The Mueller report will be gutted before it reaches you (SethAbramson) | Opinion
After several days of uncritically promoting Trump and his allies’ misleading party line on the Barr Letter, media has settled down and begun reporting only what we know for certain: that Mueller did not find proof beyond a reasonable doubt of the narrow band of collusive activity known as “conspiracy,” though he may yet have found substantial proof of conspiracy and referred to other prosecutors evidence of non-conspiracy collusion; and that there’s no documentation for the claim Mueller asked...
And yet Trump’s Attorney General—who espoused, in a pre-nomination memo that amounted to a job application, a view of presidential power rendering the office all but above the law, with presidential obstruction of justice becoming a legal impossibility—is refusing to request even a single page of grand jury testimony for Americans to see.
Nevertheless, Barr appears poised to keep from Americans a Mueller finding far more significant to the future of the nation than whether Trump is chargeable with the crime of conspiracy. Indeed, given that there never was any possibility Mueller would recommend Trump be indicted for conspiracy—conventional wisdom and DOJ advisory opinions have it that a sitting president can’t be indicted—it was in fact Mueller’s still-unknown counterintelligence findings America has really been waiting for.
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