Fake Barr letter - release the Mueller Report now

National Public Radio:
Poll: After #fakeBarrLetter, An overwhelming Majority Wants Full Mueller Report Released

And this reported in Rolling Stone: Release the Report
The American people can handle the truth, whatever it is. It’s time to release Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report in full

Release the whole Mueller report and do it soon by Lisa Gilbert

Echo reported in The New York Daily News

"We cannot rely on a conclusion that comes through the filter of the president’s inner circle."

Robert Mueller walks to St. John's Episcopal Church on March 24, across the street from the White House

As the entire world now knows, Attorney General William Barr sent a letter to Congress this week outlined findings of the 400 page special counsel investigation. But #fakeBarrletter in his brief summary, is not a substitute for the full and final 400 page report, the complete report that Robert Mueller and his team handed over last week.

While President Trump’s allies are busy trying to declare victory, it’s important to realize the only public information we have at this point has come from the president’s hand-picked choice to lead the Department of Justice #fakeBarrletter. 

Barr is the same man who just last year wrote a memo dismissing the legitimacy of Mueller’s probe into obstruction of justice.

While Trump’s allies are busy trying to declare victory, (but there was no exoneration in the report) it’s important to realize how the only public information we have at this point has come from the president’s hand-picked choice to lead the Department of Justice. This is the same man who just last year wrote a memo dismissing the legitimacy of Mueller’s probe into obstruction of justice.

American voters cannot rely on a conclusion that comes through the filter of the president’s inner circle. 

American people must see, and Congress must continue to demand, the full report. If necessary, that means a subpoena.

Thankfully, everyday Americans continue to demand the full report and its underlying findings.

Grassroots groups from across the country are demanding the full report is released and are raising their voices to show this isn’t just a beltway concern. North Carolinians came together just last month for a town hall calling on their leaders to make the full report public. And in Alaska, demonstrators not only protested in the streets, but projected images onto buildings in Anchorage to shine a light on transparency and demand their senators fight for them to get all the facts the people deserve.

For months, organizations across the country like mine at Public Citizen have worked to collect tens of thousands of petition signatures across the country demanding that the report is released untampered by the Trump administration.

In Iowa, activists delivered petitions with hundreds of signatures against Barr’s nomination to Sen. Joni Ernst’s (R-Ia.) five district offices. As one of Ernst’s concerned constituents Jackie Stellish said, “[Barr] thinks the president is above the law and shouldn’t be held accountable and that’s not okay."

Voices like hers can be found across the country as they mobilize to tell their representatives that they won’t accept attacks on our democracy or a government that enables them.

A recent poll found that 87% of Americans want a full, public report on the findings. Their efforts and enthusiasm have echoed inside DC. In a rare moment of bipartisan unity on an extremely controversial topic, the House voted 420-0 in favor of a resolution supporting transparency of the special counsel’s report.

It’s clear that in choosing secrecy over transparency the attorney general could not be more out of sync with the overwhelming sentiment of the country.

And despite Trump’s (#fakeBarrletter!) claim of exoneration, we can’t forget that he has attempted to brand the investigation as a witch hunt and dismiss it as baseless and partisan. If his administration is so certain the findings vindicate him, then there should be no opposition to a full release.

Let’s not forget the incredible success of this investigation, with more than 200 criminal charges filed against 37 defendants — seven of whom have already been found guilty. In no universe but Trump’s could that be interpreted as a complete vindication of this administration.

At a time of distrust with the government, Americans of all walks of life are calling for the full reporting of the facts. Recent polls even show that 80% of Republicans want to know the truth and are in favor of the full report’s release. This sentiment isn’t something that can be washed away with a terse press statement from the White House or a (caustic) tweet from Donald Trump.

The people won’t stand for that.

Gilbert is vice president of legislative affairs for Public Citizen and a board member of Protect the Investigation.