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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
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.
"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."
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... 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
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
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
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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
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
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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