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Trump/Russia conspiracists are like zombies: the dream can't die. Their new hope is a) anonymously sourced, b) bereft of even one specific, c) irrelevant to *conspiracy* as opposed to obstruction & d) unrelated to the fact that Mueller indicted *zero* Americans for conspiracy: 
The Mueller Report will be released, as it should be. Mueller is working with Barr on redactions. But nothing in the Report can or will possibly change the fatal fact that no Americans were charged for election-conspiring with Russia, the core claim of the narrative. And:
Similar to NYT report, WPost suggests that whatever unnamed irritations unspecified numbers of the Mueller team have about what Barr did or didn't disclose, it relates to the question of whether Trump obstructed the investigation, *not whether he colluded washingtonpost.com/world/national…
Mueller could have concluded he thinks Trump was guilty of obstruction, but chose not to. He could have alleged a Trump/Russia conspiracy, or could have charged Trump officials & family members with conspiring with Russia, but didn't. These last-gasp efforts don't change that.
Anyway, we've had 3 years of anonymously-sourced "bombshells" journalists spend 16-24 hours tiring themselves out celebrating on Twitter, only for it to fizzle into nothing (ie: no indictments from Mueller for conspiring with Russia). Why not have one more? An addict's last fix.
Watching Trump/Russia conspiracy dead-enders pretend that anonymous people claimed Barr withheld incriminating evidence about the conspiracy - when the WashPost explicitly says their complaints are about *obstruction* - is sad, but it's the behavior that drove the last 3 years.
Even more so than NYT & WP, this new NBC report makes clear that the anonymous complaints about the Barr letter are about obstruction, *not the no-conspiracy* finding. And it emphasizes that Mueller could've accused Trump of obstruction but chose not to nbcnews.com/politics/donal…
