It appears Garland has unleashed the FBI and other investigators in ways that must be sending shockwaves through Mar-a-Lago and the ranks of former Trump officials. One can only hope…

George HW Bush and Ronald Reagan were facing the possibility of treason charges. Who did they call? Bill Barr.

That was in the '80s and early '90s, but now we discover the Bill Barr really, truly, definitely also lied to America about presidential treason this decade. Shocking.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Victory in Europe Day" by Wikipedia.

Article: "National Nurses Day 2021: Free food, coffee, discounts | Dunkin', Chipotle, Under Armour, more" by Ben Axelson.

Article: "Will Barr Get Away With Covering Up Treason for HW Bush, Reagan & Now Trump?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "William P. Barr Oral History transcript", April 5, 2001.

Article: "'Argo' helps Iran's dictatorship, harms democracy" by Abolhassan Bani-Sadr.

Article: "Essay; Justice Corrupts Justice" by William Safire.

Article: "Essay; The Patsy Prosecutor" by William Safire.

Article: "The Pardons; Bush Pardons 6 In Iran Affair, Aborting A Weinberger Trial; Prosecutor Assails 'cover-up'" by David Johnston.

Article: "Judge blasts Barr, Justice Dept. for 'disingenuous' handling of secret Trump obstruction memo" by Spencer S. Hsu.

Video: "President Ronald Reagan - Address on Iran-Contra" March 14, 1987.

Article: "Judge Says Barr Misled on How His Justice Dept. Viewed Trump's Actions" by Michael S. Schmidt.

Article: "Mueller Report (Redacted) Searchable Version (PDF)".

Article: "Operation Eagle Claw" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cancer eating the heart of Australian democracy" by Kevin Rudd.

Article: "Turnbull unloads on 'lying' News Corp" by Andrew Tillett.

Article: "US jobs figures fall far short of expectations" by BBC.

Article: "New Study Estimates More Than 900,000 People Have Died Of COVID-19 In U.S." by Becky Sullivan.

Article: "US could have avoided almost 400,000 Covid deaths with better response, report claims" by Gino Spocchia.

Article: "How Jared Kushner's Secret Testing Plan "Went Poof Into Thin Air"" by Katherine Eban.

Article: "Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover" by NASA.

Article: "NASA has produced oxygen on the surface of Mars for the first time" by Leah Crane.

Article: "The most absurd conspiracy theory yet in the ongoing Arizona recount" by Chris Cillizza.

Article: "Elise Stefanik backs conspiracy-driven Arizona vote 'audit' and rails at Twitter on Steve Bannon podcast" by Oliver O'Connell.

Photo: "Earthrise" by William Anders.

Article: "After Being Scratched and Punched, Trump Wax Figure Is Removed" by Jesus Jiménez.

Article: "Florida's DeSantis signs new voting restrictions into law, making the state the latest to add hurdles to the voting process" by Amy Gardner, Lori Rozsa.

Article: "See the photo from the first helicopter flight on Mars, showing the planet's surface and the Ingenuity drone's shadow" by Morgan McFall-Johnsen.

Article: "Apollo 11 -- First Footprint on the Moon" by NASA.

Article: "Lunar water" by Wikipedia.

Article: "President Biden Announces American Rescue Plan" by White House.

Article: "World Press Freedom Day" by UNESCO.

Article: "RSF Index 2021: a mixed prognosis for press freedom in North America" by RSF.

Article: "Namibia celebrates World Press Freedom Day and 25th anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration" by UNESCO.

Site: NPC World Press Freedom Day 2021.

Article: "Trump administration officials passed when Pfizer offered months ago to sell the U.S. more vaccine doses." by Sharon LaFraniere, Katie Thomas and Noah Weiland.

Article: "Willie Mays" by Wikipedia.

Article: "National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare" by Wikipedia.

Site: Social Security Works.

Geeky Science: "One cup of leafy green vegetables a day lowers risk of heart disease" by Edith Cowan University.

Article: "Liz Cheney secretly organized key move to block Trump from using military to overturn election: report" by Bob Brigham.

Article: "Trump should deploy military to 'rerun' election in swing states, Michael Flynn says" by Joe Sommerlad.

Article: "Shake-Up At Pentagon Puts Trump Loyalists Into Senior Roles" by Tom Bowman.

Article: "Trump's acting secretary of defense is working to install a Trump loyalist as the top lawyer for the NSA just days before the president leaves office" by Sarah Al-Arshani.

Article: "Trump's acting secretary of defense disarmed D.C. National Guard 48 hours before the fascist assault" by Jacob Crosse.

Article: "Accused Capitol rioter had 'Foxitis,' his attorney says: He 'started believing what was being fed to him'" by Jaclyn Peiser.

Article: "Plato" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Republic by Plato.

Article: "Friedrich Nietzsche" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Voltaire" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away" - Ronald Reagan.

Law: "Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986".

Book: "October Surprise" by Barbara Honegger.

Article: "US columnist Robert Novak dies" by Chris Tryhorn.

Article: "William J. Casey" by Wikipedia.

Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia

Article: "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade" (GATT) by Wikipedia

Article: "Hispanic and Latino conservatism in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "In South Texas, Hispanic Republicans Try to Cement the Party's Gains" by Jennifer Medina.

Book: How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev.

Article: "Employers Can Require Workers to Get Covid-19 Vaccine, U.S. Says" by Vimal Patel.

Book: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.

Article: "Joni Ernst" by Wikipedia.

Video: 'A simple ag question' during Iowa Senate debate goes viral (Joni Ernst).

Video: Howard Dean and Bev Harris hack the vote.

Article: "Federal grand jury indicts four former Minneapolis police officers in George Floyd's death" by Dakin Andone.

Article: "This Is Ajit Pai, Nemesis of Net Neutrality" by Andrew Rice.

Article: "NY: Broadband cos paid for 8.5M fake net neutrality comments" by Tali Arbel.

Article: "30-Year Fixed-Rate Mortgages Since 1971" by Freddie Mac.

Article: "Oregon reports five more COVID-19 related deaths, 763 new cases" by KTVZ.

Article: "Sen. Mitch McConnell's great-great-grandfathers owned 14 slaves, bringing reparations issue close to home" by Corky Siemaszko.

Article: "In McConnell's boyhood town where his family owned slaves, the reparations debate thrives" by Sandy Mazza.

Article: "Pic Of The Moment: This Week In Pro-Slavery Republicans" by EarlG.

Article: "The 1619 Project" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump says he will sign executive order on "patriotic education" in rebuke of 1619 project" by Orion Rummler.

Article: "Republican state lawmakers want to punish schools that teach the 1619 Project" by Barbara Rodriguez.

Video: Finding your roots: Joe Madison discovers family history.

Article: "Study indicates that COVID-19 deaths in the United States are actually over 900,000" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Fired Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones turns herself in to jail and tests positive for Covid-19" by Tina Burnside and Holly Yan.

Article: "'They can't take it any more': pandemic and poverty brew violent storm in Colombia" by Joe Parkin Daniels.

Article: "Colombians march in eighth day of protests, police deploy tear gas" by Oliver Griffin.

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