Flash from the past...A leftist perspective on Bill Barr from 1992 There was a time when the leading (ahem) voice of the left was New York's Village Voice.  It was punchy and generally accurate, albeit leaning heavily to the left.  In the latter quarter of the last century, there were still real journalists who wrote well-documented and informative articles.  Their bias was obvious, but there is little of the fabrication and obfuscation that we see today.   So here is a critical look through that lens at Bill Barr when he was Bush's Attorney General. Originally published October 27, 1992. Bill Barr: The “Cover-Up General” “At the center of the criticism is the chief artic­ulator of Bush’s imperial presidency...the man who wrote the legal rationale for the Gulf War, the Panama invasion, and the officially sanctioned kidnapping of foreign nationals abroad.”