I like the styling of the headline in parallel to Trump’s “Some say”.
Some on Mueller’s Team See Their Findings as More Damaging for Trump Than Barr Revealed
It’s not clear how many leakers there are from Mueller’s team, and they are speaking through others.
Some of Robert S. Mueller III’s investigators have told associates that Attorney General William P. Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated, according to government officials and others familiar with their simmering frustrations. [my bolding]
But it looks like more than one, and it looks like they are talking to more than one of their friends.
The Mueller team held complete secrecy during the investigation, so this leak is quite deliberate. They don’t want their report to be misrepresented.
Early concern was that Attorney General William Barr would misrepresent the report and set the narrative in that misrepresentation. Polls have shown, however, that a large majority of the country wants to see the report, even a majority of Republicans. The House of Representatives voted unanimously that the report should be released. That includes the Republicans, who felt free to do that because they knew that Mitch McConnell would never let it come to a vote in the Senate. Now they will have to live with their vote.
Barr’s gambit will not work. The longer the report is withheld, the more it will be in the news, the more suspense will build for the revelations.
And there will be leaks.
And an open thread.
Update: And now the Washington Post weighs in with a similar story. Looks like the leakers and their allies are shopping this around to multiple news outlets. There was another story a while back where they did that, but I can’t recall which one it was. Too late at night.