We need public, no-holds-barred testimony before Congress by special counsel Robert Mueller, and we need it now. As we saw Wednesday, trying to get the truth out of Attorney General William Barr is like squeezing blood from a stone.
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee did wring out a few droplets. Thanks to Sen. Kamala Harris of California — the last person any defendant should want to see at the prosecution table — we learned that Barr did not even look at the voluminous evidence underlying Mueller’s report before exonerating President Trump of obstruction of justice. Barr did this despite the line in Mueller’s report making clear that the evidence “does not exonerate” the president.