, Columnist
How Bill Barr Ran Circles Around Bob Mueller
The special counsel is likely to wind up as just another person with good intentions who got body-slammed by a savvier political operative wearing a sheriff’s badge.
Hatchet man.
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Robert Mueller, an unusually honorable and admirable law-enforcement official with a long history of public service, is preoccupied with letters.
In March, the former special counsel sent a plaintive note to Attorney General William Barr. He said Barr had publicly mischaracterized the conclusions that Mueller and his investigators had reached after a two-year probe of Russia’s efforts to sabotage the 2016 presidential election.