WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller expressed frustration to Attorney General William Barr last month about how the findings of his Russia investigation were being portrayed , saying he worried that a letter summarizing the main conclusions of the probe lacked the necessary context and was creating public confusion about his team’s work , a Justice Department official said Tuesday night.
Mueller communicated his agitation in a letter to the Justice Department just days after Barr issued a four-page document that summarized the special counsel’s conclusions about whether President Donald Trump’s campaign had conspired with Russia and whether the president had tried to illegally obstruct the probe. Mueller and Barr then had a phone call where the same concerns were addressed. The official was not authorized to discuss Mueller’s letter by name.
The letter lays bare simmering tensions between the Justice Department and the special counsel about whether Barr’s summary adequately conveyed the gravity of Mueller’s findings , particularly on the key question of obstruction. The revelation is likely to sharpen attacks by Democrats who accuse Barr of unduly protecting the president and of spinning Mueller’s conclusions in Trump’s favour. And it will almost certainly be a focus of Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing at which the attorney general will defend his handling of Mueller’s report.
” After the Attorney General received Special Counsel Mueller’s letter , he called him to discuss it ” Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said in a statement.
” In a cordial and professional conversation , the Special Counsel emphasized that nothing in the Attorney General’s March 24 letter was inaccurate or misleading. But , he expressed frustration over the lack of context and the resulting media coverage regarding the Special Counsel’s obstruction analysis ” she added.
Barr’s letter , released just two days after the Justice Department received the special counsel’s report , said Mueller had not reached a conclusion on whether the president had obstructed justice despite presenting evidence on both sides of the question. Justice Department officials were surprised Mueller had not made a determination , prompting Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to step in and decide on their own that the evidence was insufficient to support an obstruction charge.
Though Barr’s letter did say that Mueller’s team had not exonerated Trump on obstruction nor concluded that he had committed a crime , it did not detail the specific evidence Mueller’s team accumulated or describe Mueller’s legal analysis as he examined nearly a dozen episodes of potential obstruction , including the firing of former FBI Director James Comey.
Barr said Mueller answered ” no ” when he asked him whether he would have recommended indicting Trump but for a Justice Department legal opinion that says a sitting president cannot be criminally prosecuted. Mueller’s report , however , makes clear that his thought process was shaped in part by that legal opinion , and that he believed it would be unfair to publicly accuse the president of a crime if he could not be prosecuted and have a trial to defend himself.
So WTF are ya upset about and draggin’ this fiasco thru more shit for Bobby ?!!! … Ya STILL admit YA COULDN’T FIND ANYTHING CONCLUSIVE !!! … It’s all ‘ if’s ‘ and ‘ could be’s ‘ !!! …
The appearance is Barr’s first on Capitol Hill since he released a redacted version of Mueller’s report on April 18 and comes amid deepening Democratic skepticism about his impartiality. Those concerns were fueled in part by Barr’s statements at a press conference announcing the release of the Mueller report , where he repeated multiple times that Mueller’s investigation had not found any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia — even though the report notes that collusion is not a legal term.
Now it’s word games … The Democraps LOVED the word ‘ collusion ‘ for over two years !!! … Hell … Deer-in-the-headlights Schitt spewed that word out a dozen times per minute every press conference … NOW … They’re attempting to sell the idea that it’s actually not a ‘ legal term ‘ …
Here’s the bottom line ;
“There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation,” according to Mueller’s letter.
Mueller’s still workin’ for the Dems … This is precisely why he took these actions .. He knew he couldn’t prove ‘ obstruction ‘ ( therefore ‘ innocent until PROVEN guilty ‘ comes directly into play ) , so he passes the buck to an appointee of Trumps , making sure the MSN would pick up on it … To instill ‘ confusion ‘ into the public masses and further the ability for the Democraps to keep pissin’ up the same tree throughout the election process …
Sadly , there’s enough Americans that will succumb to this repetitive rhetoric and establish misguided opinions about the President …
Source: Mueller frustrated with Barr over portrayal of report’s findings | CTV News
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