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Benjamin Wittes
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What a better place Congress would be if more members wrote thoughtful serious policy threads like this!
@Malinowski mentions in it the idea of modeling reporting requirements for campaigns on the "suspicious activity reporting" requirements for banks. I floated this idea the other day at Brookings.
@matthew_j_kahn and I are currently working to develop it and will write up some thoughts for @lawfareblog on it soon.
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One other important point on the discussion we are having on @lawfareblog about obstruction. We have been debating this subject on the subject on the site continuously since the @Comey firing. There is an immense body of work on it on this site, reflecting a bunch of viewpoints.
I am immensely proud of this discussion and very grateful to @JoshMBlackman and @jacklgoldsmith for being willing to raise concerns others are not looking at.
These are very hard questions without easily available answers. The only way we get answers is to ventilate such matters. For those of you who are angry at @jacklgoldsmith and @JoshMBlackman for raising concerns, hold the bile. This is what the rule of law looks like.
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Some important pieces of common ground between @jacklgoldsmith, @JoshMBlackman and me, which people should not lose sight of.
(1) @jacklgoldsmith and I agree that the Mueller report describes impeachable offenses. (Not sure if Josh agrees on this point.)
(2) We all agree (I think) that to the extent Mueller describes obstruction offenses by the president that do not burden Article II exercises of power (witness tampering, etc.), those are criminal.
(3) We all agree that Mueller's obstruction analysis is, to one degree or another, flawed.
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Benjamin Wittes
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Yeah, not to be overwrought about it, but this tweet and @maddow's monologue last night together brought to mind the last stanza of Prometheus Unbound...
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;
To defy Power which seems omnipotent;
To love, and bear; to Hope till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates;
Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent;
This . . . Is to be
Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free;
This is alone Life; Joy, Empire, and Victory.
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