William Barr takes aim at prosecutors inside his own Justice Department

Attorney General William Barr took aim at his own Justice Department on Wednesday night, criticizing prosecutors for behaving as “headhunters” in their pursuit of prominent targets and for using the weight of the criminal justice system to launch what he said were “ill-conceived” political probes.

The comments at a speech at Hillsdale College in Michigan amounted to a striking, and unusual, rebuke of the thousands of prosecutors who do the daily work of assembling criminal cases across the country. Barr has faced scrutiny for overruling the decisions of Justice Department prosecutors who work for him, including in criminal cases involving associates of President Trump.

Rejecting the notion that prosecutors should have final say in cases that they bring, Barr described them instead as part of the “permanent bureaucracy” and suggested they need to be supervised, and even reined in, by politically appointed leaders accountable to the president and Congress. “The men and women who have ultimate authority in the Justice Department are thus the ones on whom our elected officials have conferred that responsibility — by presidential appointment and Senate confirmation,” Barr said, according to his prepared remarks. “That blessing by the two political branches of government gives these officials democratic legitimacy that career officials simply do not possess.

Barr is a real abomination!

So these are honest prosecutors.

“His own” Justice Dept. is a big part of the problem in media coverage of Barr & the entire Trump administration. “Where’s my Roy Cohn” as Trump approach to DOJ is unacceptable & should not be normalized like this.

Mobster

DEEP STATE AGENTS FAILED THIS COUNTRY FOR YEARS!!!!!!

Trump puppet. He is the lowest of the low. Trying to parrot Putin’s mafia state.

This man is nothing but a pimp for the president. Which is, of course, exactly Trump's idea of 'the best people.'

Some lawyers take their oath seriously pos

Barr seems to think that a president should have unlimited powers...so what's in it for Barr?

Destroying America one department at a time.

HE IS AS SICK AS TRAITOR TRUMP.!!

you mean DonaldJDrumpf's RoyCohn is attack honest hard working Prosecutors unlike him? WilliamBarr has a serious case of MoralTurpitude moral turpitude

This is a debacle at its finest!!

Cover-up General Barr is a hypocrite and should be prosecuted for his own bias and crimes.

Not yet, but I’m sure it’s bound to happen.

America: destroyed from within.

He is a bad, bad man.

Maybe they should turn their focus on his crimes.

He appears quite creepy corrupt. Curious in Canada 🇨🇦

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