Posted on 05/01/2019 4:26:10 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
ByWill ChamberlainonMay 1, 2019 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).
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Thanks for the ping. Yes, this is worth reading.
And they are masters at that. E.g. Trump Tower meeting with a Fusion meeting with the same people the day before, the day after, and (I read here recently) the day of. E.g. Halper and Mifsud and Downer, etc all offering collusion bait.
Will Barr eventually have to argue about the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) before SCOTUS?
Yes, and I would include the otherwise inexplicable LEO assaults used to arrest Paul Manafort and Roger Stone.
Thank you for proving to us you did not read the article through (or at least you lack basic comprehension skills).
It is clear in the article (below where you got the above references) that the author says his insight on this matter does away with the above options you state, in favor of a simple, likely way it could best fall together: Trump lawyers talked with Barr about what they were arguing against Mueller over. That, and the stated obstruction questioning wording, which was actually made public at the time, would have easily allowed Barr to not have to divine the future, but simply understand the predicament the lawyers were having.
By being outside of both Trump and the AG office, he was able to argue a position with Rod, then take advantage of the firing of Sessions to assume the AG role and shut down the now very apparent bad interpretation through which the investigation had been run.
Swordmaker comes through again!
Not in the context of Trump conduct, and probably never because he won't allow a half-baked cockamamie application of the statute to be applied - unlike Weissman, who never misses an opportunity to twist the law into abuse of legal process.
A wide interpretation of 1512(c) would be chilling indeed - that kind of language would practically make it illegal to defend oneself from anything.... even if completely innocent, which was kinda the point here.
The related scary part would be that while THIS DOJ AG is taking the more narrow interpretation, who’s to say how that will play in the future?? This is far from a ‘settled’ interpretation since it’s just that: an opinion and not a ruling.
Excellent read. Thanks.
BTTT
Barr was, but is no longer in their way. There is nothing feasible to do unless they wish to attack him personally or those he loves so the next poor schmuck AG might be more malleable to intimidation.
The hands of time cannot be turned back, of course. One can't usefully cover barn pit back up after the calf has drowned.
If the DS made such a play, all hell would break loose on the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, and the other 11 families.
PDJT has already been put on notice to such extreme coercion via deadly threat of the most modern kind. We can be thankful he is made of the sternest of "stuff" and his security is second to none.
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