Mueller Was Displeased by Barr's Summary of His Report

As we all now know, Attorney General Bill Barr profoundly misrepresented Special Counsel Bob Mueller's findings in his (Barr's) four-page summary to Congress. Mueller was not happy about it — and let Barr know in no uncertain terms, sending him a letter in late March reading, in part:

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. 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.

It's not great, to put it politely, that Mueller did not say that publicly, instead choosing to send a private missive to the man who misrepresented his conclusions in the first place.

But here it is. Mueller believed Barr was trying to obfuscate the gravity of his findings. And Barr did the same once more ahead of the release of the report, at his mendacious press conference.

In fact, I suspect that Barr is doing it even now, having his allies leak the existence and contents of the letter to get the jump on Congressional Democrats. I am not alone in that suspicion:

Counterintuitive as it may seem, I think we will learn some day that this letter was leaked by Barr's DOJ allies. They knew that @HouseJudiciary had the letter and they wanted to try to dilute its impact with their own spin. https://t.co/32KMlJwqZa

— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) May 1, 2019

In any case, what we know for certain is that Barr misrepresented Mueller's findings, heard about it from Mueller himself, and kept doing it.

There is only one conclusion: Attorney General Bill Barr must be impeached and removed from his office.

The same remains true of his boss, whom he schemes to protect.