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Going Over The Barr Summary Once More
The main thing that continues to jump out at us is the Attorney General’s summary does not quote the Mueller report directly much, like hardly at all.
Update: The New York Times says the Mueller report is over 300 pages long. Which we believe lends more credence to our initial concerns, as stated below.
And it’s not like we’re looking for things that are wrong with William Barr’s 4-page summary, which we’ve linked to again here. One of the reasons we felt compelled to go over it again is that we didn’t feel it was very nuanced at all when we read it the first time, yet it’s been subject to so much interpretation in all kinds of things we’ve been reading. So we thought we might have missed something. Especially since other people are finding so much in it. Peter Baker’s piece in the New York Times about the legacy of this inquiry is great.
Just in terms of the summary itself, which is all almost anyone’s got to go on at this point, we don’t see as much to be puzzled about as people seem to be puzzled about. Except that Barr quotes Mueller so darn sparingly.
Barr’s providing more of a description of the Mueller report than a summary.
