Reading the PDC staff report was like reliving then Attorney General Barr's successful effort in controlling the narrative of the Mueller report. Barr's four-page summary was designed to spin the story by obfuscating the findings.
The PDC should do better and the PDC members, if their mission means anything to them, should take control of this.
NPR 8/20/22 - "Democrats have complained for nearly a year that Barr’s description of the report was skewed and that it altered the public narrative about Mueller’s conclusions. Shortly after Barr issued a letter describing Mueller’s findings, the special counsel wrote to Barr to complain about the framing and to ask that the report’s executive summary be released immediately.
However, Barr declined to allow what he called a piecemeal release of the report, which did not occur until almost a month after it was submitted.
Now, Democrats have a Republican-appointed judge endorsing Mueller’s view that Barr’s characterization led to confusion."
AP 3/5/2020 - "U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton delivered the criticism in a 23-page order in which he directed the Justice Department to provide him with an unredacted version of the report so that he could decide if any additional information from the document could be publicly disclosed.
The scolding was unusually blunt, with Walton saying Barr had appeared to make a “calculated attempt” to influence public opinion about the report in ways favorable to Trump. The rebuke tapped into lingering criticism of Barr, from Democrats in Congress and special counsel Robert Mueller himself, that he had misrepresented some of the investigation’s most damning findings."
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