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NEW: We went through thousands of pages of documents from Attorney General Barr's term in the Bush administration, including memos from Robert Mueller with his recommendations on whether to appoint independent counsels: americanoversight.org/flashback-the-…
Attorney General William Barr is facing questions from the House Appropriations Committee today, where committee members have raised concerns about his handling of the Mueller report: appropriations.house.gov/legislation/he…
When Trump nominated Barr to serve as attorney general, many voiced concern about Barr’s views on executive power and what that would mean for his overseeing the Mueller investigation: americanoversight.org/flashback-the-…
We filed FOIA requests for long-filed-away documents from Barr’s prior service, to shed light on his past involvement in pardons and politically significant investigations, including the Iran-Contra scandal: americanoversight.org/flashback-the-…
The records we obtained include memos and congressional correspondence about past scandals, as well as a number of Mueller's recommendations to Barr about whether to appoint independent counsels to investigate various issues: americanoversight.org/flashback-the-…
Barr followed Mueller's recommendation not to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, who had donated $63,000 to Florida Republicans in 1991 to help re-elect Bush: documentcloud.org/documents/5796… 
Mueller also declined a request to investigate Lawrence Walsh, who had been the independent counsel examining the Iran-Contra affair. Barr again accepted Mueller's recommendation: documentcloud.org/documents/5796…
Mueller decided to investigate a Bush White House official, who was accused of illegally participating in a search of Bill Clinton's State Department records. (The official was later cleared of wrongdoing.) documentcloud.org/documents/5796…
The documents also include a handwritten note from Barr about warrants of deportations for wanted individuals, which says, “Can we substantially expand this as part of our crackdown?” documentcloud.org/documents/5796…
