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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.
.@Comey: Everyday in this country ppl are prosecuted for obstruction w/o an underlying crime they committed. You wouldn’t want it any other way. Because if you always had to prove the underlying crime, you create incentive to obstruct. Ppl would get away w/ both if they obstruct.
🔥@Comey: I don’t read AG Barr’s letter as saying “there was clearly nothing” re collusion. I read him as saying Mueller didn’t find the evidence “established” a conspiracy between Americans and Russians. I don’t know what evidence he found. I’ll wait to get transparency we need.
🔥@Comey: I don't think we've seen in the history of our country, the president try to burn down an institution of justice b/c he saw it as a threat. The lies he told—forget about me—the lies he told about FBI agents, 'storm troopers,' the lies about Bob Mueller—were terrible.
