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William Barr Agrees With Trump's Lawyers: Firing Comey Wasn't Obstruction of Justice

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Trump’s nominee made a case to the Justice Department that the president couldn’t have broken the law—and that the special counsel could be fired for looking into it.

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President Donald Trump practically picked one of his defense lawyers to supervise Robert Mueller.

That’s what to make of The Wall Street Journal’s report late Thursday night that Attorney General nominee William Barr secretly lobbied the Justice Department to interfere with the special counsel’s investigation into Trump’s firing of FBI Director...

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