There were 2 Mueller letters? Developing story from NYT

[MelissaB]

Mueller Pushed Twice for Barr to Release Report's Summaries

Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, pushed Attorney General William P. Barr twice to release more of his investigative findings in late March after Mr. Barr outlined the inquiry’s main conclusions in a letter to Congress, citing a gap between Mr. Barr’s interpretation and Mr. Mueller’s report, according to a letter released on Wednesday.

The letter, from Mr. Mueller, revealed deep concern about how Mr. Barr handled the initial release of the special counsel’s findings.

Mr. Mueller’s office first informed the Justice Department of their concerns on March 25, a day after Mr. Barr released his letter clearing Mr. Trump but declined to release the special counsel’s findings themselves.

“We communicated that concern to the department on the morning of March 25,” Mr. Mueller said in a second letter to Mr. Barr two days later. “There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation.”

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/politics/mueller-letters-barr.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. The plot thickens...

[malaise]

2. Holy Shit

Get thee to the greatest page NOW

[H2O Man]

6. "

[malaise]

10. Caught again

He doesn't know that we now know there was an earlier letter.

Oh Dear!!!

[uponit7771]

3. Hmmmm, DOJ will most likely fight Mueller testifying to congress

[Zoonart]

4. Forget who it was..

suggested yesterday that Mueller should quit effective immediately and testify as a private citizen, so that Justice cannot attempt to block his testimony.

[greyl]

7. Rep Steve Cohen

Link to tweet

[YessirAtsaFact]

12. There is an ongoing counterintelligence investigation

According to some in the Twitterverse Mueller may be trying to protect that and can’t do so if he resigns.

[BruceWane]

9. They already are

Widely reported last night that Dem committees say Mueller is ready and willing to testify, but DOJ is claiming he is still a DOJ employee and refusing to set a date for him to do it.

IMO, this is becoming an acute constitutional crisis. The AG is engaged in conspiracy with the executive branch in an attempt to prevent congress from exercising oversight. DOJ personnel with morals/consciousness, see it, and so are leaking things like the Mueller letter so the public can see it, too.

[uponit7771]

15. WTMF !!???! Yeah, they lied 100% about everything Mueller said and most likely changed words...

... or took out words to give another impression ... not in Barr's summary but the report itself.

[unblock]

5. mueller and barr are supposedly friends of long standing.

we may be witnessing an ugly breakup.

what do you expect when one person comes in and pisses all over the most significant piece of work of the other person's entire career.

mueller appears to have tried to do everything by the book and with integrity, but the jury is still out on that. barr is basically twisting it so that mueller's work becomes a central component of a whitewash. if mueller fails to rise to the occasion, he becomes part of the cover-up and he will lose all that integrity and honor that appears to be so important to him.

[H2O Man]

8. Yet we only have

Barr's word that they are good friends. It is true that both families attended the wedding of one of their children. There is no other evidence that they were "good friends."

[unblock]

13. yes, "good friend" can be something of a term of art in washington....

it can be great fun watching some congressional debates where senators are ridiculing each other, all the while referring to the people they're skewering as "my good friend on the other side of the aisle".

not as much fun as watching them go at it in the british parliament, mind you, but fun nevertheless....

[BruceWane]

14. Wedding guest count

Yeah, for some people, a wedding is just another chance to show off, being able to say there were a huge number of guests. Invite everyone you'v ever known or worked with, etc.

[Nevilledog]

11. Not sure where they get the conclusion of a second letter.

Could have been a phone call on the 25th. The letter does confirm that there were two contacts noting the special counsel's concerns though...... Well in advance of Barr's testimony. More damning evidence to support perjury.

[triron]

16. knr