Forget Mueller, Congress Needs to Interview the Real Author of the ‘Weissmann Report’

Former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on July 24, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Commentary

Robert Mueller’s confused, garbled testimony made it abundantly clear that he was nothing more than a figurehead for the special counsel investigation that he ostensibly led for 22 painstaking months. The real mastermind behind this travesty of an investigation was Mueller’s second-in-command, Andrew Weissmann, and it’s time that he be held to account.