White House Counsel Emmett Flood’s letter to Attorney General Barr on Mueller report
White House Counsel Emmett Flood’s letter to Attorney General Barr on Mueller report
May already bey posted on thread
An investigation of the President under a regulation that clearly specifies a very particular form of closing documentation is not the place for indulging creative departures from governing law. Under general prosecutorial principles. and under the Special Counsel regulation?s specific language, prosecutors are to speak publicly through indictments or confidentially in declination memoranda. By way of justifying this departure. it has been suggested that the Report was written with the intent of providing Congress some kind of "road map" for congressional action. See, e.g. Remarks of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler. 4/18/19 (Press Conference}. If that was in fact the intention, it too serves as additional evidence of the refusal to follow applicable law. Both the language of the regulation and its "legislative" history make plain that the "closing documentation" language was promulgated for the specific purpose of preventing the creation of this sort of final report. Under a constitution of separated powers. inferior Article officers should not be in the business of creating "road maps" for the purpose of transmitting them to Article I committees.
White House Counsel Emmett Flood’s letter to Attorney General Barr on Mueller report
That’s a good letter.