The Barr Cover-Up: Call It What It Is
Written by WPVR on April 17, 2019
Enough already. No more benefit of the doubt.
Having observed this whole process all too carefully, I’m convinced Attorney General Bill Barr’s actions with respect to the Mueller Report are being guided by the following principles:
Take as long as possible, and use every legal means possible, to release as little damaging information as possible.
Translation: Protect the president as much as possible.
Interest in the American public actually seeing anything meaningful in the Mueller Report? As little as possible.
No matter that this pleasant avuncular fellow looks and talks more like a respectable attorney than a fixer. Don’t be fooled: The fix is in.
Consider his actions over the past three weeks. He’s put a chokehold on Mueller-related information. In his measured lawyerly tones he’s promised everything and delivered nothing.
Following are four reasons why I have no confidence there will be much of anything meaningful in his redacted version of the Mueller Report.
His original four-page summary. This was a carefully crafted and misleading document designed to shape public perceptions, and place the president in the most favorable possible light. This was all about management, devious though it may be: managing the message, and attempting to manage public opinion.
