Hillary Clinton: Mueller documented a serious crime against all Americans. Here's how to respond.
By Hillary Clinton
April 24 at 4:44 PM
Our election was corrupted, our democracy assaulted, our sovereignty and security violated. This is the definitive conclusion of special counsel Robert S. Mueller IIIs report. It documents a serious crime against the American people.
The debate about how to respond to Russias sweeping and systematic attack and how to hold President Trump accountable for obstructing the investigation and possibly breaking the law has been reduced to a false choice: immediate impeachment or nothing. History suggests theres a better way to think about the choices ahead.
Obviously, this is personal for me, and some may say Im not the right messenger. But my perspective is not just that of a former candidate and target of the Russian plot. I am also a former senator and secretary of state who served during much of Vladimir Putins ascent, sat across the table from him and knows firsthand that he seeks to weaken our country.
I am also someone who, by a strange twist of fate, was a young staff attorney on the House Judiciary Committees Watergate impeachment inquiry in 1974, as well as first lady during the impeachment process that began in 1998. And I was a senator for New York after 9/11, when Congress had to respond to an attack on our country. Each of these experiences offers important lessons for how we should proceed today.
First, like in any time our nation is threatened, we have to remember that this is bigger than politics. What our country needs now is clear-eyed patriotism, not reflexive partisanship. Whether they like it or not, Republicans in Congress share the constitutional responsibility to protect the country. Muellers report leaves many unanswered questions in part because of Attorney General William P. Barrs redactions and obfuscations. But it is a road map. Its up to members of both parties to see where that road map leads to the eventual filing of articles of impeachment, or not. Either way, the nations interests will be best served by putting party and political considerations aside and being deliberate, fair and fearless.
Second, Congress should hold substantive hearings that build on the Mueller report and fill in its gaps, not jump straight to an up-or-down vote on impeachment. In 1998, the Republican-led House rushed to judgment. That was a mistake then and would be a mistake now.
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BigmanPigman
(51,630 posts)I trust her experience and judgement.
Chin music
(23,002 posts)Saddle up the horses.
Mount up.