The Mueller report has been the subject of a lot of discussion this past week. There has also been a lot of discussion about the length of the report. The report is the result of Special Counsel Robert Mueller III’s investigation into crimes or conspiracies between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
Someone on Fox News said that it was 700 pages long. On Friday, March 29, Barr claimed that it’s closer to “400 pages” long when he said that he would produce a redacted version of the report by “mid-April.”
Did Mueller tell us the Mueller report is 400 pages? If he didn’t, and he didn’t do so on video while showing the document and flipping through the pages to the very last numbered page, then I don’t know how many pages the report contains.
Mueller provided his report to Attorney General Bob Barr on Friday, March 21, 2019. Barr provided a four-page summary of the several hundred-page report on Sunday, March 24,
It is quite astounding that Barr was able to digest the entire Mueller report and issue a summary containing only a few quoted sentence fragments from the report in less than two full days. I doubt that Barr actually read and digested the entire report. He probably read a summary on the first pages of Mueller’s report, from which he drew the quoted sentence fragments.
I believe Barr made up his mind about the investigation before that report ever hit his desk. Very simply, I do not trust an attorney general appointed by one of the targets of the investigation. And I especially do not trust an AG who auditioned for the AG job when he wrote a 19-page memo explaining why the subject of the investigation could not be convicted of obstructing justice.
In addition, I do not trust an AG who wrote this 19-page memo months before seeing the Mueller report. I especially don’t trust an AG who does so months before investigators handed down all the indictments resulting indictments.
Now that Barr has had the report for a week, what should happen next?
Barr should release the entire Mueller report within the next five days.
But I doubt that he will.