Pants on Fire: Trump Crony Barr Just Got BUSTED!
NY Times scoop: Mueller investigators call out Barr's letter for understating the deep brown sauce in which Trump finds himself (nytimes.com)“It was much more acute than Barr suggested” (washingtonpost.com)
Big get for the NY Times, in the form of the first leak from Team Mueller.
Some of Robert S. Mueller III’s investigators have told associates that Attorney General William P. Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated, according to government officials and others familiar with their simmering frustrations. …
The officials and others interviewed declined to flesh out why some of the special counsel’s investigators viewed their findings as potentially more damaging for the president than Mr. Barr explained, although the report is believed to examine Mr. Trump’s efforts to thwart the investigation. …
The fallout from Mr. Barr’s letter outlining the Russia investigation’s main findings overshadowed his intent to make public as much of the entire report as possible, a goal he has stressed since his confirmation hearing in January.
WaPo adds:
“It was much more acute than Barr suggested,” said one person, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the subject’s sensitivity. …
Some members of the office were particularly disappointed that Barr did not release summary information the special counsel team had prepared, according to two people familiar with their reactions.
“There was immediate displeasure from the team when they saw how the attorney general had characterized their work instead,” according one U.S. official briefed on the matter.
Summaries were prepared for different sections of the report, with a view that they could made public, the official said.
The report was prepared “so that the front matter from each section could have been released immediately — or very quickly,” the official said. “It was done in a way that minimum redactions, if any, would have been necessary, and the work would have spoken for itself.”
Judging from Barr’s recent behavior, he seems to have planned to do everything in his power to slow-walk every step toward release of Robert Mueller’s report on the special counsel probe into the trump campaign, transition, and inauguration?
But then, why should we believe that he was being honest about the release when the attorney general is acting more like one of Trump’s business cronies and has just been busted as a liar?
And by the way, impeachment is not just for presidents (hint, hint, Rep. Jerry Nadler)…
