.BarbMcQuade: Jack Smith is no Robert Mueller. And I mean that as a compliment — to Smith.
when it published disparaging email messages that Russia had stolen from the Democratic National Committee.
Any one of those revelations should have been jaw-dropping. Instead, they were buried in 400 pages of dry and repetitive legalese. What’s more, Mueller apparently found that Trump had obstructed justice. Or did he? In his report, Mueller and his team wrote, “if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.
What’s more, Mueller’s failure to make a prosecutorial decision opened the door for Attorney General William Barr, who had no qualms about barreling through it.
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