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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In a criminal investigation you either indict or you keep silent. Anything else would be prosecutorial misconduct. It is not their role to make political judgments.
They wouldn’t be several of the dozens of ILLary donors that Swamp Creature Mueller hired would they???
In a criminal investigation you either indict or you keep silent. Anything else would be prosecutorial misconduct. It is not their role to make political judgments.
The Mueller Coup wasn’t even a criminal investigation. It was a counterespionage investigation.
Robert S Mueller III, how quaint.
What does John Cherie Kerry say?
I’m Shocked, Shocked I tell You!
Comey was a puke on Amanpour last night
Totally inappropriate. They aren’t the special counsel.
More anonymous sources? How unexpected!!
These so-called “prosecutors” would look good on trees...
Tucker Carlson just had Sam Nunberg on, discussing how GOP are continuing with their Russia probe!
Been waiting for this, Hillary’s hatchet men can’t keep quiet.
If Mueller thought Barr misinterpreted the results of his investigation, he would've corrected Barr as he did Buzzfeed when they blew a story.
This would seem the time for Trump to declassify everything and carpet bomb these treasonous bastards to hell. The president has far more incriminating evidence of illegal activity on their part than they have on him, which is absolutely nothing!
If there had been collusion and Barr lied about it in his report, he would be going to jail..no way would he lie, so Mueller’s team waited weeks for this BS come on
He has no interest in doing that. He’s on his way to re-election regardless.
Nothing in the article says Mueller feels this way.
prosecutorial misconduct.
Put Andrew Weissmann’s pic in the law books beside the words prosecutorial misconduct and you have the exact meaning....the rest of the mob on Mulehead’s team aren’t going to let this die. They’ll be leaking crap ‘till the cows come home.
The fact that it's been almost two weeks since the Mueller report came out for this story to emerge says that the Left was losing the PR war over it.
We need to blast the MSM with this fact. Why is this coming out now instead of Day 2 or 3? Was it because the polls showed overwhelmingly that the public accepts the report's findings and wants to move on?
The kicker is the "some say" aspect of this. When a journalist resorts to "some say," that means they are inserting their own opinion into the story. The reporter is the "some" who says.
-PJ
Nothing in the article says Mueller feels this way.
Mueller, like Obama, will stay above the fray and allow his staff to make damaging leaks.
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