Bob Barr represented the 7th District of
Georgia in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003, 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.
Bob Barr occupies the 21st
Century Liberties Chair for Freedom and Privacy
at the American Conservative Union, and serves as a Board Member of the
National Rifle Association. He 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,
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. Bob 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 Bob Barr’s leadership in privacy matters,
New York Times columnist William Safire has called him “Mr. Privacy.”
Bob has appeared on virtually every major cable and
network television program dealing with public policy matters, and has served
as a contributor for CNN. He writes a
regular column for the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, and has also hosted a nationally-syndicated weekly
radio show, "Bob Barr's Laws of the Universe." Bob is a Contributing Editor for The American
Spectator, and his writings
have appeared in numerous academic, local, regional, and national
publications. Bob is the author of “The
Meaning of Is, The Squandered
Impeachment And Wasted Legacy of William Jefferson Clinton,” published by
Stroud & Hall, and available from Amazon.com. Bob also serves on the Board of Advisors for
the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public
Policy.
Bob is President and CEO of
Liberty Strategies, LLC, a public policy consulting firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, but
with offices also in the Washington, D.C. area.
Bob was appointed by President Reagan to serve as the
United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia (1986-90), and
served as President of Southeastern Legal Foundation (1990-91). He was an official with the CIA (1971-78),
and practiced law for many years. He
currently serves Of Counsel with the Law Offices of Edwin Marger, with a
national and international practice in both civil and criminal law.
Bob 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. He speaks to
local and national groups on a regular basis and is affiliated with one of the largest agencies specializing in professional
speaking engagements, Keppler Speakers (http://www.kepplerspeakers.com).