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Daily: Why Does William Barr Want This Job?

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(Susan Walsh / AP)
William Barr went to Capitol Hill to defend his handling of the Mueller Report. The attorney general played an outsized role in shaping the narrative that the special counsel had written a nothingburger—though the report itself was more nuanced. (A letter from Mueller himself revealed he took issue with Barr’s representations.) After his testimony, Democrats in the Senate went after Barr for his treatment of the matter, with Kamala Harris—with her eyes on 2020—clearly doing the most to perturb him on his interactions of the president. Why Barr wants the AG job after a long, respected legal career, is worth pondering.
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