The Washington Post and New York Times seized on the March letter, in which Barr criticizes the way he chose to present Mueller’s findings regarding Russian interference in the 2016 Trump campaign, as evidence of a conflict between Barr and Mueller over the way the AG handled the report’s release.
Both outlets createdthe impression Mueller is severely upset with Barr for mischaracterizing the Russia report in his four-page summary of Mueller’s report and that the tone of his criticism shocked the Department of Justice.
That response from Mueller would give a lot of ammunition to the leading narrative that Barr mishandled the delivery of the report and intentionally misled the public as to its contents if it were accurate. But the letter, read in full context, suggests a much more banal reality, which The New York Times and Washington Post buried in their reporting.
Mueller did disagree with the way Barr delivered his findings; he wanted Barr to release executive summaries of the report, but he did not take issue with the accuracy of Barr’s memo to Congress.
Bottom line is that Mueller wanted Barr to introduce the public to his report in a different way. Barr did not say anything inaccurate about Mueller’s report. Still not collusion, still no obstruction, still no crime, giant lie that wasted a lot of energy and a lot of taxpayer money.
The Trump/Russia collusion narrative took some interesting turns this week. A Russian oligarch may unravel Robert Mueller‘s investigation and exposed Hillary Clinton as having stopped a rescue of an American prisoner in Iran.
The House intelligence committee will begin writing a resolution Tuesday to cite top FBI and Justice Department officials in contempt of Congress after they missed a Monday deadline to turn over documents the committee subpoenaed in late August, according to the Washington Examiner.
Sara Carter: We’re going to see parts of that report before December (end of the month). We’re going to see other parts of his report coming out after January. And they’re looking at Peter Strzok. They’re looking at Comey. They’re looking at 27 leakers. It would not surprise me if there was a shake-up at the FBI and a housecleaning.
A new Harvard University poll Tuesday is blaring a loud danger signal to the Republican Party after finding that millennials are now the largest generation of voters and they are overwhelmingly Democratic, by a two-to-one margin.
Federal officials filed a new set of immigration and gun charges Friday against Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, the illegal immigrant found not guilty last week in the murder of Kate Steinle.
If you’d like to be reminded of Rachel Dolezal, a disgraced white woman who presents herself as African-American, you can be all throughout next year. The former university instructor and former President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Spokane, Washington chapter, is asking $18.99 for her recently released 2018 wall calendar.
