Barr reportedly got key info on Mueller's findings three weeks ago


It turns out that Attorney General William Barr had a lot longer than just 48 hours to analyze the fact that Special Counsel Robert Mueller did not reach a conclusion as to whether President Trump obstructed justice during Mueller's investigation into whether the Trump presidential campaign colluded with Russian election interference in 2016.
In fact, Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein met with members of Mueller's prosecutorial team three weeks ago, CNN reports. Mueller's team informed them that Mueller would neither indict or exonerate the president of obstruction. Barr reportedly did not expect this conclusion.
But the revelation is important because it challenges the widely held notion that Barr reached his own judgment on obstruction in the tight, 48-hour window between when Mueller handed the report to Barr on Friday evening and Barr's letter to Congress briefing them on the principal conclusions of the investigation, which he sent on Sunday afternoon.
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Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.
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