Analysis: What we should really focus on in the Barr letter
By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow March 29 at 12:57 PM It has been five days since Attorney General William P. Barr summarized the Mueller report, writing that it didn’t accuse President Trump of obstruction or his campaign of conspiracy with Russia. Ever since then, there have been a whole host of people trying to poke holes in it.These miss the point, to some degree.
The bigger issues, it seems to me, remain why Barr decided to reach his own verdict on obstruction of justice, whether that conclusion was rational and why he didn’t share more initially. It’s odd that Barr’s letter doesn’t explicitly lay out why he decided to weigh in. All he said was, “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.” Was there a legal reason for this? Did Mueller ask him to do this? It’s just stated as if this is the only logical action to take.
Barr’s decision to weigh in on this question was a giant plus for Trump. Without it, the narrative would have focused more intently on Mueller’s lack of exoneration and the idea that this was being left to Congress. With it, Trump can credibly say the Justice Department found neither of these crimes.
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