Reps. Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.) and Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) sent a joint letter to the bar associations of Virginia and Washington D. C. They requested that the federal government’s top lawman be put under a
Democrats are ramping up their efforts to have Attorney General William Barr held to account. Reps. Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.) and Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) sent a joint letter to the bar associations of Virginia and Washington D. C. They requested that the federal government’s top lawman be put under a “professional review” for lying to Congress, and misrepresenting the Mueller report before its release.
“While it would be despicable enough if the Attorney General had thus mischaracterized the report, we now have evidence he appears to have lied to Congress twice about the extent of his knowledge of the Special Counsel’s reaction to Barr’s mischaracterization and support–or lack thereof–for his conclusions,” the lawmakers wrote.
Barr told Congress in April that he didn’t know if Mueller supported his conclusion, and he didn’t know what was behind reports that members of the Special Counsel’s team was frustrated with his March 24 letter describing the “principal conclusions” of the Mueller report.
