ATTORNEY GENERAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Special counsel Robert Mueller wrote a letter to Attorney General William Barr last month complaining that a four-page memo Barr wrote characterizing Mueller’s findings ‘did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance’ of the Russia investigation, two senior Justice Department officials confirmed to POLITICO on Tuesday [4-30-19]. Mueller sent the letter to Barr on March 27, three days after Barr issued his four-page summary, and cited ‘public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation’…The letter will likely buoy congressional Democrats’ accusations that Barr mischaracterized Mueller’s report on purpose in order to protect the president. Its disclosure comes on the eve of Barr’s public testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and amid a back-and-forth between the Justice Department and the House Judiciary Committee over whether committee staff can question Barr separately on Thursday. The letter also reveals a widening gulf between Barr and Mueller, who have been friends for decades, and is a sign that the special counsel’s team was angry with how Barr characterized the findings.”
–Natasha Bertrand, Darren Sameulsohn, Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney, “Mueller complained to Barr about Russia report memo,” Politico, April 30, 2019 11:41 pm