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There's what Bill Barr says ...
Barr in his letter said, “I do not believe it would be in the public’s interest for me to attempt to summarize the full report or release it in serial or piecemeal fashion.”
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And there's what Bill Barr does …
So the 9:30 am press conference will give Barr one last chance to attempt to set the narrative about the report’s findings before the press and the public actually get to read the document for themselves. It will also likely have the handy consequence of producing footage of Barr defending Trump that can be played on television all day during coverage of the report.
What’s curious about this is that Barr claimed just last month that he wouldn’t try to summarize Mueller’s report. “I do not believe it would be in the public’s interest for me to attempt to summarize the full report,” he wrote in a March 29 letter to Nadler. But apparently, his thinking has changed — CNN reported Wednesday that Barr plans to give an overview of the report at the press conference.
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There's what Bill Barr says …
The attorney general also said “there are no plans to submit the report to the White House for a privilege review” to give President Donald Trump a chance to assert claims that certain portions of the report should be exempt from disclosure.
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And there's what Bill Barr does ...
The New York Times reported that White House lawyers and Justice Department officials discussed the report before its release to prep a rebuttal. Democrats and Beltway journalists criticized Barr for holding a press conference an hour and a half before he releases the report. “The attorney general appears to be waging a media campaign on behalf of President Trump,” House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler said.
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There's what Bill Barr says …
[...] “the key question” now is whether Barr will “live up to the commitment he made to be as transparent as possible, which would require making public the Mueller report.”
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And there's what Bill Barr does ...
But Attorney General William Barr says he plans to redact four types of information in the report: grand jury material, sensitive intelligence, matters that could affect ongoing investigations, and infringements on the privacy rights of “peripheral third parties.”
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There's what Bill Barr says … that he is working for the American People.
And there's what Bill Barr does … helping Trump to bury the truth, from those very same American People.
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No More Barr Reports, please!
Release the Full Mueller Report to the public. It’s our democracy … (or at least it used to be.)