Opinion: William Barr gave this country an extraordinary gift
By George J. Terwilliger III April 18 at 7:33 PM George J. Terwilliger III, a partner at the law firm McGuire Woods, served in the Justice Department for 15 years, including as deputy attorney general and acting attorney general.
If the time-honored practices of the Justice Department for how a regular prosecutor handles a case had been followed in the work of the special counsel, there would be no Mueller report. There would simply be an investigation, followed by a judgment — one made within federal prosecutors’ broad charging discretion — as to whether charges should be brought.If yes, indictments are sought from a grand jury. If not, silence.
Many of these attacks are irresponsible and shameful. Accusations that the attorney general is flying air cover for the president; that he might be Trump’s new Roy Cohn; that, in summarizing the Mueller report before disclosing it, he was insulting Congress; that the redactions process is an artful coverup — all of these do nothing more than demonstrate that discourse by too many public officials has moved from the gutter into the sewer.
But, of course, in reality the “case” is not a legal matter that can simply be closed. It is instead a political brawl; the Mueller narrative is now a weapon in a fight for the heart and soul of core groups of citizens that constitute the electoral bases to be energized.
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