Nita Lowey to Bill Barr: Your Handling of the Mueller Report Is ‘Unacceptable’

LOWEY: "Before getting into your budget request, I want to address a serious oversight matter. Your unacceptable handling of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report. It’s been reported that the report is 300 to 400 pages. And I use the term 'reported' because we have no idea how long it actually is. All we have is your four-page summary, which seems to cherry-pick from the report, to draw the most favorable conclusion possible for the President. And in many ways, your letter raises more questions than it answers. I must say, it is extraordinary to evaluate hundreds of pages of evidence, legal documents and finding based on a 22-month long inquiry, and make definitive legal conclusions in less than 48 hours. Even for someone who has done this job before, I would argue it’s more suspicious than impressive. Your conclusion is something we’ve seen before. In fact, we’ve seen it in your own legal writing. In June 2018 you wrote a memo as a private citizen and a former attorney general to the Department of Justice, laying out the President’s case against obstruction of justice. Your audition clearly went well. I look forward to reviewing the Mueller report myself. I know my constituents do as well. I understand that portions of it must be redacted as a matter of law, but my hope is that you will stop there and bring transparency to this process as soon as possible. The American people deserve the facts."