Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation may be over, but the fourteen separate investigations that he spun off to U.S Attorney’s Offices around the country now have a new caretaker: Attorney General Bill Barr.
Given Barr’s demonstrated willingness to protect the Trump White House from investigations the President finds “unfair,” the attorney general is facing questions and calls for recusal — amid demands for his resignation — from these related probes.
Former federal prosecutors told TPM that it’s unclear how much influence Barr will be able to exert over sprawling investigations that are already in progress. It’s true that U.S. attorneys are directly …read more
Source: TPM
