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struggle4progress

(118,196 posts)
Sun Mar 24, 2019, 01:04 AM Mar 2019

Battle over Mueller report begins

By Philip Rucker, Robert Costa, Josh Dawsey and Ashley Parker
March 23 at 6:53 PM

The political showdown over the Russia investigation that could reshape the remainder of President Trump’s term began .. Saturday even before the special counsel’s conclusions were known .. as Trump allies claimed vindication while Democrats demanded transparency and vowed to intensify their own probes.

Trump and his attorneys and aides were clouded by uncertainty because they did not yet know the contents of the Robert S. Mueller III’s report, which Attorney General William P. Barr and a small coterie of Justice Department officials spent Saturday privately reviewing ...

Americans “deserve the truth, to know the truth,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Saturday afternoon on a conference call with caucus members. “Transparency is the order of the day" ...

“We really need a full accounting of what happened,” Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind., told a breakfast crowd in Greenville, S.C. He added, “It may well be the case that the only appropriate response is impeachment, but to me the most decisive way to put an end to Trumpism is for it to be defeated massively at the ballot box” ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-battle-over-releasing-the-mueller-report-begins-as-trump-allies-claim-victory/2019/03/23/d521f6c2-4d71-11e9-93d0-64dbcf38ba41_story.html?utm_term=.4a1e1c2b43f6

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Battle over Mueller report begins (Original Post) struggle4progress Mar 2019 OP
Easy solution.. SoCalDem Mar 2019 #1
+100 Duppers Mar 2019 #2
+ 1000,000,000 arthritisR_US Mar 2019 #3
Mueller has nothing to lose. nt Progressive Jones Mar 2019 #4

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
1. Easy solution..
Sun Mar 24, 2019, 01:08 AM
Mar 2019

Last edited Sun Mar 24, 2019, 07:03 AM - Edit history (1)

the house subpoenas Mueller (after Barr sends them his doctored version) and he hands them a copy of the ORIGINAL report and tells THEM to release it, as they see fit, to the public..

He did comply with the regs by delivering it to the AG,,, I don't see why he cannot give the house a copy to verify that Barr is not playing games,,

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