Attorney General William Barr is placed under oath ahead of his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
Attorney General William Barr faced a grilling from lawmakers on Wednesday over his controversial handling of special counsel Robert Mueller's report as the nation's top law enforcement officer returned to Capitol Hill for the first time since releasing the probe's highly anticipated findings earlier this month.
After ticking through Barr’s rollout of the special counsel’s findings, describing some of the report’s accounts of contacts between the Trump campaign and Russians, and recounting instances of possible obstruction of justice investigated by the special counsel’s office, Feinstein said “Congress has both the constitutional duty and the authority to investigate the serious findings contained in the Mueller report.
Moments before the hearing got underway, the House Judiciary Committee received a copy of special counsel Robert Mueller’s letter to attorney general William Barr, in which Mueller lamented “public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation” and called on the Justice Department to release summaries prepared by the special counsel’s office.Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
The revelation of Mueller's sentiment toward the Justice Department's rollout of his report has further stoked Democrats' concerns about the attorney general's impartiality. In the weeks since Barr made a redacted version of Mueller's 448-page report available to the public, congressional Democrats have criticized what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called his"regrettably partisan handling of the Mueller report.
Barr's initial communique conveyed that Mueller's team found no evidence to suggest members of the Trump campaign"conspired or coordinated" with Russians to influence the election and reached no conclusion on the matter of possible obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump.
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