Worth a mention, WAPO didn't put this under National or Politics, they put it under National Security. That's interesting.
BARR IS FUCKING WITH THE REPORT AND US!
These are some very salient 'pullouts' from the article, further down. The team WROTE IT FOR RELEASE, already 'redacted' or requiring minimum more editing.
The report was prepared “so that the front matter from each section could have
been released immediately — or very quickly,” the official said. “It was done in a way
that minimum redactions, if any, would have been necessary, and the work would have spoken for itself.”
Mueller’s team assumed the information was going to be made available to the public,
the official said, “and so they prepared their summaries to be shared in their own words
— and not in the attorney general’s summary of their work, as turned out to be the case.”
Limited information Barr has shared about Russia investigation frustrated some on Mueller’s team
By Ellen Nakashima , Carol D. Leonnig and Rosalind S. Helderman
April 4 at 1:01 AM
Members of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team have told associates they are frustrated with the limited information Attorney General William P. Barr has provided about their nearly two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether President Trump sought to obstruct justice, according to people familiar with the matter.
The displeasure among some who worked on the closely held inquiry has quietly begun to surface in the days since Barr released a four-page letter to Congress on March 24 describing what he said were the principal conclusions of Mueller’s still-confidential, 400-page report.
In his letter, Barr said that the special counsel did not establish a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. And he said that Mueller did not reach a conclusion “one way or the other” as to whether Trump’s conduct in office constituted obstruction of justice.
Absent that, Barr told lawmakers that he concluded the evidence was not sufficient to prove that the president obstructed justice.
But members of Mueller’s team have complained to close associates that the evidence they gathered on obstruction was alarming and significant.
“It was much more acute than Barr suggested,” said one person, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the subject’s sensitivity.
Attorney General William P. Barr has promised to provide Congress with a
redacted version of Mueller’s report by mid-April. (Erik S Lesser/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
The New York Times first reported that some special counsel investigators feel that Barr did not adequately portray their findings.
Some members of the office were particularly disappointed that Barr did not release summary information the special counsel team had prepared, according to two people familiar with their reactions.
“There was immediate displeasure from the team “There was immediate displeasure from the team when they saw how the attorney general had characterized their work instead,” according one U.S. official briefed on the matter...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...2f46684196e_story.html?utm_term=.e182ad0cabfb
