WaPo: 4 early takeaways from William Barr's tense hearing

[Miles Archer]

4 early takeaways from William Barr’s tense hearing

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/01/early-takeaways-william-barrs-tense-hearing/

1) Barr is unrepentant
If you thought Barr might bend to criticism that he had been too favorable to Trump and change his approach, you’d be wrong.

2) Barr explains his allegedly misleading testimony
In addition to the Mueller letter’s rebuke of Barr, it also called into question his past testimony. Barr testified to the House last month — after receiving the letter — and suggested he wasn’t familiar with how the Mueller team perceived his actions.

3) Graham’s misleading preamble
Graham has turned into one of Trump’s most loyal allies on Capitol Hill. And true to form, he started the hearing on a very pro-Trump foot, using a series of misleading statements.

4) Digs at Mueller?
Barr and Mueller are reported to be friends, but one comment in particular suggested there might be some tension between them. When discussing Mueller’s letter and their conversations, Barr suggested Mueller could have headed this whole thing off before it ever happened and failed to.

[spooky3]

1. Go ahead, Barr--piss off Mueller. That will definitely

Keep him from wanting to talk to the Congress and the public.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. This happens to boyscouts.

I've been there. You're acting cordial and civil with a neighbor, and then they show you their crooked nature and they're surprised when you begin to distance yourself from them. "But I thought we were friends." Fuck you!

[spooky3]

6. Wow, I've had exactly the same experience with a long-time neighbor. Sorry you've been there.

One of my friends said he'd move if he were in my position, but there is no way I would give up my investment in my home etc. to reward bad behavior.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. I think this happens more often than people realize.

I live in a good ole boy community and it's a thing.

[prodigitalson]

8. I once discovered another teacher was changing answers on standardized tests

I reported it to my principal. Within three weeks I had been written up for 7 piddly things like shirts without a collar etc. and was put on a "growth plan." The retaliation continued until I resigned before I was fired. My lawyer then filed open records requests for communications between the principal and the superintendent on the dates that I reported the cheating. They came back and offered to pay me for the rest of the year I didn't complete (including through the summer) and wrote a glowing recommendation as long as I kept quite a out the whole thing. I took the money and got a better paying job. The cheating teacher still works there.

Point is there are a lot of corrupt people in this word.

This was in Texas where teachers have zero Union protection.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. I know. The question is, what are the rest of us going to do to make our lives better?

You did the right thing. I wish we all had the same option.

[PSPS]

2. WP composers must have a hotkey that inserts "misleading statement." Two less keystrokes than "lie"

[gratuitous]

3. Yeah, this is some pretty weak sauce

The Post's "early takeaways" are about a quarter step above middle school gossip. As for their second point, I must have completely missed how Barr "explains his allegedly misleading testimony" about whether or when Barr knew anything about how Mueller reacted to Barr's four-page-summary-that-wasn't-a-summary.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. He's shamelessly double-downing.