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Melber seems to think that something about the redacted Mueller Report-or more precisely about Barr’s highly misleading four page memo on March 24, 2019 exonerates Carter Page-that was certainly the tone of his interview a few days after Barr’s highly misleading four page memo.

Again it’s hard to believe that a lawyer of Melber’s apparent caliber needs it explained  to him that a declination decision is not necessarily a statement of total innocence-Mueller himself spells out that because something wasn’t established doesn’t necessarily mean there is not significant evidence of it:

• Mueller ultimately concluded that “Page’s activities in Russia — as described in his emails with the Campaign — were not fully explained”
• According to Konstantin Kilimnik, on December 8, 2016 “Carter Page is in Moscow today, sending messages he is authorized to talk to Russia on behalf of DT on a range of issues of mutual interest, including Ukraine”
• The declinations discussion appears to say Page could have been charged as a foreign agent, but was not

William Barr Ratchets Up the “Witch Hunt” over an Investigation He Judges to be “Anemic” Given the Threat

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/23/mueller-report-findings-1287072