The estimable and genuinely Honorable Jerrold Nadler has written an op-ed, published in the New York Times setting out, simply and with clear brilliance why he and the House must demand that William Barr hand over the complete, unredacted Muller Report and its underlying basis in evidence to the House Judiciary Committee and other, relevant committees of The Peoples' House.
William Barr is a proponent of the overtly fascistic theory of the "unitary executive," a theory of unlimited presidential power thought up in oligarchic think tanks, Ivy League law faculties and other breeding grounds of Republican-fascism. Of course, like Brett Kavanaugh's legal thought on presidential culpability, it is all different depending on the party of the president - watch for the Supreme Court to see how far that double-standard goes. If Barr is able to suppress the evidence for this most criminal of presidential regimes, it is the end of American democracy.
I don't know how far the House can go in pressuring the Department of Justice or the courts as they try to cover-up for Trump and his crime family but they should do everything they can to thwart them. Any possible means necessary taken. Jerrold Nadler has also said that along with his committee voting to give him the authority to subpoena the Report and its evidential basis, they will be issuing subpoenas to a host of Trump crime family figures, Don McGahn, Steve Bannon, Hope Hicks, Reince Pribus. I hope they call in all of them to potentially perjure themselves before they call in Robert Mueller, as they must if they are going to really find out what he found out. I strongly suspect that he was under subtle pressure by Rod Rosenstein even before Barr or the known liar and con-man Whitaker were brought in to thwart any real investigation. You can add Trump's serial attempts to stop the investigation into this as a reason for We, The People to still believe there was collusion between Trump and Putin. I might believe that Barr's interpretation of things is accurate IF and only if, after they have collected their own evidence, the House committee is satisfied with Robert Mueller's assurances on that point. Absent that, absent Nadler having the full report and evidence, I'm suspecting the worst, Barr's conduct requires that.
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