>>6378084

Somebody, somewhere has a college yearbook pic of Bill Barr

Has he always worn those Mr. Peabody eyeglasses?

At least he doesn't wear bow ties

WHOA

Bill Barr was/is CIA???

And he plays the bagpipes.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/06/william-barrs-secret-passion-the-bagpipes

Fair warning: Reading the full article will mess with your head. (full article in link)

"The City of Washington Pipe Band may be the best evidence we have of a “deep state.” Barr was in the Justice Department. Green was a senior official in George W. Bush’s Administration. (“Condi Rice, my boss, would go to piano camp every summer, so she said it was O.K. for me to do bagpipes,” Green explained.) There were members of the intelligence community and the labor unions, a Secret Service agent, and a congressional general counsel. Glendinning recalled a piper who was “an F.B.I. agent with a specialty in human-flesh decomposition.” Jon Quigg, one of the band’s drummers, remembered prepping for a performance in Barr’s office—“the same space that R.F.K. had occupied thirty years earlier.” He added, “Heady experience.

Barr quit competing in the late eighties, when things began to heat up at the Justice Department. “He’d come to watch us practice and compete, with his entourage of security, but he couldn’t keep playing,” Green said. In 1991, when Barr was appointed Attorney General for the first time, by George H. W. Bush, he invited the band to play at his swearing-in. “We marched in and played a medley of tunes,” Green said. Bush made some wisecracks in his speech, and said, of his bagpiping A.G., “I’m wondering if he understands that the Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.”

The band is currently on hiatus, but old members still meet up to jam. Sometimes Barr talks about getting the band back together, Glendinning said. A few years ago, Barr bought a set of ­matching chanters—the bagpipe mouthpiece—and a fleet of drums, for all the out-to-pasture pipers. “Let’s make real music again,” he told them, in a note.“Not this modern, gimmicky stuff that all the bands are playing these days.”

Barr still likes to host ceilidhs—big Scottish-music parties—complete with pipes, fiddles, and whiskey. The most recent one took place last October. “He invited Celtic musicians from Scotland, on his own dime, to join us,” Green said. Two months later, Barr got the call from the President. “I was over at his house when he told me that Trump had asked him to be the new Attorney General,” Glendinning recalled. “I said, ‘Take it! Your country needs you!’ But on my way home, in the car, the toll of such a job—not just on Bill but on his family—as well as having to leave the comforts of semi-retirement, began to gnaw at me.” Glendinning had trouble sleeping that night, and sent Barr an e-mail listing all his concerns. But it was too late. Barr’s response: “Thanks, my friend. I have crossed the Rubicon.”

Green said, “He didn’t have us play at the ceremony this time around.” ♦

>>6378153

>>6378153

"Barr moved to D.C., in 1973, to work for the C.I.A. and attend law school simultaneously."

WHAT

William Pelham Barr

Born Upper West Side NYC

Corpus Christi School, then Horace Mann (whew)

B.A. Columbia, major in government

M.A. Columbia, government/Chinese studies (hmm)

George Washington Law

From 1973 to 1977, Barr was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency. Barr was a law clerk to Judge Malcolm Wilkey of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1977 through 1978. He served on the domestic policy staff at the Reagan White House from May 3, 1982, to September 5, 1983, with his official title being Deputy Assistant Director for Legal Policy. He was also in private practice for nine years with the Washington law firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge.

Also in 1992, Barr authored a report, The Case for More Incarceration, which argued for an increase in the United States incarceration rate for violent criminals.

The media described Barr as staunchly conservative. The New York Times described the "central theme" of his tenure to be: "his contention that violent crime can be reduced only by expanding Federal and state prisons to jail habitual violent offenders."

(I have to agree. They can't be reformed; more people in the USA = need more jails for the rejects)

At the same time, reporters consistently described Barr as affable with a dry, self-deprecating wit. (/ourguy/ confirmed)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barr

Barr and Robert Mueller have known each other since the 1980s and are said to be good friends. Mueller attended the weddings of two of Barr's daughters, and their wives attend Bible study together.

Washington is a very, very strange place.

>>6378380

Oh man, I just love it.

The internet age has had what, 30+ years to settle in

And we finally figured out how to use it.

We have instant access to more information than any generation in all of history

Blindingly fast

And it's sure as hell more powerful than a speeding bullet

Think of what a bunch of anons can find

Okay

Now think of what intel agencies can get

Financial records, medical histories, comprehensive communication histories

Anybody, anywhere, can get turned inside out.