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Robert Mueller Delivers Report to Attorney General
According to news reports, Robert Mueller has delivered a report to Attorney General Bill Barr. Fox News:
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has submitted to Attorney General Bill Barr his long-awaited report on the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential race and possible collusion with Trump associates — marking the end of the politically explosive probe and the beginning of a new battle over its contents and implications. Mueller is “not recommending any further indictments,” a senior DOJ official told Fox News.
The next steps are up to Attorney General Barr, and we look forward to the process taking its course. The White House has not received or been briefed on the Special Counsel’s report.
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) March 22, 2019
Published in Politics
I see what you did there. ; )
Over/under on when the report itself leaks?
Odds that all the investigative materials are already copied on portable media, or stashed on unofficial server space for DNC use though the 2020 campaign?
If the latter, odds the Chinese and Russians already have Mueller’s team’s files?
I don’t think the public gets to see “the report.” Any McCarthy points out than Muller is just a line prosecutor. He gives it to Barr. Barr has to make sure that there are no methods and assets revealed. Since this WAS supposedly an Intelligence Investigation, there are bound to be some redactions. Then Congress will claim, wrongly, that they are entitled to see it raw. Eventually, though, something will leak and you can read THAT.
Hmmm, my copy of the talking points didn’t have the word “doggone” in it. Gary, did you get a different copy than me?
just read that perhaps the “Russian Collusion” was propped up by Russia using left wing bots to then divide and disillusion Democrats when it was found out not to be true
we’re through the looking glass
Jerome Corsi. They threatened him with prison. Fox News just said it’s all bogus. No charges.
***edit***
Jerome Corsi Lost his job with Alex Jones over this and Info Wars was investigated for offering him a severance. I’m pretty sure that’s all accurate.
Thank you. I hope someone else did. :-)
The DOJ lawyer just said that she never, ever had a situation like this. You just indict them.
Tucker Carlson’s comment was “it’s so Third World”.
So many Republicans don’t care.
The Mueller Report is on sale at Amazon.
Because you would trust a report from an incompetent, unethical apparatchik like Mueller (Comey’s BFF), which investigation was based on an unsubstantiated, bought-and-paid for by the Clinton campaign slander sheet, in collusion with foreign agents (Steele and his Russian associates), using unethical if not illegal means (unmasking, leaking, …) for the purpose of unseating or terminally damaging a duly elected president who you dislike.
The (lack of) credibility of this report cannot be separated from the corruption of the people who produced it. Wake up!
Nah. You can opine on some things after reading the first paragraph or two. Here’s a great example (I hope I don’t get CoC’d for this one):
This is the opening of a brilliant hoax paper by James Lindsay and Peter Boyle (actually Peter Boghossian), “The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct” (here).
My reference to this paper is merely an example. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the special counsel, the deputy attorney general, the former FBI director, or anyone else associated with the Mueller probe. Really.
Maybe I shouldn’t have used the word “probe.” Oops.
One of us could be a Russian bot!
Gee, I wonder who it could be?
Since the Obama administration, I am leery of believing even identified DOJ officials.
We are finally in agreement with each other!
The clips on Hannity about “treason” and Russia by the statist media and Democrat operatives and congressmen.
What a
country! banana republic.This is how we got Trump, and why the House Republicans lost their shiny chairman offices.
Amend that to “Bush 43” and I’m in violent agreement. Look, this is perfectly normal, in that at least one a generation agencies are going to need serious review and reform. We are overdue for another set of Church Committee hearings.
That’s what I think.
The investigation was neither legal nor just. We have read report after report of unethical behavior and lies within our investigative agencies. Why should we trust the report?
The President tolerated this lawlessness while people were prosecuted for crimes of confused testimony. Will he now pardon them?
No truth or justice will result. The investigation’s conclusion won’t end the politics, the divisions, or the yellow journalism. It’s a miserable circus.
Officer Friendly starts placing the flares at the scene of a 25 million dollar train wreck. Come on folks, there’s nothing to see here, keep moving.
Released on a Friday after 5:00 PM, at the beginning of what is arguably the biggest sporting event in the country where everyone is obsessing over their brackets and will be for days.
Robert Mueller is going to slip out of town, change his name, and retire to a cabin in Saskatchewan.
No, not there – it’s just to your left.
We can always count on you for gallows humor.
Ahem.
Sure, but the people who hate Trump will be lying and the people who like Trump will be telling the truth.
No Max.
To paraphrase a now retired and great judge that I appeared before, the people who hate Trump will believe that they are telling the truth, and the people who love Trump will believe that they are telling the truth. The real truth will likely be somewhere in between.
The truth does not always lie somewhere in between. If a group of radical math students believe that 2 + 2 = 5 for large values of 2, that doesn’t mean that one can balance his checkbook using that formulation.
Sure, but did he decide court cases by adding up all the testimony and dividing by two?
Great question. This judge usually didn’t average between the two parties. He would usually tilt towards one party or the other, based upon the strength of the evidence. However, only rarely did he go 100% for a party, keeping in mind that each party has their own view of the truth.
Eh, that’s too easy. Too obvious. Russian bots set up the idea that Mueller was really investigating HRC, and when that didn’t work out the Republicans would be disillusioned. Then they started QAnon to discredit the previous scenario by making it seem too limited in scope. When that crashes down it discredits the whole Deep State soft coup narrative. Fiendishly clever, those meme-slinging puppetmasters.