Attorney General William P. Barr leaves his home in McLean, Va., on Monday. (Yuri Gripas/Bloomberg News)ColumnistPundits are treating Attorney General William P. Barr’s letter summarizing special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report as the final official word on the matter. Lawyers are trained to write very precisely, and as a former lawyer I read Barr’s letter with that in mind. Third, one should note that Barr twice states that the special counsel’s report was, by federal regulation, a “confidential report" to the attorney general. to the Attorney General,” we should presume that he has not.

Source: Washington Post March 25, 2019 18:29 UTC