New Nadler letter presses Barr on reports he mischaracterized Mueller findings and failed to release summaries intended for easy public release.
Notably, Nadler also wants to see communications between the Special Counsel’s Office and Barr’s DOJ to see if Barr is accurately portraying those interactions.
oh, new report says Barr fudged the details about collusion too … pic.twitter.com/hnHIUrUe9n
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 4, 2019
NBC has now added some additional information: “Mueller team members say [the report] includes detailed accounts of Trump campaign contacts with Russia. While Mueller found no coordination or criminal conspiracy, the official said, some team members say his findings paint a picture of a campaign whose members were manipulated by a sophisticated Russian intelligence operation. Some of that information may be classified, the official said, so it’s not clear whether it will be released in a few weeks when Barr makes public a redacted version of the Mueller report.”
I’ll leave this to a further discussion tomorrow. But the Post has now followed up on the Times story with more detail. Their sources say the authors of the Report specifically wrote section summaries that could be quickly or immediately made public. But here’s something to note. The Times story appears based largely on sources close to Barr. The Post story seems mainly based on sources close to the Special Counsel’s Office. More on this tomorrow.
Six GOP state legislators in Georgia are sponsoring a proposed law that would set up an “ethics board” for journalists in the state and exact civil penalties if journalists or news organizations failed to turn over photos, audio or video of recordings of interview subjects.
The law also appears to create a framework for investigating journalists and empowering litigants to sue journalists if they don’t hand over work copy from interviews.
Ways and Means Chair demands six year of the President’s tax returns, personal returns in addition to returns of various Trump entities.
This story here gives you a good sense of how Trumpism, domestic white supremacist activity and revanchist anti-Semitic politics in Poland and other parts of Europe are all part of one common story. This story of racist and anti-Semitic graffiti at a Democratic party headquarters in Oklahoma too.
As I’ve mentioned before, many post-Holocaust Jews have bad communal memories about Poland. In this case, when I say ‘memories’ I mean communal beliefs, even among people who’ve never been to Poland or had any personal contact with the events of the 1940s. Of course, that isn’t the entirety of the story or the history. This is why I enjoyed so much Timothy Snyder’s The Reconstruction of Nations, which introduced me to a very different strain of Polish history, one with a deep civic, cosmopolitan heritage and multi-national vision of Polish history and nationhood. I discussed that here and here in this interview with Snyder himself.
The politics of the Polish current government and these rallies we saw over the weekend come out of something very different.
TPM Reader HL shared this background … Read More
In the last couple days I’ve had a few requests for an explanation of what’s going on with Brexit, what is Brexit. I’m no expert on the topic. But I think I can give a broad description of the history and the present. So if you’re interested, here goes. And note I’ll cover ground that many are likely familiar with. Read More