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Looks like we'll be hearing from Robert Mueller after all. The former special counsel will testify publicly before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees on July 17 about his almost two-year investigation into President Trump. Mueller agreed to testify after he was subpoenaed. This will be must-see TV and the most-anticipated congressional hearing in decades. The only other time we heard from Mueller was last month, when he explained that his investigation couldn't clear the President of obstruction of justice and that Justice Department guidelines didn't allow him to charge a sitting President. He also said if he testified, he wouldn't go beyond what's already in his report.
Militarists say 'Never pay for the same ground twice'. Liberals keep renting it.
As the report explains, “ubstantial evidence indicates that the President’s effort to have Sessions limit the scope of the Special Counsel’s investigation to future election interference was intended to prevent further investigative scrutiny of the President’s and his campaign’s conduct” — in other words, the President employed a private citizen to try to get the Attorney General to limit the scope of an ongoing investigation into the President and his associates.
All of this conduct — trying to control and impede the investigation against the President by leveraging his authority over others — is similar to conduct we have seen charged against other public officials and people in powerful positions.
Witness tampering and intimidation
The Special Counsel’s report establishes that the President tried to influence the decisions of both Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort with regard to cooperating with investigators. Some of this tampering and intimidation, including the dangling of pardons, was done in plain sight via tweets and public statements; other such behavior was done via private messages through private attorneys, such as Trump counsel Rudy Giuliani’s message to Cohen’s lawyer that Cohen should “leep well tonight[], you have friends in high places.”
Of course, these aren’t the only acts of potential obstruction detailed by the Special Counsel. It would be well within the purview of normal prosecutorial judgment also to charge other acts detailed in the report.
We emphasize that these are not matters of close professional judgment. Of course, there are potential defenses or arguments that could be raised in response to an indictment of the nature we describe here. In our system, every accused person is presumed innocent and it is always the government’s burden to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. But, to look at these facts and say that a prosecutor could not probably sustain a conviction for obstruction of justice — the standard set out in Principles of Federal Prosecution — runs counter to logic and our experience.
As former federal prosecutors, we recognize that prosecuting obstruction of justice cases is critical because unchecked obstruction — which allows intentional interference with criminal investigations to go unpunished — puts our whole system of justice at risk. We believe strongly that, but for the OLC memo, the overwhelming weight of professional judgment would come down in favor of prosecution for the conduct outlined in the Mueller Report.
1,025 prosecutors signed a statement that Trump obstructed justice, which IS a crime;"
Imagine that, Dimocrats found 1,025 dishonest Lawyers to sign on. What a larf.
Go try & find over 1,000 federal prosecutors to do ANYTHING you want them to do.
Good luck !
Now tell us old boy....do you really believe you are a visiting professor from a prestigious Ivy League university?.....Lol
Case closed...
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C&P......................
:professor
You are really unwittingly describing yourselves. Not that we thought differently about you.
But, it's certainly confirming to hear it straight from the trolls mouths.
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To know that you would have to be on about 30 websites too...
He's really lucky to have a friend like you to follow him around!
the Constitution “requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing
These Mueller hearings are not to convince Congress.
They are to educate the public, so that the public understands why it is necessary.
Once public opinion approves Congress of moving forward, it finally will.
By public opinion, I mean the US public opinion, not the Russian operatives on social media,
like here. Hopefully the US voter has wised up.
Meanwhile, you sir are a liar.
The Mueller testimonies will happen in 2 weeks.
Lets see how those go and how public opinion changes (or not)
regarding impeachment.
Lets also see how the House opinion regarding impeachment changes (or not).
I'm OK with Pelosi's directive - vote Trump out and convict him, sending him to jail.
But, I think most of Congress would prefer impeachment first. I would too. He's earned it.
You mean there's Russians on this site? Oh my God, does Chelsea know?
Thank God for Soupy and his ever watchful peers. This is right up their alley. Everybody, please keep an eye open ........
I always knew DR was a plant from Moscow....and that agentbob, always cryptic....probably a Russian code....
Comrade
Not always cryptic
But certainly astro Logic.
Public perception on the state of Mullets investigation has already changed. Libs believe in polls......still. How about hard facts....Ratings on the major networks. Fox doubled the number of viewers of MSNBC and CNN combined. CNN's ratings are in the tank. MSNBC, down about 20% since the release of the report. The public is tired of Mullet and the media. Only the fools are left left.