Personally I’m tired of hearing what straight arrows these people are. Their actions tell a different story.

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Two years wasted. We need an American Spring of protests. It's the only way to show we're serious.

which is fine most of the time but this isn't most of the time. trump has put up roadblocks to justice left and right and appointing Barr is just his latest gambit.

Barr is continuing the obstruction which has the potential of letting trump get away with everything and appear exonerated, which can lead to a win in 2020 and his establishment of autocracy and chief executive who can be touched by Congress, who is above the law.

Where is the John Dean we need. Maybe it'll be McGahn, or even Mueller himself if the goes before Congress and tells everything he knows.

How else would he know at this point?

Redacted or not, he didn't indict Trump or his family.

If Barr forced Mueller to prematurely shut the investigation down for purely political reasons, such that Mueller wanted to continue but was instructed to shut it down to protect Whothefuckever, then the question becomes whether Barr's conduct meets the legal definition of obstruction of justice.

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Every news reporter in country would have been there.

Mueller is a Republican.

At this point all Republicans should be treated at arms length and never trusted to do the right thing.

or minimally failing to see the crux of the matter (crux being prosecuting). MAHER listed historical figures now called "great" based on their having made horrendously difficult choices and decisions, contrasting MUELLER's as not being anywhere so difficult as theirs, which he didn't carry out anyway. If MUELLER's motivation was partisan, he looks that much smaller.

That said, throughout all the national discussions, the critical issues are the integrity of public service, trust that there *CAN* be impartial investigations, while SHITLER is beating the drum that all investigations and judgments are rigged/coup/nefarious unless the results are in his favor.

I thought Mueller and his commission were all ANGRY DEMOCRATS.

ended with Clark KENT's eyeglasses photoshopped(?) on MUELLER's face, no? I'll strain my ears when I see the YouTube again!1

It also proved that , especially with a packed judiciary, the nightmare will continue.

This ignorant whining from Maher makes it sound like there is nothing in the Mueller report, so it is doubly stupid.

But do you see anyone doing anything about it?

It doesn’t look like Impeachment or even further investigation is going to be happening.

We can sit around and wait for SDNY to do something. More false hopes IMHO.

... Maher will be eating his words in less than 2 months when Mueller explains how Rosenstein hen pecked his investigation.

And least he can man-up to some of his fuckups heh

Didn't happen.

Whether is was because he was going by the book, stymied by Barr, or just being your average partisan republican, it doesn't matter. He could have done much better and he chose not to. He is a coward and a gutless wretch.

Unless he's seen the unredacted Mueller report, not the Barr report, he shouldn't be saying anything. I predict when the full Mueller report comes out MF45 will be impeached and forced to resign.

Tell Bill to hold his guns.

Not intended as sarcasm. Is there a time frame for the unredacted report? To anybody? Last I heard Barr was offering a slightly less redacted version to select individuals in congress. Grand jury stuff still off limits. I'd like to be optimistic here, but ... DOJ? Barr? When does this happen?

I kinda agree with Maher on this point. Mueller ducked. (might have FELT that was the correct course. don't think history will agree.)

But he's still more entertainer than journalist. Enjoy him but .. grain of salt.

So I guess about that long, Supreme Court will hear this one pretty quickly. Mueller had to duck, DOJ policy precludes indicting a sitting president. In the unredacted report I believed he laid out the case for impeachment. I have confidence that Nadler will move as soon as he gets the real Mueller report.

Hold on for a little bit, gone by Labor Day.

... out the investigation by Rosenstein who's shown himself to he a hack.

Play out the scenario where Mueller indicts Trump. The Republicans would then immediately have begun screaming that Mueller had broken with DOJ policy. It would be the "deep state" effecting a "coup" in violation of "norms" of the criminal justice system. The good guys need to uphold norms, at least government norms, now more than ever.

Mueller also could not recommend impeachment directly. That would have usurped the role of the House.

Mueller gave us "just the facts." That's perfect, imo. It let's the Dems in the House take charge of the investigation and run the hearings necessary to get the facts out to the people. We'll get Mueller as a witness, not a prosecutor. That's going to be very damning to Trump.

crossing all the t's is the best way this investigation survives when it ends up in the Supreme court, which it will eventually. Whether charges brought by prosecutors or an impeachment.

and is only from the year 2000. We should not allow an opinion or viewpoint to neuter Congress in this matter without clarification in the courts.

It should have been changed when there would have been no question that it was being changed on principle. That is, no one would have thought Obama might face indictment, so his Justice Department could have revisited and reversed the policy. Unfortunately, right now we have someone in the Oval Office to whom the reversed policy would apply immediately. The policy change would therefore give the appearance of being deliberately aimed at Trump rather than merely being aimed at Presidents in general who merit indictment for the good of the country.

Enough jerking us around!

but will watch when he has good guests.

familiar and that it is brought on by early trauma as a escape defense. Well, all us long lifetime Dems have withstood severe traumas, both of preexisting social/economic conditions and electoral thefts/shocks, such that causation might be involved.

But this figurative language of your post doesn't make your point clear to me: Is it that we here build up and tear down some figures? Thanks for answering my previous question and please let me know if I got Bingo with this one!1

... Mueller testifies that Rosenstein, a partisan hack unknown to most till now, hen pecked his investigation left and right.

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that he will testify criticizing ROSENSTEIN, who appointed him in the first place and whose cover for himself has been supposedly to shield the investigation.

My initial reaction to the initial release of the report (I read the 2 Executive Summaries only) was to cheer that MUELLER laid out a cartload of damning evidence against SHITLER and that he intended for the House to take it from there. Plus, I didn't even believe that MUELLER *should* testify, since he said what he said, clearly, and what he meant, clearly, in the report such that blowhard rehashing by congresscritters is a big waste. Now I think he will be just as guarded in any testimony and that he *should* have indicted or at least confronted the DRUMPFs for not testifying, as MAHER says. "Careful"? or failure of nerve?

With the time too short to the election, seems like going the voting-out thing is the (only) way out.

Mueller will testify that Rosenstein is a partisan hack?

Where is the evidence Rosenstein henpecked the investigation?

... is the evidence that tilts my needle towards the investigation being stymied by Rosenstein.

No reason to trust an overt hack like Rosenstein ... just didn't know he was on Trumps team ... that he was on America's team.

but still see no reason to trust Mueller who was hand picked by Rosenstein.

... republican ever about anything.

I'm more than disgusted over this, I wish democrats would show some courage

Memo to Democrats: Never trust a Republican.

… Republicans…… Mueller, Rosenstein, Comey, Barr, Burr, Ryan, Gowdy, etc, etc, etc... I've been saying this for a year. They will all err on the side of Republicans. They all love Trump's Supreme Court picks and their new tax bracket.