Democrats, Awaiting Mueller Report Findings, Vow to Press On With Their Inquiries
Source: NY Times
By Nicholas Fandos March 24, 2019
WASHINGTON Top House Democrats, anxiously awaiting the findings of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, insisted on Sunday that their own investigations must go on regardless of whether the Justice Department accuses President Trump of wrongdoing.
Expecting the principal conclusions of Mr. Muellers 22-month investigation to be made public by Attorney General William P. Barr as soon as Sunday afternoon but lacking any information on its findings, they sought to play down Mr. Muellers investigation into Russias election interference and possible ties to the Trump campaign as a relatively narrow endeavor that does not relieve Congress of its own oversight responsibility.
The job of Congress is much broader than the job of special counsel, Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, said on Fox News Sunday. The special counsel was looking and can only look for crimes. We have to protect the rule of law. We have to look for abuses of power. We have to look for obstruction of justice. We have to look for corruption.
Mr. Nadler, whose committee would oversee a potential impeachment of the president, said that it was way too early to discuss such a remedy and that Congress must first see Mr. Muellers full report and evidence not just a summary from Mr. Barr.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/24/us/politics/democrats-mueller-report.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
I particularly like this photograph posted on twitter this morning. Was Muller muttering "nyuk, nyuk"?:
Link to tweet
SHRED
(28,136 posts)It emphasizes partisan politics. It eludes to that.
DallasNE
(7,402 posts)And Barr gets to do the framing so we really need to await the full release of the Mueller report. For instance, Barr is picking the "principal conclusions", their order of priority and how to summarize the volumes of data on the subject. Now he could be a straight shooter (he has Mueller & Rosenstein for clarification) but we won't know that definitively until we see the supporting detail.
sandensea
(21,624 posts)Barr will almost certainly approach this the same way he approached the Iran-Cocaine-Contra pardons:
The worse the crime, the better the cover-up.
bluestarone
(16,916 posts)If Barr even tries to cover ANYTHING up, i'm thinking Mueller would come unglued, after all the work he put into this investigation? I just can't picture Mueller sitting back and NOT attacking the coverup!!