JGalt
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And there it is, the inevitable. When you don't get what you demand, just keep insisting on another investigation, and another one, and another one. How often have those on the left insisted that Mueller was the guy, that he was going to get Trump this time, for sure? Now, a surefire guarantee is the caterwauling that he was just a stooge all along if he fails to oust Trump from office.Told ya.
The likely attorney general said prosecutors need “to be sensitive to the privacy and reputational interests of uncharged third parties.”
WASHINGTON ― William Barr, the once and likely future attorney general, is seeking to reassure senators that he’ll leave alone the special counsel investigation being run by Robert Mueller, telling them in response to written questions that he “would resign rather than follow an order to terminate the Special Counsel without good cause.”
But Barr’s long response to written questions from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, submitted ahead of an expected vote on his nomination out of the committee on Tuesday, make clear that the final public report out of the Mueller probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election will likely leave much of the public dissatisfied.
Mueller and the Justice Department will, in all likelihood, conclude that ― even if they find evidence that President Donald Trump committed crimes ― a sitting president can’t be indicted. So the final report from Mueller’s team could have major consequences for the outcome of the investigation.
Barr said that in his view of the special counsel regulations, the report would be confidential, while the attorney general could release a separate report on the investigation that is intended for public disclosure.
But he also pointed to Justice Department guidelines that, he wrote, caution prosecutors “to be sensitive to the privacy and reputational interests of uncharged third parties” and “not to criticize individuals for conduct that does not warrant prosecution.” Both those statements could apply to Trump, should the Justice Department find nothing that rose to the level of criminal conduct or, as many expect, follow department protocol and decide prosecutors can’t charge a sitting president.
At his Senate confirmation hearing this month, Barr — first appointed to the post by President George H.W. Bush — called his longtime friend Mueller a “straight shooter” and said he didn’t believe the special counsel was leading a “witch hunt,” as Trump has called the probe. Barr also indicated that he thought the attorney general could have “flexibility and discretion” about what he could make public.
More: William Barr Indicates Concerns Over Trump’s Privacy Could Shield Mueller Report
I don't trust Barr! He may leave Mueller alone to finish his investigations and report - but then shield the final report from the public. What do you think?
Barr is holding to the DOJ policy that a President is non indictable and that if the subject of an investigation is not charged,,,the subject's actions should not be made public (do you hear that Mr. Comey?)
He never had any intention of releasing the Mueller report.
Thankfully Congress can subpoena it.
But this DOES point out the need or a Congressional investigation and hearing
Democrats will no doubt be claiming that Mueller has been a "Putin puppet" all along, and he's "colluding" with them to hide the evidence against Trump.
Wait for it...
