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Posted on 07/22/2019 5:08:38 PM PDT by jazusamo
Letter at link.
The Department of Justice on Wednesday sent a letter to former Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The letter providing Mueller with guidance for the scope of his testimony about the Russia investigation before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees scheduled for later this week, Fox News reported.
Mueller previously said that he had no interest in testifying before Congress, that his full report was his testimony and that "any testimony from this office would not go beyond our report."
"It contains findings and analysis, and the reasons for the decisions were made. We chose those words carefully, and the work speaks for itself. The report is my testimony," Mueller previously said during a press conference. "I would not provide information beyond that which is already public in any appearance before Congress."
According to Associate Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer, the author of the letter, the DOJ agrees with Mueller's previous statement.
"As the Attorney General [William Barr] has repeatedly stated, the decision to testify before Congress is yours to make in this case, but the Department agrees with your stated position that your testimony should be unnecessary under the circumstances," Weinsheimer wrote.
The DOJ reminded Mueller that his testimony should not discuss the redacted information, which includes grand jury testimony.
"Finally, any testimony must remain within the boundaries of your public report because matters within the scope of your investigation were covered by executive privilege, including information protected by law enforcement, deliberative process, attorney work product, and presidential communications privileges," Weinsheimer wrote. "These privileges would include discussions about investigative steps or decisions made during your investigation not otherwise described in the public version of your report. Consistent with standard practice, Department witnesses should decline to address potentially privileged matters, thus affording the Department the full opportunity at a later date to consider particular questions and possible accommodations that may fulfill the committees' legitimate need for information while protecting Executive Branch confidentiality interests."
Here's the full letter:
And if doesn’t abide with the limits in this letter, what would the DOJ do about it.
Well, there goes all the behind closed doors plotting by Nadler, Schitt and Meuller ....
As a Bostonian, I am particularly interested in Meuller’s stint as Boston’s FBI Director during the Whitey Bolger years.
As the late Arte Johnson would say
“VE-E-E-ERRRRY INTERESTINK!”
The DOJ should have a trustworthy attorney sitting right behind Mueller to object and order him not to answer.
I'll be surprised if the Amazon Post's headline next day doesn't read something like "Mueller Details Obstruction,Pelosi Calls For Impeachment".
It may help or may not. :^)
+100
But, was it a, ‘Sternly Worded Letter?’ ;)
Should I post the ‘Dog & Pony Show’ graphic, AGAIN? LOL!
*SMOOCH* :)
And if doesn’t abide with the limits in this letter, what would the DOJ do about it.
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Write a stern letter.
That, of course, after 6 years of thinking about it.
Beat me by 30 seconds, there, Diana in Wisconsin :-)
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Hopefully stern. LOL!
“These privileges would include discussions about investigative steps or decisions made during your investigation not otherwise described in the public version of your report.”
Can’t talk about “investigative steps”? Doesn’t that prevent him answering any questions Republicans have been saying they want to ask?
How have they planned the stiffeling of the GOP questions about the Hillary, “matter”
Mueller will completely ignore this nonsense since we all know what a coward Barr is. Barr will NEVER prosecute a decmorat.
So the DOJ is telling Mueller he doesn’t have to answer questions from GOP members?
The judge overseeing the Russian troll-farm case should send him a letter reminding him not to repeat the claim in his report that the company was “Russian-government linked”, because he did not provide any evidence to the court showing any such link; the court admonished his team for repeating this claim because they provided no evidence for it, and found this claim was prejudicial to the rights of the defendants.
Which will mean, when one of Congresspeople asks him - and I believe someone will - he will have to retract that claim as written in his report, or find some other way to weasel out of answering it.
His “report is his testimony”, except, he actually has to retract some of the claims in his report, or risk having sanctions imposed by the court against him and his case against the troll-farm.
I am sure he never believed that these Russians would show up in court to defend themselves.
Like Dan Bongino said the other day, if Trump could walk on water the WP and NYT would run a headline saying “Trump Can’t Swim”.
A letter? What is this, the Dog and Peach routine from Peter Cooke?
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