What We're Learning From the Mueller Investigation Leaks
After nearly two years of tight-lipped silence, the investigative team of Special Counsel Robert Mueller is leaking to reporters, and suggesting that there is far more to Mueller’s final report than Trump’s hand-picked attorney general has let on.
In rival stories published Wednesday evening by the Washington Post and the New York Times, members of Mueller’s team made clear they’re unhappy with the cursory letter A.G. William Barr sent to congress summarizing the report’s findings, which Trump and his loyalists have touted as exonerating the president.
Citing anonymous sources close to the special counsel’s Russia probe, the Post describes the team’s unearthed evidence of obstruction of justice as “alarming and significant,” with one team member telling the Post: “It was much more acute than Barr suggested.”
The Times report is thinner, but offers a similar punch from sources close to the investigation. They believe, the paper writes, that “Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry” and that the results of Mueller’s probe were “more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated.”
NBC News followed with its own reporting Thursday morning, adding an explosive new detail. The Mueller report is said to detail how Trump campaign members were “manipulated by a sophisticated Russian intelligence operation.”
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