IMHO, mark down 3/29/19 as the date William Barr became only the latest casualty of 45's residency

[lindysalsagal]

Just like all those who have come (and gone) before him, Barr thought he'd be the one who could appease Hitler.

Already, just what, 6 weeks into his appointment by the gangster potus, we're hearing those famous words: "William Barr is a very good man, a man I respect completely..." The death-nell so many others heard but disregarded. But just as Barr delivered on his promises, he's already dancing the walk-back dance, finally realizing it was a futile effort from the start, to work for a spineless, brainless, soulless, lying turdball.

So, it will likely take another month, but, we've see this movie: He'll return to the real world, a world Barr knew before volunteering to chain himself to the huge rock of pain lying at the bottom of the toxic swamp called trump, and those old friends, co-workers and loved ones will try to bring him back out of the dumpster fire, and he'll eventually do something that pisses off the giant baby and suddenly, Barr will be the dumbest, most evil, corrupt, swarthy back-stabber who's ever taken a limo into DC. And, like everything else frump touches, his career will die an ugly, pointless death.

Meanwhile, the following past-co-dependent trump spouse wannabe's will have one more semi-respectable person they can point to who thinks: I'm not the only one who foolishly thought: "He's got his issues, but I CAN CHANGE HIM!":

Sessions, Whitaker, Cohen, Flynn, Manafort, Papadopolous, Shuylkin, McMaster, Tillerson, McEntree, Gary Coh, Hope Hicks, Rob Porter, Omarosa, Dina Powell, Price, Gorka, Bannon, Scaramucci Priebus, Spicer, Dubke, Comey, Kelly, Yates, and some smaller characters:

Steven Goldstein: Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
Josh Raffel: Deputy communications director
Rick Dearborn: deputy chief of staff
George Sifakis: director, Office of Public Liaison
Ezra Cohen-Watnick: senior director for intelligence programs, National Security Council
Michael Short: senior press assistant
Walter Shaub: director, Office of Government Ethics
Vivek Murthy: surgeon general
Angella Reid: chief usher, White House
Katie Walsh: deputy chief of staff
Preet Bharara: U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/list-officials-left-trump-administration/story?id=49334453

By Veronica Stracqualursi, Adam Kelsey and Meghan Keneally Mar 29, 2018 5:07 PM
Donald Trump's campaign had its fair share of staff shake-ups before the election and that continued into his administration.

Now more than a year into the Trump administration, over a dozen notable members of both the White House and the administration at large have left their posts.

[mr_lebowski]

1. What did I miss? What happened today? (nt)

[TruckFump]

2. New Barr letter.

WASHINGTON — The special counsel’s report on the investigation into Russia’s election interference will be made public by mid-April, Attorney General William P. Barr told lawmakers on Friday, adding that the White House would not see the document before he sent it to Congress.

“Everyone will soon be able to read it,” Mr. Barr wrote in a letter to the chairmen of the congressional judiciary committees.

Prosecutors from the office of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, and other law enforcement officials are scouring the report for sensitive information to black out before releasing it, including secret grand jury testimony, classified materials and information about other continuing federal investigations, Mr. Barr wrote.

He said the report — which covers Moscow’s campaign to sabotage the 2016 presidential race, whether any Trump associates conspired and whether the president obstructed the inquiry — was nearly 400 pages, plus supplements. He said he planned to testify on Capitol Hill in early May, shortly after the report’s release, to discuss it with lawmakers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/us/politics/barr-mueller-report.html

[mr_lebowski]

7. I'd bet Mueller had extensive mechanisms by which all the stuff in report that would need redacted

at the end, but before release ... was cataloged.

This kind of stuff has to be built into the systems that would used to write the report. As you write it, you set flags and such re: confidentiality of the passages WHILE you do it, IOW. It's not like it was done by me sitting at my PC with freaking MS Word, I'm pretty dang sure ...

I'd bet it's no more than a week's job due to those mechanisms. It's only 'outside' stuff I would think would involve any real 'time'. Which could easily be provided at a slightly later date.

IOW I really bet that 4/2 is totally doable for the report itself at minimum and that's WHY that date was chosen.

[TruckFump]

9. Mueller is an old hand.

This was not his first rodeo. I am betting with you. Mueller had AUSAs helping him and paralegals and law clerks and legal secretaries and transcriptionists, etc. Having practiced for a long time and having had a law partner who had been a clerk on the 9th circuit, I can pretty much guarantee that anymore there are employees of the DOJ that have the expertise to do assigned tasks exactly like you describe.

I practiced long before word processing was all over the place. And...we could still do catalog a pleading, report, opinion for a judge, etc. Barr is blowing BS hot air.

[Irishxs]

3. Just like the rest, he walked in eyes wide open. No pity from me.

[uponit7771]

4. +1, or should have know even if half ass'd paying attention

[uponit7771]

5. Barr is latest letter sounds like it's Guilliani sloppy and stupid...damn, they're all really stupid

[jalan48]

6. "Attorney General William P. Barr told lawmakers on Friday, adding that the White House would not

see the document before he sent it to Congress."

And we believe this?

[GeorgeGist]

8. Barr auditioned for the part ...

exactly as he has played it. Fuck him and his legacy.