January 16: William Barr, attorney general nominee, backs away from prior comments pushing Clinton Foundation investigation
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/politics/bill-barr-uranium-one/index.html
January 17: How William Barr Could Affect Mueller’s Investigation
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Two principles have defined William Barr’s 42-year legal career: adherence to law and order, and dogged defense of a powerful presidency. The question hanging over the Senate hearings beginning on Jan. 15 on Barr’s nomination to be the next Attorney General was how the plainspoken Washington lawyer would reconcile those twin pillars of his professional philosophy if they came into conflict.
http://time.com/5505438/wiliam-barr-confirmation-hearing-attorney-general/
January 18: Watch Trump's attorney general pick William Barr tell senators that a president who encourages perjury is committing a crime
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/18/trump-attorney-general-pick-william-barr-president-encouraging-perjury-is-committing-crime.html
February 14: Senate confirms Trump's attorney general pick William Barr, who will now oversee Mueller probe
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/14/trumps-attorney-general-pick-william-barr-has-enough-senate-votes-to-be-confirmed.html
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February 22: On Tuesday, the New York Times published the results of an extensive investigation into Trump's "two-year war on the investigations encircling him." The paper found that there has been a "sustained, more secretive assault by Mr. Trump on the machinery of federal law enforcement" than has been previously publicly known ....
As part of his efforts to contain the ongoing legal crises he faces, Trump reportedly tried to install a loyalist in New York's Southern District, US attorney Geoffrey S. Berman, as the new person in charge of the investigations into Trump's hush-money payments, like the one apparently made to Stormy Daniels in 2016.
https://sfist.com/2019/02/22/sf-based-irs-agent-stormy-daniels/
April 18: The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, produced a report of more than 400 pages that painted a deeply unflattering picture of President Trump but stopped short of accusing him of criminal wrongdoing. Here are seven takeaways.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/us/politics/mueller-report-pdf-takeaways.html
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April 30: Mueller's Letter To Barr Complained That Trump-Russia Report Summary Lacked 'Context'
Special counsel Robert Mueller wrote a letter in late March objecting to Attorney General William Barr's four-page summary of the conclusions of the investigation into possible ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, a Justice Department official confirmed Tuesday night.
The letter written to Barr expressed the special counsel's frustration that the attorney general's memo to Congress "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance" of the investigation.
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/30/718883130/mueller-complained-that-barr-summary-of-trump-russia-probe-lacked-context
May 1: Read: Letter from special counsel Robert Mueller to Attorney General William Barr
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/01/politics/mueller-letter-to-barr/index.html
May 23: Trump’s Cover-Up Accelerates
The president directed his attorney general to declassify information—raising the prospect of selective disclosures.
Trump directed his attorney general to declassify documents in an effort to depict Trump’s campaign as a victim of improper surveillance in 2016. Trump tweeted that the attorney general had “requested” these powers. That may even be true. But Trump has been demanding such an investigation of U.S. intelligence agencies since long before William Barr got the top law-enforcement job. Barr is compliant and complicit, but the idea is all Trump’s.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/trump-tells-barr-declassify-documents/590215/
May 24: Trump calls Russia investigation 'attempted coup'
... President Trump defended allowing Attorney General William Barr to release classified information on how the Russia investigation began, saying the “attempted coup” should never happen again.
https://www.pbs.org/video/news-wrap-trump-calls-russia-investigation-attempted-coup-1558736174/
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