Nadler: The Department of Justice "determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgement."

[MelissaB]

Link to tweet

Update:

The Department of Justice “determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgement.”

“The Special Counsel states that ‘while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.’”

Link to tweet

(((Rep. Nadler))) Retweeted (((Rep. Nadler)))

Here is a link to the letter we received from Attorney General Barr. Seems like the Department of Justice is putting matters squarely in Congress’ court.

Link to tweet

[MelissaB]

1. I hope the key word here is "traditional".

[manor321]

2. Mueller punted

[DURHAM D]

17. Perhaps Barr or Rosenstein, not Mueller. nt

[UniteFightBack]

3. "Traditional"....huh? nt

[Glimmer of Hope]

4. NOT EXONERATED!

[Takket]

5. what does that mean????????????????

[NightWatcher]

6. A "No Call" from Mueller, leaving it up to Barr

Barr says evidence is not sufficient for Obstruction

[regnaD kciN]

7. WTF does that even mean?

[uponit7771]

22. Fuck America and congress, Barr is deciding not to give evidence to congress

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. It feels like a punt.

Like they are scared to go proactive

[uponit7771]

11. THIS !!!!

[dalton99a]

15. Yep.

[mr_lebowski]

26. Mueller cannot MAKE prosecutions happen. He's not a prosecutor, he's an investigator ...

Ergo, I'm not necessarily convinced HE wrongfully punted ... he just only has so much power.

[California_Republic]

29. Isn't that a grand jury decision?

[uponit7771]

9. WTF IS THIS !?!?! Leaves to AG ... really !??!?!

[Windy City Charlie]

10. So

they can't determine if Trump did anything illegal or not. If this was a basketball game, he can't determined who committed the foul, so he's letting someone else determine that.

[uponit7771]

13. Right but now saying DOJ is not going to prosecute

[DontBooVote]

12. STOP fucking around, Nadler! Give us the letter/report, now! IT IS PUBLIC PROPERTY! IT IS OURS!

[hedda_foil]

28. The full letter itself is linked in Nadler's tweet. Here it is again.

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/democrats.judiciary.house.gov/files/documents/AG%20March%2024%202019%20Letter%20to%20House%20and%20Senate%20Judiciary%20Committees.pdf

[DontBooVote]

30. Thanks, hedda_foil, but I read it the second it was released. Left to Barr, nothing burger. Our only

option of unseating tRump is 2020. And any Democrat that does not cooperate and work their ass off for the very soul of our nation is delinquent in their duty and should be ashamed of themselves.

[MelissaB]

14. Update: "The Special Counsel states that 'while this report does not conclude that the President com

“The Special Counsel states that ‘while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.’”

Link to tweet

[bearsfootball516]

16. Sounds like "if he wasn't the president, he would have been indicted"

“But he is, so we aren’t”

[uponit7771]

20. +1, they punted Red Don's hand picked guy to go ahead with prosecution

[uponit7771]

18. So Mueller punted to Red Don's hand picked guy at the DOJ !!?! REALLY !?!?!

[dalton99a]

19. Use the camera on your cellphone. Scan it in

[True Blue American]

21. Did not exonerate trump

But no indictment. Mueller report not one way or the other.

[uponit7771]

23. Barr is concluding since there's not one way or the other then there was none

[bearsfootball516]

24. MSNBC reported it said there wasn't sufficient evidence for obstruction.

[True Blue American]

25. Bill Barr decided

There was not enough evidence. Mueller did not. Trump was not exonerated.

[asiliveandbreathe]

27. It is now up to CONGRESS - The Jaworski road map....

https://www.justsecurity.org/63355/now-muellers-probe-is-over-should-and-will-his-findings-be-made-public-law-and-past-practice/

Mueller’s report to Barr is only one of three or more “reports” that ought to emerge when the Russia investigation ends. And at least two of those other reports, which will be submitted to Congress and parts of which may well become public, are likely to be far more revealing and more significant than the so-called “Mueller Report”:

It’s likely, however, that the most important “report” of them all will be the briefing that DOJ must provide to the congressional intelligence committees conveying the results of the counterintelligence investigation Mueller has superintended. In order to comply with the requirement of keeping those committees “fully and currently informed” of the results of the investigation, that briefing—which will probably include at least some written document—should include Mueller’s assessment, if any, about whether, how and to what extent Trump is compromised or is otherwise unable to perform his constitutional duties on behalf of the nation when it comes to the Russian threat to our electoral system.

as long as Trump is in office it will be up to the committees themselves—and Congress as a whole—to (in the words of the Jaworski road map) “determine what action may be warranted . . . by [the] evidence” presented in Barr’s notification.