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CNN Suggests WashPost Story Spells Doom for Barr, Ignores Mueller Contradiction
With The Washington Post publishing select excerpts from a letter Special Counsel Robert Mueller purportedly sent to Attorney General William Barr expressing some level of displeasure with the original four-page memo to Congress, Tuesday night’s CNN was off to the races with all sorts of speculation and doom and gloom soothsaying at it pertained to the fate of the AG.
In the middle of Anderson Cooper 360, Watergate-era bloviators John Dean (via telephone) and Carl Bernstein popped on to give their best negative spin.
After Dean suggested the letter exposed a “rift” between the longtime Justice Department friends, and without evidence, Bernstein went on to claim is exposed something darker about Barr and his motivations:
So, there clearly is an attempt by the special prosecutor, who says very clearly as well, that this action by the Attorney General has undermined public confidence in the special prosecutor's investigation and, in fact, notes that Mueller does, that was the purpose of the investigation was to have public confidence.
And he accuses even though the language may be polite later on in the letter, he seems to accuse Mr. Barr undermining that public confidence. So this is an extraordinary and stunning development, and the other aspect of it is that like those who saw the report when it was released in the press and said, “wait a minute here, this report has nothing to do that is consistent with the way that Barr characterized it four weeks earlier”. Mueller, now, seems to be saying the same thing.
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