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(7,142 posts)This is the best I can do, (computer illiterate) here is an excerpt from the NY Times, written by Mark Mazzetti, and Michael Schmidt,
During the call, according to Mr. Barr, the special counsel pressed again for Mr. Barr to immediately make public the executive summaries to provide a more accurate picture of the conclusions of the Mueller report. Mr. Barr said he was disinclined to put out the report in piecemeal fashion.
In the weeks that followed, Mr. Barr repeatedly and publicly made veiled criticisms of Mr. Mueller and his team. Asked during congressional testimony in early April whether the Mueller investigation had been a witch hunt, he demurred. On April 18, hours before the reports release, he gave a news conference during which he said he disagreed with Mr. Muellers legal reasoning on the obstruction of justice issue. He also went out of his way to explain how Mr. Trumps behavior when put in context was understandable.
At this point, weeks after Mr. Mueller delivered his report, all the public had seen of his work was what Mr. Barr had summarized in his four-page letter.
On Wednesday, Mr. Barr was clearly peeved, even defiant, at the criticism that his actions had played a distorting role in molding the narrative of the Mueller report in a way that benefited his boss.
He called the controversy mind-bendingly bizarre because he always intended to release a fuller version of the report.
I repeat, Barr never released Mueller's executive summary.