Tag Archives: Mueller Report
“The Report” ~ Episodes 6 & 7
The writers at the Lawfare Blog are publishing a podcast series to make the Mueller Report more available to a wide audience. Told in a careful, but dramatic fashion, these podcasts are worth the listening time. Episodes 6 & 7 are now available. Part VI: Back Channels It’s December 29, 2016. The Obama administration announces […]
Continue reading“The Report”: A Podcast Series from Lawfare
The writers at the Lawfare Blog are publishing a podcast series to make the Mueller Report more available to a wide audience. Told like a great trial lawyer would sum up a case — a careful, but dramatic — statement of the facts. The first episode is available now. Download it to your phone and […]
Continue readingTimely Reads
Today, Trump launches his re-election campaign (we thought that started a while back — seems it’s all he’s been doing). Rally in Orlando where the Orlando Sentinel greeted him this morning with this Editorial: Our Endorsement for President: Not Donald Trump. Meanwhile, a freshman representative from a purple district became the 67th Congressperson to call […]
Continue readingAmericans Aren’t Buying “Total Exoneration”
Here’s what’s behind Trump’s tweet storm: Americans aren’t buying that the Mueller Report “totally exonerated” him. We need to keep up pushing back against the Trump/GOP storyline of exoneration, which Attorney-General Barr launched with his four-page misleading summary of the Mueller Report on March 24. The Barr Summary has not withstood the test of time. […]
Continue readingCutting Through the Spin – Mueller Volume I, p. 1
We’re not going to attempt to summarize all 448 pages (some of which are still not public). But we’ll post a few key takeaways, starting with this: “The Russian government interfered in the 2016 Presidential election in a sweeping and systemic fashion.” Mueller Report, Vol. 1, p. 1. The Russian government did NOT just “make […]
Continue readingOur Congressional Leaders on Mueller Report
March 24: Washington, D.C. – Today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer released the following statement regarding Attorney General Barr’s summary of the Mueller report: Attorney General Barr’s letter raises as many questions as it answers. The fact that Special Counsel Mueller’s report does not exonerate the president on a charge […]
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