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Be wary of anonymous reports alleging Mueller’s team is unhappy

By Becket Adams

Published April 4, 2019 1:59pm ET

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Be wary of anonymous reports alleging Mueller’s team is unhappy — The silhouette of Robert Mueller, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and special counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice, is seen as he leaves the U.S. Capitol Building following a meeting with the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, June 20, 2017. Senators on the Intelligence Committee pressed administration officials Wednesday to disclose more about the extent of Russian hacking attempts during last year's election after the government disclosed that 21 states had been targeted. | (Zach Gibson/Bloomberg)

Members of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team say Attorney General William Barr has soft-pedaled the findings of their investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether President Trump committed an obstruction-of-justice offense, according to the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Be wary of these news reports. We’ve been burned before by supposedly momentous, anonymously sourced Russian collusion “scoops.”

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