Don’t miss this read: Current and former Justice officials describe Attorney General William Barr as someone who doesn't readily take advice and is prone to right wing conspiracies that he reads in fringe conservative sites on the Internet.
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A Justice Department official said Barr felt vindicated after Stone was ordered to prison for just over three years -- in line with what the attorney general had been telling associates would be fair, and far less than what prosecutors had originally requested.
Except the judge said she never intended to give him the 7 - 9 years that was initially submitted. She said it was the norm for prosecutors to ask on the high side. She also said it was unprecedented what William Barr did.
