So now they're leaking?

Some of Robert S. Mueller III’s investigators have told associates that Attorney General William P. Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated, according to government officials and others familiar with their simmering frustrations.

  NYT

Ah, the familiars.

Some members of Mr. Mueller’s team are concerned that, because Mr. Barr created the first narrative of the special counsel’s findings, Americans’ views will have hardened before the investigation’s conclusions become public.

Which was the point.

The special counsel’s investigators had already written multiple summaries of the report, and some team members believe that Mr. Barr should have included more of their material in the four-page letter he wrote on March 24 laying out their main conclusions.

Would have been much more appropriate, but apparently more damaging.

However, the special counsel’s office never asked Mr. Barr to release the summaries soon after he received the report, a person familiar with the investigation said. And the Justice Department quickly determined that the summaries contain sensitive information, like classified material, secret grand-jury testimony and information related to current federal investigations that must remain confidential, according to two government officials.

Shouldn't take more than a day to redact a summary.

It was unclear how much discussion Mr. Mueller and his investigators had with senior Justice Department officials about how their findings would be made public. It was also unclear how widespread the vexation is among the special counsel team, which included 19 lawyers, about 40 F.B.I. agents and other personnel.

In other words, grain of salt time.

Mr. Barr and other Justice Department officials believe the special counsel’s investigators fell short of their task by declining to decide whether Mr. Trump illegally obstructed the inquiry, according to the two government officials.

And they're absolutely right.



Horseshit that they said that?  Or horseshit that they said it disingenuously?  Because the latter is no doubt true.  Barr was all too happy to jump on that and take it for himself.

After Mr. Mueller made no judgment on the obstruction matter, Mr. Barr stepped in to declare that he himself had cleared Mr. Trump of wrongdoing.

Rash and unnecessary except to shape the narrative to protect Trump.



...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:



That, plus he voluntarily wrote a 19-page memo as to why the president can't be charged with obstruction in order to get the job.



Bingo.

UPDATE:

Part 2:  It looks like DOJ went to the Times because they knew the Post was working up a story.