Opinion: Release the Mueller team’s summaries. Now.
Don Brady joined more than 100 other people in Spokane, Wash., on Thursday to call for the public release of the Mueller report. By Harry Litman Harry Litman Contributing columnist focused on legal issues Bio Follow Contributing columnist April 5 at 7:20 PM Something strange is happening at the Justice Department.
Just as puzzling and no less important, it was unclear why, and on what legal basis, Barr took it upon himself to step into the breach and announce a bottom-line conclusion for the department that Trump’s conduct could not be charged as obstruction, even if the Constitution permitted the president to be indicted.
We are now given to understand, as The Post reported this week, that Barr and his advisers were chagrined that Mueller failed to reach an ultimate conclusion about the president’s conduct. Barr’s camp similarly maintains that the attorney general was required by the regulations to reach a judgment on the president’s conduct.
Moreover, it previously was reported that Barr and his team knew for at least three weeks that Mueller did not intend to reach a bottom-line conclusion. If Barr’s judgment was, in fact, that Mueller’s decision was a dereliction of his duty, why did he not direct the special counsel to follow the regulations, as Barr saw them, and return a judgment?
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