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Checkmate. How President Trump’s legal team outfoxed Mueller
Human Events ^ | May 1, 2019 | Will Chamberlain

Posted on 05/01/2019 5:39:47 PM PDT by dontreadthis

When the Mueller Report was released on April 18th, most commentators focused on the “explosive” factual allegations. But other than the shocking revelation that the President once used an expletive in private, very few of those facts were novel; most were leaked long ago.

At the end of Volume II of the Mueller Report, however, there were 20 pages of genuinely new material.

There, the former FBI director turned Special Counsel Robert Mueller defended his “Application of Obstruction-Of-Justice Statutes To The President.” These overlooked 20 pages were dedicated to defending Mueller’s interpretation of a single subsection of a single obstruction-of-justice statute: 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2).

That’s quite strange, but you know what’s stranger still?

In June 2018, Bill Barr, then in private practice at Kirkland & Ellis, wrote a detailed legal memorandum to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. This memo came to light in December, when Barr was nominated for Attorney General.

The subject was Mueller’s interpretation of the aforementioned 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2).

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To: PrairieLady2
Hannity can be irritating, but Laura Ingraham is even worse, especially with her screachy vocal tone.

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Harris Faulkner sucks too on the noon show "Eight Legs and a Man". She seems to think she is a Goddess as it takes her a year to say nothing.

61 posted on 05/02/2019 2:01:31 PM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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