NYT - Tomasky "Mueller Is Admirably Apolitical. That's the Problem."

[NRaleighLiberal]

He is serving a vision of America that no longer exists.


By Michael Tomasky

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/opinion/mueller-trump-russia-report.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Robert S. Mueller III has spoken, but he had very little to say. As he said at a brief news conference on Wednesday morning, he will not go beyond what his report said. He will not criticize Attorney General Bill Barr, even though he wrote a letter to Mr. Barr in late March complaining that the attorney general’s summary of the Mueller report did not capture its “context, nature, and substance.”

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But there is another ideal that men like Mr. Mueller and Mr. Kerry were raised to uphold: the willingness to stand up to the dark impulses of the moment. There is a story, first reported by Jane Mayer in The New Yorker, that illustrates the mind-set perfectly. Shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, in the face of all the hysteria, precious few lawyers were willing to defend suspected terrorists. At a Washington dinner party, guests began to turn on Tom Wilner, a corporate lawyer who was at the time defending a Guantánamo detainee.


After a guest asked Mr. Wilner how he could do such as thing, Mr. Mueller, who was also at the party, stood up. He raised his glass and said: “I toast Tom Wilner. He is doing what an American should.”

Now let us ask: What do we suppose a man who toasted Tom Wilner in such a fashion must think of Donald Trump?

[uponit7771]

1. K&R, If Mueller thinks we're vulnerable then he needs to speak up loud and often

[Iliyah]

2. Damn.

Republicans especially in the Senate are allowing t-rump to do anything. We also need to focus on them. Barr is compromised.