{"id":393379,"date":"2019-01-19T03:12:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T02:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/william-barrs-connection-to-ruby-ridge\/"},"modified":"2019-01-19T03:12:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T02:12:58","slug":"william-barrs-connection-to-ruby-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/william-barrs-connection-to-ruby-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"William Barr\u2019s Connection to Ruby Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Attorney General nominee William Barr have focused heavily on Barr\u2019s views on Special Counsel Robert Mueller. But nobody is asking about Barr\u2019s legal crusade for blanket immunity for federal agents who killed American citizens.<\/p>\n

Barr received a routine questionnaire from the Judiciary Committee asking him to disclose his past work including pro bono activities \u201cserving the disadvantaged.\u201d The \u201cdisadvantaged\u201d that Barr spent the most time helping was an FBI agent who slayed an Idaho mother holding her baby in 1992. Barr spent two weeks\u00a0organizing former Attorneys General<\/a>\u00a0and others to support \u201can FBI sniper in defending against criminal charges in connection with the Ruby Ridge incident.\u201d Barr also \u201cassisted in framing legal arguments advanced\u2026 in the district court and the subsequent appeal to the Ninth Circuit,\u201d he told the committee.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>That charitable work (for an FBI agent who already had a federally-paid law firm defending him) helped tamp down one of the biggest scandals during Barr\u2019s time as Attorney General from 1991 to early 1993. Barr was responsible for both the U.S. Marshals Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, two federal agencies whose misconduct at Ruby Ridge \u201chelped to weaken the bond of trust<\/a>\u00a0that must exist between ordinary Americans and our law enforcement agencies,\u201d according to a 1995 Senate Judiciary Committee report.<\/p>\n

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The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Attorney General nominee William Barr have focused heavily on Barr\u2019s views on Special Counsel Robert Mueller. But nobody is asking about Barr\u2019s legal crusade for blanket immunity for federal agents who killed American citizens. Barr received a routine questionnaire from the Judiciary Committee asking him to disclose his past […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}