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A subtle caveat in Barr's statements in his written testimony that he wants to let Mueller finish and be transparent about findings is "where judgments are to be made by me." Under Barr's view of executive power, Trump could direct the AG to substitute his own legal judgments.
From Barr's 1989 confirmation hearing for OLC: In an ambiguous situation where more than one legal conclusion is possible, he would accept a superior's (AG or POTUS) judgment & not resign even if he disagreed. (Also notable: calling the attorney general the "president's lawyer")
This is the import of the anecdote he tells regarding Bush41's hands-off attitude toward DOJ and Pan Am 103 that is the kicker of my story today about Barr's understanding of executive power. nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/…
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So I was reading this "criminal complaint" Larry Klayman and Jerome Corsi sent to DOJ asking for it to prosecute Bob Mueller, which builds up to this: /1
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Cory Booker has dumped out more "committee confidential" Brett Kavanaugh emails about the extent of his involvement in the PIckering nomination, showing among other things that he didn't just handle but personally drafted the op-ed dropbox.com/sh/cc4u94lgync… /1
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Since Trump is twitterin' this morning about the Carter Page FISA materials the NYT and others obtained yesterday via FOIA litigation, here are some takeaway observations about the documents /1
Many of these observations were in my article last night which is here, but I'll convert them into bullet points for Twitter /2 nytimes.com/2018/07/21/us/…
The importance of seeing these docs is that the public can judge for itself whether Devin Nunes and HPSCI Republicans were telling the truth in February when attacking the FBI and Russia investigation on Trump's behalf; Dems said they were mischaracterizing the docs and lying. /3
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