Mueller Investigation pt 6

[PhantomWolf]

Ok, you keep going in circles and pretending that each posts starts the day anew.

A minute ago you were saying Mueller was legally barred from doing what I suggested. You've left that goal post far behind without even a wave.

No, you are conflating two different things.

1) Mueller's actions on not speaking out against Trump, and his actions in giving testimony; and

2) His writing the report in a legal manner.

Try and keep up.

 

[PhantomWolf]

And BTW, here's the Starr Report, take a look at it, because guess what, it's written in the same legal language style as the Mueller Report. How amazing is that?

 

[The Great Zaganza]

Of course it was, who else's call would it have been?

A witness before Congress usually doesn't get to dictate the terms of the testimony - Democrats bended over backwards to let Mueller do it his way - which was the least effective way to make the results of his Report more widely known.
I think it is just wrong to put no blame on Mueller for the lack of public awareness of Trump's transgressions - he could have, within the rules, done so much more.
And he would have if he had wanted to.
But washing his hands of the whole affair was obviously more important to him.

 

[PhantomWolf]

A witness before Congress usually doesn't get to dictate the terms of the testimony

Rubbish, a witness can never be made to testify in a way they other than how they intend to do so, be it before a court or congress. They will only answer the questions in the way that they decide to do so.

Democrats bended over backwards to let Mueller do it his way

Apart from "bended" not being a word, no, they understand how to play the game and how Mueller was going to respond to them, and they played the hand they had pretty well.

which was the least effective way to make the results of his Report more widely known.

Mueller had no obligation to make his report more wildly known. His obligation was to produce the Report and give it to the USAG.

I think it is just wrong to put no blame on Mueller for the lack of public awareness of Trump's transgressions

Rubbish, the blame lies on those that aren't interested in taking notice of the world outside of their little bubble.

he could have, within the rules, done so much more.

I disagree that given the man and the rules that he would have done more, and that he had no obligation to do so.

And he would have if he had wanted to.

I disagree.

But washing his hands of the whole affair was obviously more important to him.

He didn't wash his hands of it, he gave a comprehensive report on the affair.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

Which further supports the point I'm making. Mueller was quite free to clearly state "Trump committed perjury." Instead, he made a vague claim that requires piecing together various parts out of paragraphs of text. One is a clear statement, the latter is a vague, wishy washy ambiguous way of making sort of a statement.

I disagree, but since over the last couple of posts you've resorted to being snide and repeating assertions rather than making arguments, I think we'll end this here.

 

[Belz...]

In this case, it did.

In this case the failure is yours. It's quite clear.

 

[Belz...]

People that think no criticism of Mueller is reasonable. Stop me at the point where you disagree.

I don't think this is actually addressed to anyone, since no one think that no criticism of Mueller is reasonable. Nice well poisoning though.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

Mueller made it quite clear in his testimony before the House that Trump could be prosecuted for obstruction of justice once he leaves office.

No, I brought this up while I was watching the testimony live - this is how people interpreted what he said, but I think the more accurate interpretation of what he said was that a sitting president could be prosecuted for crimes committed during the presidency once they had left office.

There was quite lengthy conversation about it in this thread at the time, if you want to go back and look.

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Posted By: kmortis