Posted on 08/25/2022 6:44:52 PM PDT by bitt
An unredacted, internal Department of Justice memo shows the rationale of its leadership in deciding not to prosecute then-President Donald Trump on obstruction of justice charges following the Mueller report's publication.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) secured the memo's release following a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that the DOJ improperly withheld the memo from the watchdog group, which had sued to obtain it.
“Because the department did not tie the memorandum to deliberations about the relevant decision, the department failed to justify its reliance on the deliberative-process privilege,” the court wrote.
(File - Unredacted DOJ Memo)
Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) head Steven Engel and Principle Associate Deputy Edward O'Callaghan argue in the memo that because special counsel Robert Mueller discovered no underlying crime, there was little, if any, basis on which to prosecute Trump for obstruction of justice.
“Given that conclusion, the evidence does not establish a crime or criminal conspiracy involving the president toward which any obstruction or attempted obstruction was directed," the memo reads. "It would be rare for federal prosecutors to bring an obstruction prosecution that did not itself arise out of a proceeding relating to a separate crime."
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
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“You bring me the man, I’ll find you the crime.” Lavrentiy Beria, chief of the Soviet secret police, born March 29, 1899.
Still the FBI motto replacing fidelity, bravery, integrity.
If I remember right, they wanted to charge Trump with obstruction because he professed his innocents.
Seems like it is the DOJ that’s meddling in our elections, not Russians.
Innocence
In the same way that they didn't charge Hildy because she destroyed all the subpoenaed evidence that might have convicted her. Looks like our inexperienced view of justice has been exactly backwards.
Isn’t it about time Congress pass legislation mandating severe criminal and civil penalties for the Illegal acts committed regarding FOIA requests?
They discovered that obstruction of injustice is not a crime.
They never had a crime, it was all manufactured
But they put the nation through hearings, impeachments and non-stop propaganda anyway
MoFo’s!
It was the DOJ/FBI leadership who covered up the original Trump Collusion hoax perpetrated by the SVB/KGB aka Steele’s Russian sources fed to Steele.
Disband the FBI. END ITS WAR ON THE PEOPLE.
“PIGS IN A BLANKET, FRY ‘EM LIKE BACON!”
THE FBI WANTS TO FEDERALIZE EVERY LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT
AND THEY RODE BLM TO ACCOMPLISH the retraining of police departments across the country ( indoctrination into the Commie way opf thinking)based on “Civil Rights and CRT.)
Our role now? Put it right back on them, and abolish the draconian FBI and its 35,000 agents. They are the Gestapo.They have no business even being in a Free Republic.
When normally placid historian Victor Davis Hanson calls for the disbanding of the FBI, you know it has to happen.He did so on public television several times last week.
CONGRESS GET ON IT!
Defund the FBI!
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