Barr's letter exonerated American journalism, not Trump (SethAbramson) | Opinion
Attorney General William Barr has released a three-and-a-half page summary of a summary of a federal investigative case file no one in America outside the Special Counsel’s Office has seen—so of course the finger-pointing in U.S. media has begun. Journalists the nation over are accusing one another of getting things wrong at a time when no one yet knows what getting things right would look like.
And as the media devolves into internecine conflict, Trump struts before banks of cameras declaiming that he has been fully exonerated of even a whiff of misconduct.Trump is most obviously wrong, as the claim he has made daily for two years—that Special Counsel Robert Mueller would find not even a scintilla of evidence that he obstructed justice or coordinated with the Russians either directly or indirectly—turned out to be not just false but wildly false.
If you look back at the breathless coverage of the Trump-Russia investigation on TV, radio, print, and internet over the last two years, one thing you’ll never find is anyone saying that Trump struck a before-the-fact agreement with the Russian government, tacitly or expressly, to assist its two campaigns against the 2016 election: a disinformation campaign run by the Internet Research Agency, and a hacking campaign run by the GRU No prominent journalists said there was evidence of such...
Is there evidence of these other sorts of collusion in the Mueller Report? Certainly yes, as we know there’s ample proof in the public sphere, and Mueller has shown himself to be willing to make the public record part of his case file.
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