The Bill Barr Hearing That Wasn’t

Dr. Munr Kazmir
6 min readJul 31, 2020

If nobody in a Congressional hearing is listening, does it make a sound?

WASHINGTON, May 15, 2019 — U.S. Attorney William Barr at the 38th Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service. It was held on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol to honor 158 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in 2018. President Donald Trump gave the keynote address. Also In attendance were House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and heads of federal law enforcement agencies. (Photo by: Shane T. McCoy/U.S. Marshals)

U.S. Attorney William Barr’s much-anticipated hearing on Capitol Hill devolved into farcical political theatre this week as Democrats “reclaiming time” prevented him from answering many of the questions lawmakers fired at him.

Lately, Attorney General Barr has been under aggressive fire from Democrats…

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