Robert Mueller has Handed His Report on Russia to Attorney William Barr - Who Will Now Decide How Much of Probe is Made Public
My only remark about this right now is that considering how this BS investigation has torn this country apart, where do these people get off basically saying “all this is none of your business” what we’ve done” to the people of this country?
Robert Mueller has Handed His Report on Russia to Attorney William Barr - Who Will Now Decide How Much of Probe is Made Public
The news swept through Washington in the flash of thousands of tweets just before 5:00 p.m. Friday.
The Justice Department notified leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees before announcing the end of a 22-month-long saga focused on allegations that President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign colluded with agents of Russia to improve his chances in the election.
Trump, according to White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, has not seen any results from Mueller's investigation.'The next steps are up to Attorney General Barr,' Sanders wrote in a tweet, '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,' she added.
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Mueller, a DOJ employee, is obligated only to submit his report to Barr. Congressional Democrats have consistently said they want to see his work in its entirety, however.
it's possible Barr could delicately thread a political needle by sending an executive summary to Capitol Hill and keeping the rest private.*
After Mueller turns in his report, Barr has said he will draft a second one for congressional and public consumption.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6840739/Robert-Mueller-handed-r...
Barr wrote that Mueller submitted a report to him explaining his prosecution decisions. The attorney general told lawmakers he was “reviewing the report and anticipate that I may be in a position to advise you of the Special Counsel’s principal conclusions as soon as this weekend.”
The attorney general wrote he would consult with Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein and Mueller “to determine what other information from the report can be released to Congress and the public consistent with the law, including the Special Counsel regulations, and the Department’s long-standing practices and policies.”
Barr said there were no instances in the course of the investigation in which any of Mueller’s decisions were vetoed by his superiors at the Justice Department.
“I remain committed to as much transparency as possible, and I will keep you informed as to the status of my review,” Barr wrote.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwieu4jp3ZbhAhWe...
Comments
But keeping the report hidden is brilliant
don't you see how this works? Mueller and the democrats knew all along that there was no Collusion with Russia and now to keep the country from blowing up they will just not tell us that nothing was found. People who still believe that Trump is Vlad's puppet can continue thinking that and when Trump isn't kicked out of office his supporters can think that Mueller didn't find anything.
I believed all along that if Mueller did find that Russia was involved somehow with the election that he made it up. We have covered this very closely since the beginning and we know that there was no Russian interference and that the real crimes were committed by Hillary, the DNC, FBI, the DOJ and many people in Obama's administration.
Marcy Wheeler is going hard after every person who is saying what we have been. The fighting between her and Aaron Mate is fun to watch.
It’s downright Kafkaesque.
We paid for it. Let us see it. Sigh.
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
Twitter reacts to the news
Nancy wouldn't really leave Putin's puppet in the WH for two more years if she actually believed that would she? There are plenty of legitimate reasons to try to impeach Trump, but no one even discusses that.
The bottom line here is this....
Yes, WE’VE been following this closely. The
problem is that it’s taken a lot of trolling and digging to get to the bottom of what the Dims have been trying to pull. And where are we now? Millions of our ‘fellow Americans’ still believe this RUSSIA!!! crap and always will. The true believers can ALWAYS find an excuse to avoid facing the truth. There will be ‘reasons’ why Booby wasn’t allowed to track the Orange Menace all the way back to a motel room with a pee soaked mattress.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Mueller might have more credibility if he had interviewed
the guy who wrote the dossier in the first place. This was the biggest reason why the FBI started its investigation into whether Trump colluded with Vlad right? They got warrants because of the damned thing even though they neglected to tell the FISA judge that Hillary paid for it. Think that judge would have had second thoughts if he knew that? There are others that were part of the investigation from the beginning that Mueller didn't talk to. Assange might have shed some valuable information on whether Russia hacked the DNC computers don't you think? Mueller could have interviewed Ray McGovern who showed numerous times that the information was downloaded not hacked. Speaking about this, did Mueller ask the NSA to see if Russia did indeed do the deed? Of course not and just how many people are going to think about that?
But even if Mueller said that he found nothing the damage has been done. Censorship. Russian baiting. NewsGuard. Propornot. The Integrity initiative and other internet stop signs have been put in place and they aren't going away.
And now that Mueller is going away congress is just getting started with their investigations. They sent letters to 81 people and organizations and Wikileaks replied with KMA!! Why would Wikileaks help the country that is trying to arrest its leader? Pffft.
Nope.
Discount Dog Scuba:
I'm betting this will be treated the way the 2000 election was, with centrist Dems rigidly adamant in their conviction that Nader was why Gore lost. That argument has been endlessly discredited, but millions still hold to it as they would a life-preserver as their Titanic goes down. This will be the same: Russiagate will be a certainty despite the absence of evidence. You wouldn't want all those Dems drowning in their contradictions, would you?
Friday News Dump
The fact that this "release" was done on Friday afternoon means it reflects poorly on whoever is doing it. Plus the idea that nothing is being released to the public or the media of substance. Friday news dumps are generally "bad" news or there's nothing really to talk about.
This adds credence to the fact that the John Birch/ Joe McCarthy (neo) liberals have nothing of substance, and Russiagate is a joke. How can they accuse DT of colluding with Russia when he bombs their allies (Syria), threatening other allies (Maduro in Venezuela), or is all for continuing to mass US troops and bases near the Russian borders.
This song is for them. Russiagate is likely straight out of the fever dreams of Jack Welch and Joe McCarthy, and just about as grounded in fact as the red scares of the 1950s and 1960s.
Good to see you again, "NoMoreLies"
Always saw you as a comrade at Pestilent Neoliberal Cesspool of TOP.
There were a bunch of us. Many are here, others on Reddit, etc.
Took a little glance recently at TOP, which is all I could stomach, to see their dopey presidential polls, and still gagged from nausea from just how hard the place has fallen.
Used to be "thirty three and a third" over there.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Alright then,
let's move on to the Epstein files.
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Another national disgrace brought to
us by our ‘betters’ and their government flunkies.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Just got this email from the Chair of the AZ Democratic Party:
Oh, OK, now, finally, after two freakin' years, we're figuring out that he's not going to be impeached for treason and that we must beat Trump at the ballot box.
No Felecia, I won't be sending you any money.
Here's some advice instead, Beto ain't gonna' cut it.
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
These liars have no shame. And they’re still
threatening ‘new indictments’ possibly even the Orange Menaces family.
These people are stealing the taxpayers money. How much has this cost so far?
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
I think it's pushing $100 million.
AND the two years that the damn Dims have spent NOT looking at why they lost.
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
If it's a consolation, it was covered in the German
evening news a little more than I had expected. When they said that Barr can edit the original report from Mueller before he sends it to Congress and Senate, I just thought what a flawed way to express transparency to the American public.
https://www.euronews.com/live