Comey says Barr 'deserves the benefit of the doubt' in review of Mueller report, but questions obstr
Source: CNN
Washington (CNN)Former FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday that Attorney General William Barr deserves "the benefit of the doubt" when it comes to transparency about the special counsel investigation, but at the same time he questioned Barr's decision on whether President Donald Trump had committed obstruction of justice.
"Bill Barr, our attorney general, deserves the benefit of the doubt," Comey told CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
"Give him a chance to show us what he feels like he can't show us. I have to imagine that former (FBI Director Robert) Mueller wrote the report with an eye towards it being public some day, so I can't imagine a lot needs to be cut out of it. But let's wait and see. The attorney general deserves that chance."
Comey's comments came in the wake of the conclusion of the special counsel investigation. A major leg of the investigation, according to a brief summary of Mueller's report by Barr, was dedicated to the potential that Trump had obstructed justice.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/02/politics/james-comey-amanpour-cnntv/index.html
choie
(4,111 posts)the benefit of the doubt to somebody who had a hand in pardoning the Iran Contra criminals, thus protecting GHW Bush. Sure, Comey - whatever you say...
moonseller66
(430 posts)Barr et. al. better hope Mueller didn't keep an exact duplicate of the report just in case trumpco decides to rewrite the whole thing with a lot of BS thrown in!
still_one
(92,219 posts)alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)I wish he would just STFU already.
Thekaspervote
(32,778 posts)rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)They could careless.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)red dog 1
(27,820 posts)more Hillary Clinton emails TEN DAYS BEFORE THE 2016 ELECTION!!!
You should have been prosecuted under The Hatch Act of 1939.
Thanks to you, The Devil Incarnate now occupies the White House,
instead of the candidate who received the most votes!
thegoose
(3,115 posts)We don't care what you think.
meadowlander
(4,399 posts)Then he buried Iran Contra and wrote a memo that the Mueller report had no legal basis and refused to recuse himself.
So yeah, nah. Hes a partisan hack.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,950 posts)After -- NO
PSPS
(13,603 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,143 posts)this statement being in the constitution or the amendments to the constitution either.
Why is Barr holding back the Mueller report to Congress? What did rump do?