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Attorney General William Barr mentions spying, and fear roils the Democrats
John Kass May 08, 2019
Attorney General William Barr
The public faking of sincerity is an underappreciated, yet dark and unctuous art, practiced with great skill by Roman senators, French courtiers (just before the advent of the guillotine) and, yes, Washington politicians.
Fear is a different creature. There is no need to fake it. It shows itself on the faces of intriguers in Washington as it would have shown itself on the faces of macaques in a laboratory or on some 15th century jester in a painting. We are all primates.
The lips curl back, there is a witless acceptance of threat and the showing of teeth, of gums.
But in Washington, they don’t call it fear. They pretend, rather, that it is the anger of the righteous. Yet it is fear just the same, that treacly Washington bureaucratic and political fear.
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