House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused US Attorney General William Barr of misleading politicians
Attorney General Bill Barr had been grilled a day earlier in the Republican-led Senate, where Democrats accused him of whitewashing the report to protect US President Donald Trump.
It emerged on Tuesday however that when Mr Barr said this he was already in possession of a 27 March letter from Mr Mueller outlining the special counsel's frustrations. The probe found that Mr Trump's campaign knew of the sabotage attempt and took advantage of the impact on Mrs Clinton, but did not deliberately reach out to conspire with the Russians.
He also blasted Mr Barr's failure to appear as part of a wholesale obstruction by the Trump administration of a series of Democrat-led inquiries.
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