Darryl Cooper
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 3 Aug
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You can find it in any mainstream story about it, Wikipedia, even whatever.
So Bill Barr himself, you know, he was an intelligence connected guy very deeply.
His first job out of college was as an intern for the CIA in the mid 70s.
And that doesn't sound like much until you learn that he was a legal intern with the CIA, whose job was to be the liaison to Congress during the Church and Pike committee hearings that were really like the first and up to this point, probably only time that the CIA has faced a real threat of oversight and clamping down on its activities.
And so this was a very, very critical time when a lot of the agency's secrets were coming out and they were facing the possibility of, well, they didn't know.
I mean, the agency might have gotten shut down, you know, if this had gone badly for them.
And so Bill Barr is the legal intern who's the liaison there.
And what that meant was, you know, he was the guy that when Congress requested some documents, he's like, OK, goes back to the agency.
Here's what they want.
OK, well, here's what we can give them.
And he goes back and convinces them that this is all there is or that they don't need the rest or anything like that.
He was that guy, you know, to smooth that over and make it work.
And he apparently did a very good job because the boss of the CIA at the time was George H.W.
Bush.
When George H.W.
Bush was elected president in 1988, took over in 89, he brought in Bill Barr to be his attorney general, who spent most of his time, at least the big story.
I'm sure an attorney general does a lot of things and wears a lot of hats, but the major story that was going on at the time was cleaning up what was left of the Iran-Contra affair.
And so you have the guy who was a legal intern for the CIA during the Church and Pike Committee hearings, brought in by the director of the CIA at the time to be the attorney general who is cleaning up the Iran-Contra affair that took place, obviously, while Bush was the vice president.
He goes into the private sector for a while, reemerges when Donald Trump needs an attorney general of his own, not for any particular reason, I guess, except, you know, then this happens.
He just happens to arrest the guy that his father gave his first job to, a job that he was totally unqualified for, and a guy who had proclivities that most of us find very strange and unacceptable and are very, very rare.
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