Barr's slip-up gives away his game

[struggle4progress]

By Aaron Blake
May 1 at 4:25 PM

... “I asked him if he was suggesting that the March 24 letter was inaccurate, and he said no, but that the press reporting had been inaccurate,” Barr said at one point. He emphasized at another point that he asked Mueller whether the letter was inaccurate. “He indicated that it was not,” Barr said. “He was not saying that and that what he was concerned about” were news reports ...

"The summary letter the Department sent to Congress and released to the public late in the afternoon of March 24 did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office’s work and conclusions,” Mueller wrote. “There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations” ...

... Mueller clearly viewed Barr’s letter as misleading. This wasn’t about how the news media was getting something wrong; it was about how Barr’s letter led it to get things wrong ...

... if the letter wasn’t really criticizing Barr, then why would he be taken aback at it and ask why Mueller wrote it? (Side note: Barr knows why Mueller wrote it: to create a record.) And if this was mostly about news coverage, why call the letter “snitty”? Barr seemed to be admitting, finally, that the letter was what it was: a diplomatically worded but pretty direct rebuke of him and his actions ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/01/william-barrs-snitty-slip-up-gives-away-his-game/?utm_term=.bb0cb05aa88e

[Hoyt]

1. If Mueller had been more forceful and direct, we wouldn't be be going through this.

Mueller gave trump and his campaign what they needed by proclaiming “no evidence of collusion/conspiracy.” If he didn’t find evidence, Mueller should have said that refusing to testify, lies, obstruction, bullying or bribing witnesses, etc., made it impossible to prove collusion/conspiracy. But he didn’t.

Mueller has one more chance to rectify his cruddy report. My money says he wimps out before Congress and let’s trump walk by not being direct enough in his statements.

[struggle4progress]

2. We'd get silly pointless games from this crew no matter what

[Ponietz]

5. +1

Mueller used kid gloves.

[gratuitous]

3. Also, Barr's assertion that the letter was written by a staffer

Someone should have asked Barr if Barr asked Mueller who wrote the letter that went out over Mueller's signature. "If you think the letter is snitty, did you ask Mueller if he wrote the snitty letter? Uh huh. And why didn't you ask?"

[NJCher]

4. "snitty"

Barr shows his erudite command of the English language.

Not to mention the level of maturity the remark shows.

This is what heads up the justice system in America. I'm so impressed.

[Marie Marie]

12. Yes, don't you love it?

Fred Flinstone with the snotty attitude - showing his contempt for both Congressional oversight AND the Rule of Law, calling Mueller's letter "snitty". JFC!!!!

[coti]

13. Snooty

[BigmanPigman]

6. When Blumenthal asked him to see the letter or the report

Barr asked, "Why should I?" "Why do you want it?". That was obviously BS and even my 6 year old students are better at deflecting direct questions.

[struggle4progress]

7. Yes, it's a childish ploy, at about the same level as "I like beer!"

[ancianita]

8. AND Blumenthal caught Barr in a lie about not saying anything to Trump about the 12 continuing

investigations.

That's some badass questioning.

Barr has hung himself as a clear and present danger to the Constitution.

[BigmanPigman]

9. I wish he would just hang himself. Period.

[ancianita]

10. You and me both. But as we know, men of no conscience never hang themselves.

[BigmanPigman]

11. Damn!

Back to Plan B.

[LibFarmer]

14. Barr definitely misled

and is not even ashamed that Mueller exposed him.

Barr should be impeached if he refuses to recuse himself.

[MrScorpio]

15. Bingo!