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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-mueller-mystery-how-trump-dodged-a-special-counsel-interview–and-a-subpoena-fight/2019/03/28/5949b186-50b7-11e9-88a1-ed346f0ec94f_story.html?utm_term=.f52945db0e06
With all the MSM’s premature talk of ‘total exoneration and vindication’ of the illegitimate ‘President’ it’s slowly dawning on them that we haven’t actually seen the report yet. The fight to actually see it is heating up. The Dems are vowing to do what ever’s necessary to see it including a subpoena declaring we will see their response April 3.
I mean there’s no doubt that at some point Barr will show us something. Now that his own DOJ has confirmed it’s over 300 pages there’s no doubt something is coming of some length. But he will try to drag it out as much as possible and even then what he releases may be a redacted mess-he’s presently-wrongly-scrubbing out Grand Jury testimony-instead of simply requesting permission to show it to the public from the judge-as was done with Watergate-and there’s also talk of showing it to Trump’s co-conspirators in the Russia House so that they can edit out anything embarrassing to the illegitimate ‘President’ under the pretext of Attorney-Client privilege-which we already solved with Nixon: during the Watergate era the courts clearly established that A-C can not be used by the Executive to shield wrongdoing
I guess his nickname of Coverup Attorney General Barr was well earned.
The reality is we can’t trust anything Barr says and I’m not willing to even concede that it’s only a little over 300 pages. That does seem rather short for how sprawling and in depth the Mueller investigation was.
EmptyWheel quote
Turning to today’s situation, Dowd said he was favorably impressed with Barr’s summary of Mueller’s key findings. But he felt Barr should have included a description of the Trump White House’s cooperation with Mueller. As an example, Dowd pointed to notes taken by Annie Donaldson, a top aide to Don McGahn, then the White House counsel. Donaldson was present at critical meetings with the president and McGahn, and also Reince Priebus, then the White House chief of staff. She took detailed notes of the meetings, including what the president said. If she was not in the meeting, McGahn would go back to his office and dictate to Donaldson what had taken place.
All those notes were turned over to Mueller. “I challenge anyone to find a president that was so fully cooperative or transparent, and I must say particularly the intimate notes of his counsel and other senior staff that we produced,” Dowd said. “Annie Donaldson’s notes will take you 15 hours to read through them. They are the real-time comments and thoughts of the president in conference with Don McGahn and other lawyers at various times, and chief of staff Priebus, and other people. It was remarkable that that material was produced.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-in-subpoena-fight-trump-lawyer-told-mueller-you-want-to-do-it-youve-got-yourself-a-war
Ok so if they’re so impressive let’s see them and the alleged ‘President’ is so vindicated and exonerated let’s see these 15 hours of notes.