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Joyce Alene
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I still have a lot of questions. Some of them will be answered by the Mueller report or when investigations by other prosecutors conclude. But I thought it would be helpful to have a thread where we assess our unanswered questions at this point and see what we can make of them.
I accept the legal judgments of the Mueller report sight unseen, because I believe they followed the rule of law & the process the special counsel‘s office used had integrity. So, lots of unanswered questions about what’s in the report, but not about its prosecutive decisions.
A big question I have is why it was so important to Trump to lie about the reason for the Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 that involved Don Jr., Jared, Manafort & Russians. Trump dictated the cover-up story himself. If nothing improper happened, why was it so important to lie?
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Joyce Alene
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1/2 Will the “parts of it redacted” from the version of the Mueller Report AG Barr sends to the Hill be grand jury material & if so, why won’t the AG ask for a court order to permit turnover of that material? washingtonpost.com/news/politics/…
2/2 Protecting uncharged people is a weak rationale in a case with so much publicity their identities are known, given the likely impossibility Congress can understand Trump’s conduct without insight into those around him.
The AG also clarified a question I asked on air yesterday-whether the 300+ pages was the report with or without attachments. We now know Mueller wrote a nearly 400 page analysis of his investigation! There are additional exhibits/appendices.
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Joyce Alene
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Barr weighed in & cleared Trump of obstruction after 48 hours’ review, when Mueller declined to make a judgment, in essence, leaving it to Congress to do so.
Barr’s letter is careful to say he does not believe there is proof, beyond a reasonable doubt, of acts of obstruction with a nexus to an official investigation & corrupt intent. That is how he couches his obstruction finding & it leaves a lot of gray area Congress should explore.
Barr has taken an expansive view of executive power. We don’t know based on the letter, but it would be consistent with his view for him to conclude that, for instance, firing Comey, which he was “entitled” to do, couldn’t be an act of obstruction.
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1/ A few key points in Barr’s letter to Congressional leaders. First, there were no instances where the AG/acting AG told Mueller he could not take steps he wanted to.
2/ Barr Advises he may be in a position to advise Congress of the Special Counsel’s “principle conclusions” this weekend.
3/ Barr will consult with both Mueller & Rosenstein to determine what information can be released to Congress & the public. He says he’s committed to transparency.
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Tucked away in this article is a highly significant revelation (no doubt made inadvertently) by two anonymous DOJ officials. 1/10 tinyurl.com/y696fjj7
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As I’ve opined before:

Qn: When will #Mueller issue his report(s)?

Answer: As soon as he has a case strong enough to take down Trump.

It’s all about Trump at this point. 1/3
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@twoodiac
(THREAD) BuzzFeed’s source? FELIX SATER.

Sater is key to RussiaGate. Among other things, he is SOURCE E of the Steele dossier. In memo #095, Source E = Sater lays out the whole Trump-Russia collusion narrative that is unfolding today. tinyurl.com/ybn9bgvm
#Mueller already had today’s BuzzFeed intel and no doubt much, much more. As Napolitano said today on Fox News, this is just the “tip of the iceberg.”

(Sater has long acknowledged publicly that he is a “source” for Mueller, but Mueller so far has kept him on the sidelines.)
On Feb 28 of this year, I posted a long thread on Sater, and concluded: tinyurl.com/yahfws5c
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