By Lee Cary ——Bio and Archives--February 17, 2020
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TO: U.S. Attorney General William Pelham Barr
Sir:
With respect, you would do well to consider the words of three of our fellow citizens, two living – one dead, as many Americans ponder the fate of a nation with a two-tiered justice system.
It is a toxic system, largely fostered and sustained by the Department of Justice that you lead, sir. "There is an immediate and urgent need to restore the application of the rule of law which means it has to be applied equally regardless of political party. I think that is what Attorney General Barr realizes has to be done for the public to have any trust in the FBI or the Department of Justice ever again."While Powell believes that you realize the public's declining trust in the FBI and the DoJ, she does not speak for those of us not convinced that you're prepared to do what it will take to restore that trust. Your recent public statement that "…the president's tweets ‘make it impossible for me to do my job'" quickly became a meme for the Trump-hating, liberal-media's echo chamber. Your complaint caused some, who supported your appointment as Attorney General, to question both the motive and appropriateness of your comments. The liberal media exploited your statement on 13 February when the New York Times ran an article entitled "Barr Says Attacks From Trump Make Work ‘Impossible' The attorney general said that the president's attacks on prosecutors' handling of his friend Roger Stone's sentencing undermine the legal system and the Justice Department."
"In my view, past experience is an indication of what's going to happen. Comey was referred to the Justice Department under the Attorney General, Barr, for prosecution for leaking the President's FBI prosecution files, for lying about it, including classified information – they refused to proceed. You have significant criminal activity by the Deputy FBI Director referred by the I.G. to the Attorney General – they refused to proceed. I'm hopeful that he tries to get control of the Justice Department. Judicial Watch is facing opposition from the Justice Department in getting accountability even through the simple F.O.I.A. process; it's troubling. The Attorney General has got to understand that it ain't regular business at the Justice Department. This week began with a slap at the Attorney General; an attack on the President through this abuse of Stone; and it ended, frankly, with another slap and attack at the President and the Attorney General. And if he (referring to you, Sir) thinks he being well served by the careerists surrounding him, he needs to take another look at who's advising him, because you (looking at a former DoJ official in the panel) know the way it works. These folks pretend to be non-partisan. The Justice Department if full of Democrat activist lawyers pretending to be career civil servants, who are pursuing an agenda. There are thousands of (US Army LTC) Vindmans, thousands of James Comeys, and they're not working for you and I."
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"A sense of confidence in the courts is essential to maintain the fabric of ordered liberty for a free people and three things could destroy that confidence and do incalculable damage to society: that people come to believe that inefficiency and delay will drain even a just judgment of its value; that people who have long been exploited in the smaller transactions of daily life come to believe that courts cannot vindicate their legal rights from fraud and over-reaching; that people come to believe the law – in the larger sense – cannot fulfill its primary function to protect them and their families in their homes, at their work, and on the public streets."General Barr, similar factors are destroying the nation's confidence in the courts. That confidence is further eroded daily. About ten months ago, you called spying on a political campaign a "big deal." Who, sir, will be held accountable for the "big deal," and when? Justice delayed is justice denied.
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