Opinion: William Barr has made this a win for Moscow
By Dana Milbank Dana Milbank Op-ed columnist covering national politics Email Bio Follow Columnist March 25 at 5:45 PM Attorney General William P. Barr’s summary of the Mueller report is scandalous — for reasons that have little to do with “collusion.”
But Barr kissed off the central charge of the investigation with a few paragraphs of summary material already in the public domain. He wrote that the “report outlines the Russian effort to influence the election and documents crimes committed by persons associated with the Russian government in connection with those efforts.” But Barr’s letter provides no such information.
“In short, Russia did not elect Trump,” pro-Putin media personality Evgeny Popov tweeted in response to Barr, adding a taunt: “And what about sanctions for ‘election interference?’ Hello, Mueller!” This is exactly why the world needs Mueller’s facts. How can Barr betray what was always the central purpose of the investigation? I applauded the night Mueller was appointed because while “Democrats were often leaping to conclude that there was high-level collusion . . . nearly everybody had lost track of the most important issue: Russia, arguably our leading global adversary, had successfully interfered in a U.S.
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