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I have a question for William Barr that may interest only me because I'm a veteran. Here is Barr's selective service card completed the day after he turned 18 in May 1968:
https://www.archives.gov/foia/william-pelham-barrs-selective-service-draft-card#.Xy9T2ntFZIw.email /1
https://www.archives.gov/foia/william-pelham-barrs-selective-service-draft-card#.Xy9T2ntFZIw.email /1
Here is Barr's Senate Judiciary confirmation questionnaire completed for his latest stint as AG.
https://judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/William%20Barr%20Senate%20Questionnaire%20(PUBLIC).pdf…
Note that Question #7 asks about military service and "whether you have registered for selective service." Barr's response: /2
https://judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/William%20Barr%20Senate%20Questionnaire%20(PUBLIC).pdf…
Note that Question #7 asks about military service and "whether you have registered for selective service." Barr's response: /2
"I have not served in the U.S. Military. I was born in 1950 and was not required to register for selective service."
Now, Barr is incorrect about the need to register as almost anyone who was 18 in 1968, like Barr, will attest. Was Barr so embarrassed by his obvious /3
Now, Barr is incorrect about the need to register as almost anyone who was 18 in 1968, like Barr, will attest. Was Barr so embarrassed by his obvious /3
deferment he thought it better to misrepresent to the Senate that he had even registered at all? No reason for that - just look at his boss.
Of course, in this Administration, where, sadly, mendacity is almost as widespread as COVID-19, I guess we can just write this off as /4
Of course, in this Administration, where, sadly, mendacity is almost as widespread as COVID-19, I guess we can just write this off as /4
... what did Winston Churchill call it? ... another "terminological inexactitude" by this Attorney General.
