If all Barr releases is a summary whitewash, it’s time to start painting the “What Are You Hiding?” signs, to be carried during the mass demonstrations in D.C.
Robert Mueller is not going to save us.
Going back to their regular jobs after what they have seen and done has to be a letdown. It will be something to tell the grandkids about at some point. An AG appointed by a Dem POTUS could reunite the team and set them loose on all the miscreants that weren’t mowed down in the first rounds of investigation.
The thing about Mueller is that he was the safeguard that investigations were going to become prosecutions and not be buried. If he hands in his report and departs–especially if only a bare-bones summary is released to Congress and the public–the House will have to take up that mantle.
Yes, but first we need to have a Democratic president, and a big, big step on that road is exposing the corruption in the current maladministration, and prosecuting the important wrongdoers. Will that happen if Mueller leaves?
We’ve heard this before, investigation winding down, report to be issued soon. Think I’ll wait and hope for more indictments.
We know very little looking at this from the outside. But it sure seems like there are still a lot of threads to be pulled regarding Russia/Election/Trump campaign areas. Stone was just indicted, and unless he’s already spilled his guts to Mueller about all things Russia it would seem issues relating to him are within Mueller’s purview as to Rosenstein’s OSC directive. Can it be Mueller has chased down, explored and exhausted everything his mandate includes?
How many of the team are still going to be employed by the DOJ in, say, six months? I expect a reverse witch hunt to already be under way, and these people have targets on their backs.
Remember that Mueller has a limited mandate … Russian collusion and obstruction of justice. I think that he has basically exhausted both investigations. The only “open” items would be Trump and his family. My guess here is that there is no evidence “directly” linking the President to contact with the Russians and Mueller is reluctant to claim obstruction in a criminal matter, leaving that to impeachment proceedings. So the real question is whether as his parting gift he gives us indictments of Don, Jr. and Jared.
In any event, look for more developments in the Southern District of New York.
I was just going to say that .
Them and the NY State Attorney general.
Who knows what incriminating tidbits the Mueller team has passed on to them, after all an ongoing 50 year criminal enterprise has a lot of threads.
And the Taxes
AMIRITE Donnie?
And any criminal activity found through that investigation. He’s handed off the Trump business stuff to SDNY and I believe he’ll hand other parts off too. It will be interesting to see what comes down the pike.
This is the way the probe ends
This is the way the probe ends
This is the way the probe ends
Not with a bang but with a whimper
you might be right on the first part, i don’t think you’re Muelle would be reluctant to claim obstruction if Trump Obstructed (which it’s beyond obvious that he did).
Trump will have unlimited campaign funds, dwarfing those of any opponent in 2020. Toss in the assistance he will receive from foreign helpers and their social media meddling, the apparent rank idiocy of the electorate, the rightward tilt of the Electoral College, his free air time by virtue of his office and via the media, and the proclivity of Democrats to be their own worst enemy, and we’ll have President Trump until 2025.
It’s a cinch Putin and domestic dirty tricksters will pull off an October Surprise the citizens are incapable of discerning as utter bullshit. And Trump is immune to similar last minute embarrassments. He can confess to almost any crime or transgression and garner sufficient votes to win. Witness all the various transgressions he was caught in, fessed up to or committed during the last campaign, to no apparent detriment. He won after all.
An investigation is not a permanent state of affairs. It is a transient mechanism to produce a product. This isn’t something we want to go on forever, or which could go on forever. If Mueller felt he was being pressed out before he was ready, he has ample means at his disposal to kick, scream, and otherwise make publicly known that he didn’t feel he had reached an appropriate and acceptable conclusion. He hasn’t done so, and so the responsible (if tentative) reaction is that Mueller does feel that his team has reached such a conclusion.
These aren’t my unique thoughts, I’m just parroting what Ben Wittes (and somewhat Marcy Wheeler) was saying last night. I will now attempt to leave the political internet for a day or two, unless actual real news happens, because I predict the pity-spiral flagellates will be out in extreme force. OMG WORLD ENDING BARR MARTIAL LAW and other such silliness.
Anyone else nervous?
Lightly concerned (*TM Sen. Susan Collins 2017) in anticipation, but no, I’m not nervous.
Those who have the power to act on their nervousness (i.e., one Bob Mueller) are not doing so, and I trust that they know more about the facts and the process than I do.
We can only hope. The NFL is months away and we need something different and exciting in the interim.
I don’t know, I remember a few months ago, a bunch of them packed up & went back to their previous careers. Something about their special field part of the case was done. Maybe it was those that were investigating the International terrorism part ?