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Former Reagan Official Calls AG Barr's Actions 'Dismaying'

There has been a lot of reaction to Attorney General William Barr’s intervention in the Roger Stone case — when he called for a shorter sentence than the seven to nine years prosecutors recommended.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Charles Fried, who served as solicitor general under former President Reagan. Now he’s a professor of law at Harvard Law School.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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