Somewhere in the swirling eddies of the news around impeachment in the past week I seem to recall the former FBI director William Webster condemning William Barr who, the interviewer said, had been one of Webster's friends. I know that it was said many times that that great white hope of insider faith, Robert Mueller was an even closer friend of William Barr. I believed that and it didn't surprise me when Mueller, knowing that Donald Trump and his campaign committed not only treason against the Constitution but against The People, in the face of him knowing that his buddy Barr was obstructing the Mueller Report, likely what history will mention Mueller's name in regard to, produced such a flaccid performance of non-committal cowardice when he finally and reluctantly testified in public about what he'd found.
With William Barr's flagrant aiding and abetting Trumpian fascist law breaking, of protecting the most fascistic president in our history and of destroying the Constitutional structure of divided power, he becomes the scandal that exposes the corruption in the kind of elite DC centered legal and judicial establishment that Webster, Mueller, Comey, Rosenstein, etc. are a part of, which so many of the members of the federal judiciary and the Supreme Court are a product of and pampered, entitled members of. He is exhibit 1 in what should be a trial on whether or not their power and privilege is compatible with egalitarian democracy, of government of, by and for The People. And the collusion and collegiality of other members of that establishment have to be further exhibits for the prosecution. The whole thing is a sewer running through a hazardous landfill masked by a wall of granite pillars. The Trump crime spree is not Barr's first round, he allowed Bush I to cover up crimes he committed in office through the very same mechanism of pardons that Trump keeps waving to hush up witnesses, he also aided the criminality of the Bush II- Cheney regime. And Barr was far from the only one.
With Barr's ongoing and public criminality and, worse, his attacks on democracy, that he hasn't already been disbarred by whichever of the cartels that he's licensed by is proof that that profession in its most basic professional institutions is a part of the corruption. I don't know how that could be reformed or what might replace it, I know it is as corrupt as the New York Bar which didn't kick out Roy Cohn until he was almost dead from AIDS despite decades of criminality and sleaze and the kind of disreputable legal practice that made him so useful to Donald Trump, his model of lawyering that Barr auditioned to be now.
I don't have any power, I certainly don't have any influence. But I can say that I'm not going along with it. All of the lawyers I've named here are scum. Their colleagues who go on cable TV, on MSNBC trying to peddle them as men of honor, the ones that are still being sold as such discredit themselves by doing that. They are covering up for the cover-up, a small-time act such as the one that man sold as a tower of integrity, Mueller mounted during his testimony and his refusal to stick his square chin out even as he was in a position better than any of them to know what sheer evil he was covering up for.
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