The Justice Dept. is through with Special Counsel Mueller's investigation, AG Barr will tell the Senate Judiciary Cmte., according to prepared remarks released Tuesday night.
"From here on, the exercise of responding and reacting to the report is a matter for the American people and the political process," he says."As I am sure you agree, it is vitally important for the Department of Justice to stand apart from the political process and not to become an adjunct of it."
Congressional Democrats indicated that Barr will likely come under sharp questioning in his testimony on Wednesday and in his scheduled testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Barr has threatened to skip the House hearing because of his concerns over its format. In an echo of comments made Tuesday night by Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney, Barr indicates in his prepared remarks that because Mueller didn't reach a conclusion on the president's involvement, that question has also been settled.
"The Special Counsel was, after all, a federal prosecutor in the Department of Justice charged with making prosecution or declination decisions," he says. "Once a prosecutor has exhausted his investigation into the facts of a case, he or she faces a binary choice: either to commence or to decline prosecution," he says, adding:"The appointment of a Special Counsel and the investigation of the conduct of the President of the United States do not change these rules."
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