This is a blatant, in our face, kiss my ass American people, cover up by Barr.

[shockey80]

No wonder I got so angry. It would have been helpful for my sanity if Mueller had not waited ten fucking days to say something. What the fuck is Mueller doing?

This whole process has failed. It's completely corrupt.

After Barr releases his redacted report the Democrats should go after him with everything they got. Put him and Mueller under oath. They have to do this because the process has been corrupted.

We may learn the Mueller report was meant to go to Congress for impeachment consideration. That would make sense.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. It will all come out.

Barr is turning out to be an even worse toady than I expected but I was heartened to see that the leaking has already started.

[Botany]

2. Lock 'em up

Link to tweet

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.”

[Buckeyeblue]

3. Yes. I just don't understand Barr's end game. Is it to be AG until 2024?

Is it that simple? Because protecting 45 seems to fly in the face of his loyalty to the Bush family.

[maxsolomon]

19. He protects Republicans.

The unvarnished truth will damage the party for a generation (I don't think that, but he apparently does).

Party over Country.

[Buckeyeblue]

20. But trump isn't a Republican

It's like they are all afraid to cross him. He must have some primo dirt on the establishment.

[maxsolomon]

23. He is.

Not a true believer, as he only cares about himself, but he was their party's nominee.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. Trump thinks Barr is HIS personal lawyer???????

Trump is going to find out the hard way once Barr is compelled to testify before the Judiciary Committee, come subpoena, or be held in contempt of Congress.

[kentuck]

5. The next step is to declare "executive privilege" for Barr and Mueller....

to keep either one from answering questions from Congress.

[dalton99a]

6. We're dealing with traitors and sociopaths.

[Guilded Lilly]

7. Yup. And pathological liars. It runs bone deep.

[2naSalit]

8. I think it also

implicates that many of our Congresscritters are also implicated and that could put mitch right out of power in a day, along with others like lindsey g. that would change the landscape at an inopportune time for them.

[pangaia]

18. "I think it also implicates(sic) that many of our Congresscritters are also implicated."

DUH! Ya think?





Come on folks, they've been implicated since Reagan....

[2naSalit]

25. I think this is

definitive and will certainly end their careers and they know it.

But, yeah, not like they haven't been blatantly obvious for a long time.

[Honeycombe8]

9. Everyone, incl. Mueller, knew that his report would not to Congress.

The law requires only that the AG issue a summary of the Special Counsel report. This was covered extensively in Barr's hearing for confirmation before the Senate. He flatly refused to say he'd release the report in full, only repeating over and over that he would comply with the law, and the law requires that he issue a summary of the report.

Mueller has already been asked to testify in front of Congress; it was reported that Mueller agreed. I don't know if a date has been set.

I'm suspicious of "the Mueller team" leaking that they are disappointed at Barr's summary misrepresenting the Mueller Report. Since Mueller is going to testify, that would be where he would say that. The Mueller Team has never leaked, that I know of. So although I want to believe this, I am suspicious that the team would leak at this time. Unless they're that ticked off.

[raging moderate]

13. Except what Barr wrote is not a summary.

Barr's four-page cover-up essay contradicts Mueller's description of his report. Barr only reinforced Trump's claim of total exoneration. So, if the law requires a summary, then Barr has not complied with the law.

[Dirty Socialist]

10. Book Him, Dano

Obstruction of justice

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. What we are hearing strongly suggests impeachment evidence (Trump & Barr). . . . nt

[raging moderate]

12. It is a specious whitewash.

I doubt that Barr had read Meuller's report when he wrote his four-page fantasy.

[Initech]

14. Like I said yesterday, they could have shredded it and gave us the finger directly.

It would save the trouble over all this side-stepping and white washing they're doing to try to bury the report now.

[Auggie]

15. It's also a stall as Mitch McConnell packs the courts with pro-corporate judges

[maxsolomon]

24. Its a stall to let it fade from the public's mind.

Delay, delay, delay. Eventually we give up and move on.

The public has the attention span of a gnat.

[Auggie]

28. Maybe. They want the judges. I don't think they give a fuck about Trump ...

once McConnell, Koch, Putin, etc. are done with Trump they'll will throw him under the bus.

[maxsolomon]

29. I'd enjoy seeing that.

But he's too useful to them right now - drawing attention away from their machinations.

[volstork]

16. Did we expect anything less

from this asshole? He was specifically chosen in order to throw up any possible roadblock to the full report getting out.

There's a precedent fo this, however.

Two words: Pentagon Papers

[muntrv]

17. Barr is this generation's John Mitchell.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. And we know what happened to John Mitchell.

[Mr Tibbs]

21. It is self-immolation on his part

He obviously lied to Congress, thinking that would be enough and that he could just bury it. But this is about the president, and things like this don't get buried they come out. He sacrificed himself for nothing

[Karadeniz]

22. Today we were treated to an outright lie by Barr. He said that what he was given had

material that needed to be edited. That contradicts the Mueller leakers who said they'd provided summaries to be passed on, as the special counsel's instructions dictate. I'm sure the high quality investigators Mueller hired knew how to handle classified material, duh. Barr didn't have to do anything except basically rubber stamp it. He's been way out of line.

[Kurt V.]

26. in ben stein voice: mueller...mueller... mueller?

[green917]

31. They waited for Congress' April 2nd deadline

The reason they waited to say anything was because the Congress gave their boss (AG Barr) until April 2nd to produce the report. That is why they waited until April 3rd to come forward, after he didn't produce it. It has been my thought that Barr wrote his 2nd letter to Congress, walking back his earlier declaration that the 4 pages he submitted to Congress 48 hours after the Mueller report was initially given to him, was due to either Mueller himself or members of his team speaking to Barr and telling him that he either needed to walk back the "total exoneration" finding from his "summary" (which he then stated was not a summary) or they would begin leaking their own summaries which have now been reported to exist. This is HUGE news for a number of reasons. First of all, Mueller's team has been the most tight-lipped investigation in modern history so, for these members of the investigation to come forward and make the statements they now have, is earth shattering for the President (and probably for AG Barr as well). Second of all, they state in no uncertain terms that Barr's initial "summary" of the report (as most of us here at DU suspected) whitewashed the President's exposure and malfeasance to a great degree. This is devastating for the President because now, I believe that, even if Barr attempts to continue to hold back the pertinent parts of the report (the Grand Jury information for instance), it will be leaked because the members of Mueller's team wont stand for the cover up, nor should they!

[Duppers]

32. +100

[Aussie105]

33. What makes me really angry

is how Trump has managed, over the last 50 or 60 years, to corrupt so many people.

Mueller picked out a few, but the scant regard for the welfare of the common people, the respect and observance of the values in the Constitution as well as the lip service paid to religious values, amongst so many, beggars belief.

Is enriching and advancing yourself so important to some people that standards of civilized behaviour are simply discarded?

Is Trump the product of a corrupt society, or has his excesses in corruption simply brought it all to light?

[spanone]

34. You are correct.

[airplaneman]

35. I was wondering myself the last time I got this angry.

Oh yes the day Trump got elected.
-Airplane

[wiggs]

36. This is what it looks like when the full weight and power of the white house and senate are

used for corrupt purposes. Along with the awesome power of many of the world's oligarchs.

We've never seen this before, and it seems to me that it's a close call as to who is going to win...