Barr has made DOJ political

Not since John N. Mitchell steered the Nixon re-election effort from the fifth floor of the Justice Department has an attorney general wielded the power of the office to so bluntly serve a presidential campaign https://t.co/Na3KKm9mNF @ktbenner

— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) September 26, 2020

It takes courage for a DOJ prosecutor to publicly call out AG Barr. Respect to Jamie Herbert, for speaking truth. “The attorney general acts as though his job is to serve only the political interests of Donald J. Trump. This is a dangerous abuse of power.” https://t.co/XNxiEEYBgu

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) September 26, 2020

More career folks speaking out against Barr https://t.co/H36rR5TqUv

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) September 25, 2020

Could AG Barr use the levers of government to help Trump steal the election? Let me count the ways. My thoughts in ⁦@washingtonpost⁩ https://t.co/A3NFJ2wGgs

— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) September 22, 2020

Barr might be the most dangerous man in America: How William P. Barr can help Donald Trump win the election – The Washington Post ⁦@BarbMcQuade⁩ #DisbarBarr https://t.co/tJHaZPEYz1

— Frank Figliuzzi (@FrankFigliuzzi1) September 22, 2020

Under William Barr, the Department of Justice has become a rogue agency. https://t.co/T2fKivkVHc

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) September 22, 2020

Analysis: William Barr’s habit of misleading https://t.co/T02ltylpVg

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 18, 2020

William Barr has gone too far before, but never this far, @RuthMarcus writes https://t.co/pdDlHQ7iRr

— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) September 17, 2020

Yes he ishttps://t.co/dp2HLM238p

— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) September 17, 2020

It’s truly educational just how intent on not listening some people actually are https://t.co/FgSdOcdrDD

— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) September 17, 2020

Bill Barr is the ultimate fixer Donald Trump has always wantedhttps://t.co/qvzSLEeiYu pic.twitter.com/tLzWFg9W9t

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) September 17, 2020

Important thread. Barr is a subversive and dangerous individual, solidly within authoritarian tradition, including his association with Opus Dei (friends & policy managers for Franco & Pinochet) https://t.co/yj11inONT2

— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) September 17, 2020

Stop calling Bill Barr crazy and delusional. This is a serious conceptual error. He is a deliberate propagandist who is methodically helping Trump actively weaponize the government in numerous corrupt ways, all serving the end of keeping him in power:https://t.co/PFeV9lujwJ

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 17, 2020

!!! Attorney General William Barr slammed the hundreds of Justice Department prosecutors working beneath him on Tuesday, equating them to preschoolers, in a defense of his own politically tuned decision making in the Trump administration. https://t.co/JvZngoxhx1

— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) September 17, 2020

Hey, remember when I warned you in my recent @TheAtlantic piece about Trump and Barr trying to turn the FBI into a private police force and DHS into the interior ministry – so we have to vote out the GOP entirely? Yeah, that. https://t.co/XrhS4gTDtq

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 17, 2020

Barr Says ‘Black Lives Matter’ Doesn’t Care About Black Lives https://t.co/f15BMgJjws

— Kevin Whitelaw (@KevinWhitelaw1) September 17, 2020

Read everything Barr was saying to the DOJ prosecutors. Then remember that last week, one of Durhams top deputies resigned in protest of Barr trying to rush the Durham report for politician purposes. We are seeing Barr’s rage filled reaction that his corruption got delayed.

— Kurt "Mask Up, Vote Early" Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) September 17, 2020

Q: What do you make of (the press), is it different in kind from what we've had in the past?

Barr: I mean, well, they're more ignorant than we've had in the past. … They don't care that they are not telling the truth because they don't believe truth is a meaningful concept.

— Sadie Gurman (@sgurman) September 17, 2020

He's attacking Michael Dreeben, who was a career, not political, member of the solicitor general's office and who served both Democratic and Republican administrations for decades. What a disgrace. https://t.co/fmtxwaZL6r

— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) September 17, 2020

CNN is reporting that Attorney General Bill Barr said in a speech that coronavirus closures are the ‘greatest intrusion on civil liberties’ other than slavery in US history.

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 17, 2020

Barr is attacking Michael Dreeben, detailed from the Solicitor General’s office to Mueller. Not an Obama person, the career deputy for the SG who handled criminal appeals in SCOTUS. I worked with him for well over a decade, pre-Obama, & couldn’t tell you what his politics are. https://t.co/RldjrJ5ux5

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) September 17, 2020

Just a stunning quote from an attorney general. https://t.co/wnlGehX12H

— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) September 17, 2020

Barr accuses career Justice Dept. prosecutors of 'headhunting' in politically charged defense of his actions as attorney general https://t.co/j53w2Fhsx8

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 17, 2020