Impeachment "Road Map" unsealed for Robert Mueller's use.
"All in all, it's just another brick in the wall...."
Most witnesses lined up, lots of evidence mounting, and now an important document
unsealed.
This week, another step/brick was put in place towards the eventual impeachment of Dirty Don Trump.
In the words of Michael Avenetti, "buckle up sweatheart, it's going to be a tough ride."
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Judge Unseals Watergate Report That Led To Articles Of Impeachment Against Nixon
The so-called Road Map could inform how special counsel Robert Mueller handles his investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia.
By Carla Herreria
A federal judge on Thursday granted a request to unseal part of a Watergate report known as the Road Map which gives details about President Richard Nixon’s involvement in covering up the Watergate break-in and was used to inform articles of impeachment against him.
The Road Map, which was sent to the House Judiciary Committee in 1974, could be used as precedent for how Special Counsel Robert Mueller will end his investigation into whether Trump’s presidential campaign colluded with Russia.
Politico first reported the Road Map’s release on Thursday.
Chief U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell released part of the Road Map at the request of George Shepard, who served in Nixon’s defense team during Watergate.
In the order obtained by Politico, Howell said the National Archives told her the report consists of a “two-page summary statement, followed by 53 individually numbered statements” and 97 documents supporting those statements.
The National Archive also said 81 of the documents had already been made public, whether in a House Judiciary Committee report or “elsewhere in the public domain.”
In addition to the Road Map’s partial release, Howell ordered the Justice Department to contact the individuals named in the remaining 16 documents to see whether they object to the report’s release.
In September, three legal scholars had also filed a petition to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia asking for the Road Map to be unsealed.
The September request was filed by Brookings Institution senior fellow Benjamin Wittes; Jack Goldsmith, former senior official for the Justice Department under President George W. Bush who is now a law professor at Harvard; and Stephen Bates, a law professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the former federal prosecutor working for Kenn Starr, whose investigation resulted in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
“We did so because the document is of significant historical interest and significant contemporary interest,” Wittes, Goldsmith and Bates explained in the legal blog Lawfare, where Wittes is editor-in-chief.
“The Road Map is one of the few significant pieces of Watergate history that remains unavailable to the public,” they continued. “The document is also keenly relevant to current discussions of how Mueller should proceed.”
Judge Unseals Watergate Report That Led To Articles Of Impeachment Against Nixon
The so-called Road Map could inform how special counsel Robert Mueller handles his investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia.
By Carla Herreria
A federal judge on Thursday granted a request to unseal part of a Watergate report known as the Road Map which gives details about President Richard Nixon’s involvement in covering up the Watergate break-in and was used to inform articles of impeachment against him.
The Road Map, which was sent to the House Judiciary Committee in 1974, could be used as precedent for how Special Counsel Robert Mueller will end his investigation into whether Trump’s presidential campaign colluded with Russia.
Politico first reported the Road Map’s release on Thursday.
Chief U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell released part of the Road Map at the request of George Shepard, who served in Nixon’s defense team during Watergate.
In the order obtained by Politico, Howell said the National Archives told her the report consists of a “two-page summary statement, followed by 53 individually numbered statements” and 97 documents supporting those statements.
The National Archive also said 81 of the documents had already been made public, whether in a House Judiciary Committee report or “elsewhere in the public domain.”
In addition to the Road Map’s partial release, Howell ordered the Justice Department to contact the individuals named in the remaining 16 documents to see whether they object to the report’s release.
In September, three legal scholars had also filed a petition to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia asking for the Road Map to be unsealed.
The September request was filed by Brookings Institution senior fellow Benjamin Wittes; Jack Goldsmith, former senior official for the Justice Department under President George W. Bush who is now a law professor at Harvard; and Stephen Bates, a law professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the former federal prosecutor working for Kenn Starr, whose investigation resulted in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
“We did so because the document is of significant historical interest and significant contemporary interest,” Wittes, Goldsmith and Bates explained in the legal blog Lawfare, where Wittes is editor-in-chief.
“The Road Map is one of the few significant pieces of Watergate history that remains unavailable to the public,” they continued. “The document is also keenly relevant to current discussions of how Mueller should proceed.”
Comments (21)
There's no one I would rather be.
Not even Claudia Schiffer's soap on a rope.
This won't be a 1 week rush job on the FBI.
Indeed, we are still in the gathering witnesses & evidence and deciphering it all stage.
They probably got a ton of it, just from the Michael Cohen raid alone.
Plus, unlike Comey, the Republican run FBI surely doesn't want anything to come out
before the November elections.
It may be a VERY happy New Year....for the Mueller team.
But, I didn't want your sarcasm to mislead anyone else, as you've often been misled by GOP & Russian propaganda.
“The simplest way to put it would be -- it is extraordinarily difficult to withdraw a guilty plea,” said Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor who has closely followed the Mueller investigation. “If it wasn’t difficult, criminal cases would never be completed. People would always try for a do-over.”
Professor Alex Whiting, a Harvard Law School expert on criminal law, called it “virtually impossible.” ...........
.......Volkov said he believes Papadopolous’ new claims “are meant to feed the right-wing Republicans on Capitol Hill with information they can use to undermine Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation and is nothing more than a transparent attempt to “re-establish” his bona fides in conservative Republican circles.”
Not a big deal.
Interesting that the Nixon era reflects what is going on now...just listened to a pidgin cast that demonstrated the similarities including the merry band of puppets who deny anything...even if it appears ridiculous...
Should read pod cast...
Love Bill Maher...
I'll try back later/