US attorney general demurs as Democrats mull next move

Things have gotten ugly in Washington since the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election — and they’re about to get uglier.

It’s now clear that the US has an attorney general who believes his job is to protect the president, facts be damned. During his testimony before the Senate judiciary committee, William Barr, the country’s top law-enforcement official, obfuscated and lied with contempt and abandon.