Opinion: Barr’s testimony was a low point in Justice Department history
Attorney General William P. Barr testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 2 at 9:45 AM The consensus view outside Trumpland was that Attorney General William P. Barr came across at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing as a political hack.
Barr’s original sin was in distorting the Mueller report . Barr has twice doubled down on his dishonesty by asserting in testimony to Congress that he had no reason to think Mueller took exception to it. It’s a good thing that Mueller documented his scathing assessment of Barr’s handiwork. Barr insisted that use of the word “spying” in describing his department’s counterintelligence investigation was appropriate. He insisted that the Trump campaign had not been briefed on Russian interference, then had to correct himself when staff pointed out that the campaign had been warned.
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