What exactly is this so-called “lie.” I haven’t heard any of the insane clown policy tell us what Barr said that is a “lie.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3746381/posts
It wasn’t during the hearing yesterday. Instead, it was a comment Barr made last month (April 19) during a House hearing:
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Rep. Charlie Crist, D-Fla.: Reports have emerged recently, general, that members of the Special Counsel’s team are frustrated at some level with the limited information included in your March 24th letter ... Do you know what they are referencing with that?
Barr: “No, I don’t. I think I think, I suspect that they probably wanted more put out, but in my view I was not interested in putting out summaries.”
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Pretty weak tea IMO. Their angle is that Barr knew of the Mueller team’s frustrations because at that point he had received Mueller’s letter yet he answered the question in the negative (sort of).
Their problem is the minor detail that Barr would soon release the entire report in lightly redacted form that people could read and give their own analyses of, making the point basically moot. And on top of that, before Barr released his initial summary he asked Mueller if Mueller wanted to go through it and make any changes and Mueller declined.
I read someone say that Weismann is the one who leaked the letter to the press. That sure seems like a good bet. He leaked it to trap Barr in a “lie” so the Democrats could do their standard dishonest histrionics.
I think Barr was on point. I would not characterize the Mueller letter as frustration. They wanted the executive summaries put out before the entire report and Barr wanted it all to go out at once. He said that in his answer. And to Mueller’s moan, didn’t that provide the most “context” of all?