By Rosalind S. Helderman and Rosalind S. Helderman Reporter focusing on political enterprise stories and investigations Email Bio Follow Josh Dawsey Josh Dawsey Reporter covering the White House Email Bio Follow May 2 at 6:51 PM The White House last month lodged a formal complaint with the Justice Department over the findings of special counsel Robert S.
In his report, Mueller wrote that he believed that because a Justice Department policy holds that the president cannot be indicted while in office, the special counsel’s office could not make an assessment on whether the president had broken the law. In the letter, Flood offered a scathing critique of Mueller’s report, writing that the special counsel team abandoned the normal burden of proof that requires prosecutors to establish crimes beyond a reasonable doubt.
In his letter, Flood wrote that the White House declined to assert the privilege with a “measure of reluctance born of concern for future Presidents and their advisors.” “It is one thing for a President to encourage complete cooperation and transparency in a criminal investigation conducted largely within the Executive Branch,” he wrote. “It is something else entirely to allow his advisors to appear before Congress, a coordinate branch of government, and answer questions relating to their communications with the President and with each other.”
America is waning. That'll
Barr be like.....
More meaningless nonsense! Clickbait! They can complain till they're blue in the face. It didn't change anything in the report or its release. Trump literally waved executive privilege. If he really cared he could have claimed executive privilege. More fakenews from Wapo.
Disbar Barr? Wm. Barr is a member of the DC, NY, NJ, and VA bars. Can’t attorneys in those jurisdictions initiate disbarment proceedings now for lying to Congress, obstructing justice? This would would prevent him in future from practicing law or wining lucrative board positions.
So what
WH had opportunity to redact and did not, enough said about this!!! The Horse is Dead, stop beating it!!!
So? Liberals have whined and bitched about the report since its release.
That’s a shame because Barr testified he accepted the report as accurate and truthful.
Why would they complain about the report when Trump claims it exonerated him?
It’s coming.....get ready......can’t fake news yourselves out of it.
So the chances that Barr had support writing a 'summary' he never even read, are pretty good?
No surprise here
So essentially he was working with the WH on strategies to mollify a report about a DOJ INVESTIGATION—NOT the job of the AG
Watergate2019 - but the sequel is so much worse.
No, you cannot assert “executive privilege” when you’re the actual subject of the investigation ffs
Which is bonkers because they had it before it was released.
Barr has to resign. I’m glad every Dem presidential candidate is pushing for this (besides Bernie and Gabbard)
Mule faced Mueller is going down.
Of course they did.
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