It’s Barr’s ‘Baby’ Now, Not Mueller’s By Julie Kelly
For nearly two years, Robert Mueller worked for the U.S. Department of Justice as a special counsel appointed by then-Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Despite the Left’s attempt to deify Robert Mueller as an omnipotent figure somehow unbound by the constraints of the Constitution and law, in reality, he was an employee of the Justice Department. He was a publicly-appointed prosecutor paid with U.S. tax dollars.
On March 22, 2019, Robert Mueller’s job ended when he submitted his long-awaited report to Attorney General William Barr. At that point, according to the federal regulation governing the appointment of a special counsel, Mueller’s task was over: “At the conclusion of the Special Counsel’s work, he or she shall provide the Attorney General with a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions reached by the Special Counsel.”
Or, in Barr’s more memorable words during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, the report became “my baby.
”The willful ignorance and collective outrage of the media, Democratic lawmakers and NeverTrump agitators do not change facts or even the “rule of law” they’re always pretending to defend. Barr reiterated that sad reality for reality-challenged Trump haters when, upon receipt of Mueller’s report on March 22, the attorney general immediately notified congressional leaders that, “Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III has concluded his investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and related matters.”
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