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Monday 13 May 2019

Channeling maybe-yes, maybe-no Mueller: Speak, Bob, speak!

Continued from Front “deliberate confusion”
about Mueller’s findings by
That uncertainty has given misrepresenting his “very
partisans on both sides an precise” report. Even so,
opening to frame Muel- Schiff says he, too, would
ler’s findings to their liking like to hear directly from
and left many Americans, Mueller. He did send Barr a
unlikely to read the full re- letter in March complain-
port, scratching their heads ing about how Barr had
about what to believe and summarized the report’s
whom to trust. key findings, writing that he
Enough with the printed had left “public confusion
page, they say, enough about critical aspects of
with the punditry: Speak, the results of our investiga-
Bob, speak! tion.” Beyond that, though,
Melissa Garcia, a 29-year- all the public has gotten
old health counselor, paus- of Mueller in the past few
es outside a restaurant in weeks is fleeting glimpses of
Quakertown, Pennsylvania, him exiting a Georgetown
to compare the two-vol- tavern, walking into church
ume Mueller report to the on Easter Sunday, driving to
kind of “terms and condi- his office.
tions” legalese that most Democrats on Capitol Hill
consumers skip right over. In this May 6, 2019, photo, special counsel Robert Mueller departs after having dinner at Martin’s are pushing for Mueller,
She’d love a “Cliffs Notes Tavern in Georgetown, Monday, May 6, 2019, in Washington. who is still an employee of
version” from Mueller him- Associated Press the Justice Department,
self. Florida, says he’s eager for upon his investigation cial counsel, this past week to testify before the House
“I would just ask him to sum Mueller to “get up publicly and his report,” says Ben- called Mueller’s report “the Judiciary Committee but
it up because he knows it on television and give his Veniste. Bible” and inaccurately that’s up in the air. Trump
the best. I’d want the short- take on the report.” David Kendall represented claimed it was “totally ex- has both said that Mueller
hand version but the most “I don’t believe we have President Bill Clinton dur- onerating.” shouldn’t testify and that
important details,” says been told the whole story,” ing the Monica Lewinsky Hundreds of former fed- it’s up to Barr to decide.
Garcia, an independent Singer says. investigation and currently eral prosecutors, on the Barr himself has said he
who supported Hillary Clin- It’s not just ordinary Ameri- represents the Clintons. He other hand, signed on to wouldn’t object. But hopes
ton in 2016. cans who are craving clar- goes further in a Washing- an open letter concluding that Mueller would testify
Republican Becky Mc- ity. ton Post opinion piece and that Mueller’s report shows this coming week appear
Breen, a 58-year-old Trump Having pored over the re- says Mueller made a “mas- Trump would have been to have faded as behind-
voter from Schuylkill Haven, port once, Rep. Debbie sive flinch” in declining to charged with obstruction if the-scenes talks drag on.
Pennsylvania, who works Dingell, D-Mich., is now on draw a conclusion on ob- he were anyone other than If the Justice Department
at an aluminum company, her second reading of it. struction. the president. tries to block Mueller’s tes-
says she’d like to ask Muel- And she still has questions. Absent a firm answer from Jacob Frenkel, a former timony, Democrats could
ler: “Leaving out the po- “That’s why we need him to the special counsel himself, federal prosecutor, sees a issue a subpoena to try to
litical bias, do you, in your testify,” she said. “I think he plenty of others — includ- case for impeachment in compel his appearance.
heart of hearts, truly think owes it to us.” ing Trump — have stepped what he describes as Muel- In the meantime, plenty of
that Trump colluded with Richard Ben-Veniste, who forward to act as interpret- ler’s “clear and compre- people are itching to get a
Russia to sabotage Hill- served as one of the lead ers of the oracle. hensive report.” He puts the firsthand fill from Mueller.
ary?” (The report did not prosecutors on the Wa- In a letter summarizing the blame for any confusion on Without that, “it’s almost
find a criminal conspiracy tergate investigation, says report before its release, At- those engaged in “politics like going off of hearsay,”
between Russia and the Mueller “probably could torney General William Barr and prejudgment.” says Michelle Martin, a
Trump campaign.) have been clearer.” declared he did not be- Likewise, Democratic Rep. 48-year-old physician’s as-
Democrat Adam Singer, a “It would certainly be in the lieve the evidence was suf- Adam Schiff of California, sistant from Round Rock,
52-year-old e-commerce public interest for Robert ficient to prove that Trump chairman of the House Texas. “You have to have
worker who was running Mueller to answer ques- had obstructed justice. Intelligence Committee, the facts to make an edu-
errands in Miami Beach, tions, clarify and expound Trump, no fan of the spe- blames Barr for creating cated opinion.”q