Oh yes?
As many of us suspected & have been saying – but still WOW. https://t.co/jhUPFuFTvd
— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) April 30, 2019
At the time the letter was sent on March 27, Barr had announced that Mueller had not found a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian officials seeking to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. Barr also said Mueller had not reached a conclusion about whether Trump had tried to obstruct justice, but Barr reviewed the evidence and found it insufficient to support such a charge.
Days after Barr’s announcement, Mueller wrote a previously unknown private letter to the Justice Department, which revealed a degree of dissatisfaction with the public discussion of Mueller’s work that shocked senior Justice Department officials, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Oh really. Funny that Barr didn’t mention it to us.
“The summary letter the Department sent to Congress and released to the public late in the afternoon of March 24 did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office’s work and conclusions,” Mueller wrote. “There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.”
The letter asked Barr to release the report and gave suggestions on the redacting.
Justice Department officials said Tuesday they were taken aback by the tone of Mueller’s letter, and it came as a surprise to them that he had such concerns. Until they received the letter, they believed Mueller was in agreement with them on the process of reviewing the report and redacting certain types of information, a process that took several weeks. Barr has testified to Congress previously that Mueller declined the opportunity to review his four-page letter to lawmakers that distilled the essence of the special counsel’s findings.
So…Barr has been bullshitting us and DoJ officials. Scummier and scummier.
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7 responses to “A degree of dissatisfaction that shocked DoJ officials”
Shocked? Taken aback?
Are you kidding me? If DOJ officials have not been living under a rock for the last 2 years, they should have fully EXPECTED Mueller to set the record straight.
I think that rock has a name. I think that rock is named Donald J. Trump.
“There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation,” Mueller said, as though that weren’t a predictable outcome from the start.
Don’t believe a word these anonymous “DOJ officials” say. Whoever they are, they’ve been spinning the Bob Barr party line to NYT and WaPo for weeks now.
A lot of people will do a lot of things, including lying, to keep their jobs.
They just don’t understand why Mueller would be upset, which calls to mind a rather famous quote from Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
GF@#6:
Or as put to Mark Twain by that very intelligent young black slave he encountered in the South: “You tell me how a man gets his corn-pone, and I’ll tell you what his opinions is.”