Perspective: Mueller handed over a blank coin. Should he be shocked at Barr’s stamp on it?
Attorney General William P. Barr is sworn in to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. By Liesl Schillinger Liesl Schillinger is a literary critic and translator. She teaches journalism and criticism at the New School in New York and is the author of"Wordbirds: An Irreverent Lexicon for the 21st Century." May 1 at 1:49 PM Late Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III was so dismayed by Attorney General William P.
Mueller’s scolding makes sense. But his seeming surprise that his report — which issued no clear prosecutorial judgment — was misused reveals a troubling lack of shrewdness, and a bewildering obliviousness to realpolitik. The real surprise is that a man as wise and thorough and experienced as Mueller would have failed to take into consideration the motivations of powerful men to misconstrue his findings, given the chance. He gave them that chance.
Further, Barr in his summary letter wrote that “The Special Counsel’s decision to describe the facts of his obstruction investigation without reaching any legal conclusions leaves it to the Attorney General to determine whether the conduct described in the report constitutes a crime.
This act was like taking a blank coin, stamping a false value upon it and putting it into circulation. Because Mueller had minced words, Barr had the opportunity to mint them, robbing the Mueller report of its meaning by deliberately recasting it for personal, partisan advantage. In essence, Mueller was tricked, the work of his team was subverted, and the American public was defrauded.
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