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William Pelham Barr (born May 23, 1950) is an American attorney who served as the United States attorney general in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1991 to 1993 and again in the administration of President Donald Trump from 2019 to 2020. Born and raised in New York City, Barr was educated at the Horace Mann School, Columbia University, and George Washington University Law School. From 1971 to 1977, Barr was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency. He then served as a law clerk to judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In the 1980s, Barr worked for the law firm Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, with one year's work in the White House of the Ronald Reagan administration dealing with legal policies. Before becoming attorney general in 1991, Barr held numerous other posts within the Department of Justice, including leading the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and serving as deputy attorney general. From 1994 to 2008, Barr did corporate legal work for GTE and its successor company Verizon Communications, which made him a multimillionaire. From 2009 to 2018, Barr served on the board of directors for Time Warner. Barr is a longtime proponent of the unitary executive theory of nearly unfettered presidential authority over the executive branch of the U.S. government. In 1989, Barr, as the head of the OLC, justified the U.S. invasion of Panama to arrest Manuel Noriega. As deputy attorney general, Barr authorized an FBI operation in 1991 which freed hostages at the Talladega federal prison. An influential advocate for tougher criminal justice policies, Barr as attorney general in 1992 authored the report The Case for More Incarceration, where he argued for an increase in the United States incarceration rate. Under Barr's advice, President George H. W. Bush in 1992 pardoned six officials involved in the Iran–Contra affair. Barr became attorney general for the second time in 2019. During his term, he received criticism from many for his handling of several challenges, including his letter on the Mueller report, interventions in the convictions and sentences of former advisors to President Trump, Roger Stone and Michael Flynn, his order of the federal government to resume federal executions after 17 years, and allegations of political interference in the removal of Geoffrey Berman from his Southern District of New York attorney position in a matter pertaining to the indictment of Turkish bank Halkbank, a bank with close personal ties to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. On December 1, 2020, Barr stated FBI and Justice Department investigations found no evidence of irregularities that would have changed the outcome of the presidential election. Barr is the second person to ever serve two non-consecutive terms as U.S. Attorney General, after John J. Crittenden. Early life and education Barr was born in New York City in 1950. His father, Donald Barr, was an American educator, writer, and Office of Strategic Services (OSS) officer who taught English literature at Columbia University before becoming headmaster of the Dalton School in Manhattan and later the Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York, both members of the Ivy Preparatory School League. Barr's mother, Mary Margaret (née Ahern), also taught at Columbia. Barr's father was raised Jewish but later converted to the Roman Catholic Church. His mother is of Irish Catholic ancestry. Barr was raised as a Catholic. Barr was the second of four sons, and his younger brother Stephen Barr is a professor of physics at the University of Delaware. Barr grew up on New York City's Upper West Side. As a child, he attended a Catholic grammar school, Corpus Christi School, and then the non-sectarian Horace Mann School. After high school, he attended Columbia University, where he majored in government and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1971. Barr was also an active member in the Sigma Nu fraternity. He did two additional years of graduate study at Columbia, receiving a Master of Arts in government and Chinese studies in 1973. While at Columbia, Barr opposed anti-Vietnam War occupation protests by students on campus. After moving to Washington, D.C., to work as an intelligence analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Barr entered the evening student program at George Washington University Law School. He graduated in 1977 with a Juris Doctor with highest honors. Career Early career Barr worked for the CIA from 1971 to 1977 while attending graduate school and law school. He was first hired as a summer intern for two years. During his law school years he was an analyst in the Intelligence Directorate division from 1973 to 1975, and then transitioning to an assistant in the Office of Legislative Counsel and an agency liaison to Congress from 1975 to 1977. After graduating from law school in 1977, Barr spent one year as a law clerk to Judge Malcolm Wilkey of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He then joined the law firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman) from 1978 to 1982 and again from 1983 to 1989, after serving as Deputy Assistant Director for Legal Policy on the domestic policy staff at the Reagan White House from May 1982 to September 1983. Barr has never prosecuted a case. U.S. Department of Justice In 1989, at the beginning of his administration, President George H. W. Bush appointed Barr to the U.S. Department of Justice as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), an office which functions as the legal advisor for the President and executive agencies. Barr was known as a strong defender of presidential power. He wrote an advisory opinion justifying the U.S. invasion of Panama and arrest of Manuel Noriega. He wrote legal justifications for the practice of rendition, so that the FBI could enter onto foreign soil without the consent of the host government to apprehend fugitives wanted by the United States government for terrorism or drug-trafficking. Barr declined a congressional request for the full 1989 opinion, but instead provided a document that "summarizes the principal conclusions". Congress subpoenaed the opinion, and its public release after Barr's departure from the Justice Department showed he had omitted significant findings in the opinion from his summary document. U.S. Deputy Attorney General (1990–1991) In May 1990, Barr was appointed Deputy Attorney General, the official responsible for day-to-day management of the department. According to media reports, Barr was generally praised for his professional management of the department. During August 1991, when then-Attorney General Richard Thornburgh resigned to campaign for the Senate, Barr was named Acting Attorney General. Three days after Barr accepted that position, 121 Cuban inmates, awaiting deportation to Cuba, seized nine hostages at the Talladega federal prison. He directed the FBI's Hostage.... Discover the Stephanie Barr popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Stephanie Barr books.
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Technical Difficulties and Other Stories that Follow Saving Tessa
Stephanie BarrAfter an adventure that nearly got Dylan Chroz, Tessa Miller, and Nathan Lawrence killed, one might think they'd want anything but more adventure, but what could be more intrepid t...
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Demon Spawn
Stephanie BarrMaligned and misunderstood, demons were seen as the enemy of humanity, even when other magic users are accepted and used. But how did it come to such a pass that demons were killed...
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Nine Lives
Stephanie BarrOf all the ridiculous turn of events, that hotheaded interloper, Laren, took charge when a flurry of crises descended. Our leader was downed by some unknown disease, our healer mau...
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Curse of the Jenri
Stephanie BarrThe world of the Jenri is a dangerous, primitive world, where women are prized as chattel, but the Jenri women, every one from the eldest archivist to the smallest babe, strike fea...
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Tarot Queen
Stephanie BarrAfter nearly four hundred years as the Tarot Queen, Roxell might still appear young and beautiful on the outside, but inside she was bored and jaded. Reading fortunes and conjuring...
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Power Struggle and Other Stories from the Bete Novels
Stephanie BarrBefore the Bete and the other castaways crash landed on their new home across the universe, they fought different battles on the land of their birth. Meet Xander, Laren, Rem, K'Ti,...
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Anathema and Tidbit
Stephanie BarrRejected even by her own kind, Anathema, the albino dragon, always thought she’d live her centuries alone until, on a whimon a compulsionshe rescued a tiny black kitten from certai...
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The Library at Castle Herriot
Stephanie BarrWho knew the secret library Sophia stumbled upon at Castle Herriot would sweep her into the ancient past and leave her only a torturous path to return home?The castle's caretaker c...
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Inner Worlds
Stephanie BarrStephanie Barr is back with another startling collection of short stories, as surprising, entertaining, and thought provoking as she's ever been. From rewriting classics tales to c...
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Fated Encounters
Stephanie BarrEver wonder why magic is so pervasive in history yet so absent today?What if there were an explanation?Have you ever wondered why smart girls stayed with men who mistreated them?Wh...
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Easy Prey
Stephanie BarrThree short prequel stories for the upcoming release of Ideal Insurgent, but these stories can stand on their own."Starstruck" Bryder wants nothing more than to take the evil Rand...
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Catalyst
Stephanie BarrDivorced rocket scientist, Chloe Kendall, thought she was nothing out of the ordinary.That was until a terrorist attack caused her to lose her temper. Violent offenders around the ...
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Conjuring Dreams or Learning to Write by Writing
Stephanie BarrMagicwielders, shapeshifters, mermaids, empaths and diviners and even teddy bears and computer programmers wander through 26 stories, written into life for situations thoughtprovok...
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Ideal Insurgent
Stephanie BarrNayna and Bryder were the two top analysts for the Randian Empire, depended upon to provide recommendation and options when facing unknown planets and ruthless enemies. But the Emp...
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Meow O Ween
Stephanie BarrSpooky, scary, otherworldly, magical…You can find all kinds of stories in this collection of haunting cat stories for children.And if you think the perfect solution to a frightenin...
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The Taming of Dracul Morsus
Stephanie BarrAbandoned as a child for his inborn gifts, raised by a dragon, Mage Dracul Morsus came to be the most powerful mortal man in the world. He has also renounced the world of men that ...
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Challenge Accepted
Stephanie Barr, Adam David Collings, E.M. Swift-Hook, Andy Zach, Joyce Hertzoff, Jen Ponce & J. A. BusickA blind spaceship pilot.Cops and maintenance personnel in wheelchairs.Taking on bad guys with only one leg or no arms.It's not what you are that makes you something special. It's w...
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Saving Tessa
Stephanie BarrIn the year 2045, smart tech is everywhere, much of it devised by the teenage prodigy Dylan Chroz. But being at the top of the technical world means being in demand. Sometimes, by ...
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Legacy
Stephanie BarrLife brings setbacks and tragedies to us all, but the suffering does not define us. Our choices do. We are who we choose to become in the aftermath.Traumatized and orphaned by the ...
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Musings of a Nascent Poet
Stephanie BarrMyths and romance, Armageddon and the occult, teddy bears and fairy tales, anything can be fodder for an epic poem and Stephanie Barr proves that with this collection of poetry fro...
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Delicate Dangerous Queens
Stephanie BarrFour origin stories for key players from the Curse of the Jenri. All prequels so no spoilers.Delicate Dangerous Queens Saldomar has lived the life of a solitary mage until an unfo...
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Pussycats Galore
Stephanie BarrCats.Fluffy, soft, and cuddly,Keepers of the amazing purr.Vicious, deadly killing machines.That choose to share their lives with us.Science fiction kitties saving lives. Cat shifte...
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Dangerous
Stephanie BarrHopeful as the third moon rising on the horizon over a dying colony.Witty as a murder of crows searching for the worst kind of soul stealer.Desperate as a man fighting against a fa...
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Second Slavery and Other Stories from the World of Dracul Morsus
Stephanie BarrDracul Morsus was born a magic user of incredible power, but he's forsaken the world of men.Xana was a slave.Fylyx and Xylyx, well, defy description.What brings them all together?W...
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Beast Within
Stephanie BarrThere should never have been a space battle, certainly not one that sent my ship full of fleeing children across the whole damn universe. Nor was I prepared to land on a planet I k...
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Altered Page
Stephanie BarrA bored wizard who can't seem to find his magic specialty stumbles into a different world in his pursuit for a good story, but he hadn't intended to become part of the story. He fi...
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Add a Cup of Chaos
Stephanie BarrEveryone knew that, while magic was fine, demons were evil. So evil that humans had gone to war a hundred years before and destroyed them all.All except for the last few demonschai...
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Twice the Man
Stephanie BarrWith the ejection of the "demonhaters" from the settlement and the recovery of the most powerful of the Bete (shapeshifters), the group seemed in excellent shape for survival. Ther...