Robert Mueller's Obstruction Of Justice

Flopping Aces ^ | 05-31-19 | Daniel John Sobieski

[Starman417]

The irony was that Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn was charged with and plead guilty to making false statements to the FBI.

By his own standards Robert Mueller was guilty of making “false statements” in his parting gift to Democrat impeachment seekers. He was not, however, under legal oath which is maybe why Democrats did not want him to be questioned by Congress in a hearing beforehand.

Mueller has had to walk back his lie about Office of Legal Counsel policy kept him from indicting a sitting president. In his alleged “farewell” address, former Special Counsel Robert Mueller managed to channel former FBI Director James Comey. Where is it written that former FBI directors get to recite a litany of possible charges against someone they are not going to charge? If, as Mueller had said, you could indict a sitting President, and that is why he was not indicted, then why did he spend some $40 million the past two years pursuing an indictment? Just what has happened to the presumption of innocence?

Mueller told AG Barr that it was not DOJ policy on not indicting sitting presidents that guided his decisions. Then, knowing the lame-stream media would run with his lie, said the opposite. Elizabeth Vaughan noted at Red State:

In his statement this morning, Robert Mueller said “if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.” He also said that, because of Office of Legal Counsel guidance, his team did not have the option of charging a sitting president with a crime.

This is the opposite of what he told Attorney General William Barr and several other DOJ officials at a meeting which took place on March 5th.

Barr was asked about why Mueller had failed to come to a conclusion on the question of obstruction of justice during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 1st. He said, “We were frankly surprised that they were not going to reach a decision on obstruction and we asked them a lot about the reasoning behind this. Mueller stated three times to us in that meeting, in response to our questioning, that he emphatically was not saying that but for the OLC opinion he would have found obstruction.”

Barr made a similar remark at the press conference he held prior to the public release of the redacted Mueller Report. He told reporters, “We specifically asked him about the OLC opinion and whether or not he was taking a position that he would have found a crime but for the existence of the OLC opinion. And he made it very clear several times that was not his position.”

It is not his or any prosecutor's job to "exonerate" anyone. They are presumed innocent, are they not? It was not a matter of whether you can indict a sitting president. The fact is that no president can be indicted for doing what he is constitutionally empowered and entitled to do. That is not obstruction of justice. Trump could have fired Mueller just as he did Comey and closed his entire investigation at any time and it would not have been obstruction of justice. So noted legal scholar Alan Dershowitz in an interview with Leandra Bernstein of the Sinclair Broadcast Group on ABC7/WJLA Thursday:

Constitutional lawyer and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said the special counsel had a legally flawed approach to investigating alleged obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump.

"What jumps out at me is that the Mueller people got the law all wrong on obstruction of justice," Dershowitz told Sinclair Broadcast Group in a Thursday interview. "They came to the conclusion that a president could obstruct justice by simply exercising his constitutional authority under Article 2."…

According to Dershowitz, the president was within his authority to fire the FBI director and would have been justified, under the unified executive theory, to shut down the investigation.

"The position I've taken from day one is for the president to obstruct justice, he has to go beyond his own permissible constitutional authority and engage in conduct that would be a crime for anyone else, like tampering with witnesses, obstructing a witness, paying witnesses, telling them to lie. None of that is charged against President Trump," Dershowitz said.

Trump also could have fired Mueller and closed the Office of Special Counsel at any time. If he couldn’t, Democrats and some Republicans wouldn’t have tried to pass laws preventing just that event. They are creatures of the executive. Trump can fire any of his executive branch employees at any time for any reason. Agreeing with that assessment, Andrew C. McCarthy writes at National Review:

[jeffc]

I wonder why he seemed so nervous.....

[patriotfury]

It’s too bad there is not a recording of the March 5th Barr/Mueller meeting, from which the president could “declassify”, and then we could play the side-by-side starkly and rank contradictory dishonesty of 4th Reich SS Chief Mueller.

I’m just sayin...

[SunkenCiv]

Constitutional lawyer and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said the special counsel had a legally flawed approach to investigating alleged obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump. "What jumps out at me is that the Mueller people got the law all wrong on obstruction of justice," Dershowitz told Sinclair Broadcast Group in a Thursday interview. "They came to the conclusion that a president could obstruct justice by simply exercising his constitutional authority under Article 2."

The lumber business will get a big boost when the Demagogic Party finally starts and then loses the shooting war. Because all of them who survive the war will be hanged, and that will require a lot of gallows construction.

• Yes, the Mueller Investigation Has Obstructed Justice Janitor's view

[faithhopecharity]

Dershowitz,who is widely viewed I think as a far leftist on most issues - is at least being honest. And he gets it, legally he’s right on target. It’s eepecially valuable, helpful that a lawyer of Alan’s statute has the integrity to point out what’s been so obvious for so long — that there’s no beef in the D’s impeachment burger. None at all. Just a pack of lies smears and innuendos. They should be thrown into prison imho -clean up
Our government and then let’s talk

[Karoo]

I can’t decide what Age we live in. The Age of Insanity. The Age of Fools. The Insanity Age. The Age of Foolishness. The Age of the Destroyers. The Age of Leftists. The Age of Fakes. The Age of the Rats. All of the above.

[Ouderkirk]

Wouldn’t you be?

Mueller’s reputation is in a shambles, his past works have been exposed as frauds and he wanted to take a parting shot at Trump no knowing what the president would pummel him with after the fact.

[darbymcgill]

It’s too bad there is not a recording of the March 5th Barr/Mueller meeting, from which the president could “declassify”, and then we could play the side-by-side starkly and rank contradictory dishonesty of 4th Reich SS Chief Mueller.

Barr told the Senate committee that there was a note taker from his staff in the meeting. A Senator asked if he could get a copy of the notes and Barr told him..."no"..

[COBOL2Java]

If I could exonerate Robert Mueller of molesting little boys, I would say so.

Unfortunately, I cannot.