Attorney General William Barr showed a “lack of candor” in his public descriptions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2020 election, a federal judge said Thursday in a strikingly pointed shot at the country’s top law enforcement officer.
US District Court Judge Reggie Walton said that Barr had “distorted the findings” of the April 2019 report in a press conference and a letter to lawmakers. Walton’s critique echoes that of Democrats in Congress and elsewhere, who have have consistently accused Trump’s attorney general of lying about the conclusions in Mueller’s report and in other public comments in order to protect Trump. But Walton’s ruling stands out in coming from an officer of the court. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/03/judge-lawsuit-mueller-report-william-bar-distorted-findings/
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