Barr accuses Justice Department of headhunting and meddling with politics
Attorney General William P. Barr delivered a scathing critique of his own Justice Department on Wednesday night, insisting on his absolute authority to overrule career staffers, who he said too often injected themselves into politics and went “headhunting” for high-profile targets.
Speaking at an event hosted by Hillsdale College, a school with deep ties to conservative politics, Barr directly addressed the criticism that has been building for months inside the department toward his heavy hand in politically sensitive cases, particularly those involving associates of President Trump.
“What exactly am I interfering with?” he asked. “Under the law, all prosecutorial power is invested in the attorney general.”
Barr’s comments were remarkable in that the head of the Justice Department catalogued all of the ways in which he thought his agency had gone astray over the years, and in its current formulation harms the body politic. Barr has drawn considerable criticism for intervening in criminal cases in ways that help benefit the president’s friends.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/william-barr-hillsdale-college/2020/09/16/0986dac4-f887-11ea-a275-1a2c2d36e1f1_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_barrdoj-1034pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans
Quite some projection there Billy boy
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