Attorney General William P. Barr’s handling of the Mueller report was already controversial. The Post’s Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky report that Mueller went so far as to send a letter to the Justice Department after Barr summarized Mueller’s principal conclusions in late March. Mueller’s letter effectively backs up reporting since the Mueller report’s release about how Barr obscured key details and seemed to spin things in a way that favored Trump. Mueller’s letter makes clear he doesn’t believe Barr handled the “context” of his report accurately, which lends credence to analysis that Barr skipped over Mueller’s actual justification for not concluding Trump had obstructed justice. The timing of the leaking of Mueller’s letter is certainly conspicuous, given that Barr is set to testify to Congress on Wednesday morning.

Source: Washington Post May 01, 2019 01:41 UTC