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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: mystery-ak on May 04, 2019, 08:01:16 pm
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Mueller's 'partisan' staff likely drew up Barr letter to leak, Andrew McCarthy says
by Daniel Chaitin
| May 03, 2019 11:45 PM
Former U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy says it was likely special counsel Robert Mueller's staff who instigated the letter sent to Attorney General William Barr criticizing his four-page letter about the Russia investigation's "principal conclusions."
In the letter dated March 27, Mueller objected to Barr's March 24 memo because it "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance" of the 22-month investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible obstruction of justice by President Trump. Mueller called on Barr to alleviate public confusion by releasing the report's introduction and executive summary for each volume.
McCarthy, who is a contributing editor at National Review, wrote in an opinion piece on Friday it was no coincidence a letter format was used. The letter, which he said was "undoubtedly" written by Mueller's staff, was leaked to the Washington Post in the evening Tuesday, just before Barr testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee about Mueller's investigation, and was publicly released the following morning.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/muellers-partisan-staff-likely-drew-up-barr-letter-to-leak-andrew-mccarthy-says (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/muellers-partisan-staff-likely-drew-up-barr-letter-to-leak-andrew-mccarthy-says)
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Yep, sure did.