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Of course, never mind his man at the CIA-State crux. If anything is demonstrating Trump's dealmaking with the deep state - the Bush mob itself, in fact - then the out-of-nowhere appointment as AG of Barr, former Bush AG (Nov 91-Jan 93). Talk about relevance!
This post is going to be a kind of convergence of multiple current threads. This seems like the best one to put it in, as the meta central for #Russiagate.
The wiki version on Barr:
On 24 December 1992, nearing the end of his term in office after being defeated by Bill Clinton the previous month, George H. W. Bush pardoned[22] six administration officials, five who had been found guilty on charges relating to the Iran–Contra affair. Barr was consulted extensively regarding the pardons,[23] and especially advocated for the pardon of former Secretary of Defense, Caspar Weinberger, who had not yet come to trial.[24][25]
Such a lenient guy! Barr's otherwise known as a law-and-order hardliner and war-on-drugs extremist who was later appointed to a Virginia commission that planned the
abolition of parole! What a combo.
Here's Doug Valentine's assessment:
The ironies are almost as thick as the lies at this point. Barr was always a CIA plant in the DOJ, representing the wishes of the Bush-Lilley faction, with emphasis on covering up the CIA's role in Iran-Contra and its meddling in Chinese affairs. This means two things: 1) the CIA wants Trump exonerated, because, I believe, Trump was laundering Russian-Jewish mob drug money with the CIA’s blessings, and 2) the Bush CIA faction now has a hammerlock on Trump.
That's from Valentine's fb. Also, "Barr will organize the pardons like he did for Bush, much simpler."
Now here's a find I'll leave you to judge. Barr is currently coming from Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago-based law firm, considered one of the top 3 corporate firms in the world, three billion in 2017 revenue.
Check out their clients! Quite the rogue's gallery:
New York office at 601 Lexington Avenue
Notable clients and cases
Represented BP in relation to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill;[15] notably scored a summary judgment ruling in favor of BP that it had no duty to report the Deepwater Horizon oil spill under the U.S. Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
Represented Volkswagen in relation to the Volkswagen emissions scandal[16]
Represented General Motors in relation to the General Motors ignition switch scandal[17]
Defended Nike, Inc. against trademark infringement claims regarding the Jumpman logo, protecting $2 billion in annual business for the company[17]
Scored a $93.8 million jury award for pharmaceutical giant AbbVie Inc. in a royalty dispute with MedImmune[17]
Represented MedTronic in a billion-dollar patent suit win against Atlas IP, LLC[17]
Scored a $73.6 million trade secrets misappropriation jury award against Caterpillar Inc. in favor of supplier Miller UK Ltd., believed to be the largest verdict of its kind in Illinois[18]
Represented Heinz co-owner 3G Capital in a $55 billion merger with Kraft Foods to create The Kraft-Heinz Company, the third largest food and beverage provider in the U.S.[19]
Represented The Macerich Co. in its successful defense against a $23.2 billion unsolicited offer from Simon Property Group[20]
Represented Baxalta in connection with British biotechnology giant Shire's $30 billion unsolicited takeover bid[21]
Represented Molson Coors Brewing in its $12 billion deal to purchase SABMiller’s stake in their MillerCoors joint venture as part of AB InBev’s takeover of its No. 2 rival[22]
Represented Piedmont Natural Gas in a $4.9 billion sale to Duke Energy[23]
Represented Teva Pharmaceutical Industries in its $40.5 billion acquisition of the generic drug business of Allergan, after representing Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management and Valeant Pharmaceuticals on their failed $55 billion hostile bid for the entire company.[24]
Represented Jeffrey Epstein in a case of sex-trafficking with minors.[25]
Regularly represents Bain Capital in various controlling interest private equity transactions.
I've bolded selectively. Here are some past attorneys of the firm - it looks like the recruiting grounds for Trump's appointments. One could bold the whole thing! Whole bunch of household names, at least around here.
Notable attorneys and alumni
Brett Kavanaugh - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Robert Bork - former Judge of the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and former Solicitor General under President Richard Nixon[26]
Michael J. Garcia - Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Jeff Wall - Principal Deputy Solicitor General and former acting Solicitor General under President Donald Trump
Paul Clement - former Solicitor General under President George W. Bush
Ken Starr - Whitewater special prosecutor and former Solicitor General under President George H. W. Bush [I DIDN'T KNOW THE LAST PART. JEEZ, NEVERENDING]
Pat Cipollone - incoming White House Counsel under President Donald Trump
Neil Eggleston - former White House Counsel under President Barack Obama
Alex Azar - Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Donald Trump
Alexander Acosta - Secretary of Labor under President Donald Trump
John R. Bolton - National Security Advisor under President Donald Trump[27]
Erica MacDonald - United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota under President Donald Trump
Brian Benczkowski - Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division under President Donald Trump
Beth Ann Williams - Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy under President Donald Trump
Steven Engel - Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel under President Donald Trump
Jeffrey A. Rosen - Deputy Secretary of Transportation under President Donald Trump
Steven G. Bradbury - General Counsel of the Department of Transportation under President Donald Trump
Nathan Sales - Coordinator for Counterterrorism under President Donald Trump
Mark Filip - forrmer Judge of the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and former Deputy Attorney General under President George W. Bush
Viet D. Dinh - Chief Legal Officer at 21st Century Fox[28], former Assistant Attorney General under President George W. Bush and chief architect of the USA PATRIOT Act
Jessica Kiser - Intellectual Property Professor at Gonzaga University School of Law (The Harvard of the West)
Robert S. Khuzami - Deputy United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York[29], former Director of the Division of Enforcement of the Securities and Exchange Commission and former General Counsel of Deutsche Bank
Timothy Muris - former Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission under President George W. Bush
Jay Lefkowitz - former Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea and Director of Cabinet Affairs under President George W. Bush
Dallin H. Oaks - member of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Christopher Landau
It appears the Kirkland Ellis circle commands the goods to oust (they won't) and therefore control Trump.
Okay, Acosta! Epstein. You are probably familiar with this:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/ ... 97825.htmlHow a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime
BY JULIE K. BROWN
NOV. 28, 2018
On a muggy October morning in 2007, Miami’s top federal prosecutor, Alexander Acosta, had a breakfast appointment with a former colleague, Washington, D.C., attorney Jay Lefkowitz.
It was an unusual meeting for the then-38-year-old prosecutor, a rising Republican star who had served in several White House posts before being named U.S. attorney in Miami by President George W. Bush.
Instead of meeting at the prosecutor’s Miami headquarters, the two men — both with professional roots in the prestigious Washington law firm of Kirkland & Ellis — convened at the Marriott in West Palm Beach, about 70 miles away. For Lefkowitz, 44, a U.S. special envoy to North Korea and corporate lawyer, the meeting was critical.
His client, Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein, 54, was accused of assembling a large, cult-like network of underage girls — with the help of young female recruiters — to coerce into having sex acts behind the walls of his opulent waterfront mansion as often as three times a day, the Town of Palm Beach police found.
It's like the Slime Convergence.
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