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The Washington Post - Mueller complained that Barr’s letter did not capture ‘context’ of Trump probe
April 30
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III wrote a letter in late March complaining to Attorney General William P. Barr that a four-page memo to Congress describing the principal conclusions of the investigation into President Trump “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of Mueller’s work, according to a copy of the letter reviewed Tuesday by The Washington Post. ...
At the time Mueller’s letter was sent to Barr on March 27, Barr had days prior announced that Mueller did not find a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian officials seeking to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. ...
[Mueller wrote:]
“The summary letter the Department sent to Congress and released to the public late in the afternoon of March 24 did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office’s work and conclusions.”
“There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation."
"This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.”
The letter made a key request: that Barr release the 448-page report’s introductions and executive summaries, and it made initial suggested redactions for doing so, according to Justice Department officials. ...
EDIT: see also: The NY Times - Mueller Objected to Barr’s Description of Russia Investigation’s Findings on Trump
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Donald F. McGahn II, then the White House counsel, told the special counsel’s team that the president called him twice in the summer of 2017 and told him to tell the Justice Department to remove Mr. Mueller on the grounds of supposed conflicts of interests.
“Mueller has to go,” he quoted the president as telling him.
Mr. McGahn, who considered the conflicts cited by the president to be “silly” and “not real,” refused to go along.
Mr. Barr told senators that the president’s request did not constitute an illegal effort to impede the investigation. “There is a distinction between saying to someone, ‘Go fire him, go fire Mueller,’ and saying, ‘Have him removed based on conflict,’” Mr. Barr said.
Mr. Leahy also took on Mr. Barr over his assertions that Mr. Trump had “cooperated fully” with the investigation, asking him about several of the president’s actions to thwart the inquiry, including his refusal to be personally interviewed by prosecutors.
Mr. Leahy cited an instance when Mr. Trump directed Corey Lewandowski, his former campaign manager, to tell Jeff Sessions, who was then the attorney general and had recused himself from the investigation, to unrecuse himself and impose limits on the special counsel that would effectively take its focus off the president.
“Is that fully cooperating?” Mr. Leahy asked.
“Well,” Mr. Barr said, pausing, “I don’t see any conflict between that and fully cooperating with the investigation.”
The attorney general should be the attorney general of the United States of America and not the attorney of the president of the United States.
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dclegg:
... I think the problem the Democrats are facing is that they think they can deal with Trump using traditional political tools.
But these tools don't work when someone is so corrupt as Trump, and has the buy-in from so many institutions that are meant to be there to provide the much lauded checks and balances ...
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The New York Times - Democrats Threaten Barr With Contempt After He No-Shows House Hearing
May 2, 2019
WASHINGTON — House Democrats, decrying what they called an erosion of American democracy, threatened on Thursday to hold Attorney General William P. Barr in contempt of Congress after he failed to appear at a hearing of the Judiciary Committee and ignored a subpoena deadline to hand over Robert S. Mueller III’s full report and evidence.
They seized on a letter from Mr. Mueller to the attorney general in which he took Mr. Barr to task for the way he had characterized the special counsel’s conclusions on whether President Trump had obstructed justice.
At two hearings, before the House and Senate, Mr. Barr indicated he had been unaware of such discontent.
“What is deadly serious about it is the attorney general of the United States of America was not telling the truth to the Congress of the United States,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters on Thursday, referring to a House hearing in which he said he was unaware that the special counsel had protested his portrayal of his conclusions. “That’s a crime.” ...
In a private meeting with members of her leadership team, Ms. Pelosi called Mr. Barr a “lap dog” for President Trump and an “enabler” of his obstruction of justice, according to a congressional aide in the room. ...
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