Asked whether Barr should go to jail for lying to Congress, the speaker hesitated before saying, “There’s a process involved here. And as I said, the [House Judiciary Committee] will act upon how we will proceed.”
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi didn’t mince her words Thursday about the attorney general of the United States. “He lied to Congress. He lied to Congress,” she said of William Barr. “If anybody else did that, it would be considered a crime.”
In the March 27 letter, Mueller told Barr that the four-page summary “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this Office's work and conclusions.” “Nobody is above the law,” Pelosi said. “Not the president of United States and not the attorney general. Being attorney general does not give you a pass to go say whatever you want.”
Barr testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, where he defended his previous remarks to Congress by arguing that the original question posed to him was whether “members of the special counsel’s team”—not Mueller—were concerned. He also claimed, contrary to Mueller’s letter, that in a phone call with Mueller that later took place, the special counsel was more concerned about the media coverage and less about the accuracy of Barr’s four-page summary.
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