Newsdeck: Barr Deflects as Democrats Say He Misled on Mueller Summary By Bloomberg
Barr was put on the defensive hours ahead of his testimony Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee with the disclosure that Mueller had written a letter objecting that the attorney general misrepresented his report on Russia interference in the 2016 election.
Mueller contacted Barr to express his displeasure after the attorney general issued his four-page letter in March characterizing the main findings of Mueller’s investigation. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, the Judiciary panel’s chairman, opened the hearing by saying he was satisfied with Mueller’s report and said “for me, it is over.”
Barr said in his letter, and in a news conference shortly before the report was released, that Mueller had closed his inquiry without deciding whether President Donald Trump had obstructed justice. Barr said that meant he needed to make the decision. He said that he, along with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, concluded that there wasn’t sufficient evidence for criminal charges.
Senator Kamala Harris, another of the presidential candidates and a former district attorney and attorney general in California, cross-examined Barr methodically. She got him to concede that neither he nor Rosenstein did his own review of the underlying evidence before declaring that Trump didn’t obstruct justice.
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