Analysis: The William Barr perjury question
By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow May 2 at 4:07 PM For all the Republican caricatures of her, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is hardly a fire-breathing, San Francisco liberal ideologue. She’s generally cautious about overreach on stuff like impeachment. She’s uncomfortable with some of the newer, more left-leaning elements in her caucus. She’s a pragmatist interested in keeping her majority intact.That’s what Pelosi did Thursday.
At issue here is testimony Barr gave to both the House and Senate last month. The testimony came after he summarized the Mueller Report’s principal conclusions and said he would not accuse President Trump of obstruction of justice. He was asked at the time about news reports that suggested members of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team were unhappy with how Barr had handled previewing their report.
So I was not interested in a summary of the report, and in fact at the time I put out my March 24th letter, there was nothing from the special counsel that wasn’t marked as potentially containing 6e material, and I had no material that had been sanitized of 6e material. So I felt that I should state the bottom line conclusions and I tried to use special counsel Mueller’s own language in doing that.
The second exchange at-issue here is from April 10, with the Senate Appropriations Committee and Sen. Chris Van Hollen :
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