Mueller: Barr’s Summary Sowed ‘Public Confusion’ About Probe Results
Special counsel Robert Mueller expressed concern in late March about how Attorney General William Barr “publicized” the Mueller Report’s conclusions.
“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 in a March 27 letter to Barr, according to The Washington Post. “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.”
The letter also requested that Barr release the report’s “introductions and executive summaries” so that they could “alleviate the misunderstandings that have arisen” among the public and Congress about the probe.
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