DOJ responds after judge slams AG Barr over Mueller report

The Justice Department on Friday said that the federal judge who ordered a review of the unredacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report made a series of assertions that "were contrary to the facts" when he expressed doubts about Attorney General William Barr's objectivity. “Yesterday afternoon, a district court issued an order on the narrow legal question of whether it should review the unredacted special counsel’s confidential report to confirm the report had been appropriately redacted under the Freedom of Information Act," DOJ spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said. "In the course of deciding that it would review the unredacted report, the court made a series of assertions about public statements the attorney general made nearly a year ago. The court’s assertions were contrary to the facts."-- More...