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Dec 13, 2019Liked by Greg Olear

Thank you for this. I've been amazed at how many reporters can write about Jeffrey Epstein and William Barr, even in the same same sentence, without making the "Epstein-Barr" reference that I was hoping for. :)

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Dec 14, 2019Liked by Greg Olear

Greg, this is a terrific piece, and you lay out so many threads that cry out for further untangling. When I see the facts about Professor Donald Barr's time at Dalton-- his odd choice of Epstein to teach math to teenage girls and boys, and on top of that his kooky space-sex-slave novel--I think that there MUST be something more there to find out. And that something more may be key to understanding William Barr's strange worship of authoritarian leadership.

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Appreciate the (Simon) Barr Sinister ref. .takes me back a few years. 😌☺

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Great piece.

At the risk of sounding tedious, wth was Robert Mueller thinking if Barr and he were friends all those years? By a person's words and actions, we know them.

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'...Bill Barr, by contrast, does not seem to care about the underlying motives of the president. In his view, the president is an Augustus, above the law. ...'(article)

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By Greg Olear, article)

Note: I have quoted liberally from Frank Snepp’s excellent 1992 Village Voice article, “Bill Barr: The ‘Cover-Up General.’” I encourage you to read every word of it.

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