Mueller's letter to Barr – A neat trick by the Washington Post before hearings begin

Fox News ^ | 05/01/2019 | Andrew McCarthy

[SeekAndFind]

“Mueller complained to Barr about memo on key findings.” That’s the banner headline at the top of the Washington Post’s website Wednesday. But when you click your way to the actual story, it turns out that the headline is not true. Special Counsel Mueller’s complaint, which targeted Attorney General Barr’s March 24 letter explaining the report, is not about the “key findings.” It’s about the narrative.

Mueller’s complaint is that Barr “did not fully capture the context” of Mueller’s magnum opus – the “nature and substance” of the report.

This complaint was set forth in Mueller’s own letter, dated March 27. The letter is a microcosm of Mueller’s collusion probe: sound and fury, signifying nothing; an investigative process predicated on no criminal conduct, which generated crimes rather than solving one.

Parsed carefully (which you have to do with the special counsel’s Jesuitical work), Mueller is precisely not saying that Barr misrepresented his key findings. He is saying that he and the Clinton/Obama minions he recruited to staff the case wrote the report with a certain mood music in mind. To their chagrin, Barr gave us just the no-crime bottom line. Mueller would have preferred for us to feel all the ooze of un-presidential escapades he couldn’t indict but wouldn’t, from his lofty perch, “exonerate.”

The purportedly private letter to Barr, like Mueller’s purportedly confidential report, was patently meant for public consumption, and thus leaked to the Post late yesterday. The timing is transparently strategic: the leak drops a bomb as Barr was preparing for two days of what promises to be combative congressional hearings, starting this morning; it gives maximum media exposure to Mueller’s diva routine and its Democratic chorus, while the attorney general gets minimal time to respond to asinine cries

[Balding_Eagle]

Nothing to see, it’s just Mueller conspiring with WP to get a lie out.

[traderrob6]

Don’t always agree with McCarthy but his analysis is dead ba!!s on here.

[Steely Tom]

I didn't know that a prosecutor's "mood" mattered in the rendering of his work product.

I thought the whole point of the justice system was to be based on facts, not on the "moods" of the individuals who work within it, or on the "context" in which they perceive the matters before them.

One would think that to the extent that an individual's "mood" affects the actions of the DOJ, a miscarriage of justice has occurred, ipso facto.

[Navy Patriot]

Gee, the Compost lying about the contents of an illegally leaked Justice Department internal communication.

How could that happen?

[dynoman]

Mueller asks Barr in the letter to release an additional 19 pages, Barr releases 400 pages, including the 19 Mueller requested.

And they are having cats about Barr not releasing the 19 pages.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Mueller is a big boy, if he has something to say he can go before the Senate/Congress and run his mouth, the fact that he hasnt til now tells you everything you need to know. The whole point of this entire bogus “investigation” was to investigate if the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian Govt to steal the election, he did NOT, no one in his campaign did, not a single person..the whole “Obstruction” bs was because Mueller knew that Dems took control of congress and he wanted to give one final F U to Trump..if Republicans had control of Congress still he would have never put it in the report

[xrmusn]

I heard snippets of the inquistion today and I must commend AG Barr for his composure and getting some barbs in.

Were I to be called before a ‘committee’ and the likes of those gypsies, tramps and thieves (sorry for insulting GT&T) I would not be able to hold my tongue.

About the time some rogue like T Kennedy, various liars and plagiarists asked me a question about MY character etal and have a bald faced liar such as Blumenthal pontificate about virtue and honesty, I would end up in jail....

[freeandfreezing]

Multiple Democrats said today that they had some opinion of the letter, but had not reviewed the entire letter. They are just liars. Take a look at the letter for yourself. It will take you about 30 seconds to read the whole thing.

Leaked Mueller Letter

[justa-hairyape]

These maroons want to make feelings a part of legal code. And by definition us conservatives have no feelings, obviously. Lol.

[bantam]

Unbelievable how DEEP this really goes!!!!!!!

[trebb]

Barr didn’t become Mueller’s mouthpiece and use the op=ed disguise as a report as Mueller had hoped....