..."restricted by technicalities" sounds a bit like a conservative dogwhistle. I do think Mueller could have been way more aggressive while remaining legally squeaky clean.

I'm wondering if Mueller was somehow interfered with by Barr.

You wonder correctly.

to believe Mueller isn’t the straight arrow so many people claim he is?

I think so.

I find it particularly interesting that there was always the “Is Trump going to fire Mueller?”
Followed by “Trump is too concerned about how it would look.”

Just like an Apprentice episode.

But Trump had no problem firing Lynch and no problem firing Yates at all. No problem “firing” all his WH staff and the news papers and networks all fed the public the drama.

doing so much of the legwork, and the “attempted coup” and “partisan investigation” narratives will continue to fester, demeaning the Truth of it all.

Right! And the news networks will help steer the narrative until the election.

One of the things both the left and right agree on is the failure of news networks to put out the truth as objectively as possible.

It’s sad watching everyone be pitted against one another in order to provide money and power to a few people who lack compassion and integrity.

I still remember Michelle Wolf at last years WHCD making great points which they deflected to Ms Wolf “attacking” Sarah Sanders looks, which was a total lie because we shant talk about the networks, journalists, producers and execs lack of journalistic integrity!

Then he nominated Sessions to replace her. Today
McCabe whines about Yates and Lynch in his
book. According to him it’s totally Lynch’s fault Comey came out with his “extremely careless” line.

Imo, anyone who still believes the top ppl in the FBI aren’t a part of this attempted coup isn’t being honest with themselves.

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Mueller to knock off the investigation.

that Barr stopped the investigation and that Mueller didn’t just end it where he wanted?

Mueller’s report is full of minimizations of the criminal actions of Trump and his campaign. They did this BUT...
He didn’t interview Trump nor his kids and he had plenty of time before Barr was anywhere near the AG office.

Why is there such a concerted effort to make Mueller a “straight arrow” or a “stand up guy” when the evidence laid before us says otherwise?

I would hope that Mueller is man enough to appear in Congressional hearings or interviews and speak out. But, I'm afraid he collected his money, slapped everyone on the back, and walked out.

but didn't. I suppose he has a short-window where he could still speak up, but I don't think he has it in him.

He had to leave a job in a legal partnership that paid millions a year in order to take this government job.

IOW, he took a huge pay cut when he accepted the job.

adjust to the outside world.

He’s not the hero some made him out to be. Not quite as bad as Avenatti, but no hero either, unless he speaks out soon.

that he took the job for money.

And you're condemning him without hearing a word of testimony from him at the House, and without having any knowledge of the 12 investigations he referred out to other prosecutors because they weren't part of his authorization.

We have no idea what he handed off to the SDNY and others

If his mandate was restricted then he did what he could.

I agree with Maher, but the Fat Lady hasn’t even begun to warm up yet.

The objective is to run out the clock.
Give maggot plenty of time to scream
EXONERATION .
Have the Russians steal 2020.
.....
Lather rinse repeat...

They know he's a lunatic and have done nothing but cower. Democrats have had the House for under four months.

Once again Maher sits on the sidelines and takes a dump in the punch bowl.

Maher is a moron.

That's an interesting interpretation of activism.

Party before country...

Exactly. I am frankly disgusted with the guy. Where I once had respect for him, I now see him as a snivelling coward and a wimp. He had an opportunity to do something monumental here and he fucking wussed out. He will go down in history as a nobody and a traitor to his nation.

That was Rosenstein...
We dont fully know Mullers role yet.

mentioned Congress's power to impeach at least 20 times in the report. He all but begged Congress to impeach, and laid out all the necessary elements for multiple charges of impeachment.

He was hired to determine whether a crime occurred. It was ridiculous of him not to do that out of "fairness" to Trump, because of the "approbrium" it would bring to Trump (Mueller's words).

Mueller did not have to determine whether a sitting President could be indicted. All he had to do was do his job and determine if Trimp committed a crime. And once he saw what crimes Trump committed, why did he still think that DOJ policy is a good idea?

Honestly, after reading the report, I was furious at Mueller. How could he could walk away from these horrific facts in favor of a DOJ "policy" that is not even a law, let alone in the Constitution?

He handed it off to the NSD at DoJ. It is ongoing. Meaning it’s not done yet.

Mueller had to stay within DoJ guidelines and policies. It’s right there in the special counsel statutes. Changing the rules in the middle of an investigation based on what they found would be a good way to invalidate the whole thing. As it stands, Mueller may have prevented Barr from strangling the whole investigation by handing off cases to some twenty different entities, some at the state level. Maher does not have the whole picture.

The ends don't justify the means just because they're the ends that we want. That's exactly what the Republicans believe and act on.

I want to believe that Mueller saw that it's way more than he or any one person could handle. I still want to trust the guy, but I also want to hear him tell us this when he appears for the House hearings.

though since he absolutely punted on blatant, in-our-face collusion by Jr. at the trump Tower meeting and trump himself with the nationally televised "Russia, if you're listening..." collusion that we all saw.

Let's hope more develops because I'm tired of trump's victory laps which will only intensify come election time unless more is in the works as you suggest.

The repugs in the Senate will never convict if it get's to that point. It's been out a week now and it's becoming more and more apparent that it's a letdown in many ways. Crimes are outlined but nothing done about it, colluders and obstructers not called to testified.

Benefit of the doubt? Did Barr put a stop to it before Mueller was finished? Barr was in for a month and suddenly the probe was over.

It is really inexplicable. I am hoping Mueller spills his guts to Congress and explains why he dropped the ball. But if that explanation is anything other than Barr shutting him down, then Mueller will go down in history as putting DOJ "policy" over keeping America safe from Trump's criminality.