Opinion | Mimi Rocah: 'Faced with the facts and the truth, Barr has done what many good defense attorneys do — attack the investigation and the investigator. But he's not a defense attorney.' - NBCNewsTHINK
that there was misconduct in the initiation of the Russia investigation, but he also criticized Mueller personally for what he portrayed as Mueller shirking his duties. According to Barr, Mueller should have stated explicitly whether he thought that Trump committed the crime of obstruction of because “[t]hat is what the Department of Justice does.” Barr went on to say that Mueller’s implication — that Trump did in fact obstruct justice — “did not reflect the views of the Department.
Could Mueller legally have announced his conclusion? Probably. Even Mueller doesn’t seem to say it was prohibited . In the short term, would that have been more satisfying to those of us who see Trump’s conduct as clearly constituting criminal obstruction? Absolutely. But that doesn’t mean it would have been the right, fair or even smart thing to do in this setting.
In short, in an impossible situation, Mueller did pretty much everything he could to retain his reputation as a neutral fact-finder so as to preserve the integrity of the facts he uncovered. Because, ultimately, those facts — not his opinion about them — are what matters.
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