The Mueller Report
Barr |
Attorney
General Barr today released a four page report saying the after 22 months of work, Robert Mueller's investigation was
unable to find that the
President or his colleagues did or did not collude with Russia or Russians in
their well-documented and proven efforts to affect our 2016 Presidential
election. Similarly, they could not find
that the President tried to obstruct the investigation. The report was prepared, not by Special Counsel Mueller who provided a much more comprehensive report to Barr, but by Barr's staff and that of Deputy Attorney General Ron Rosenstein.
Mueller |
When
the FBI back in 2016 could not find any basis for indicting Hillary Clinton,
they
announced that fact, which in itself was damaging to the extent that it clearly
implied that the Bureau did have something on her, but not enough to indict. Doing this ignored Department of Justice
procedures then, and this time, they went out of their way to avoid any negative
aspersions on people they investigated but did not indict. Please refer to my comments in the preceding
blog posting where I stated that the President’s imprecision with the English
language “keeps him from being ‘on the hook’ for what he says. He’s like
a fish that breaks from the line just as you are about to pull him in.”
Clinton |
Damn, Lost Him Again |
In
any event, Attorney General Barr said that on further review, additional
information from the Special’s Counsel’s investigation may be released. It is up to the legislative branch,
specifically the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, to insist on this
information using whatever tools they have, including the power of subpoena.
With
this in mind, let me describe a court decision which came down last week in
Palm Beach County. A man, heavily under
the influence of drugs, claimed that he found his father, also a user, dead on
the floor surrounded by drugs and drug paraphernalia. Not knowing what to do, not thinking clearly
and in a drug induced state of panic, he feared being accused of murdering his
father.
To avoid this eventuality, he dismembered the body and over the next few days, cleaning up carefully behind him, buried the body parts on an abandoned golf course. He was charged with murder and dismemberment of the body. A jury found him innocent of murder because of lack of evidence, but did find him guilty of dismembering the body, for which he awaits sentencing.
In the minds of many, including the family and the prosecution, the son was clearly guilty of murder, but as in the case of the Mueller report, where the evidence was insufficient to come to a conclusion regarding collusion and obstruction, the Palm Beach County jury found that the evidence was insufficient to convict the son of murder. That’s the way our system works, despite the obvious conclusions others may make.
To avoid this eventuality, he dismembered the body and over the next few days, cleaning up carefully behind him, buried the body parts on an abandoned golf course. He was charged with murder and dismemberment of the body. A jury found him innocent of murder because of lack of evidence, but did find him guilty of dismembering the body, for which he awaits sentencing.
In the minds of many, including the family and the prosecution, the son was clearly guilty of murder, but as in the case of the Mueller report, where the evidence was insufficient to come to a conclusion regarding collusion and obstruction, the Palm Beach County jury found that the evidence was insufficient to convict the son of murder. That’s the way our system works, despite the obvious conclusions others may make.
Bear
in mind that the Attorney General indicated that further review of the Special
Counsel’s investigation would occur in regard to releasing information in
addition to the four page report issued today, that Congressional Committees will
continue their investigations and that litigation continues in the Southern
District of New York Federal Court, in other Federal Court jurisdictions and in
New York State Courts where evidence which was insufficient for Mueller’s team might
prove quite adequate for indictment.
One
question: If there were no collusion nor
obstruction of justice, why all the lies about these activities?
Jack Lippman
The President's Hair Color and Two Columns
My
March 9 blog posting concluded with this sentence: “If you start to see the President's
hair coloring fail to hide its probable whiteness, you can be sure something's
amiss.”
Well,
that’s exactly what is happening. But he’s
not graying in the distinguished way his two predecessors did during their
terms in office. His hair was most
likely gray or white to start with, but lately the orange dye job he obviously undergoes
periodically isn’t working very well. I suspect he has to undergo frequent, if not daily, touch-ups. More and more of the white is showing through. Watch for it.
If you don’t know the reason for the color change, you’ve been spending too much time watching Fox and for the wrong reasons. (The only valid reason to watch Fox News is to get a fix on the lies, misrepresentation and misdirection the President and his supporters are involved in daily.)
If you don’t know the reason for the color change, you’ve been spending too much time watching Fox and for the wrong reasons. (The only valid reason to watch Fox News is to get a fix on the lies, misrepresentation and misdirection the President and his supporters are involved in daily.)
Pitts |
Gerson |
Another
column this past week in the Washington
Post by Michael Gerson talked of those who approach politics with a
religiously based fervor and devotion.
Gerson got near to but didn’t quite ask the question as to how such
zealotry would manifest itself in the face of a Trump defeat. Read it by CLICKING HERE.
If
this eventuality has occurred to Pitts and Gerson, I wonder how many others
fear a coup d’etat by Trump supporters, many of whom might feel justified in
rebelling against the Federal government should Trump lose. Would they claim the election was stolen by a
“dark state” conspiracy and support the President’s declaring a national
emergency and his refusing to leave office? Trump supporters have already at times
characterized the investigations into his administration that are being carried
out by Congress and the Department of Justice as being extra-legal and in fact,
actually attempted coups. They might say
the same about an election which Trump loses.
I
hope this is only idle speculation on my part.
JL
JL
The Boys on the Bridge
Here’s
a letter I was about to send in to the Palm
Beach Post until I realized that they would not consider it because they
had printed a letter from me within the past 30 days. I will wait until mid-week to submit it, when
30 days will have passed. But here it
is for your benefit. (Note the fishing rods leaning against the bridge railing. Florida law does not allow such weapon displays unless in connection with fishing or hunting.)
‘Sunday’s Post carried a story about pro-gun activists demonstrating in favor of the President, one of whom questioned the ability of our armed forces to respond to an invasion and who was quoted as saying that “civilians like us have the ability with these military weapons to combat the first initial invasion if it were to happen.” The Second Amendment clearly limits such activity to “a well-regulated militia” of which those on the Royal Park bridge on Saturday certainly were not a part. Thinly using the excuse that they were “fishing” to justify their display of assault weapons was a laughable, if not prosecutable, misuse of the law. What is needed is repeal of the Second Amendment and its replacement with one that allows the possession of weapons for hunting, agricultural purposes, target shooting and clearly defined self-defense. Meanwhile, the demonstrators on the bridge should join the Florida National Guard.’
JL
‘Sunday’s Post carried a story about pro-gun activists demonstrating in favor of the President, one of whom questioned the ability of our armed forces to respond to an invasion and who was quoted as saying that “civilians like us have the ability with these military weapons to combat the first initial invasion if it were to happen.” The Second Amendment clearly limits such activity to “a well-regulated militia” of which those on the Royal Park bridge on Saturday certainly were not a part. Thinly using the excuse that they were “fishing” to justify their display of assault weapons was a laughable, if not prosecutable, misuse of the law. What is needed is repeal of the Second Amendment and its replacement with one that allows the possession of weapons for hunting, agricultural purposes, target shooting and clearly defined self-defense. Meanwhile, the demonstrators on the bridge should join the Florida National Guard.’
JL
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