Analysis: 5 takeaways from William Barr’s letter about releasing the Mueller report
By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow March 29 at 4:51 PM We learned Friday that we will see some version of the full Mueller report soon.
It’s important to note that it hadn’t been clear we would see some version of the full report at all. Barr said at his confirmation hearing earlier this year that the report was meant to be submitted to the attorney general but added, “I don’t know, at the end of the day, what will be release-able.” There was some thought that perhaps Barr would simply summarize its findings for Congress and the public. Now Barr is saying we will get a version of the full report.
No. 2 is notable, because it suggests that the report could include information that might pertain to counterintelligence matters. We learned relatively recently that in the aftermath of FBI Director James. B. Comey’s firing, the bureau opened a counterintelligence probe into whether President Trump might be compromised by the Russians. A few days later, Mueller was appointed. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B.
4. A message for the media and critics of his letter There has been plenty of criticism of what Barr said and disclosed — and didn’t disclose — in his letter Sunday summarizing the principal conclusions of the Mueller report.“I am aware of some media reports and other public statements mischaracterizing my March 24, 2019, supplemental notification as a ‘summary’ of the Special Counsel’s investigation and report,” he wrote. “For example, Chairman [Jerrold] Nadler’s [D-N.Y.
Ever since Barr’s letter Sunday, Democrats have agitated for the complete report. This suggests that, at the very least, Barr is sensitive to their concerns — if not acting upon them by throwing them a bone. The fact that he’s arguing that his brief summary wasn’t a summary of the whole report suggests that he’s listening.
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