William Barr is just seven weeks into his new job and he’s already in the middle of a gathering political storm over Mueller’s 400-page report
During his first tenure as attorney general, Barr criticized the underlying independent counsel statute and advised then-President George H.W. Bush to pardon half-a-dozen senior Reagan administration officials who had been ensnared in the Iran-Contra affair.
“That fact alone has confused things and muddied things up to the point there’s no way they’re going to be satisfied without hearing from Mueller,” Brower said, referring to the prospect of congressional testimony from the special counsel. Every page of the confidential report Mueller gave Barr included a marking that it may contain material protecting grand jury information from public release, she said. “Given the extraordinary public interest in the matter, the attorney general decided to release the report’s bottom-line findings and his conclusions immediately — without attempting to summarize the report — with the understanding that the report itself would be released after the redaction process,” she said.
“It strains credulity that the two-time attorney general of the United States would mischaracterize the Mueller report and risk his reputation in the legal community forever,” the Florida Republican said. “That is ludicrous to suggest, but Democrats are out of nonludicrous arguments to make.”Barr as deputy attorney general in the George H.W.
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