LETTER: Who to believe: Barr or Mueller?

When William Barr faced the Senate Judiciary Committee for confirmation for his second stint as U.S. attorney general, Democrats expressed widespread skepticism of his fitness for the position. Now we know with clarity the reason there was not bipartisan approval of the nomination.
Barr summarized and characterized the Robert Mueller report in a manner which is being challenged by its creator, who asserted to Barr that his conclusions provide an inaccurate and misleading representation of Mueller’s work.
Who is the one to believe in this dispute: an attorney general who auditioned for the job by condemning the Mueller investigation, who advocated for vast presidential power, and who is lauded by the president, or Robert Mueller, a man with a sterling reputation of longstanding for respect and integrity?
William Barr knows that in order to serve as Donald Trump’s attorney general (rather than as the attorney general of the United States), one must act as the president who vows to ignore Congress as an equal branch of government would direct him to act. Barr has performed magnificently for the president as he has tarnished his reputation and made a mockery of a Justice Department which is supposed to be blind to partisanship. He must not get away with it.
Oren Spiegler
South Strabane Township