Surprise, surprise, Barr said that he and Rod Rosenstein didn't agree with the legal theories that Mueller based some of his conclusions on, considering Barr is a Unitary Executive fascist it's no surprise he would figure that obstruction of justice by Trump is not possible. I don't know what Rosenstein, standing there like a stuffed chipmunk based his disagreement on but I can't help but think it's in his role as a Republican apparatchik, a carrerist, what is euphamized in such circles as "an institutionalist".
If Mueller did, actually, disagree with them and he remains silent for the whole weekend he's no better than a stuffed dummy, himself. If he falls back onto the high hill of "professionalism" in maintaining his silence while the United States is in the deepest peril of internal subversion since the fall of the Confederacy, it only plays up the unpleasant fact that such "professionalism" is a capacious enough sewer to include such subversion.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out for the day, after the Liars Digest condensed version of the Mueller Report is released to the Congress where more informed, honest and trustworthy minds will go over it. I am expecting that there will be obvious deficiencies in what Mueller looked at and how deeply he looked into it. If he reports that Rosenstein didn't hamper his investigation that won't speak very well of his intentions, if he felt hampered by the written scope of his investigation would also be interesting to know. I suspect that Mueller's "professionalism" and his professional and personal ties to Barr and Rosenstein might well influence what he thinks and says in that regard, I'm prepared to be pleasantly surprised, I'm always happy to be pleasantly surprised, in the end. But it isn't what I've come to expect from connected professionals.
In the end, as it will probably always require, the Democrats in the House will have to conduct a more in depth investigation. Perhaps Mueller was counting on that happening, maybe he was counting on other parts of the Department of Justice outside of DC and states attorneys general to do what he wasn't able to. Perhaps he has a wider plan than is contained in the confines of his report. Mueller will probably fall back, at some point, by disclaiming the realm of politics in his investigation though that's a transparent fraud if he lets Barr's and Rosenstein's non-press conference press conference stand.
But in a democracy, politics is not a lower thing than mere professionalism. It is the extent to which the politics are in service to democracy that it rises far higher than mere profession scruples.
In egalitarian democracy there is no authority higher than The People, the second highest one the people they give the privilege of serving them in the Legislature and, theoretically, at least, the president. The presidential part of that is the weakest link, especially in our putridly distorted system. It's up to The Peoples' House to act as a superior force in holding presidential crime to account, when, as in one-party, Republican-fascist governance such as we had for the first two years of Trump's regime, that is impossible. Which is the reason that The People took away their control of the House, hopefully next time it will be the entire apparatus of elected government and they will reign in the excesses of the Republican-fascist dominated judiciary. If that happens, this should not be allowed to just be let go as Nixon's crimes, the crimes under Reagan-Bush I's Iran Contra and the crimes of Bush II were allowed to just lapse as the DC-NYC media encouraged and William Barr helped many criminals get away with it. It is because Barr was not held to account that he was standing in front of the American People lying to pardon Trump's crimes today. If our system doesn't, finally, learn that lesson, American democracy is dead.
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