Meetings between Attorney General Barr and John Durham, immediately after the conclusion of the Mueller investigation, prompt concerns.


** Documents Reveal Barr Met With Prosecutor Examining Mueller Investigation —
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** Immediately After Mueller Investigation Ended
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American Oversight obtained new documents ([link removed]) that show Attorney General William Barr and John Durham, the federal prosecutor that Barr assigned to re-examine the Russia probe, met immediately after the Mueller investigation ended.

Based on the documents we obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, CNN published an article this morning ([link removed]) laying out the new revelations about Barr’s role in the inquiry.

The records start to fill in gaps about the origins of Durham's review and how closely Barr may have directed Durham’s work — and raise further doubts about Durham’s independence from political meddling.

According to the calendar entries we obtained, Barr met at least six times with Durham over 10-weeks in spring 2019. The first meeting, on March 25, 2019, was held during the crucial days after Special Counsel Robert Mueller submitted his report to the Department Of Justice and before it was released to the public.

The documents also reveal that, a week before the release of the redacted Mueller report, the DOJ inspector general received an email from Seth DuCharme, then Barr’s counselor, regarding a meeting “to explain what John [Durham] and [name redacted] and I are working on.”

See all of the calendar entries and read more about what we found ([link removed]) .
“The whole point of tapping an outside prosecutor in a case like this is to avoid political interference from the attorney general and other top officials,” said our Executive Director Austin Evers, “but here we see just the opposite: Bill Barr had repeated meetings and calls with John Durham at critical moments linked to the Russia investigation, and that raises serious questions about the independence and credibility of whatever Durham produces.”
American Oversight has been investigating the Trump administration’s politicization of the Justice Department since 2017 ([link removed]) — and these latest records add new and troubling details to our understanding of how President Trump and his allies, including Barr, have worked to undermine the department’s independence.
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