Barr vs. Mueller: The attorney general fights his own battle with the special counsel as he stands up for Trump
Posted on AllSides May 3rd, 2019
From The Left
For the first two years of the Trump administration, the Justice Department found itself locked in war to protect Russia special counsel Robert Mueller from the president himself. Now, the siege has turned to an unusual internal struggle between the new attorney general and the special counsel.
The protector has become the rival.
In just under three months on the job, Attorney General William Barr has charted a course that has put him in conflict with the special counsel whose investigation delivered a scathing account of President Donald Trump’s...
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