AG Nominee Barr Was Influential in Removing Former FBI Director William Sessions
By Steve Neavling
Ticklethewire.com
President Trump’s nominee for attorney general, William Barr, knows a thing or two about firing an FBI director.
As attorney general during the final years of George W.H. Bush’s presidency, Barr laid out a case for removing William Sessions as FBI director, The Wall Street Journal reports.
His report detailed Sessions’ lapses in judgment and ethics in hopes that Sessions would resign. But Sessions refused, so Barr’s successor, Janet Reno, affirmed the report’s findings, prompting President Clinton to fire Sessions in July 1993.
After some lawmakers alleged Trump’s May 201y termination of Comey amounted to obstruction of justice, Barr responded in a memo in June 2018 that the argument was “fatally misconceived.”
Posted: 1/15/19 at 9:17 AM under News Story.
Tags: FBI, FBI director, george h.w. bush, William Barr, william sessions
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