Checkmate. How President Trump’s legal team outfoxed Mueller

Human Events ^ | May 1, 2019 | Will Chamberlain

[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).

[Mean Daddy]

Very good analysis and theory as to how the Mueller investigation was ended. On its simplest terms, it appears to me it was around the application of a particular statute and the context in which it could be applied.

[isthisnickcool]

Good read. Thanks.

[CaptainK]

I emailed this article to a friend earlier today.
It’s great.

[EasySt]

Thanks for posting this!

From the article...

For our purposes, it is enough to understand this:

Mueller adopted an expansive, acontextual, and
constitutionally questionable interpretation of § 1512(c)(2)
and used it to justify an extensive investigation into
potential obstruction of justice by President Trump.

Barr’s interpretation of § 1512(c)(2) – which was far more
textually and constitutionally sound – would have made it
almost impossible for Mueller to justify investigating Trump
for obstruction of justice.

~Easy

[colorado tanker]

Long, but an outstanding essay. No wonder the liberal long knives are out for Barr.

[thoughtomator]

Their knives are out for everyone who gets in their way.

If they’re out for Barr, Barr is in their way.

[karnage]

Fascinating.

[Interesting Times]

This is worth reading.

[newfreep]

Excellent article by the author....and I thought Wilt Chamberlain was only a GREAT basketball player.

[onyx]

BTTT

[TigersEye]

Checkmate. How President Trump’s legal team outfoxed Mueller

By giving Mueller access to every document and WH staffer Mueller wanted. /only partially sarcasm

[Swordmaker]

It’s actually a delusional analysis. . . In that the President has complete executive privilege against having to reveal anything, while this statute unconstitutionally claims that preventing such revelation of privilege could be construed as obstruction of justice. That is not possible. In addition, it claims that the any person who prevents another from appearing to give testimony could be considered to have committed obstruction of justice, and the article is arguing that the President of the United States, even when he could invoke such claim of privilege, would be obstructing justice. They are implying this general statute to the specific case of the President of the United States, something which cannot be done. The Courts have ruled that the President enjoys absolute executive privilege when he chooses to invoke it. This article claims that Mueller was arguing that it doesn’t apply to a Special Counsel. He’s wrong.

The article was also claiming that Barr’s previous letter objecting to the appointment of a special counsel was all about this particular section of the law. . . When that was not the case at all. Barr was objecting to the appointment first due there being no underlying predicate named crime to be investigated under the Special Counsel statutes and regulations, then second, he was objecting about the fact that appointing officer, Rod Rosenstein being hopelessly compromised in multiple ways was compromised by being a witness, a potential subject of investigation, and a personal friend of one of a potential target and witness, and also a personal friend of the appointing officer, all completely contrary to the intent and literally words of the statute. The Letter Barr wrote had very little to do with Obstruction of Justice, except for the overall general affect such flaws the appointment itself would have on any potential cases it might eventually cause to be indicted. The article’s author attributes to Barr the ability to either know Mueller’s theory of investigation of Obstruction, or an ability to absurdly foresee the future which he then insanely attributes to Barr’s inclusion in his letter.

[jospehm20]

Good read. Explains a lot about how this Mueller Coup was ended.

[Interesting Times]

It doesn't matter that Mueller's legal interpretations were bogus. He didn't have to answer to a judge.

This was a political attack by Mueller and his team, aimed at inflicting the maximum damage on Trump's presidency. Its goals were: 1) to continue the "investigation" as long as possible to damage the President's image and to undercut any attempts to charge the Obama / Hillary / Deep State spies, leakers, and perjurers, and 2) to bait Trump into doing something they could plausibly call obstruction.

With Rosenstein unwilling to put any boundaries on Mueller's activities, the only way to end his quasi-legal reign of terror was by replacing the Attorney General.

[Interesting Times]

… replacing the Attorney General.

[Colonelbuzzsaw]

Excellent article. Thank you for posting it.

[Karoo]

I understand that Mueller’s interpretation was used by Weissmann on Andersen et al in the Enron case. Sidney Powell explains all in her book:

Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice ......in 2014

God will not be easy on Weissmann for what he has doen to people.

[AndyJackson]

It is important ro read the Barr memorandum countering Mueller’s horrifying theory of obstruction.

[FreeReign]

If Trump’s legal team thought that Sessions needed to go, they probably would have been reluctant to advise Trump to fire him right away, with a bruising Supreme Court confirmation battle coming up, followed by the midterm elections. Instead, one suspects that Trump and his team decided focus on getting their Supreme Court Justice confirmed, and to hold off on firing Sessions until after the midterms...

Yup. Some of us called this scenario. Trump wanted Sessions gone but he waited until after the SC battle and until after the mid terms.

[max americana]

If anyone checked ALL of Mueller’s team, these are the alpha dogs of obama and clinton regimes. All are de facto America haters and they got checkmated by American patriots. Amazing.