Attorney General Barr has always been a cover-up specialist

There should be nothing surprising about this recent performance

Attorney General William Barr.

It's clear that Attorney General William Barr has been an utter stooge for President Trump — just as dishonest as Rudy Giuliani, but far more effective. In his hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, he spun, dissembled, concocted ridiculous hairsplitting arguments, and as Nancy Pelosi said Thursday, lied outright to Congress.

His performance has elicited a lot of stunned commentary from centrist journalists and politicians, who thought that Barr was one of the storied "honorable" Republicans. Moderate Sens. Doug Jones (D-Al.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) now say they regret voting to confirm him.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.