Monday, March 25, 2019

The William Barr Summary Of The Mueller Report and "Did Not Establish" - The Atlantic


When prosecutors say that an investigation "did not establish" something, that doesn’t mean that they concluded it didn’t happen, or even that they don’t believe it happened.

It means that the investigation didn’t produce enough information to prove that it happened.

Without seeing Mueller’s full report, we don’t know whether this is a firm conclusion about lack of coordination or a frank admission of insufficient evidence.  The difference is meaningful.

The full article is available here