800 Prosecutors said it did, and Mueller’s cagey answers do as well.
The problem isn’t that he hasn’t said it, it’s that he needs to be seen repeating it over and over again to get through the propaganda and disinformation wall.
This, Soros or the Democrat should talk Muellers statement and run it as an ad of FOX, and MAGA Facebook groups.
Zylon
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You mean the statement that those same people are already interpreting as “He didn’t say obstruction, therefore no obstruction”?
Barr’s DOJ now declining to comply with a court order to turn over all recordings / transcripts of Flynn’s calls with Kislyak. Says none of them are relevant and that the government isn’t relying on any of them in the question of Flynn’s sentence.
Link? this is very unclear as to who is requesting them, the court order, etc.
It’s the Flynn sentencing.
This is a response to Judge Sullivan, who ordered the government to turn over all recordings / transcripts of Flynn’s conversations with Russians. The government has not done so; they say those calls aren’t relevant to sentencing. My impression is that Sullivan has wanted to throw the book at Flynn and wants the ammunition to do it.
Also, the voice mail Trump’s attorney left for Flynn’s attorney is unbelievable. Any jury would find it an attempt to obstruct.
Edit: It’s also possible that Sullivan is trying to use the sentencing hearing to publicly expose more wrongdoing by more bad actors.
Hmm. could be part of the ongoing Counter-Intelligence investigation too, which would definitely explain DoJ reluctance.
Or it could be Trump Admin obstruction again. The boy who cried wolf is losing credibility about that kind of thing.
It doesn’t really matter. It’s the judge who decides what is relevant, not the prosecution. When he orders them to turn over stuff, they turn it over. If it’s not relevant, he sets it aside. That’s how it works. Some of the lawyers reporting on this say they’ve never seen the government respond to a court order this way before.
These guys are basically in contempt of court. It’s just a question of if the judge wants to treat it that way, and he’s been pretty hostile to the government through the entire sentencing process.
A Judge who is not cleared for Top Secret and above classified information (assuming the Counter-Intelligence investigation is ongoing) probably can’t (IANAL). That’s why we have FISA courts.
Maybe, but their filing doesn’t say he can’t have it because it’s classified. It says he doesn’t need it.
Edit: Actually, this is wrong, sorry. The judge has already read all these transcripts. His order was that they be made public. The government complied WRT the one voice mail recording already public via the Mueller report and ignored the rest of the order. It’s possible there is a sealed filing related to the others.
Interesting perspective here, I thought.
Mueller’s concern about “fairness” to the president, who would lack a forum to clear his name after being accused, is particularly odd.
“That is completely absurd,” Ohlin, the law professor, told Illing. “The president doesn’t have a courtroom to vindicate his innocence only because the DOJ has decided that his office makes him immune from indictment in the first place. It’s a piece of circular reasoning that removes the president from the scope of generally applicable criminal laws.”
Timex
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Except it doesn’t at all.
It merely piss it in the hands of the Congress, which is who is empowered by the Constitution to remove him from office, at which point he can be indicted.
Timex
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In case anyone had any lingering doubts about whether Alan Dershowitz had lost every remaining scrap of his integrity or credibility, i present you…
Timex’s autocorrect needs its own Twitter feed.
That’s really crazy talk by Dershowitz. It is not like the Senate is going to ask for unanimous consent that Trump is impeached. There will be trial and if by some miracle he gets impeached. Trump’s lawsuit would get laughed out of every single federal court.
So the Chief Justice is going to hear a case about a trial he ran? That seems…odd.
Roger Stone stupidity alert, version 17:
