The Justice Department offered the public a rare opportunity on Wednesday morning to submit questions to Attorney General William P. Barr for a “nationwide #AskTheAG Q&A session on May 1.” Specifically, it asked via Twitter for questions “on how DOJ is protecting public safety & combatting fraud, price gouging, hoarding, & more” during the coronavirus pandemic.
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AG Barr will be participating in the nationwide #AskTheAG Q&A session on May 1 at 12pm ET
Send us your Qs on how DOJ is protecting public safety & combatting fraud, price gouging, hoarding, & more during the #COVID19 pandemic.
Reply below or tweet your question with #AskAGBarr
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The response, as of early Thursday morning, was voluminous but surely not what the department had in mind when it asked for questions about the pandemic.Only a fraction were even about it, and they veered off from the suggested topics, perhaps fitting at best under the “& more” category. Continue reading.