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Mueller Complained That Barr Summary Of Trump-Russia Probe Lacked 'Context'

A letter from the special counsel to the attorney general may show a split over how the investigation's conclusions have been characterized.

Special counsel Robert Mueller wrote a letter in late March objecting to Attorney General William Barr's four-page summary of the conclusions of the investigation into possible ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, a Justice Department official confirmed Tuesday night.

The letter written to Barr expressed to Congress "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance" of the investigation, to .

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