,
18 tweets,
3 min read
Read on Twitter
Read the attorney general’s 4-page summary of Robert Mueller’s report on Russia, Trump campaign usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
From Attorney General William Barr’s letter summarizing the Mueller report: “The Special Counsel also referred several matters to other offices for further action. The report does not recommend any further indictments."
"The Special Counsel's investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election,” Barr wrote.
"The Special Counsel's investigation determined that there were two main Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election,” Barr wrote.
"The first involved attempts by a Russian organization, the Internet Research Agency (IRA), to conduct disinformation and social media operations in the United States designed to sow social discord, eventually with the aim of interfering with the election."
“The Special Counsel did not find that any U.S. person or Trump campaign official or associate conspired or knowingly coordinated with the IRA … although the Special Counsel brought criminal charges against a number of Russian nationals and entities."
The second Russian effort to influence the 2016 election “involved the Russian government's efforts to conduct computer hacking operations designed to gather and disseminate information to influence the election,” Barr wrote.
Mueller "found that Russian government actors successfully hacked into computers and obtained emails from persons affiliated with the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party organizations, and publicly disseminated those materials through ... intermediaries, including Wikileaks."
"Based on these activities, the Special Counsel brought criminal charges against a number of Russian military officers for conspiring to hack into computers in the United States for purposes of influencing the election,” Barr wrote.
But "the Special Counsel did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts, despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign,” Barr wrote.
The second part of Mueller's report details concerns if President Trump obstructed justice.
"After making a 'thorough factual investigation' into these matters, the Special Counsel … ultimately determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment,” Barr wrote of Mueller’s report.
"The Special Counsel therefore did not draw a conclusion — one way or the other — as to whether the examined conduct constituted obstruction,” Barr wrote.
“Instead … the report sets out evidence on both sides of the question and leaves unresolved what the Special Counsel views as 'difficult issues' of law and fact concerning whether the President's actions and intent could be viewed as obstruction,” Barr wrote.
Barr wrote: "The Special Counsel states that 'while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.’ "
"The Special Counsel's decision to describe the facts of his obstruction investigation without reaching any legal conclusions leaves it to the Attorney General to determine whether the conduct described in the report constitutes a crime,” AG Barr wrote in his letter.
"Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and I have concluded that the evidence developed during the Special Counsel's investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense,” writes Attorney General William Barr.
Here is the full 4-page letter from Attorney General William Barr, summarizing Robert Mueller’s report into Russian interference into the 2016 election. bit.ly/2UUasdI
