Last Thursday I attended another meeting of the Saturday Evening Club (which by tradition never meets on a Saturday), a dinner hosted by The American Spectator at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, D.C.. Back in July, I attended a previous such dinner at which the guest of honor was President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
This time, the guest of honor was Attorney General Bill Barr. Attendance was limited to 30 media, political, and business big wigs. How or why I came to be included in this group remains a complete mystery, but I wasn’t about to turn down an invitation to spend an evening with Attorney General Barr, a man whom I greatly admire. Besides, based on my experience at the Kushner bash, I knew that the food and booze would be excellent and – best of all – free.
As with the Kushner dinner, the tables were arranged in a rectangle with everyone facing inward. My assigned seat was next to nationally syndicated political commentator and analyst Michael Barone. When we shook hands and sat down to dinner, Barone said, “You’ve been stirring things up!” I thought he could be referring to my two recent articles in The American Spectator about Jeffrey Epstein’s death. On the other hand, this greeting may also have been Barone’s way of making wannabe nobodies feel important. In any event, it worked for me.
Directly across the rectangle from me was Barr and Bob Tyrell, the founder and publisher of TAS. Tyrell had everyone introduce themselves to the assembled guests. When it came my turn, I looked at the Attorney General and said, “My name is George Parry. I write for The American Spectator. I’m also an alumnus of the U.S. Department of Justice and am here to get my old job back.” Barr cracked up.
The evening was “off the record”, so I can’t tell you what Barr had to say. I can share, however, that he came across as being very smart, articulate, and down-to-earth. He also has a great sense of humor which he used to good effect.
As Barr spoke and listed the problems with the Justice Department and the other affairs of state that he is in the process of addressing, I reacted like a bobble head doll with my head rapidly bouncing up and down. His grasp of the issues and challenges is impressive and his approach and solutions are simply first rate.
The attendees questioned Barr about a broad range of topics. His answers were direct, thoughtful, and clear with a touch of puckish deadpan humor thrown in. All I can say is that he was absolutely terrific, and we are fortunate that he consented to come back from the corporate world to straighten out the damage done by the Obama administration to the Justice Department and the rule of law. A lesser man without his intellect and background (he was once an intelligence analyst for the CIA and Attorney General under President Bush 41 between 1991 and 1993), would not be up to the tremendous task at hand.
After dinner, I went over and shook his hand. I told him that in the 1970s I had worked in the Organized Crime Section of the Justice Department and that my aging former colleagues and I greatly appreciated the job that he was doing. He thanked me, and then I referred to the many questions raised that evening about Epstein’s death. Many of the questioners had insisted that Epstein had been murdered. I told the Attorney General that Epstein’s demise was neither murder nor suicide, but an accidental death by hanging that occurred while Epstein was engaging in autoerotic asphyxiation. [See my previous posts and articles in The American Spectator to this effect.] To my delight and surprise, the Attorney General said, “That’s what I thought, that it was autoeroticism.” (Note the use of the past tense. This may no longer be his opinion.)
Okay, the night was off the record, but I just had to tell someone! After all of the grief and cover-up accusations that I have received by Arkancide conspiracy theorists for advancing the autoerotic asphyxiation theory of Epstein’s death, it was nice to know that the Attorney General of the United States had – at least at one time – agreed with me. That alone was worth the trip to Washington.
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