Analysis: What we still don’t know about the Mueller probe
The Justice Department building in Washington on Sunday. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow March 24 at 5:06 PM Attorney General William P. Barr’s letter to Congress summarizing the findings of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s work was pointed in trying to answer the big-picture questions that have surrounded Mueller’s well-protected investigation.
Beyond those conclusions, there’s not a lot new in what Barr presented. There were some details about the scale of the investigation — 2,800 subpoenas, 500 witnesses — and reemphasis on what Russia actually did, like hacking the Democratic Party and attempting to influence voters over social media.
In what sense does Mueller consider other known interactions between Trump’s team and Russian actors? Most were obviously unremarkable, but we don’t know from this letter alone why some of the more evocative interactions were ultimately determined to be insufficient for showing coordination, just that they were.
“In cataloguing the President’s actions, many of which took place in public view, the report identifies no actions that, in our judgment, constitute obstructive conduct, had a nexus to a pending or contemplated proceeding, and were done with corrupt intent,” Barr writes, “each of which, under the Department’s principles of federal prosecution guiding charging decisions, would need to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt to establish an obstruction-of-justice offense.
Why, for example, wasn’t conservative author Jerome Corsi charged by Mueller’s team after being offered a plea agreement? We know from Barr’s Friday letter to Congress that this wasn’t because the Justice Department intervened. So what changed?
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