WaPo: How a legal dispute between Mueller and Barr drove the end of the special counsel’s probe
For nearly two years, the public, Congress and the White House waited to learn if special counsel Robert S. Mueller III would find that President Trump had committed crimes. When the answer was finally revealed, it turned out Mueller didn’t think that was his job at all.
Despite being empowered to make a decision on obstruction, Robert Mueller chose to punt, stunning some legal analysts.