He’s been ‘vilified’ because of his impartial view of the Justice Dept.
The Washington Times (opinion, commentary), by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. — January 6, 2020
Excerpts:
The Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly A. Strassel has just conferred her “Adult of the Year Award” on a man who deserves it, Attorney General William Barr. And Ms. Strassel writes with sufficient distance from the swamp to be taken seriously. Her column, titled “Potomac Watch,” is, I am told, composed from her lair in Alaska. That ought to insulate her from the swamp’s fumes and from Wall Street’s, too.
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Ms. Strassel in her award-conferring column noted that upon being nominated for attorney general by President Donald Trump in December 2018 “he received the respect that he deserves.” Official Washington was quick to note Mr. Barr’s years of nonpartisan facility with the law observable in years spent at the Justice Department, at the CIA and in private practice. He was known as a serious student of the law and of the U.S. Constitution. All agreed he would not be anyone’s toady.
Yet Ms. Strassel notes that his honeymoon is over. He has begun to be “vilified precisely because he has maintained an impartial view of the Justice Department and has kept his promises.” This demonstrated integrity by the attorney general has “commenced one of the more obvious, not to mention nasty, delegitimization campaigns in modern Beltway history.”
Official Washington has been yapping at the attorney general’s appointment of John Durham — a prosecutor of squeaky-clean reputation — to investigate the FBI’s probe into the 2016 Trump campaign. It became “hysterical” when the attorney general stated “his own view” that the Inspector General’s December report confirmed that, as Mr. Barr put it, the FBI suspicions about the 2016 campaign were “insufficient to justify the steps taken” by the country’s top cops.
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