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Oh, he can offer it. He just didn't know it would be hijacked by Barr. The report clearly states that the decision was to go to Congress.If you had read it you would know that the President cannot fire someone who is investigating a crime he, the President may be involved in, but since neither Mueller nor Comey was involved in such an investigation, firing either of them would not constitute obstruction. Furthermore, there is no written or case law to support Mueller's expanded definition of obstruction. Mueller clearly read and agreed with Barr's analysis and that's why he declined to offer an opinion on obstruction.I already read it. I don't need to read something two to three times in order to understand plain english and the fact that Mueller contested Barr with his own letter to him telling Barr that he took the report out of context.Still more bullshit. Try reading the memo and then you won't have base all your posts on ignorance.I was not wrong. Barr's video testimony tells exactly that. If Trump doesn't like the investigation looking into him, he can fire the investigators. That's telling the world that Trump is above the law. There is no other way to interpret that.Bottom line is that you were wrong in stating Barr had said no sitting president could obstruct justice and all the propaganda you base your opinions on is wrong. You should notice that all the opinion pieces you seem to treasure avoid dealing directly with the legal argument Barr set forth in his memo, and that should tell these "experts" couldn't find a flaw in his reasoning. Barr is sticking strictly to the law and his critics are all making political arguments and not legal arguments.You trump cultists are in for a rude awakening when all this is over. You all live in an alternate reality;
You Trump cultists live in an alternate reality. There was an opinion on obstruction that was blocked out by Barr;
“The summary letter the Department sent to Congress and released to the public late in the afternoon of March 24 did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office’s work and conclusions,” Mueller wrote. “There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.”
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See why an independent press is vital to democracy That is the letter from Mueller.
Later in April, just before he released the redacted version of the report, Barr held a news conference where he spun its conclusions even further, echoing the president’s cries of “no collusion” and bizarrely praising Trump for his cooperation with investigators.
Barr has done nothing but run interference for Trump, indifferent to his established pattern of lawbreaking and criminality. And it has left his former colleagues bewildered and searching for answers. “How could Mr. Barr, a bright and accomplished lawyer, start channeling the president in using words like ‘no collusion’ and F.B.I. ‘spying’?” James Comey, the former F.B.I. director, asked in a Times Op-Ed. Eric Holder, who served as attorney general under President Barack Obama, echoed this dismay on Twitter: “I thought he was an institutionalist, committed to both the rule of law and his role as the lawyer for the American people.” Even Mueller’s even-keeled letter can’t help betraying his expectation that Barr would behave very differently.
But the better question is why anyone expected otherwise. You don’t have to dive deep into Barr’s history to see that he is an apparatchik, less committed to the rule of law than he is to his political party and its leadership.
Opinion | Bill Barr’s Perverse Theory of Justice
Kyle Griffin on Twitter This testimony by Barr is stupidity in overdrive. Barr is telling the committee that he can terminate an investigation because he's done nothing wrong. HOW THE FUCK DOES HE KNOW? Barr himself is corrupting the process by drawing a conclusion about something he knows nothing about. It's absolutely insane what Barr and Republicans are trying to do.
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