Barr compares his return to DOJ to D-Day invasion

Source: The Hill | June 8, 2019 | John Bowden

Attorney General William Barr joked Friday that his return to the Justice Department reminded him of the Allied invasion on D-Day.

During a speech to new agents graduating from the FBI’s academy, Barr quipped that his second term as U.S. attorney general had felt like parachuting into enemy territory.

“I’m a two-time offender. This is my second stint as attorney general,” he said.

“As we’ve been watching the coverage of June 6, 1944 — D-Day — I had the thought that my arrival this time felt a little bit, I think, like jumping into Sainte-Mère-Église on the morning of June 5, trying to figure out where you could land without getting shot,” Barr joked.

Sainte-Mère-Église, a French town, was one of the targets of Allied paratroopers during the massive 1945 invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe.

The town was captured the morning after the invasion began by Allied soldiers following heavy casualties to paratrooper units that descended upon the town in the initial wave.

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