Does anybody believe that Barr read a 700 page report in one day to come up with a 4 page summary?

[Baitball Blogger]

Above all, this is not something he could have shopped out to anybody else. He had to read the document to put his name on that summary. And the rumor is that it's 700 pages long, per Napolitano.

I think this pile of horseshit that Barr is peddling is smellier than the usual pile that Republicans farm out to us.

[Chin music]

1. And can't finish the other 300 for a few weeks?

Must be the conclusory pages were to much to dig into.

[Jarqui]

2. and review several million pages of evidence

and audio, video and data?

Oh yeah, no problem!!

[Gothmog]

3. No, I do not believe this

[randr]

4. I'm guessing it took him 2 weeks to write the summary

and then he called on Mueller to hand in the report.

[mopinko]

17. ding ding ding.

[rurallib]

21. Ding!

[2naSalit]

29. Yup.

[bluestarone]

5. Fuck NO!

[barbtries]

6. oh hell yeah

they're perpetrating a huge cover up and destroying the country at the same time.

[Karadeniz]

7. I heard he'd been visiting with Mueller for about 3weeks.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Helicopter partisan.

Not a smart move.

[Kingofalldems]

11. Got a link on that?

[thegoose]

8. Fix was in from day one

This is more Puke shit. Party from hell.

[fescuerescue]

9. That's not such a difficult feat

This isn't a teacher giving out a 700 page reading assignment and Barr went to his room to read it and do a book report.

Barr has a full staff and they no doubt split it up amongst themselves and then conferred together.

I would also expect that a 700 page report is going to have a Executive summary and summary. It's also highly likely that a big chunk of the report is reference material backing up statements in the main body.

I once wrote a 1,800 page analysis for a major airline on their cyber security matters. About 50 pages were were the body, 3 pages were a summarization and 1 page for an Executive Summary. The rest was all reference material. Can you guess which part was actually read?

This is probably about the same, just with far more firepower than I have.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Imagine how that's going to look the day the House gets the report and calls Barr in,

to answer questions. They will read excerpts from the report and Barr will claim that he didn't read that section.

He's a fixer.

[fescuerescue]

18. Well the House will roast him

That's true even if he has a photographic memory and commits all 700 to memory.

And bear in mind that Barr is not on trial, Trump is.

House members won't care what he remembers. They will use the opportunity to read various pages into the record and then ask questions they already know the answer too

[Blue_Tires]

13. I'd forgotten about this:

Link to tweet

[milestogo]

14. The only person I know who could possibly do that would be Russ Feingold.

He actually read bills before voting on them, even if he had to stay up all night.

[JHB]

15. I believe he wrote the summary 9 months ago.,,

...and merely filled in the madlibs he needed to.

[spanone]

16. cherry picking

Barr didn't let his boss down.

He did exactly what he was hired to do.

[Amaryllis]

19. I'm wondering who he colluded with to come up with the "report" he was going to release.

Do you believe for one minute he came up with that all on his own? No. I dont think he shopped it out but i do think he consulted on strategy and message.

[ancianita]

20. Nope. Barr admitted as such to House Judiciary Chair Nadler today.

[JDC]

22. His summary was written before he received the report.

I am sure of that.

[rurallib]

23. Trump had Barr's summary on Barr's desk on Barr's first day as AG

[DFW]

24. Of course somebody believes it.

Hint: their first names are Donald and Lindsey.

[Aussie105]

25. The full Mueller report has to come out.

It needs to be read, understood, analysed, and compared to the Barr summary.

Barr then needs to be held responsible for any omissions and slants he has added himself.

More importantly though, the Mueller report needs to be analysed for the ramifications it has, ie what follow ups he recommends, in the current debacle.

Mueller has done his job. Now others need to do theirs just as thoroughly. Any sidetracking by Barr and those like him, needs to be ignored.

[dchill]

26. He already knew what his report would say...

regardless of whatever inconvenience truths were in the Mueller report. No collusion, no obstruction.

[mikeysnot]

27. they have been reading off the no collusion script

for two years, they already had their interpretation of the outcome. And they are sticking to the script.

They will have weeks to pound the lie, before we see, if we do, the "truth".

[Silver Gaia]

28. NOPE. No way.

This was my FIRST thought about this. I had assumed he would skim and note some major topics, but NOT state opinions on these topics nor make bold pronouncements like he did. That was WAY over the top. The only way he could have read it all and had time to think about it would be if he'd had it in his possession for weeks already. Either way, it's a big lie, and a cover-up of monumental proportions.