Theory: this actually is a catch-and-kill program designed to keep Rudy from whispering directly into Trump's ear. It's Barr's effort to keep his boss on the rez.
Alt.Barr theory: An AG who wanted to keep his impetuous boss from self-destructing in an election year might set up a "catch & kill" program intercept Giuliani's Ukraine BS before it reaches Trump's ear, + reduce Stone's sentence to keep Trump from pardoning him outright...
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But that would require a garden-variety corrupt AG – a John Mitchell or Ed Meese. Barr's worse: he's an ideologue (though a monomaniacal one, whose only idea is the advancement of conservative presidential power). His idee fixee is "whatever the President wants, he gets."
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