Posted on 04/03/2019 5:32:26 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
NYT -Some of Robert S. Mueller III’s investigators have told associates that Attorney General William P. Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated, according to government officials and others familiar with their simmering frustrations.
At stake in the dispute — the first evidence of tension between Mr. Barr and the special counsel’s office — is who shapes the public’s initial understanding of one of the most consequential government investigations in American history. Some members of Mr. Mueller’s team are concerned that, because Mr. Barr created the first narrative of the special counsel’s findings, Americans’ views will have hardened before the investigation’s conclusions become public.
However, the special counsel’s office never asked Mr. Barr to release the summaries soon after he received the report, a person familiar with the investigation said. And the Justice Department quickly determined that the summaries contain sensitive information, like classified material, secret grand-jury testimony and information related to current federal investigations that must remain confidential, according to two government officials.
Mr. Barr was also wary of departing from Justice Department practice not to disclose derogatory details in closing an investigation, according to two government officials familiar with Mr. Barr’s thinking. They pointed to the decision by James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, to harshly criticize Hillary Clinton in 2016 while announcing that he was recommending no charges in the inquiry into her email practices.
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Im in the process of reading the Priestap hearing and am at the beginning of the minority’s first round of questioning. Priestap sure works hard to make his organization look like an eagle scout club.
But, he contradicts himself too.He painted Comey as a saint, but glosses over the affair between Strok and Page despite saying that agents having affairs are fodder for blackmail though he didn’t use that word. It pits the agents themselves at risk as well as national security. Yet he glossed it over without reprimand.
He seems to be doing his best to act like an ostrich.
If thats the kind of leadership in the ranks of counterintelligence, then we’re just as well off without such an agency. They’re all in bed together so they’re going to cover for each other.
The evidence is in their own paperwork and testimonies.
Just told my girlfriend this. I understand that the POTUS is waiting for the IG report, but Dems are going to do everything they possibly can to hammer on his approval number to try and get them within “impeachment range”. They have no choice, they have nothing to run on in 2020.
Did anyone here expect anything different from these communist scum?
The Mueller team was supposed to be very “professional,” not the sort to leak to the NYT. Does that mean they refrained from leaking as long as they were getting paid?
“damaging”... “troubling”
Who chose these words?
Well it’s the NY Times which is like reading World Weekly News but with less of a reputation.
If Barr lied Mueller would have come out IMMEDIATELY and called him a liar period end of story
Still leaking....and lying
Yep, The NYT is probably going with what Comey said his friends on the SC team secretly told him.
Probably the same dip$hits who leaked info all during the investigation.
Bring it on jack@asses or shut the pie holes. If some on Mueller’s team are spreading their scurrilous opinions to the Slime then there should be a lawsuit or two in the wings.
The first barrier one must get beyond is this: Why would any sane person believe any propaganda delivered by the neo-Nazi racists at the NYT?
blah, blah, blah
“investigators have told associates that...”
“according to government officials...”
“and others familiar with...”
“some members of Mr. Mueller’s team...”
“a person familiar with the investigation said...”
If the Hillary sycophants on Mueller’s team didn’t say anything I would be surprised.
5.56mm
This crap won’t stop until someone goes to prison. It better happen soon.
But they don’t leak, remember.
So they are not to be trusted since they are leakers.
Anonymous sources?
No evidence, just conjecture?
Leak not from Mueller himself?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
“damaging”... “troubling”
Who chose these words?
They chose those words because they are opinions not substantive allegations. They can’t say “criminal” because it would be substantive and they can be sued for lies like that.
The officials and others interviewed declined to flesh out why some of the special counsel’s investigators viewed their findings as potentially more damaging for the president than Mr. Barr explained. LOL so basically they are “Guessing” there is something in there LOL..if Barr LIED, Mueller would have screamed it from the freakin ROOFTOPS the second Barr released his report
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