Analysis: Mueller’s complaints show Barr has a whole lot of explaining to do
By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow April 30 at 9:41 PM This post has been updated.
The Post’s Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky report that Mueller went so far as to send a letter to the Justice Department after Barr summarized Mueller’s principal conclusions in late March. Mueller took issue with how Barr allowed the report to be portrayed: “The summary letter the Department sent to Congress and released to the public late in the afternoon of March 24 did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office’s work and conclusions,” Mueller wrote. “There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.
Even amid the blowback against Barr’s initial summary, though, it wasn’t clear that Mueller himself personally disputed it. The two are said to be friends, and while it was reported that members of Mueller’s team privately expressed concern, there was the question of how Mueller himself actually felt.
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