House Judiciary chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Sunday dismissed Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the special counsel investigation into President Trump, calling him a “biased defender of the administration.”
“Remember, he is a biased person,” Nadler said on CBS’s “Face The Nation.”
“He is someone who is an agent of the administration. He is a political appointee of the president, whose interests he may very well be protecting here.”
{mosads}Nadler later added that he dismissed what Barr said in his four-page summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow.
He justified his stance by saying that Barr is “a biased defender of the administration.”
“He’s entitled to be a defender of the administration, but he’s not entitled to withhold the evidence from Congress,” said Nadler, who has repeatedly called for the public release of Mueller’s report and the underlying evidence for his conclusions.
The comments from Nadler came just weeks after Mueller concluded his nearly two year-long investigation. Barr said in a summary that the special counsel did not uncover evidence to conclude that a conspiracy took place between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Mueller did not make a definitive stance on obstruction of justice allegations. But Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein decided Mueller did not provide sufficient evidence of obstruction of justice to pursue it. The summary says that Mueller does not exonerate Trump on the issue.
Barr has said that he expects to release Mueller’s report on the investigation by mid-April. Nadler said on CBS that the attorney general should not redact any of the material before sending it to the House Judiciary Committee.