Opinion: Five questions for William Barr, in light of new Mueller revelations
By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 1 at 9:49 AM Attorney General William P. Barr is set to face two days of grilling by congressional Democrats. Fortuitously, this comes just after we’ve learned that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III privately criticized Barr’s highly misleading summary of the Mueller report, which gave President Trump weeks to falsely spin Mueller’s findings as “complete and total exoneration.
Upon reading the phrase “public confusion,” Barr probably nodded with satisfaction, and said to himself: Mission accomplished. “That was deliberately false and misleading,” Rep. Adam Schiff told CBS News, noting: “What Barr is going to have to explain today is why he deliberately misled the Congress.”At his presser just before releasing the Mueller report, Barr said repeatedly that there was “no collusion” between the Trump campaign and Russian interference in the election.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal , who will question Barr as a member of the Judiciary Committee, told me that this is a key line of questioning. What’s more, we now know that Mueller told Barr in a private conversation that his “main worry was that the public was not getting an accurate understanding of the obstruction investigation,” as The Post puts it.
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