Didn’t know what their area was currently. Found an article from 2003 where they were requesting expanded area, which then was bounded by H Street to Potomac & 3rd to 7th.
So, Roger Stone:
A) too committed to his role to change his bad behavior, or
B) deliberately rushing himself into more legal jeopardy to cut ahead in the line for a pardon?
rowe33
3435
I don’t understand how this guy isn’t in jail already.
Remove the Modern First World Country glasses you have on and put on your Banana Republic Corrupt Oligarchy glasses and you’ll just give a weary shrug and carry on. Situation normal, all fucked up.
KevinC
3439
Looking forward to 3,624 iterations of “I refer you to my report” and “as I said, I will provide no further comment than what I have in my report”.
Clay
3440
Let’s hope he just snaps and lays it all bare. (He won’t.)
Timex
3441
I don’t think Mueller will have any problem repeating stuff that is in the report. He’s not in the bag for Trump.
I also thought I saw an article that the Barr DoJ closed a bunch of Mueller’s referred cases less than ten days after the report was published (4/1, I think), but I can’t find it.
I saw it too. It wasn’t cases, though. It was lingering court actions, apparently things like requests for subpoenas, etc, that were no longer being pursued. Presumably Mueller didn’t care about them either, or he wouldn’t have quit while they were still pending.
I would NOT have wanted to be around the White House last night after this news broke.
rowe33
3445
I agree with the theory that he’s just going to repeat the line about all information is already in the report, over and over. Can’t see this testimony being anything valuable.
Banzai
3446
Some people still believe that the Mueller report exonorated trump, cause trump said so. Having Mueller repeat what he said in the report over and over is valuable. Being able to snip bits of his testimony and post them on facebook will help. This gets the message out again and again that the president not only obstructed justice, but that he’s continuing to do so every day.
spiffy
3447
Right, but insofar as I expect he’d like people to know what’s in the report, he’ll refer to the report, and expound upon what’s in it. He must know most of the intended audience did not read it, and does not know the specifics, and like any author of a body of work it’s probably in his personal and patriotic interest that people know what he wrote.
I can’t imagine a Fresh Air interview with Mueller where it’s 40 minutes of him telling Terry Gross to read his report. Like any other author of a body of work he’d give context, summarize, call out important points, and that should be enough to do a lot of damage.
Tman
3448
I don’t see how this is going to be anything but a circus because Congress has proven time and again very few of them know how to ask questions that are relevant.
Instead well see a shit show of grandstanding and leading questions that will backfire more often than not.
I hope I’m proven wrong but past testimony has prepared me for this dim outlook.
I have a very different take on what Mueller has said about his future testimony. What he was saying is that it’s all already in the report, and that what he says publicly won’t be anything new. Not that he isn’t going to say it. It’s more like “I already told you people! Don’t you read?”
“I am not allowed to say he’s guilty. But I must say if he’s innocent. I’m telling you that I cannot say he’s innocent”.
But as we learned, America sucks at riddles.
Then there is this sort of thing:
Will Mueller answer a question like that? I don’t know, but I would certainly ask it; and I would ask more pointed connect-the-dots questions along the same lines. E.g. President Trump said in an interview that he fired Comey because the Russia investigation was a witch hunt. Is that the kind of thing a prosecutor might explore as evidence of intent to obstruct? Then follow it up with Is this one of the things you wanted to ask the President?
Timex
3451
Having Mueller actually say stuff on TV is important, because most Americans are dumb and haven’t read the report.
Mueller’s report is ridiculously damning for Trump. If everyone in America actually read the report, Trump would already be impeached.
Republicans have made it abundantly clear that they believe their party is above the law so, even if everyone read the report a large number of them would find ways to justify Trumps behavior.
