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      1. New: profile of William Barr, the once and future attorney general nytimes.com/2018/12/07/us/politics/william-barr-attorney-general.html
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      One takeaway is where his vision of strong executive power formed: working for CIA leg affairs during the Church Committee, clerking for an appeals court judge who thought Nixon's executive privilege meant he shouldn't have to turn over Watergate tapes, then Reagan White House
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    Barr is clearly not going to deviate from the hardline approach to immigration enforcement that the Sessions Justice Department pursued. He pushed to keep asylum seekers off planes to US...
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      and Barr battled DOD (=Colin Powell and Dick Cheney!) who were annoyed at his push to use Guantanamo Bay naval base to detain Haitian migrants and keep them off US soil, to screen out those deemed economic migrants who didn't qualify for asylum and those with HIV
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        Barr was also a big supporter of the tough-on-crime drug laws that led to the swelling incarceration rates. Not likely he'll be a criminal justice reform maven, then.
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          Under pressure, Barr created an independent counsel, angering GOP colleagues who saw it as a witch hunt. In a 2015 interview with @peterbakernyt he defended his move but said special prosecutors are too prone to indict so need supervision. What will that mean for Mueller?
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