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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMorning Joy: Epstein was in a DoJ prison that is ultimately under the control of Bill Barr
And he had already tried to commit suicide so he should have been under a suicide watch too.
Kid Berwyn
(14,908 posts)by FRANK SNEPP
The Village Voice, APRIL 18, 2019
The Village Voice, October 27, 1992
Attorney General William Barr is the Best Reason to Vote for Clinton
Excerpt....
SON OF THE CIA
It was 21 years ago, in 1971, that I first encountered William Barr. Both of us were working for the CIA at the time, he as a novice China analyst, I as a member of the agencys Vietnam task force. Jovial and unassuming, he took his cues easily from an overly politicized office chief. It was a token of things to come.
Three years before, we had brushed shoulders unknowingly on Columbia Universitys roiling campus. Both of us were on the other side of the barricades as antiwar demonstrations there blasted our generation into a decade of rage. Barr, a conservative student spokesman, preached toughness to the university administration, of which his father, then dean of the engineering faculty, was a leading light. Years later, this same damn-the-torpedoes zeal would commend Barr to his ultimate father figure, George Bush. When Cuban refugees penned up at an Alabama prison rioted and took hostages in the summer of 1991, deputy attorney general Barr ordered the place stormed. Soon afterward, Bush tapped him for the attorney general slot itself.
Barr first met Bush in the CIA. In 1976, having shifted to the agencys legislative office, he helped write the pap sheets that director Bush used to fend off the Pike and Church committees, the first real embodiments of Congressional oversight of the CIA. Intimates say the experience was formative for Barr, turning him into an implacable enemy of congressional intrusions on executive prerogative.
The most radical period I had probably was when I was sort of a moderate Republican, he later acknowledged. Sure enough, Barr stayed safe within conservative clutches even after leaving the agency in 1977. Armed with a night-school law diploma, he asked for and got Bushs backing for a clerkship appointment to Malcolm Wilkey of the Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. Years later, as attorney general, Barr would name Wilkey to investigate the House Banking scandal. Wilkey repayed the favor with a wrenchingly partisan inquiry. Feeding the press overheated charges of wrongdoing, he scored points off the Democratic Congress just as the administration itself was being pilloried for its failed economics.
Source...
https://www.villagevoice.com/2019/04/18/attorney-general-william-barr-is-the-best-reason-to-vote-for-clinton/
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Epstein was head of a global pedophile trafficking ring that serviced the planets plutocratic elite.
Like Stalin was wont to say: No man. No problem.
calimary
(81,304 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,908 posts)Todd Neikirk
Hill Reporter, May 19, 2019
During Attorney General, William Barrs confirmation hearing, he was mostly peppered with questions about how he would handle the Mueller Report. Senator Ben Sasses (R-NE) questioning, however, diverged from the pack. Sasse asked Barr about the lenient sentence given out to billionaire pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. The future Attorney General told Sasse that he would look into the matter.
This, however, was not the first connection between Barr and his family and the disgraced pedophile. In 1973, Barrs father Donald, the headmaster at Manhattans Dalton School, hired Epstein as a calculus and physics teacher.
While hiring Epstein, a noted mathematics genius, was not strange on its face, the hire was unusual for a number of reasons. Epstein had not earned a college degree as he dropped out of New Yorks prestigious Cooper Union. The other odd circumstance was that the new teacher was only 20 years of age.
Apparently, the hire was a successful one. The New Yorker wrote in a 2003 profile on Epstein, he was something of a Robin WilliamsinDead Poets Society type of figure, wowing his high-school classes with passionate mathematical riffs. Epsteins mathematical skills caught the eye of Bear Stearns chairman, Alan Ace Greenberg, whose son attended the Dalton School. Greenberg hired Epstein as an options trader and the former teacher was able to amass a fortune.
Continues....
https://hillreporter.com/the-ties-that-bind-jeffrey-epstein-william-barr-donald-trump-34107
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Barr Sr. mustve seen something in that young man. Bet his AG son misses it.
calimary
(81,304 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,908 posts)And very, very bad. Especially for those who rock the boat of the Have-Mores.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)A common theme with them.
uponit7771
(90,346 posts)malaise
(269,026 posts)big time
onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)True Blue American
(17,985 posts)Justice Department!
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Why would he be sent back to jail so quickly...after a suicide attempt..good grief....
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Tweets like "he was in the custody of Bill Barr." Lots of those tweets.
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)Botany
(70,513 posts)dalton99a
(81,513 posts)except for minor mention of the civil lawsuits against his estate
Botany
(70,513 posts).... was flying with Jeff years after Donny said that he no longer had any contact with him.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142352799
We really do have thugs, mobsters, and Russian assets running our government.
triron
(22,006 posts)uponit7771
(90,346 posts)Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)How does a "suicide watch" operate inside such an institution?
24/7 video, for example?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/10/jeffrey-epstein-dead-prison-report-latest
grantcart
(53,061 posts)As for Barr being "responsible", Trump also is "responsible".
DOJ. And BOP are huge bureaucracies and I doubt that either know who the supervisor of the supervisor of the supervisor of the person who took him off the suicide watch is.
A more likely explanation is that Epstein's attorneys who were visiting him 8 hours A day so he could simply leave his cell pestered the prison officials and threatened law suits to get him off.
Suicide watch is very uncomfortable with 24 hour lights and no bed covers etc.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)So I can begin to imagine what that might have felt like for him, in that Federal NYC very serious place.
The voices of the abused (then) young people should, still, be heard, and compensation paid from his estate.
barbtries
(28,798 posts)the whole thing stinks to high heaven.
BannonsLiver
(16,387 posts)Have you learned nothing in the last three years? If not heres a primer: everything is a lie. The end.
triron
(22,006 posts)AncientGeezer
(2,146 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)If true, prison officials just saw him as another crybaby who didnt expect to get caught and treated like a commoner. I can see not putting the POS on watch.