Editorial Board
After Mueller Testimony, Election Security Should Be Top Priority
New laws to fight foreign subterfuge can’t wait until 2020.
His report can speak for itself.
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Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s much-anticipated appearance on Capitol Hill failed to serve its purpose. His 448-page report is an exhaustive and shaming account of presidential misconduct — but it’s also dense, user-unfriendly and easily mischaracterized. The country needed these hearings to clarify his findings for ordinary voters and underline what mattered. It didn’t happen.
The hoped-for moment of accountability for President Trump came to nothing, or so it seems — but this should not distract attention from those parts of the Mueller report that can’t wait until the next election to be dealt with.