Barr suspects Mueller team ‘wanted more put out’ in summary

Published April 9, 2019 3:34pm ET



Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday he suspects special counsel Robert Mueller’s team “wanted more” out of his summary of the final report for the Russia investigation.

“I suspect that they probably wanted more put out,” Barr testified during a House Appropriations panel hearing. “But, in my view I was not interested in putting out summaries or trying to summarize because I think any summary, regardless of who prepares it, not only runs the risk of being under inclusive or over inclusive but also would trigger a lot of discussion and analysis that really should wait everything coming out at once.”

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