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originally posted by: IAMTAT
a reply to: carewemust
WHY does the photo for Honcharenko match this Ukrainian language Professor's photo?:
Alla Nedashkivska, PhD
www.ualberta.ca...
“One of the more amusing aspects of modern progressive polemic is their breathless attacks on the unitary executive theory,” Barr said. He paused for effect, waved his arms, and shouted ghoulishly: “Bwaaaaaaaaaa!” He recounted his own confirmation hearing, at which Democratic senators pressed him to explain his muscular philosophy. “This is not ‘new,’ and it’s not a ‘theory,’” Barr said. If anything, he argued, the president’s rightful power had been stolen, a view shaped by his personal history. Barr started his career as a CIA analyst in 1973 in the midst of Watergate.
His performance appears to have earned Trump’s confidence to a rare degree. In the phone call with Ukraine’s president that set off impeachment, the president mentioned Barr in the same breath as his attorney Rudy Giuliani. Barr was reportedly angry when he heard about the call, though, and in fairness, he is nobody’s personal fixer. Rather, Barr is an intimidatingly competent governmental operator — a man who “knows the levers,” as one former Trump-administration Justice official put it. A better comparison, often made by Barr’s peers, is to Dick Cheney. Barr appreciates power, and he knows how to wield it.
Barr has made much of his personal relationship with Mueller, letting it be known that their wives attend Bible study together, and Mueller was a guest at two of his daughters’ weddings. It is a shield against any suggestion he would set out to undermine the investigation. But his full opinion of Mueller, according to people who know both men, is more complicated. Over their long relationship, Barr was always the alpha. Former colleagues say that while Barr respected Mueller, he saw him as an able prosecutor, not a brilliant legal mind.
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: crankyoldman
Wish I knew how to link WaPo articles so they'd be "clickable". This one has a photo taken today of Giuliani and a Ukraine lawmaker holding up documents in an ominous fashion. (Rudy is in Ukraine right now. Freaking out the talking-heads on CNN and MSNBC today.)
Ukraine lawmaker seeking Biden probe meets with Giuliani in Kyiv
originally posted by: Creep Thumper
a reply to: srb2001
Honestly, I think the thing that really drives them all is the loss of their corrupt revenue.