Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has concluded, but countless questions remain about what he discovered.
Attorney General Bill Barr is scheduled to testify in Congress this week, and he will surely be peppered with questions about the investigation and how he has handled its conclusion, which has been widely criticized. Undoubtedly, Democrats will grill him over his delay and caginess in releasing the investigation’s final report. But there’s one person Congress and the American people will want to hear from even more: Mueller himself.
And on Monday, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, confirmed that he plans to call Mueller to testify. As special counsel, he remained phenomenally and conspicuously silent and his team was virtually leak-proof, so hearing direct testimony from the former FBI director will be a blockbuster event. But Nadler included a caveat on his plans: He wants to wait until their report has been released:
View the complete April 8 article by Cody Fenwick with AlterNet on the National Memo website here.