The Saudi nuclear arms sales seems like a bigger story than Russian election interference. Sure, we’ll give nukes to the people who funded the 9/11 attacks. What could possibly go wrong? Nonproliferation is just a word.
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Devonthink says the the Mueller report has a word count of zero-- (meaning that there is no text to extract). After OCRing, here’s the concordance.
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Harm to ongoing matter just means there’s an active court case on it already. So lots of Roger Stone material gets redacted under that heading for example. Don’t forget the special investigator has already opened several cases against people affiliated with the Trump presidency.
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this is not a sight I wanna see.
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True, but what about “justice”?
The same as the likelihood of previous presidents being prosecuted.
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there’s an ongiong matter concerning wikileaks. A cynic would propose that it is “ongoing,” in order to secure more redactions.
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My faith in the Democratic establishment’s interest in Justice far exceeds my faith in the Republican party’s.
But it is still not that high.
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Mercifully, we did not have to stare at David Carradine.
Heck, the reason I bring him up is because hardly anyone wanted to talk about him after he died.
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I think that’s because he was mostly liked as an actor.
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But Mueller is done investigating. He charges what he’s prepped and able to charge, and follows through those prosecutions. The rest is just paperwork. He’s not done per se. But there’s little to nothing for him to hold anything back for.
It’s Congress and spin off investigations not involving Mueller or his team from here on out.
And why would you hold anything back on a final report intended to lay out all evidence to the DOJ? Who already have all the backing files?
From what I understand attempted obstruction is just obstruction. You don’t have to succeed to violate the law.
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I always heard that “Ignorance of the Law is no excuse.”
Can somebody help me out here?
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Intent has often been considered on whether someone is prosecuted or not. i.e. A fine vs criminal charges. Or like in the high profile case of Clinton’s emails. Especially when going after politicians, but not always.
Liked by the public. His colleagues were not fond I have heard.
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Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.
This is all I can think when I read through reactions and quotes.
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Some laws specifically indicate “knowingly or willfully” as conditioning whether the act itself is a crime. I don’t really know about this particular code (and am too lazy to look up, also not a lawyer).
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Respectfully: FTFY
Justice is for little people, the powerful are mostly immune.
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Ah yes, Michael Cohen, that fountain of factual information that we should trust implicitly.
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