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Jill Wine-Banks
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Great ? from @chrislhayes tonight about questions #MuellerReport raises. Too many to list all my ?s but here's one I omitted on air:
How could Mueller not have found overwhelming evidence of obstruction given all we know plus what he knows that we don't?
Questions I did mention on air:
1. Why does Barr say it will take time to redact report? He can get job done fast, especially if he asks Court for permission to release grand jury testimony like Watergate grand jury did. He has resources to get job done fast.
And...
2. Did #Mueller intend to cede his decision to Barr or, as we did in Watergate, to Congress? I bet the latter.
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Jill Wine-Banks
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Barr claim it will take wks to review and redact Mueller Report and that he is limited by grand jury secrecy is fallacious for several reasons:
1. He can ask Chief Judge of District Court in DC for permission to release GJ testimony as Watergate grand jury did in public interest+
2. Barr has resources to get job done fast re classified & ongoing investigs info- just as Comey got job done re HRC emails after he got pressed after damaging her campaign by announcing resumed investigation. Comey put thumb on scale of election. Barr shld not do same to justice
Time from #BarrLetter Summary to release of full #MuellerReport favors the person Barr is protection: Pres Trump. That's why Congress must demand release NOW.
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Jill Wine-Banks
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1/ Trump and Nixon both threatened Congress that investigation would hurt legislative goals and economic growth. Both are wrong. Investigations lead to truth and that makes democracy stronger, not weaker. I saw it then and it's still true now.
2/ The only question is whether it will be the Mueller investigation, the SDNY investigations, the emoluments case of the MD and DC AGs, or the NY AG's investigations of the Trump Org, Foundation and Inaugural Cmtee that hurts Trump, his family and administration the most.
3/ nbcnews.com/think/opinion/… via @NBCNewsTHINK
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Jill Wine-Banks
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1/ I'll be watching Barr's testimony with skepticism because of his avowed extreme views of executive power and his 20 page volunteered memo with it's misleading and unfounded assumptions & legal analysis. In the era of Trump, expanding executive power is particularly dangerous.
2/ In addition, Barr's prepared remarks do not allay my concerns. While he says Mueller should be allowed to finish his investigation, he does not say Mueller will be free to take any actions Mueller believes justified. He could bar indictments or full disclosure of crimes.
3/ I hope the Democrats will be strong in insisting that Barr give Mueller protections like those Cox had during Watergate. They were essential to fair completion of our Watergate work.
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🔥NEW: Former FBI Director @Comey asserts to @LesterHoltNBC that the principal findings of the #MuellerReport show Trump's blistering criticism of the FBI were “lies” and “his attempt to destroy the agency had failed.” nbcnews.to/2FC27on
Comey: It doesn’t make sense that Mueller would have let AG Barr make the final call on obstruction, when the entire point of an independent Special Counsel was that a political appointee NOT make that ultimate call.
.@Comey: I don’t know why Mueller didn’t subpoena the president. I have the same question about how the Attorney General could resolve obstruction, which Barr says in his letter turns on the president’s intent, w/o the president having been asked what his intent was.
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Thomas Wood 🌊
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GREAT!

Here is THE question that the committee MUST ask #Mueller (in front of the cameras): 1/7
You reached the conclusion in your Report that the government had insufficient evidence to bring a conspiracy case against the Trump campaign to court. (18 USC § 371). 2/7
But in the course of your investigation, Mr. Mueller, did you find evidence of any actions taken by Donald Trump or any of his campaign officials that might have been of concern for our national security, even if they didn’t rise to the level of criminality? 3/7
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Dr. Dena Grayson
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THREAD: Important to note what is NOT in Bill Barr’s summary of the #MuellerReport, along with what is in it.

Barr says that Mueller uncovered 2 ways #Russia🇷🇺influenced the election:

☝🏼IRA’s disinformation/social media op
✌🏼GRU’s hacking/dissemination of Democratic emails
No surprise, Barr claims that Mueller says that Team🇷🇺Trump didn’t conspire DIRECTLY with IRA or GRU. But *no one* even alleged that they did.🙄

#MuellerReport

Note: Barr does NOT mention WikiLeaks/Assange (and why Roger Stone’s #indictment cross-references the GRU’s), Don Jr gleefully accepting campaign help from the #Russian🇷🇺government, @GOP platform change on #Ukraine, quid pro quo #sanctions-for-help deal.🤨
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Thomas Wood 🌊
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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
I have argued for a long time that the question to ask about when the MUELLER REPORT will be submitted and released is not: “When will Mueller have ALL the evidence he could obtain?” 2/10
The appropriate question is: “When will #Mueller have ENOUGH evidence?”--that is, enough evidence for Congress to proceed with impeaching Trump and removing him from office and indicting people for campaign collusion. 3/10
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Mona
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Ok here it is. Still spec, but maybe.. " Justice Department officials are preparing for the end of special counsel Mueller's investigation and believe a confidential report could be issued in coming days.." #MuellerReport
washingtonpost.com/world/national…
2-"Justice Department officials are preparing for the end of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s nearly two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and believe a confidential report could be issued in coming days, according to people familiar with
3-"the discussions. The special counsel’s investigation has consumed Washington since it began in May 2017, and it increasingly appears to be nearing its end, which would send fresh shock waves through the political system. Mueller could deliver his report to Attorney General
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Thomas Wood
@twoodiac
Ever wonder why so many Republicans in Congress and elsewhere are terrified of, and going ballistic over, the FBI and #Mueller?

Read the DOJ documents against Maria Butina and you will understand that LOTS of Republicans are going down--soon.
1/ Political Party 1 in the affidavit is the Republican Party.

The Russian Official in the affidavit is Alexander Torshin.

The unnamed political operative (Person 1) mentioned frequently in the DOJ affidavit is almost certainly GOP operative Paul Erickson.
2/ Also mentioned in connection with l’affaire Butina-Torshin: John Bolton, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Milwaukee sheriff David Clarke, David Keene, Wayne LaPierre (chief NRA lobbyist),
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