Analysis: AG Barr's Senate appearance makes clear he and Special Counsel Mueller are at odds about Mueller's role, his findings, and even how unhappy Mueller is with Barr.
"Bob Mueller is the equivalent of a U.S. attorney," Barr said."His work concluded when he sent his report to the attorney general. At that point,Mueller didn't quite see it that way, at least as evidenced by his letter that leaked to the news media Tuesday night — a letter accusing Barr of failing to fully capture the"context, nature and substance" of Mueller's work when he summarized it in March, setting the public narrative for weeks.
He added, in an implicit rebuke to Mueller and his team,"We don't conduct criminal investigations just to collect information and put it out to the public. We do so to make a decision." Mueller's report says the office could not clear the president of obstruction, but that officials decided it would be inappropriate even to render a traditional prosecutorial judgment, because doing so could be unfair to the president.
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