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"...if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment." -Mueller report
What Volume 2 of this report is is a road map for how to charge this president with multiple felony counts of obstruction of justice.
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If you're not making a charging decision, and Mueller said he wasn't, then they way William Barr thinks about it, that means you can't be investigating.
Maddow: Did Barr shut Mueller down when Mueller told him he wasn't going to say whether or not Trump should be charged?
I don't know, and neither do you.
But Robert Mueller knows.
This was a tricky one to excerpt. Watch Rachel Maddow's full presentation here: on.msnbc.com/2GWpObK
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"Members of Congress asked to see the full legal opinion. Barr refused, but said he would provide an account that “summarizes the principal conclusions.” Sound familiar?"
justsecurity.org/63635/barrs-pl…
"When the OLC opinion was finally made public long after Barr left office, it was clear that Barr’s summary had failed to fully disclose the opinion’s principal conclusions."
"Despite its highly detailed analysis, this 13-page version omitted some of the most consequential and incendiary conclusions from the actual opinion. And there was evidently no justifiable reason for having withheld those parts from Congress or the public."
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Jake Tapper
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1/ The White House calling the Special Counsel report the "no-collusion, no-conspiracy, no-obstruction Mueller report" is dishonest. Let us now take a look at the report's own language to explore why.

justice.gov/storage/report…
2/ First, re "no-collusion" -- Mueller makes clear from the beginning of the report that "we applied the framework of conspiracy law, not the concept of 'collusion.'" This is right on page 2 of Volume I.

Mueller did not even address collusion.
3/ Mueller did that because "collusion is not a specific offense or theory of liability found in the United States Code, nor is it a term of art in federal criminal law."
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Mark Szuch
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Mueller Report Intro to Part II:
"First, a traditional prosecution or declination decision entails a binary determination to initiate or decline a prosecution, but we determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment."
"Third, we considered whether to evaluate the conduct we investigated under the Justice Manual standards governing prosecution and declination decisions, but we determined not to apply an approach that could potentially result in a judgment that the President committed crimes."
"Fourth, if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state."
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Heidi Cuda
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Late nights and lowlights: A lo-fi perusal of treasony low-lifes in the first 100 pages of the Mueller Report.

1. Russian-IRA accounts reach 126 mil thru Facebook; Twitter reports 1.4 million people in contact w/IRA accounts. Perspective: HRC lost electoral college by 77k votes.
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Perspective: Trump told Russia to hack HRC on national TV.
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1. Obstruction of Justice Redux
The phony Collusion smear having been completely debunked, Trump's opponents are now scouring the umbras and penumbras of Obstruction to seek some psychological solace. The Obstruction charge revolves around the firing of Comey. Let us review.
2. Shorn of all the inconsequential stuff, Comey was fired for one reason and one reason alone. President Trump found him insufferable. Why? Because Comey told Trump on three different occasions that Trump was not under investigation, but refused to say the same thing publicly.
3. Which manager with any self-respect would tolerate a subordinate who refuses to tell the truth publicly. Not only that, a subordinate who creates a public impression that you are under investigation, but tells you privately that you are not.
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The Barr version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Report 🇺🇸 justice.gov/storage/report…
Mueller said Trump’s written answers “inadequate” but did not serve a subpoena because of the “substantial delay” that this would cause. Yet, they have “sufficient evidence to understand relevant events and to make certain assessments without the President’s testimony.”
Mueller says President Trump NOT cleared on obstruction of justice.

"If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state."
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