As it emerged Mr Mueller had written to the department of justice to say he did not believe attorney general William Barr’s four-page summary of his 450-page report correctly captured its context and content, a Democratic congressman said the 74-year-old special counsel would likely appear some time this month. It would be the first public appearance by Mr Mueller for more than two years.
The head of the House of Representatives’ judiciary committee, Jerry Nadler, told news agency Reuters it was important the former FBI director testified: “which they've agreed to do subject to setting a date, and we'll see if they do that, sometime in May.”
Mr Mueller’s report revealed 11 instances where the behaviour of the president or officials related to his campaign might have amounted to obstruction. The report also said that the Trump campaign was “receptive” to assistance from Moscow during the 2016 election and expected to benefit from Russian interference.
Mr Mueller also wrote: “While this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”
Mr Mueller said in his report that he believed his hands were tied over criminal charges by DoJ rules that prevented a sitting president from facing such action. However, he made it clear that he did not exonerate Mr Trump of obstruction of justice but left the decision about whether to chase criminal charges to the attorney general. Mr Barr and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, said that they believed the actions mentioned in the report did not rise to the level needed for a criminal prosecution.
Hours before Attorney General William Barr was set to testify Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, media outlets reported that special counsel Robert Mueller had written a letter challenging Barr’s initial summary of his report.
A copy of that letter, dated March 27, was given to the House Judiciary Committee moments before Barr was due to appear before senators during Wednesday’s hearing.
In the letter, Mueller said Barr’s four-page summary of the Russia report, which Barr released March 24, “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this Office’s work and conclusions.”
The special counsel said he and his team communicated the concern to the Justice Department on March 25.
“There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation,” Mueller added. “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.”
Why is he going to testify at his own tribunal? Mueller is literally about to get fucking hanged.
Kevin Ward
Lol, you libtards crack me up with your fake news and rhetoric. See y'all in the FISA courts, and DoJ SOON!
Chase Rodriguez
apparently, you haven't read what Mueller said about Barr's 'assessment' of the Mueller report, and in particular about obstruction of justice
Not being mean or rude, but it appears that you're the one who's uninformed
Jeremiah Johnson
total legit news
Jacob Kelly
Literally no matter what Mueller says, Democrats will interpret it as proving Trump obstructed and colluded and Republicans will say it proves Trump is exonerated. It's like a $35M Rorschach figure that no one is willing to interpret in good faith.
Isaac Young
Who gives a shit about the 4 page report? Barr released the full version to Congress already, there's nothing to be misinterpreted at this point.
