Mueller has accumulated evidence that has to be presented in a carefully planed order to prove the case. What BuzzFeed has done is tip off the Administration to a portion of the impeachment evidence which allows Trump to prepare a defense. We are only going to get one shot at taking down Trump, and we don't need BuzzFeed and their 'un-named sources' derailing it.

...you MIGHT have something valid to say here if you include ALL news outlets, but, of course, that's an absurd take on the role of the press.

Where's the responsibility in the SC office weighing in at all on a news report?

Something that interests me is why the SC hasn't pushed back, publicly, on Trump's blather about the case. Sure he's a target, but arguably, he's doing his best, through Guliani and his own tweets, to muck up the case.

It's not believable that Trump hasn't already been informed through his lawyers and other govt. connections that this would be the state of the evidence against him (among other things), so I'm not convinced Buzzfeed is interfering in anything to a degree that it informs Trump beyond what he already knows.

Link to tweet

This smells.

...it resembles Comey deciding to 'inform' the public about 'reopening' the investigation into Hillary's emails.

No one should be sanguine about the effect of having Whitaker overseeing the probe. All sorts of bad reasons possible in the way this rebuke surfaced.

In this post, I suggested that Rod Rosenstein’s call to Mueller’s office to see if they were going to release a statement pushing back against Buzzfeed’s story on Michael Cohen’s testimony might be a violation of SCO regulations protecting against “day-to-day supervision” by DOJ.

In his appearance on Jake Tapper’s show today, Rudy Giuliani (starting at 14:25) appears to take credit for SCO’s statement. After agreeing with Tapper that the NYT had corrected their claim that Paul Manafort had shared polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik with the intent that it in turn get shared with two Ukrainian oligarchs he worked for, he noted that the NYT had not issued the correction their own. He then said that the Special Counsel’s office had not, either.

Rudy: Originally the NYTimes ran with the story [about Paul Manafort sharing polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik] — again, fake news — that he shared it with a Russian, not true. [note: actually it is true, because Kilimnik himself is a Russian citizen]

Tapper: They corrected that. They corrected that.

Rudy: They did correct that. They didn’t correct that — my friend, they didn’t correct that, they didn’t correct that just completely on their own by the way. The same thing with Special Counsel. That didn’t happen spontaneously.

At the very least, this undermines WaPo’s claim that Mueller already had a correction of Buzzfeed in the works before Rosenstein’s office called.

In the advanced stages of those talks, the deputy attorney general’s office called to inquire if the special counsel planned any kind of response, and was informed a statement was being prepared, the people said.

Worse still, it seems to suggest he or someone from the White House was involved...