I suspect Barr cut off Mueller’s investigation before he finished.
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We just thought it was a call from a telemarketer, so we ignored it.
It’s worth remembering that the last person to be declared rogue so publicly was Sarah Palin.
That ended in an ugly divorce. And her husband is apparently leaving her too.
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I can’t think Mueller and Barr are still good friends.
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Another WB may file a complaint wrt Trump/Ukraine/ Guiliani debacle.
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If it were in writing DOJ would’ve said wrong, it should have been on vellum, and this was just ordinary printer paper.
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If your house is on fire, make sure you “report it in writing” or it may not meet the criteria and there may be “no further action warranted”.
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The difference between “rules and laws!”
http://www.differencebetween.net/language/difference-between-rules-and-laws/
Well it’s the clear that one of the criminals they are referring to is bill barr.
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He got away with it before. I’m not so sure this time…
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Ohio. Eventually decided again the republican secretary of state’s office, but not until after the damage had been done.
Meanwhile, my take on this is the obvious thing anyone not part of a cabal learns in the first year on the job: if it’s unclear what your colleague/customer/etc intends by an action or statement, clarify it as quickly as you can. Don’t go off and do something irrevocable based on your complicated interpretation. It would have taken 15 second for someone to say or message “Do you want us to consider this a criminal referral? Because if you do, you’re going to have to put it in writing.”
Only reason for people at this level not to do that is mens rea.
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It’s been an assault upon the New Deal that began with the 1938 Congress, peaked under Reagan, and was largely completed by Bush I and Clinton. They want an “electorate” who are ignorant, sickly, frightened, and stupid. That’s their base.
I think so too. I also think that at least some of the explosions we’re now seeing going off under the conspirators result from fuses that Bob Mueller laid and lit before he exited.
He’s using last century’s (Iran-Contra) coverup techniques in a 21st century digital environment in which both documents and information travel logarithmly faster than he’s accustomed to addressing.
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Propaganda works.
And in which you don’t have copy control like you used to. Used to be that if you could embargo all, say, 5 copies of something in existence, you knew you were safe. Now there are infinite copies, senders and receivers of everything have their own digital copies… Those text messages with Soundland this week are the perfect example of how even tangential discussions get portions preserved outside of the bubble.
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Barr stopped Mueller. No doubt in my mind. Why do all those the investigations stop just before the Trump adult children are charged? Why do we not know a thing about where those investigations ended? (unless I missed something). What’s in the redacted part? Too many unknowns to blame Mueller for anything yet.
Some in Congress know what’s in the redacted parts, that’s why they’re in the inquiry.
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Yes to be clear, my comment up above wasn’t about whether Barr/Rosenstein interfered with Mueller…they were all over it.
But I meant to refer especially to the angle that Campaign interference wasn’t considered because it wasn’t a “thing of value”…just because money didn’t change hands. That is a classic pseudo-legalese bullshit dodge that reeks of Barr and not Mueller. I don’t know how early Rosenstein started working on that perhaps…once Barr was being floated as the NOM? Or as soon as Barr took office in Nov 2018, or if they then went to work on Mueller in early 2019 to change his language and neuter the Campaign angle…but they RAN with the idea that since money didn’t change hands…any Campaign interference was moot since it didn’t have a $ attached to the ratfukking.
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Totally true. We are watching it in action with PP using “corruption” in every sentence.
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I wasn’t clear enough, I know that Barr had huge effects on Mueller’s report. What I was trying to get at, is if he AFTER THE FACT went back into the Mueller report and neutered much of the Russian campaign meddling by ruling that there was no $ attached. My guess is Mueller had some real penalty attached to it, but Barr’s mealy mouthed “not a thing of value” got backward applied and snuffed out that line of attack.
I don’t know if we will ever know how early Barr inserted himself in the process and if Mueller already had much written and Barr made him do it over, threw out whole sections, or just redacted and spun it.
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I used to think the same way, but our vaunted Intelligence community has been 100% compliant so far with Trump’s utter lawlessness. Even the esteemed Robert Mueller turned out to be nothing but a wet fart.
I guess “patriotism” is just a word people throw around.
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Agreed, 100%.
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