Analysis: What Barr’s letter does — and doesn’t — tell us about proving conspiracy and collusion
Robert Mueller, left, and President Trump. By Deanna Paul Deanna Paul Reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow March 25 at 5:59 PM Parsing of the brief letter sent by Attorney General William P. Barr to Congress on Sunday began the moment it was released. Barr listed the highest-level findings from special counsel Robert S.
“Collusion” has become an accepted term for the wide-ranging allegations of illegalities Trump and his associates could have committed. Legally speaking, “collusion” has no meaning. It’s not a federal crime, and Mueller’s charge was to investigate possible “links and/or coordination” between the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump campaign.
The second was a successful hack into computers “affiliated with the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party organizations” by Russian government actors, who “publicly disseminated those materials” through intermediaries, such as WikiLeaks.What did the Russia probe prove? Under federal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more people to commit a crime against the United States.
Barr also wrote that Russian military officers were charged with the computer hacking conspiracy, but “despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign,” Mueller’s team “did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts.”
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