The redacted version of the Mueller Report has been released, and I have a link to a PDF copy of that report. However, before that was released, Coverup General William Barr, aka Barrf, did his nest to misrepresent its contents in order to protect his Fuhrer. He did a poor job. In fact, Barrf Barrfed.
Attorney General William Barr’s Thursday morning press conference on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia report was a whitewash.
There’s no other way to describe it. Barr, who claimed beforehand that the press conference would focus on process, spun the report’s conclusions before it was released and expected reporters to ask questions about a document they had not even seen. He literally uttered the phrase “no collusion” to describe Mueller’s conclusions — providing a perfect sound bite to play on loop on cable news in the president’s favorite phrasing.
Barr repeated this and similar talking points multiple times during his prepared statement. He put tremendous effort into explaining why Trump’s behavior during the probe should be seen as justified and in no way constituted obstruction. He even praised the president for providing “unfettered access” to documents and said the White House “fully cooperated” with the investigation, despite Trump’s refusal to submit to an interview with Mueller.
At the end, when a reporter asked if it was improper for the attorney general to spin the report to the public before it was released, Barr literally walked off the stage.
Meanwhile, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is generally respected by Trump critics, stood next to Barr silently.
It was a spectacle that said more about Barr and the way the Mueller report has been twisted by partisan politics than the report itself…. [emphasis added]
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Don’t take my word for it. Decide for yourself. CSPAN recorded Barrf’s presser.
Barrf Bag Alert!!
What do you think?
Finally, click here to read the redacted Mueller Report.
I’ll have to depend on others to dig out the dirt. I have a copy, but my eyes are not capable of evaluating it. Go for it.
RESIST!!
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I watched from beginning to end, and the only “Fair & Balanced” assessment of Barr’s pre-ordained performance:
Not having cable TV (just internet), I watched the 2-hour analysis on ABC & was overall pleased – but some expected disappointment from Terry Moran (“He was fighting for his presidency”) and Jonathan Karl (who wrote a book absolving militia’s of any evil: “The Right to Bear Arms: The Rise of America’s New Militias”).
Gawd, this is awful.
Barr is covering up for his boss. ugh!
dt will gloat about this finding to kingdom come, and back.
Not a good day for Lady Justice.
The redactions are color coded by category. It is up now but it definitely takes a while to load. White is for ongoing investigation, green for personal privacy, yellow for investigative techniques, red for grand jury. The green is the hardest to read, BTW. (The Table of Contents is only slightly redcacted and probably easier to read than the whole thing. The Table of Contents for Volume II begins on page 209 of 448.)
Incidentally, you can zoom it. Clicking the “+” button 3 times put it on my monitor to where the page width fills the screen width. But the margins are pretty good – I expect one could go larger still.
Matt Wuerker did a great cartoon. I’ll provide a link, not the cartoon, because of sopyright.
I downloaded a free SEARCHABLE PDF copy of it from CNN. All their redactions are black – BUT with color-code text describing it:
Harm to Ongoing Matters – or HOM if too short
Personal Privacy – or PP
Investigative Technique – or IT
Grand Jury – or GJ
Well, yes, the reference on the color coding is to the text on the black bars. It would have to be, or one could see right through it, and it wouldn’t be redacted. (And that’s why the green is the hardest to read.)
Barrf can take his bowdlerized farce and shove it where shineth neither sun nor moon nor stars. The public – and all members of Congress – have every right to see the entire, unedited report!
What a darn farce!! 😒
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Drumpf and Barrf are such cowards, trying to make out Drumpf completely vindicated before anyone had read the redacted report. And stupid too, because Barrf’s first cover-up summary couldn’t clear Drumpf. And now his redacted version can’t either. The indications slipping through the redactions only make things worse; the redactions only add to the ever growing suspicion there is more to Mueller’s report than Drumpf will want the people to know.
I won’t be spending time on this redaction, I’ll wait for the full report to go to Congress and for it to decide which parts can’t be shown to the public, but draw its own conclusions on the FULL REPORT nevertheless.
What a flipping fool bArr must be if he really thought the house was going to accept the redacted version of the Mueller Report that he marked out everything.
He should be ashamed of himself, but on the other hand, the type of kiss tRump’s as* creep he is, it was to be expected.
We just better see the house calling Robert Mueller in to testify or get the full version.
I signed the petitions earlier that Animae posted.
I cannot say that Barrf’s barf surprises me, but it does greatly disappoint me. Barrf is playing partisan politics to protect the Dark Lord, not the country. As AG, he should be non partisan, interested in justice only.
Did anyone else notice Rosenstein’s demeanor in the presser? He looked very stiff and his face was almost gazed over . . . almost as if he did not want to be there.
Without doubt, Mueller will be having a chat with congressional committees about the report and it will NOT be a ‘fireside’ chat.
As to the redacted report, I have only skimmed it as I did not have enough time to study it. We will have to wait and see what happens next.
Thanks, TGIF Hugs and men to all.
Faux Noise said the report exonerates their Fuhrer.