Thread by @bradheath

William Barr, Trump's choice for Attorney General, told lawmakers in written answers to their questions: "I would resign rather than follow an order to terminate the Special Counsel without good cause."

Barr also casts doubt about how much information from Mueller's investigation might become public. It is also my understanding that it is Department policy and practice not to criticize individuals for conduct that does not warrant prosecution."

Barr: " I know Robert Mueller personally and I am confident that he is not affected by commentary or criticism."

Q: Would it be illegal for the president to tell the FBI to drop an investigation of Mike Flynn to hide the administration's Russia connections?

BARR: "It could be a breach of the President's obligation under the Constitution to faithfully execute the laws."

Barr says that in the 1980s, when he was a law clerk, he had several lunches with a Soviet consular officer at the request of the FBI, after which he debriefed agents.

Barr says he won't allow the White House - or anyone else - to change any report he sends to Congress on the Russia investigation: "Any report sent to Congress will be my own and will not reflect changes from anyone outside the Department of Justice."

And Barr suggests that Congress could make some of the special counsel's findings public even if DOJ doesn't.

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