Thread by @pleasesaveour

JFC

insisting on his absolute authority to overrule career staffers, who he said too often injected themselves into politics and went “headhunting” for high-profile targets.

washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

Speaking at a conservative school!

Barr’s comments were remarkable in that the head of the Justice Department catalogued all of the ways in which he thought his agency had gone astray over the years, and in its current formulation harms the body politic.

I'm gonna assume morale is at an all time low

"Letting the most junior members set the agenda might be a good philosophy for a Montessori preschool, but it is no way to run a federal agency,”

“Now you have to call your adversary a criminal, and instead of beating them politically, you try to put them in jail,” Barr said, asserting that the United States was becoming akin to an Eastern European country.

Fab

In the course of his denunciation of officials who would seek to criminalize politics, Barr never mentioned how often his boss, the president, calls for people he dislikes to be charged with crimes.

Of course not because according to Barr, both he and Trump have absolute power

@glennkirschner2 @matthewamiller @danielsgoldman how do you fellas feel about these claims?

“All this nonsense about how something is dictated by science is nonsense,” he said.

Please wake me from this nightmare. #dystopian