Opinion: MarcThiessen thinks the Barr hearing was much ado about nothing
By Marc A. Thiessen Marc A. Thiessen Columnist focusing on foreign and domestic policy Bio Follow Columnist May 2 at 2:28 PM If Shakespeare had titled Attorney General William P. Barr’s appearance on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he would have called it “Much Ado About Nothing.”
Here’s a better question he should have asked: “Bob, why didn’t you accept my offer to review the memo before it was released to the public?” And putting his complaints in a letter — “going to paper” in Justice Department parlance — the details of which were then leaked to the media on the eve of Barr’s testimony, was dishonorable. The entire episode hurts Mueller’s reputation more than it does Barr’s.
But, as Barr testified on Wednesday, even if he had agreed that releasing the introductions and executive summaries was a good idea , he could not have done so because they required additional redactions from the intelligence community. Barr did not want to release the report piecemeal. “I thought what we should do is focus on getting the full report out as quickly as possible,” he said. The attorney general did just that.
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