Barr mischaracterized the content of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report in his letter summarizing its conclusions. He set aside Mueller’s reluctance to interpret the evidence of obstruction of justice, instead taking the decision upon himself—and decided in his boss’s favor. He held his peace as the president used his bully pulpit to falsely claim over more than a month that a report nobody else was allowed to see absolved him of wrongdoing, when the report did no such thing. And now Barr is tasked to declassify documents as he thinks fit to support conclusions already whistled up by Trump?

Quinta Jurecic: Impeachment is a refusal to accept the unacceptable

Trump will be acting as his own Julian Assange, releasing U.S. secrets to advance his agenda.

If Trump’s claims had any basis in reality, he would convene an independent commission of respected fact finders. Instead, he has relied on supporters willing to do his bidding—first Devin Nunes, now William Barr. The mission he has assigned them: Fight to suppress documents properly subpoenaed by Congress to answer important public questions, then pick and choose U.S. national secrets to defame career professionals who sought to protect the integrity of the nation’s elections against foreign adversaries who manipulated those elections in Trump’s favor.



Where’s the cover-up? This is the cover-up, as the White House and the office of the attorney general collude to conceal what the public deserves to know.