Attorney General William Barr took sharp aim at federal line prosecutors in remarks at Hillsdale College's"Constitution Day" celebration Wednesday evening, describing them as improperly working to take law enforcement decisions into their own hands in contravention of the traditional chain of command.
"Name one successful organization or institution where the lowest level employees' decisions are deemed sacrosanct -- there aren't. There aren't any letting the most junior members set the agenda," Barr said."Letting the most junior members set the agenda might be a good philosophy for a Montessori preschool, but it's no way to run a federal agency.
Barr recounted what he described as his own meetings with FBI agents where he posed them the question,"Whose agents do you think you are?" "Line prosecutors ... are generally part of the permanent bureaucracy," Barr said."They do not have the political legitimacy to be the public face of tough decisions and they lack the political buy-in necessary to publicly defend those decisions."
Barr argued that the DOJ in recent years"has sometimes acted more like a trade association for federal prosecutors than the administrator of a fair system of justice based on clear and sensible legal rules." Story continuesThe remarks also mark a continuance of Barr's recent unapologetic tour where he has freely expressed openly partisan positions while accusing his opponents of being responsible for tearing down the norms in U.S. society. All the while, he has spent much of the time defending his own extraordinary and sometimes unprecedented actions intervening in department matters of direct political interest to Trump.
OMG. AG, do your job and let the health department do theirs.
Lol worse than the Japanese internment camps during WW2? Read a book bro.
He is right on!
Hey Bill Barr. You don't know a s---t about Covid-19 after 198,000 deaths sofar,6.5 million infections and horrible damage to our economy. Without the lockdowns in several states since middle of March, these figures would have been worse.
oh brother. He is as bad as Trump
Another Mad Man That Needs to Go From Government...... Who the Hell Are These People Man Shit.....Better to Be Governed By the Mafiosos......Almost. On the Real Though this some Mess
The administration is clearly responsible for creating a mess and forced a medical emergency to please the President’s re-election.
And the trump administration caused it they are the ones responsible for shutting down the country is why the American middle class are losing their homes at dismal rates
Trying to score political points I see
wth does he know anything about public safety. he knows how to be a criminal and associate w them. shut up barr. no one wants to hear you.
BS...BARR
Why is the AG interfering in a public safety issue? It’s obvious he’s the lapdog of Trump and I’m beginning to think if Trump loses Barr will do something to invalidate the election. Using Putin’s playbook.
Many things wrong in this photo
KerriKupecDOJ bull crap. You do what you gave to do to save millions. Bill Barr is a joke. If this is true, then there is no curfews, no Marshall law if needed, and the President cannot call planes from the sky during an attack. POS
Imany of us feel like MichaelSteele
He’s an idiot!
He prefers people falling sick and dying Complete moron
look wot is happening in Europe and UK people are getting fed up with being threatened with lock down
I think immigrants locked up in cages would disagree
The Japanese American “camps” during the war, the Suffrage movement, segregation are a couple that come to mind that are much worse. I guess it’s perspective.
Maybe giving immigrants hysyerectomies may be a little more intrusive but hey thats just me. Wow
Company man, trump’s henchman and thug
He needs to sit up straight. He is in a very respected position. Ijs
Right up there, for sure.
Accurate statement
What a disgrace to the country
And he is 100% accurate.
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