In letter, Mueller complained Barr didn't fully capture the 'context, nature, and substance' of his report

Robert Mueller.
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller sent Attorney General William Barr a letter on March 27, telling him that the four-page memo Barr sent to Congress about Mueller's report on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and potential obstruction of justice "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance" of his work, The Washington Post reports.

Mueller sent the letter, which was reviewed by the Post, after Barr publicly concluded that President Trump had not obstructed justice, while acknowledging that Mueller had not reached a conclusion on obstruction either way. Mueller's report included 10 episodes of possible obstruction of justice, but Mueller wrote that due to a Justice Department policy that says a president cannot be indicted while in office, his team could not conclude whether Trump had committed a crime.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.