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Tracybeanz
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Feinstein stating we need to hear from Mueller about report and March letter and senators should be able to ask about this directly. (They just can not let it go) Garaham has the letter and he is putting it in record.
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Barr about to give OS- swearing in now. Barr: During confirmation, there were two concerns that dominated. Whether I would impede or whether he would make public the report. He finished as he saw fit, and even though I could keep confidential, I chose to release it.
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I arrived at the dept on 2/14/19- said to Mueller, in preparing the report I asked that they identify 6E (GJ material) I wanted it identified so we could redact as quickly as possible. When I got to the dept I found that DAG and PAD were in regular discussion and (cont)
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On 5/5 I met with Mueller. To get a readout on what his conclusions would be. At that meeting I reiterated that in order to do this rapidly, identify 6E plea.e On 5/22 I got the report, unfortunately it did not come with the 6E material redacted. It would take 3-4 weeks to ident
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The DAG and I identified 4 cat. of info for redactions. (This is new- he is off his prepared opening statement) We went about redacting with the SC office, we needed their assistance. They were all carried out by DOJ and SC lawyers in consult with IC.
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POTUS decided NOT to exert Executive Privilege. The public version has 10% redaction, vast bulk in Volume 1, Volume 2 has 2% redactions. 98% available to public. (he is back on script). Given limited nature of redactions, publicly released report allows americans to understand.
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Tracybeanz
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In Volume 1- IRA conducted a disinfo and social media op- 2, the GRU hacked into DNC and DCCC along with Podesta. SC investigated for conspiracy and coordination- concluded not enough evidence to establish any coordination. V2 - dealt with obstruction. He decided not to conclude.
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We first heard he wouldn’t decided on obstruction on 5/5 meeting, we were surprised and asked for their reasoning and basis. Mueller stated 3X he was not saying But for the OLC opinion he would have found obstruction. Said those shouldn’t be abandoned in this case.
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We pressed him on why no decision, he said they were still writing it. DAG and I decided we needed to reach a decision after assessing the evidence. I say this because the SC was appointed to do that as part of the DOJ. The powers he was using exist for that purpose-
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It is a binary decision- we don’t conduct criminal investigations to put it out to the public. We felt the evidence was NOT sufficient to establish that no obstruction was committed- he needs to make the decision for the DOJ because the SC didn’t and it is their place.
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We disagreed with a lot, and set them against the framework, and concluded that the evidence was NOT sufficient for obstruction. Report came in on 3/22 and it would take a while for report to be released, we needed to do something.
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(Barr stating that the media basically caused a lot of issues especially former officials stating POTUS would be indicted) We used the language from the report to make the conclusions. (Barr arguing he is the DOJ so his decision is the decision of the SC)
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Offered Mueller the ability to review, and he declined. On Thursday AM, I received a letter from Bob and I called him and said “What is the issue here. Are you suggesting this was inaccurate” he said No but that the press reporting was inaccurate and they were reading too much.
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Bob wanted more put out on issue of obstruction- argued to put out exec summaries written by his office and was very clear he was not suggesting that we had misrepresented his report. I told Bob I wasn’t interested in doing that or putting it out piece meal,
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Following day Barr put out a letter stressing that the 5/24 was not a summary of the report but a statement of the principle conclusion. End.