Opinion: William Barr’s congressional testimony was shameful, paulwaldman1 writes
By Paul Waldman Paul Waldman Opinion writer covering politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 1 at 1:28 PM There is unlikely to be a dramatic “gotcha” moment in Attorney General William P. Barr’s testimony this week before Congress, because Barr is too skilled a witness to blurt out what’s really going on. But what’s going on is, in its own way, a kind of coverup, an ongoing propaganda effort with a single goal: protect President Trump at all costs.
Accordingly, the enclosed documents are in a form that can be released to the public consistent with legal requirements and Department policies. I am requesting that you provide these materials to Congress and authorize their public release at this time.And in his previous testimony to Congress after he received this letter but before the report was released, Barr repeatedly said that he was not aware of any disagreement Mueller had with his four-page summary. We now know that was a lie.
But that is exactly what Mueller says in his letter to Barr, that Barr’s summary “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this Office’s work and conclusions.” Let me suggest that given Barr’s record so far, we should suspend judgment on whether he’s telling the truth about this conversation until we hear directly from Mueller.
FEINSTEIN: You still have a situation where a president essentially tries to change the lawyer’s account in order to prevent further criticism of himself.BARR: To be obstruction of justice, the lie has to be tied to impairing the evidence in a particular proceeding.
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