One Week Into the Fight Over the Mueller Report, Battle Lines Are Drawn

The numbers were there at the top of Attorney General William Barr’s March 24 letter to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees: 22 months, 19 attorneys, 40 FBI agents and investigators, 2,800 subpoenas, 500 witnesses. After everything that went into special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into possible collusion between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign, Barr’s four-page summary of its conclusions was anticlimactic—to everyone but the president. Although Mueller didn’t find sufficient evidence to establish that the campaign “conspired or coordinated” with the Russian government, and Barr determined that the findings didn’t warrant an obstruction charge, there may still be ...