Bob Barr

Bob Barr currently occupies the 21st Century Liberties Chair for Freedom and Privacy at the American Conservative Union Foundation, and serves as a board member of the National Rifle Association. He is also the president and CEO of Liberty Strategies, a firm he founded to assist individuals, organizations and governments in formulating and implementing strategies to achieve their goals in the public policy arena. From 1993 to 2003, Barr represented the 7th District of Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving as a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, as Vice Chairman of the Government Reform Committee, and as a member of the Committee on Financial Services.

Barr serves as the chairman of Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances, and provides advice to several organizations, including consulting on privacy issues with the ACLU, and serving as the Chair for Youth Leadership Training at the Leadership Institute in Arlington, Virginia, and as a member of the Constitution Project’s Initiative on Liberty and Security, based at Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute.

Barr served as a member of the Long-Term Strategy Project for Preserving Security and Democratic Norms in the War on Terrorism, at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University from 2003 to 2005. Recognizing his leadership in privacy matters, New York Times columnist William Safire has called him Mr. Privacy.

Barr has served as a contributor for CNN and writes a column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He also hosts a nationally syndicated weekly radio show, “Bob Barr’s Laws of the Universe.” He is a contributing editor to the American Spectator, and his writings have appeared in numerous academic, local, regional and national publications. Barr is the author of The Meaning of Is: The Squandered Impeachment and Wasted Legacy of William Jefferson Clinton (Stroud & Hall). He also serves on the Board of Advisors for the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy.

From 1971 - 1978,  Barr was an official with the Central Intelligence Agency. In 1986, President Reagan appointed Barr as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, a post he served in until 1990. From 1990 to 1991, he was the president of the Southeastern Legal Foundation. He currently serves Of Counsel with the Law Offices of Edwin Marger, with a national and international practice in both civil and criminal law.


Barr has traveled widely and spoken to audiences across America and internationally, and has served as an official member of the U.S. delegation at five major United Nations conferences. While in the Congress, he led congressional fact-finding trips to other countries and regions, investigating terrorism, international crime, and drug trafficking.

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