A federal judge appointed by President George W. Bush laid into Attorney General William Barrs lack of candor in a court opinion on Thursday, accusing the nations chief law enforcement official of producing a distorted summary of special counsel Robert Muellers report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.

U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton, in an opinion issued in the course of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by BuzzFeed, questioned whether Barr intended to create a one-sided narrative that would benefit President Donald Trump .

The speed by which Attorney General Barr released to the public the summary of Special Counsel Muellers principal conclusions, coupled with the fact that Attorney General Barr failed to provide a thorough representation of the findings set forth in the Mueller Report, causes the Court to question whether Attorney General Barrs intent was to create a one-sided narrative about the Mueller Report a narrative that is clearly in some respects substantively at odds with the redacted version of the Mueller Report, Walton wrote.