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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,893 posts)
Wed May 1, 2019, 05:52 PM May 2019

Barr defends handling of Mueller report

Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday defended his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report at a tense Senate hearing, explaining in detail his contacts with Mueller, who had objected to his description of the report's findings on obstruction.

In sworn testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Barr said he wanted to release the report’s bottom-line conclusions as quickly as possible because the public was in a “high state of agitation” over the results of Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference and potential coordination between President Trump’s campaign and Moscow.

“Former government officials were confidently predicting that the president or members of his family would be indicted,” Barr told senators in his opening remarks.

Barr said he didn’t believe it was in the “public interest” to allow the public to wonder about Mueller’s conclusions while Justice Department officials pored over the report to make necessary redactions.

He also appeared to put the blame on Mueller for the weeks needed to make the redactions, noting that the report filed to the Department of Justice on March 22 was not marked so that grand jury material could be easily and quickly redacted.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/441567-barr-defends-handling-of-mueller-report?userid=229233

I thought Mueller was you friend. You're going to throw your friend under the bus for an orange lying sack of shit?

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Barr defends handling of Mueller report (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2019 OP
Ok...so? Moostache May 2019 #1
Factual headline: Barr fails in attempt to defend handling of Mueller report. ZZenith May 2019 #2
He also used Rosenstein to deflect his alone decisions, but I'd bet Rosenstein duforsure May 2019 #3

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
1. Ok...so?
Wed May 1, 2019, 05:57 PM
May 2019

What kind of idiots does he take the public to be?

I know that if you are a boot-licking whore like Barr, you tend to think of the entire world as being just like you and your cadre of imbeciles, but there is a wider world beyond the orbit around Trump's ass...despite what Barr, Graham, Conway, et. al. believe...

Nothing he said explains or justifies his mischaracterization of the report, its content or the reasons for its lack of conclusion regarding prosecution of obstruction of justice. This is not a legal case worth discussing as if there was a chance the defendant MIGHT be innocent of any charges...this is the equivalent to the "Grenada" description from "The Wolf of Wall Street":

ZZenith

(4,119 posts)
2. Factual headline: Barr fails in attempt to defend handling of Mueller report.
Wed May 1, 2019, 05:58 PM
May 2019

But one comes to expect a slimy slant from The Hill.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
3. He also used Rosenstein to deflect his alone decisions, but I'd bet Rosenstein
Wed May 1, 2019, 06:01 PM
May 2019

has been threatened , and would lose his pension, or being made out like he did something criminal , and Barr would prosecute him if he didn't do as they told him, or else. Barr a corrupt criminal , and a serial liar like trump is. He should be worrying about being sent to prison before everything is over , and he and trump get fully exposed for conspiring, cover up , and obstruction.

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