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Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com)
America's recently-appointed Attorney General William Barr has submitted to Congress his summary of the main conclusions from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, CNN reports.
"While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him," special counsel Robert Mueller says, as quoted in Barr's summary.
It does, however, reiterate that there was clear Russian interference in America's 2016 election: The Special Counsel's investigation determined that there were two main Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election. The first involved attempts by a Russian organization, the Internet Research Agency, to conduct disinformation and social media operations in the United States designed to sow social discord, eventually with the aim of interfering with the election.... The second element involved the Russian government's efforts to conduct computer hacking operations designed to gather and disseminate information to influence the election. The Special Counsel found that Russian government actors successfully hacked into computers and obtained emails from persons affiliated with the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party organizations, and publicly disseminated those materials through various intermediaries, including WikiLeaks.
Based on these activities, the Special Counsel brought criminal charges against a number of Russian military officers for conspiring to hack into computers in the United States for purposes of influencing the election.
Barr also writes that the report leaves it to him to determine whether president Trump is guilty of obstructing justice, then adds "I have concluded that the evidence...is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense."
CNN has the complete text of the four-page summary. Barr's letter concludes by saying he's still "determining what can be released."
"While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him," special counsel Robert Mueller says, as quoted in Barr's summary.
It does, however, reiterate that there was clear Russian interference in America's 2016 election: The Special Counsel's investigation determined that there were two main Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election. The first involved attempts by a Russian organization, the Internet Research Agency, to conduct disinformation and social media operations in the United States designed to sow social discord, eventually with the aim of interfering with the election.... The second element involved the Russian government's efforts to conduct computer hacking operations designed to gather and disseminate information to influence the election. The Special Counsel found that Russian government actors successfully hacked into computers and obtained emails from persons affiliated with the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party organizations, and publicly disseminated those materials through various intermediaries, including WikiLeaks.
Based on these activities, the Special Counsel brought criminal charges against a number of Russian military officers for conspiring to hack into computers in the United States for purposes of influencing the election.
Barr also writes that the report leaves it to him to determine whether president Trump is guilty of obstructing justice, then adds "I have concluded that the evidence...is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense."
CNN has the complete text of the four-page summary. Barr's letter concludes by saying he's still "determining what can be released."
it's more like there's a couple hundred different posts. There's emoluments. There's campaign finance. There's tax evasion (lots and lots of that).
The reason nobody ever thought Trump would run for real is that he's been breaking the law his entire life and getting away with it because we don't punish the very wealthy. As it stands we're not going to punish Trump unless the American people at large change their minds. Right now he could shoot a man dead in Time Square and get away with it. Hell, some of his supporters want him to take over and become a dictator.
Will that change? Who knows. I know either way the rule of law has been significantly eroded by his presidency. Do his supporters love him enough to overlook that? Probably.
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After two and a half years of liberal russophobia and accusations of treason, we arrived to this? Did anyone actually with at least half a brain believe this was going to end somewhat different? Anyways, it's hard to believe that Congress and the corporate news media will leave the President alone after this. So watch the news echo chamber closely over the next few days as Russia investigation now morphs into "obstruction of justice" and "campaign finance" investigation.
It's like those people who say Hillary committed a crime (email server) yet all those lawyers and agents at the FBI said otherwise.
Why that is a lie... James Comey explicitly stated that:
Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case
It's actually a prosecutor's role to make that choice, not the FBI. The FBI found evidence of violations - but tried to (and appeared to, successfully) - protect an Administration confidant. There actually was evidence of a crime committed - but it was willfully ignored by the FBI and the Obama DOJ.
Why do you want a partisan DOJ to ignore crimes by their "friends"?
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!