Trump's noble moment: Being transparent on Mueller report
By Jonathan Turley, opinion contributor — 03/30/19 10:15 AM EDT
Attorney General Bill Barr sent a letter to Congress on Friday, stating that he intends to release a public version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report in a matter of weeks. As with last Sunday’s release of a summary of the report, just two days after receiving it from Mueller, Barr’s handling of the report is the bureaucratic equivalent of Nascar speed.
However, the most notable line of Barr’s letter was largely overlooked. Indeed, from a historical perspective, it could prove to be one of the important lines of the entire Justice Department deliberation over the report.
Barr stated that “There are no plans to submit the report to the White House for a privilege review.†And that would constitute a total waiver of executive privilege — an act that is both commendable and unprecedented in its degree of transparency.
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