I hope six days of soft headlines was all worth it, Mr. Barr.
Comforting rhetoric aside, Iâll bet $25 that this admin will not release a meaningfully unredacted edition of this report while they still have power to prevent doing so. Itâs just not going to happen though theyâll keep up the okey-doke as long as possible.
Remember the Whitewater special counselâs report? That all started because the Clintons invested in a questionable real estate deal? That Kenneth Starr the Republican special counsel investigated and led to the sex scandal. That read like softcore porn fiction and was released it to the public upon publication?
Remember all that crap???
-and remember it was in bookstores for Christâs sake in two days?
End the Barr cover up!!
âThatâs one of the few things we know about the Mueller reportâŚâ
No. Just no.
We donât âknowâ anything about the Mueller report.
(Technically, we donât even know that those briefest of quotes that Barr cites in his summary arenât misquotes.)
Chairman Nadler â the âgood guyâ source for this reporting â doesnât even know its length:
When asked if âvery substantialâ would be under 1,000 pages, Nadler replied, âI would think so.â
I get that every journalist in America wants to get out in front of this story, but itâs ALL speculation.
TPM reporters are exponentially more professional than the rest of our Pee-Wee-Soccer-League press.
But â please â stop feeding the GOP narrative that we know anything about the Mueller report.
Because we just donât.
Thank you. Every writer here has been guilty of this.
Iâd like this post more than once if I could. Itâs shocking how the media has fallen into the frame that they have something to comment on, nobodyâs got nuthinâ. Itâs shocking.
This is the critical, utterly basic point, which should have informed, and shortened, every article on the subject. Thanks for making it so lucidly.
Why is it that journalism so completely lacks the notion of âvalid argumentâ? I get that they donât do numbers, but this recent explosion of hoo-ha goes far beyond that.
Iâm gonna go out on a limb here, though, and guess that the Barr cover-up letter didnât quite capture the entirety of the Mueller report - realizing, of course, that this is sheer speculation on my part.
I wonder how many people in Justice have access to it? They must have this thing locked down harder than Trumpâs tax returns. Where are all those leakers in the leaky Justice Department (considering its wall to wall Angry Democrats anyhow)?
Steve Bannon would deem the whole report as just âmarginaliaâ.
For context, you need to scroll down to second video with Anderson Cooper and Bannon in this article:
All play makes jack for a dull boy president.
Unless the 700-1000 pages of the Mueller report were written in a teeny tiny font which would fit on four pages, itâs a fact we have learned and been told nothing. We do have, however, too many talking heads weighing in on matters they know little about because they have access to the red light on a camera.
I, for one, wouldnât take that bet.
Love the cow in the middle. Suspect Devin Nunes doesnâtâŚ
If Barr has badly misrepresented what is in the Mueller Report, Mueller ought to be saying something. Otherwise, we can only conclude that Mueller didnât want this to completely undermine what passes as the Trump administration.