Shortly after Mueller submits his final report to Attorney General Bill Barr, the lawmakers plan on sending the letter to various agencies and entities, including the Department of Justice, FBI and White House Counsel’s Office, according to the report.
Why wait?
Doesn’t that leave a window that documents could be destroyed?
“Congressional Dems Will Demand Trump Admin Preserve Mueller Docs”
…And that demand means the docs will be immediately deep sixed, lost, irrevocably misplaced, caught in a mysterious fire … sumthins gonna happen to 'em.
The Doom and Gloom assumes that Mueller will hand all of the materials to Barr (and Trump) and not preserve any backup at all…
I’m sure they’re on a multi-terrabyte external drive, preserved in duplicate, carried out piece by piece, or under the control of at least one person who will drop them over the transom of a Schiff, Nadler, Cummings, etc., 10 minutes after Barr refuses to produce.
Okay. Send forceful letters. When Individual1 works those reports into sausage with the help of the “new doj” and the WH syndicate, what next? The report will not be recognizable and the Senate and SCOTUS will cover. The good news? It will all leak out, but too late.
I guess they assume the Trump Administration gives a shit.
Well something has to fuel the ongoing dumpster fire. My crystal ball reveals Beavis, Butthead, and Javanka enjoying cigars while tossing pages in and drawing moustaches on badly Photoshopped pictures of AOC.
Barr has promised to be as transparent as possible. But he has hedged those promises with references to DOJ policy discouraging the release of damaging information about individuals the department doesn’t charge.
Let’s think rationally for a minute.
Comey made two enormously important statements in 2016 in clear violation of DOJ policy:
- After the initial investigation into Hillary’s emails, he made a public announcement that they’d found nothing worth prosecuting.
- His October surprise, when he announced that more emails had been discovered and that the FBI would examine them.
We tend to fixate on the latter one (with good reason), but when it comes to the Mueller report, we should focus on the former.
The first announcement establishes what I’d like to call the “Comey exception.” Generally, the FBI does not make announcements when it decides not to prosecute, for the simple reason that it doesn’t announce when it begins investigating a target. It could be very damaging to anybody if the FBI were to make seemingly-unprompted statements that it’s not investigating them. So, these two practices go hand-in-glove, and seem reasonable: quietly begin investigating when you discover something suspicious, and then wrap it up quietly if nothing comes of it.
So why did Comey make announcement #1, in clear violation of DOJ policy? Because, in Clinton’s case, it was already publicly known that the FBI was investigating her emails. In light of that fact, if the FBI were to just silently conclude its investigation, it would fail to dispel the cloud of suspicion that had gathered over Clinton. The context surrounding the investigation provided an overwhelming justification for breaking from department policy to positively state that the investigation had cleared her of wrongdoing.
The same rationale exists here, with Trump & Mueller, but even more starkly:
- Mueller’s appointment, and his mandate to investigate Trump/Russia, were public and have been in the news every single day since he was appointed.
- Trump & surrogates’ bald lies aside, OSC has left a trail of explosive criminal convictions that swirl around and toward the president. Whatever is the truth regarding Trump specifically, it is no longer debatable that he was surrounded in large part by criminals during the campaign. An innocent man would welcome a formal announcement to defuse the guilt-by-association.
- During OSC’s investigation, Trump has done so many things to reinforce the public’s suspicions that it’s impossible to list them all here, and he has studiously avoided doing any of the very reasonable things he could easily do which could alleviate that suspicion.
Comey made a necessary and prudent exception to DOJ policies that are reasonable in most cases but which would have been unequivocally harmful in light of the unprecedented publicity and gravity of the case in question. With Trump, the fact pattern is simply magnified.
America don’t worry…Trump has placed Javanka in charge of retaining all the Mueller records. Little special education Harvard boy Jared is going to screen shoot each document via Whatsapp and send to his government email account.
Time to re look at Hillary’s email server from * YEARS ago…when she last held a government paid job.
The Democrats are so weak. How does Schumer keep his job…he is pitiful.
Good luck with that.
The Dems appoint Republicans, apparently as a gesture of who knows what, and Comey screws them big time.
The Republicans appoint their loyalists who are willing to go to any lengths, country be damned, to make sure that the Republicans are safe from an real consequence of their actions, and the Dems like Pelosi wait for permission from the Republicans to do anything remotely resembling holding the Republicans responsible for their actions.
All Dems know is how to make strongly worded statements and demands, which Republicans LOL and ROTFLMOA at the Dems.
We are all doomed.
ooohh… and what are the dems going to do once they’ve been destroyed (as if they already haven’t) … send a harshly worded letter? maybe go on cable for some more facetime on the teevee?
dotard inc is already ignoring requirements that all documents be preserved.
what a farce.