As for the question of whether Trump obstructed justice, Barr quoted the Mueller report as saying, “while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” . ... As for Barr’s statement on obstruction, the report makes clear..…
For instance, Nixon’s Attorney General John Mitchell authorized the Watergate break-in when he was still at DOJ. ... Barr’s initial characterization of Mueller’s decision not to pursue obstruction of justice seemed to indicate that there was insufficient evidence. ..…
Barr acknowledged that officials at Justice Department met with White House lawyers repeatedly recent weeks to discuss the contents of the report, in process that helped the team prepare rebuttal.. ..…
It's also quite apparent from the report that the actions of the in trying to shut down and interfere with the investigation into those Russian efforts crossed the line into obstruction of justice.. Barr has spent the last several weeks, working conjunction with his boss in Oval Office,..…
Attorney General William Barr alongside acting Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Edward O'Callaghan and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein at Justice Department on April 18, 2019.. Barr, is also expected to detail Justice Department's interactions with..…
It's now clear that Attorney General Barr lied in his oral and written summaries of the report, and that there's more evidence of both collusion and obstruction of justice than Barr let on. ..…
After receiving a confidential copy of Mueller’s report in March, Attorney General William Barr made his own conclusion for the Justice Department that Trump had not committed obstruction of justice. ..…
Barr presented a conclusion that the president did not obstruct justice while Mueller's report appears to undercut that finding,” Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Charles E. ... Barr repeated his own conclusion that they did not, saying that Trump had “noncorrupt motives”..…
Attorney General William Barr said on April 18 that special counsel Robert Mueller did not provide sufficient evidence to support an obstruction-of-justice case against President Donald Trump. . “After carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report, and in..…
In his pre-release press conference, AG Barr excused and defended President Trump's, dishonest attacks against DOJ, FBI, and the professionals on Special Counsel Mueller's team as sincere frustration and anger. ..…
He worked on policy for the administration of President Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s, and then went to work in Justice Department after Bush won White House.. Barr gave justification for the administration to invade Panama and arrest Manuel Noriega, United States has the power to..…
About an hour after Attorney General William Barr at a Thursday morning event framed the conclusions in the 448-page report in a light sympathetic to the president, the redacted document was finally delivered by the Justice Department to congressional committees on CDs, then made public on the..…
Barr defended Trump’s conduct and said the White House did everything possible to cooperate with Mueller – although it did not provide the special counsel with a key witness, the president himself. . ... Rosa DeLauro, D-3rd District, said “despite Attorney General Barr’s political..…
The Washington Post's Editorial Board on Thursday published op-ed entitled, Barr's redactions on Mueller report do not deserve the benefit of the doubt.. Meanwhile federal prosecutors told judge on Wednesday in court filing in the on-going case against President Trump's associate Roger..…
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein listens while Attorney General William Barr speaks during press conference about the release of Mueller Report at Department of Justice Washington on April 18, 2019 .. ... Barr Delivers Remarks on the Release of the Report on the..…
The president's efforts to influence the investigation were unsuccessful, and that is Mueller wrote, giving Congress authorization to probe Trump for obstructing justice.. Attorney General William Barr speaks Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, right, and acting Principal Associate..…
Barr had written memo to Justice Department June 2018, that Mueller appeared to be proposing expansion of obstruction laws.. ..…
Mueller delivered his team’s nearly 400-page final report to the Justice Department last month, but the public has so far seen only about 100 words of it in a letter Barr sent to congressional leaders. ... Barr told reporters Mueller's report reviews 10 specific episodes..…
Barr described the report to journalists before the Justice Department released it. ... Mueller remains a Justice Department employee, and Barr could have blocked Mueller from speaking to Congress. ..…
Barr shed light on how Justice Department finalized Mueller's report for release at 30 a.m press conference, from Special Counsel's Office. ... Stone has pleaded not guilty Barr's press conference followed Wednesday in Stone case that Justice Department will provide..…
The report explicitly states that the investigation did not clear the president [of obstruction of justice–jhj]. . ... Barr heavily redacted evidence about the Trump campaign’s outreach to WikiLeaks. . ..…
The pair called on Mueller to testify on Capitol Hill, following Barr's regrettably partisan handling of the release. Mueller's team, however, did assist Justice Department with making redactions... ..…
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein listens while Attorney General William Barr speaks during press conference about the release of Mueller Report at Department of Justice Washington on April 18, 2019 .. Barr held the conference on Thursday morning ahead of the release of..…
The article was written before the conclusions of the investigative report on Russian collusion by special counsel Robert Mueller were made public by Attorney General William Barr, who told Congress the Trump campaign was spied on by the U.S. government. . The Justice Department is..…
Nearly one Mueller's investigation came to close, ending inquiry into Russian in the election, collusion between Trump and Kremlin, and examination of whether the president obstructed justice. ... Further solidifying the optics of in the eyes of Barr's critics was New York Times report..…
While Mueller drew no conclusion on the question of whether Trump obstructed justice in the course of the investigation, Barr said in his letter to Congress that he and his No. 2, Rod Rosenstein, determined there was not enough evidence of obstruction of justice by Trump. ... Officials..…
Now, DOJ is informing us we will not receive the report until around 11/12 tomorrow afternoon — AFTER Barr’s press conference. ..…
At the time, that Mueller presented evidence that could be seen as obstruction of justice, and that he did not decide to reach conclusion... We'll know soon whether Barr is conveying the substance of Mueller's report, and many questions will remain even after it's released. ..…
After Barr delivered a press conference on Thursday, the Justice Department released the 400-page-plus Mueller report to the public Thursday. ..…