Posted on 08/24/2022 3:33:15 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Justice Department on Wednesday released under court order all of a 2019 memo
https://www.justice.gov/file/1528466/download
in which two top officials advised then-Attorney General William Barr not to charge then-President Donald Trump with obstructing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.
The March 24, 2019, memo was written by Steven Engel, then head of the department's Office of Legal Counsel, and Edward O'Callaghan, another top department official. They wrote that charging Trump with obstruction would be problematic because the entire first section of Mueller's report did not find sufficient evidence that Trump or any member of his campaign team had illegally conspired with Russia.
"Given that conclusion, the evidence does not establish a crime or criminal conspiracy involving the President toward which any obstruction or attempted obstruction by the President was directed," the memo concludes.
It also said Mueller's investigation was not "similar to any reported case that the department has previous charged" using obstruction statutes.
(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...
Is this one of those convenient mistakes which reinforces the word “obstruction” while seeming to come off as impartial?
Proof positive Barr needs a good old fashioned hanging for treason…. He covered this up and allowed the continued UNJUSTIFIED prosecution of the POTUS.
“...2019 memo in which two top officials advised then-Attorney General William Barr not to charge then-President Donald Trump with obstructing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.”
Does anyone else see an underlying issue in this apparantly necessary communication to Barr ?
This appears to be one of those “memo’s” which communicates more about the communication than is written in the
memo communicated, so to speak...
/wish it were sarc
And this “memo” sent to Barr (Trump appointed), in the midst of 3* blatant fraudulent government coup attempts by people who actually had been grossly corrupted and “in bed with” both Russia and China, (before the government created released CV-19 would be used to suspend the *Bill of Rights, and unlawfully be used to create massive election fraud!
Hmmm...
Trump was 10 times more responsive than Obama ever was even to Congress.
One note about this article pertaining to the current scandal of the search warrant.
The OLC is pretty much like the supreme court for the DOJ - their rulings are treated as gospel.
Here you had a correct OLC ruling based on case law and precedent.
The DOJ DID NOT request an OLC ruling on the search warrant to seize presidential records.
Why?
Because the case law would NOT support it and it is not considered a criminal matter. They simply ignored precedent and did not ask for guidance.
Honest people at DOJ? Glad to read about them and thank them for being professional.
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