Sandy Shanks
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William Barr with his bias and his favorability toward Trump has acted more like a defense lawyer than the U.S. Attorney General. Today Robert Mueller wanted to set the record straight.
Provided below are direct quotes from Mueller's statement. They will be in bold italics so nobody can say they missed them or were confused, although some will say that anyway or avoid the comments altogether.
The attorney general has made the report on our investigation largely public. We are formally closing the special counsel’s office, and as well, I’m resigning from the Department of Justice to return to private life.
Barr and Trump refuse to allow Congress to see the full, unredacted version of the report. Congress can see only what Barr will allow them to see. That is a clear sign of guilt.
Russian intelligence officers who were part of the Russian military launched a concerted attack on our political system. The releases were designed and timed to interfere with our election and to damage a presidential candidate.
That candidate was Hillary Clinton. The Russians wanted Trump to become our next President.
When a subject of an investigation obstructs that investigation or lies to investigators, it strikes at the core of the government’s effort to find the truth and hold wrongdoers accountable.
This volume [First] includes a discussion of the Trump campaign’s response to this activity, as well as our conclusion that there was insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy.
Contrary, to Trump's pronouncements of innocence, that does not mean he is innocent. It means there was not sufficient evidence beyond a reasonable doubt to convict Trump in a court of law. That was not possible anyway. Mueller than makes guilt or innocence clear.
If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.
Clearly, that is the most important statement in the entire presentation. Trump, Sanders, and Jay Sekulow completely ignored that statement in their statements today.
The introduction to the volume two of our report explains that decision. It explains that under long-standing department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office.
The special counsel’s office is part of the Department of Justice and by regulation, it was bound by that department policy. Charging the president with a crime was therefore not an option we could consider.
Clearly, that is the second most important statement in Mueller's presentation. Barr falsely claimed that OLC rule of not charging a sitting President did not, I repeat, did not, play a role in Mueller's Report.
Obviously, it did. The OLC's ruling played a huge role in the report.
Barr lied.
The opinion says that the Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing.
Barr said Mueller was equivocal about Congress's role. Obviously, Mueller left it up to Congress in terms of the next step.
Barr lied.
It would be unfair to potentially accuse somebody of a crime when there can be no court resolution of the actual charge.
So that was Justice Department policy. Those were the principles under which we operated. And from them, we concluded that we would not reach a determination one way or the other about whether the president committed a crime.
Always the true professional.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...we-would-have-said-so/?utm_term=.088fe16feead
Provided below are direct quotes from Mueller's statement. They will be in bold italics so nobody can say they missed them or were confused, although some will say that anyway or avoid the comments altogether.
The attorney general has made the report on our investigation largely public. We are formally closing the special counsel’s office, and as well, I’m resigning from the Department of Justice to return to private life.
Barr and Trump refuse to allow Congress to see the full, unredacted version of the report. Congress can see only what Barr will allow them to see. That is a clear sign of guilt.
Russian intelligence officers who were part of the Russian military launched a concerted attack on our political system. The releases were designed and timed to interfere with our election and to damage a presidential candidate.
That candidate was Hillary Clinton. The Russians wanted Trump to become our next President.
When a subject of an investigation obstructs that investigation or lies to investigators, it strikes at the core of the government’s effort to find the truth and hold wrongdoers accountable.
This volume [First] includes a discussion of the Trump campaign’s response to this activity, as well as our conclusion that there was insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy.
Contrary, to Trump's pronouncements of innocence, that does not mean he is innocent. It means there was not sufficient evidence beyond a reasonable doubt to convict Trump in a court of law. That was not possible anyway. Mueller than makes guilt or innocence clear.
If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.
Clearly, that is the most important statement in the entire presentation. Trump, Sanders, and Jay Sekulow completely ignored that statement in their statements today.
The introduction to the volume two of our report explains that decision. It explains that under long-standing department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office.
The special counsel’s office is part of the Department of Justice and by regulation, it was bound by that department policy. Charging the president with a crime was therefore not an option we could consider.
Clearly, that is the second most important statement in Mueller's presentation. Barr falsely claimed that OLC rule of not charging a sitting President did not, I repeat, did not, play a role in Mueller's Report.
Obviously, it did. The OLC's ruling played a huge role in the report.
Barr lied.
The opinion says that the Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing.
Barr said Mueller was equivocal about Congress's role. Obviously, Mueller left it up to Congress in terms of the next step.
Barr lied.
It would be unfair to potentially accuse somebody of a crime when there can be no court resolution of the actual charge.
So that was Justice Department policy. Those were the principles under which we operated. And from them, we concluded that we would not reach a determination one way or the other about whether the president committed a crime.
Always the true professional.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...we-would-have-said-so/?utm_term=.088fe16feead
