4 very important things Robert Mueller could tell Us
4 very important things Robert Mueller could tell us
How Barr appeared to misrepresent Mueller's findings
Attorney General William P. Barr repeatedly appeared to misrepresent or misstate special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s findings on May 1. (Video: JM Rieger/Photo: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)
By Aaron Blake at the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/06/very-important-things-mueller-could-tell-us/?utm_term=.1d1189b6acf6
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2) How Mueller feels about Barr’s conclusion
Even in arguing that he couldn’t accuse Trump of a crime, Mueller said he would “exonerate” Trump if he felt it was warranted. He said he could not do that. But then Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein stepped in and effectively made that decision for him, saying the evidence wasn’t there on obstruction.
We’ve known about that disconnect for a while, but we don’t know how Mueller felt about it. Barr even said in his testimony last week that if Mueller wasn’t going to make a prosecutive decision, he should have shuttered his investigation. They seem to disagree on whether this is the Justice Department’s place.
Given that Barr has now criticized Mueller’s non-decision, it would seem fair game for Mueller to respond to that and lay out why he disagrees. And in doing so, he could indicate how he feels about how Barr and Rosenstein reached their decision.
3) How upset with Barr he really was
Barr in his testimony was anxious to pretend that Mueller’s concerns were mostly with how his report was being characterized in the media. He made it sound like maybe Mueller wasn’t even upset with Barr. But the letter and Barr’s later testimony revealed the truth: Mueller was upset, and his decision to put his concerns in writing seems to back that up.
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