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Finally read this, and can’t remember if it was posted already. Apologies, if so. Quite impressed.

https://humanevents.com/2019/05/01/checkmate/

Checkmate.

How President Trump’s legal team outfoxed Mueller

By Will Chamberlain

FTA:
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DUELING BRIEFS – AND A THEORY

Reading Barr’s June 2018 memo alongside the last twenty pages of the Mueller Report is a curious experience.

Together, they read like dueling legal briefs on the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2); the type of material one would expect to see from adversarial appellate litigators.

So-why did Robert Mueller dedicate 20 pages of his report to a seemingly obscure question of statutory interpretation? Why did Bill Barr write a detailed legal memorandum to Rod Rosenstein about that very same statute?

And how, exactly, did Bill Barr know that that § 1512(c)(2) was central to Mueller’s obstruction theory – in June 2018, when he was still in private practice at Kirkland?

After some consideration, I arrived at a theory that I believe answers these three questions, and others as well. For example – why was AG Jeff Sessions asked for his resignation the day after the midterms? Why was Bill Barr the only name ever seriously floated for AG? And is it merely a coincidence that six weeks after Barr’s confirmation, the Mueller probe came to an end?

This theory is not entirely my own — I’m indebted to the work of the anonymous lawyer user going by Undercover Huber on Twitter (@JohnWHuber), and his detailed thread on the subject. But the story I’m about to tell does contain some novel theses, which are noted throughout.

This is a story about a legal chess match played for the highest stakes imaginable: Trump’s Presidency – and whether it would be under the cloud of an endless special counsel investigation – hinged on the result.

John Dowd, Ty Cobb, Jay Sekulow, and the rest of President Trump’s personal legal team were on one side. Mueller, Andrew Weissmann, and the Special Counsel’s office were on the other.

The dispute was a year-long struggle over the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2).
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Thanks for bringing that post back - this guy Will Chamberlain brings even greater respect to the tweeter @JohnWHuber

and if you go to @JohnWHuber, you see his request for tips:

“Be the hammer, not the nail”. I’m not really John Huber, but you can still send me tips: undercoverhuber@protonmail.com

There are plenty of diggers here who might want to take him up on his suggestion.

he points us to this:
https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/05/03/barr-vs-mueller-on-obstruction-anatomy-of-an-epic-chess-move/

FTA: “These are the best eight years of my life because we finally are standing up to the bullies in Washington.” SHOUT IT!

https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2019/05/who-won-this-week.html

Who won this week

When he was with the Washington Post, Chris Cillizza used to do a loser-of-the-week column. He is now a nattering nabob of negativism nodding on CNN. It’s a living.

I’m retired. Every day is a miracle. I am blessed and I count my blessings. Let us look at who won this week in Washington.

No contest. Attorney General Bill Barr won.

The promo for a new movie (”Getting Straight A’s. Giving Zero F’s”) best describes Barr’s attitude now that the Mueller Report officially clears our president of the Russian conspiracy nonsense.

His appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a magnificent moment. The attempted coup by Obama, the FBI, and CNN failed. Now Barr will mete out punishment.

After his hearing, Adam Schiff called him the second most dangerous man in America, a nod to the fact that Barr serves at the will and pleasure of President Donald John Trump, who is also the happiest man in the whole USA.

David Harsanyi wrote, “By accurately conveying that the investigation had exonerated Trump and his administration of criminal conspiracy or coordination with the Russians, two years of ostensibly serious reporting was exposed as little more than resistance fan fiction. Rather than take a moment’s self-reflection about how their actions had caused unprecedented political chaos, undermined trust in the electoral system and crowded out legitimate coverage of the presidency, the entire collusion industry just moved its frenzied focus onto obstruction.”

Since the witch hunt began two years ago, there has been a lot of quoting of Stalin’s secret police chief, Lavrentiy Beria, who said, “Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.”

Once again, Democrats have proved themselves to be lousy as communists. We showed them the man, where is the crime?

No crime, no obstruction.

But what made Bill Barr the week’s big winner was his refusal to let Democrats and their minions in the media set the agenda.

He blew them off. He waved the back of his hand at them.

Barr is not worried, but they should be.

He made it clear at the committee hearing that he will get to the bottom of the falsehoods in the FISA warrants, the spying by Obama on The Donald, and the FBI attempt to infiltrate the Trump Campaign.

And after the Senate hearing, Barr skipped a request to appear before a House committee.

These are the best eight years of my life because we finally are standing up to the bullies in Washington. Barr’s defiance encourages others to walk away.