As the justice department contributes to obstruction to a deep state that President Trump is now the head off,
when in fact they know that this law does exist
Disclosure to Committees of Congress
Secretary shall furnish such committee with any
return or
return information specified in such request, except that any
return or
return information which can be associated with, or otherwise identify, directly or indirectly, a particular
taxpayer shall be furnished to such committee only when sitting in closed executive session unless such
taxpayer otherwise consents in writing to such
disclosure.
Within the Constitutional Confines of a legitimate legislative purpose, of course.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, after conferring with the Justice Department, has determined that the witch hunting committee's request "lacks a legitimate legislative purpose."
witch hunt is not a legal term...
Who claimed otherwise?
... Mueller report exposes specific instances of obstruction of justice...
Mueller didn't charge Trump with Obstruction.
...Trump himself has made numerous statements of a witch hunt...
So what? So have I.
...Nixon tried to block his returns and in the end he was lying...
Nixon didn't try to block the release of his returns.
There's no law that requires Trump to disclose the returns, the papers are private information. Ike, LBJ and JFK never released their returns. Trump says he will release his returns once the audit is concluded, you are simply going to have to learn some patience.
...Mueller didn't charge Trump with Obstruction.
based on DOJ guidelines regarding sitting president he couldn't charge trump...
First, that can be handled by sealed indictment. Second, Dirty Bob's job was to bring an indictment if he had sufficient proof, it would be Barr's decision whether it should be held until Trump completed serving.
Further Mueller initially told Barr another story entirely. In recent Senate testimony, Attorney General Bill Barr related that he and his staff met with the Mueller team a couple of weeks before the report was completed. Mueller surprised them with the news that he would not be resolving the obstruction question. When asked to explain,
Mueller said his rationale for this non-decision was not yet fully developed — such temporizing, of course, is often the sign of handwringing as one tries to rationalize a determination one knows is wrong. Nevertheless, Barr reports that
Mueller was emphatic that the OLC guidance was not what drove his decision to abdicate.
Yet when we finally saw the
Mueller report, we found that the obstruction volume begins with a discussion of the OLC guidance. It is, by turns, vaporous and preposterous. It is no wonder Barr has said he does not know exactly what Mueller was thinking.
First, the OLC guidance does not say a president may
never be indicted; just that he can’t be indicted while serving.
The OLC guidance is irrelevant to the prosecutor investigating the case. Even if we stipulate, for argument’s sake, that a president may not be indicted in the here and now, he may still be prosecuted for any indictable offense at some future point. Therefore,
someone must decide if there is a crime worth charging. That someone, obviously, is the prosecutor assigned to investigate the case. Since there is no bar on
investigating a sitting president, there is no reason not to make the prosecution judgment — to charge or not to charge.
If there is sufficient evidence, then it is the prosecutor’s job to recommend indictment. The question of whether the OLC guidance should then be invoked to delay indictment should then be up to the attorney general. The guidance does not burden the prosecutor’s analysis of whether there is an indictable case.
Mueller’s report is designed to taint the president when he does not have the constitutional protections of a criminal defendant. Let no one tell you that Bob Mueller is not a dirty unethical bastard.
Mueller simply had to do his job and make the required binary decision about whether or not the evidence supported indictment, and then leave the application of the OLC guidance to the attorney general.
