Mueller Report Exceeds 300 Pages, Raising Questions About Four-Page Summary

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — The still-secret report on Russian interference in the 2016 election submitted by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, last week was more than 300 pages long, according to the Justice Department, a length that raises new questions about Attorney General William P. Barr’s four-page summary.

Mr. Barr wrote to Congress on Sunday offering what he called the “principal conclusions” of the report — including that Mr. Mueller had not found that the Trump campaign had taken part in a conspiracy to undermine the election. But he had notably declined to publicly disclose its length.

The total of 300-plus pages suggests that Mr. Mueller went well beyond the kind of bare-bones summary required by the Justice Department regulation governing his appointment and detailed his conclusions at length. And it raises questions about what Mr. Barr might have left out of the four dense pages he sent Congress.

Democrats, who like all other lawmakers have not seen the report, have all but accused Mr. Barr of covering up damaging information it contains. They have specifically focused on an apparent difference between the views of Mr. Barr and Mr. Mueller on whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice. Democrats have demanded that the attorney general make the full report and evidence public.

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[groundloop]

1. NOT a '4 page summary' - it's a 4 page COVERUP.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. In other words

2 squares of 2-ply!

[jmowreader]

2. I want to see the file for the Barr Summary Letter

I suspect the Barr Summary was complete before the Mueller Report was issued.

If so, give William Barr a sledgehammer; he'll need it.

[Jarqui]

3. So let's say half the report is on collusion/conspiracy and the other half is

on obstruction of justice.

From the Barr 4 page letter:
https://www.vox.com/2019/3/24/18279926/mueller-report-letter-full-text-plain-barr-trump-congress

In the report, the Special Counsel noted that, in completing his investigation, he employed 19 lawyers who were assisted by a team of approximately 40 FBI agents, intelligence analysts, forensic accountants, and other professional staff. The Special Counsel issued more than 2,800 subpoenas, executed nearly 500 search warrants, obtained more than 230 orders for communication records, issued almost 50 orders authorizing use of pen registers, made 13 requests to foreign governments for evidence, and interviewed approximately 500 witnesses.

Mueller inherited an ongoing FBI investigation. The search warrants for Stone alone returned several terabytes of data. Cohen records seized were estimated at four million files. There were millions of pages of evidence to consider. Plus the audio visual evidence that takes time to absorb.

Barr was confirmed February 14th. He was on the job for five weeks.

Barr gets through all of this evidence, gets answers to his inevitable questions, deliberates, gets advice from OLC and writes his four page summary ... in just two days after receipt of the report and after five weeks on the job?????

Doesn't pass the smell test.

[Kablooie]

4. Could Barr read and digest over 300 pages in a day?

Then write a meaningful summary? All in a day and a half?

[Botany]

5. It is not a summary it is a cover up.

3 things:

If the report had exonerated Trump it would have been public by now.

Barr/Team Trump had been working on this "roll out" for weeks.

Mueller was stopped from finishing the job because no charging statement was issued.

[C Moon]

6. Great point!

[onenote]

11. There are people who know exactly what was in the Mueller report

Why haven't any of them publicly criticized the Barr summary?

[still_one]

7. Most likely Barr got a D- when he wrote book reports in junior high because he left out a lot detail

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

12. When I was writing my masters thesis in history of religion

One 15-page section covered 4 paragraphs of Augustine of Hippo's Enchridion.

[still_one]

13. I nominate you for AG

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Here's why I now think Barr pulled the plug before Mueller was finished with the investigation:

Prosecutors investigating a scheme involving multiple potential defendants almost start with the small fish first and work their way up to the capo. So far, Mueller has bagged a bunch of Russians (who will never be prosecuted here), small fish Papadopulous, van der Zwaan and Pinedo, larger fish Butina, Flynn, Gates, Manafort and Cohen; and Roger Stone will be tried for charges arising from his alleged involvement with Wilkileaks in November if he doesn't plead first. Witnesses who have spoken with investigators include Alan Weisselberg, who probably knows even more than Cohen. When Stone was busted, the FBI seized an enormous amount of data from his home and devices, and Flynn, Gates and Cohen are still cooperating.

This means there must be more evidence still being collected and evaluated that was not included in Mueller's report - because Barr stopped the OSC investigation. The reason the report didn't find evidence of "collusion" or a conspiracy with the Russian government (at least according to Barr's letter, which he probably wrote three weeks ago before he even saw what Mueller had discovered) was because Mueller was shut down before he could find enough of it to warrant more indictments, particularly those of Trump Jr. and Kushner. What he'd have done if he'd found evidence that Trump himself was involved still isn't clear.

The investigations are continuing with other prosecutors, and if there is prosecutable evidence of "collusion" (more accurately, conspiracy) on the part of any of the big fish, it will eventually be found, but it will not have the political impact of Mueller's report, and in the meantime Trump is free to twist and poison the media narrative - which is what he wanted all along.

[Glimmer of Hope]

10. 300 plus pages does not mean it is 300 pages!

Chris Mathews just called it the 300 page report. 300 is probably a low ball estimate. The report could easily be 500 or 1,000.

[Pisces]

14. 300 pages plus exhibits. I think it double the 300.

[Uncle Joe]

15. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Yo Mama Been Loggin.