nprnews_____ = ||| lubuntu at wor5|||Barr Blasts His Own Prosecutors: 'All Power Is Vested In The Attorney General'||| kickerpage = |||no kicker pagenpr for NPRNEWS||| summarynpr = |||In remarks Wednesday, the attorney general also said restrictions imposed during the coronavirus are "the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history" since slavery.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr, seen here in Phoenix Sept. 10, called his colleagues at the Justice Department a "permanent bureaucracy," in a speech Wednesday.



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Barr Blasts His Own Prosecutors: 'All Power Is Vested In The Attorney General'

In remarks Wednesday, the attorney general also said restrictions imposed during the coronavirus are "the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history" since slavery.