The Mueller report has shown the tightrope which Trump's appointees must walk, particularly in the case of Don McGahn. It's a question of how far you go in appeasing your boss, versus compromising your own ethics.
As an ex-bureaucrat who had some people among my superiors whom I didn't much respect, I've some empathy for the McGahns of the current administration. That perhaps leads me to undeserved sympathy for AG Barr. He's gotten criticism for his summary of the Mueller report, spinning the conclusions to be the most favorable to his boss. That's deserved. But we need to remember that he did succeed in getting the Mueller report released, although with redactions. That's not something I would have predicted back when he was nominated. It's possible he regards the release as serving the public interest, a release important enough to justify his tactics in getting the release past his boss. (Will Trump start blasting Barr for the release? Maybe.)
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