Lowering the Barr 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., notes the proliferation of conspiracy theories, most based on absolutely nothing, surrounding the death of Jeffrey Epstein, and questions whether the persons charged with finding the truth will give a darn. A snippet:
In a time such as this, it’d be good to have a credible investigator who could be counted upon to dig out the truth. Instead, we have Attorney General William Barr, and if there was ever a time he might have fit the bill, it was before he turned the Department of Justice into Trump’s private law firm. In his mishandling of the Mueller report, abandoning his post as the nation’s lawyer to install himself as Trump’s defense counsel, Barr sacrificed his credibility and that of his department.
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