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On March 24, Barr released a short letter summarizing the main findings of the Mueller investigation, as he saw them. News accounts treated Barr’s interpretation as definitive, and the media — even outlets that had spent two years uncovering a wide swath of suspicious and compromising links between the Trump campaign and Russia — dutifully engaged in self-flagellation for having had the temerity to raise questions about the whole affair.
Barr had done very little to that point to earn such a broad benefit of the doubt. In the same role in 1992, he had supported mass pardons of senior officials that enabled a cover-up of the Iran–Contra scandal. Less famously, in 1989 he issued a redacted version of a highly controversial administration legal opinion that, as Ryan Goodman explained, “omitted some of the most consequential and incendiary conclusions from the actual opinion” for “no justifiable reason.”
Bill Barr lied — not mislead, LIED — about the Mueller report when he delivered his “summary” three weeks ago. An Attorney General who uses his office as a legal shield for a corrupt president, instead of what the office is intended to be (the Attorney General is supposed to work for the citizens of America) is subject for removal by Congress.
This is, of course, not Barr’s first offense. As noted in the article, Barr slammed the door on the investigation of Iran-Contra by supporting the corrupt pardons. Bill Barr has been a black mark on the office of US Attorney General both times he has been there. This infraction is too big to ignore.