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Attorney General Bill Barr Has Made A Huge Miscalculation

The leaking has started.

With these following words yesterday the New York Times formalized what many close observers of the Mueller investigation had suspected: Attorney General William Barr's controversial four-page letter about Mueller's work was likely more spin than fact. "Some of Robert S. Mueller's III's investigators have told associates that Attorney General William P. Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry," the Times reported, "and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated."

Indeed, by inserting himself deeply into the Mueller investigation process, the attorney general initially had given the president a huge political gift which the savvy marketer quickly turned into a powerful message of "no collusion and complete and total exoneration." Never mind this wasn't 100% true - it had a great positive ring to it. But was it even close to being fair and accurate?

"One sign of how angry Mueller's team is," wrote lawyer and professor Seth Abramson on Twitter, "is that they appear to be strongly implying bad faith on the Attorney General's part, inasmuch as multiple members of the Mueller team told [associates who told] the New York Times they'd provided their own summaries to the AG - which he then promptly ignored."

Management without credibility

Management without credibility is generally doomed to failure, sooner or later. This was my observation over a quarter century of management, in the corporate world. By pushing the bounds of credibility in his initial communique and then assuming he could use his positional power to control how and when he released the rest of the Mueller Report, the attorney general was making a calculation that he could tightly control the message in the president's favor. But in so doing he was also taking a risk of compounding the problem by piling cover-up upon cover-up, scandal upon scandal. His refusal to be transparent has made him a subpoena magnet for the Democrats.

There was always an uneasy tension between the way Barr "auditioned" for the job with a 19-page memo ripping the Mueller probe and his avuncular, lawyerly, moderate manner in confirmation hearings. But when push came to shove and he actually had the Mueller Report in his hands, he came up with an odd product citing remarkably little of Mueller's actual work and words… while tilting favorably toward the president. But now Barr's credibility is being called into question. Did the attorney general produce a fair and balanced Mueller summary, or carefully crafted legalistic spin?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2019/04/04/attorney-general-bill-barr-has-made-a-huge-miscalculation/#7112b7622e78