Mueller told Justice Dept. three weeks ago he couldn't reach a conclusion on obstruction

[gldstwmn]

By: CNN Newsource

Roughly three weeks ago the special counsel's team told Attorney General Bill Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that Robert Mueller would not be reaching a conclusion on obstruction of justice, according to a source familiar with the meeting.

The source said that conclusion was "unexpected" and not what Barr had anticipated.

The information also means that Barr had a head start on developing his analysis on obstruction of justice well before Mueller delivered his report to the attorney general on Friday. Rosenstein's office has also been heavily involved in overseeing the investigation since its inception.

The meeting wasn't about obstruction alone, the source added, and the special counsel's team asked for more time to finish their work, which was granted. The source described it as purely administrative.

This story is breaking and will be updated.

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/mueller-told-justice-dept-three-weeks-ago-he-couldnt-reach-a-conclusion-on-obstruction

[uponit7771]

1. Barr's reasoning he stated in the summary are legally falacious at best. He just pulled crap out...

... of his butt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. He apparently thinks it's OK if you just try to obstruct justice but don't actually succeed.

[uponit7771]

3. +1

[niyad]

4. "could not" and "would not" are two entirely different things.

[coti]

6. My thought exactly- couldn't, or didn't want to? nt

[pnwmom]

5. That's what one "source" said. And yet Barr could read the whole report in one weekend

and easily make the determination. What a guy.

[rockfordfile]

9. Why didn't when the Republicans selected Mueller also put a democrat investigator in with him?

[Roland99]

7. I never thought obstruction would be proved. Too circumstantial

The conspiracy and emoluments and enriching and treason and selling of and giving of secrets etc is where the meat is

That’s where the state level investigations will hopefully bear fruit

[rockfordfile]

8. 3 weeks ago? Mueller and Barr are both dirty. This was a white wash from the beginning.

Look if I was wrong any time about this I would say it. But history proves otherwise. Now goes down in history that Republicans are traitors.

[gldstwmn]

11. Given his track record I have a hard time

thinking Mueller is dirty. Made to finish? Yes. Honestly I don't know what to think any more.

[gldstwmn]

10. Great tweet from Dan Rather:

[link:<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I've covered enough big news stories to know that sometimes the headlines from the first day can evolve considerably as more information comes to light.</p>— Dan Rather (@DanRather) <a href="

Link to tweet

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>|

[triron]

12. "would not" : what's that supposed to mean?

Does it mean he doesn't yet have enough evidence or that he could not establish intent or what?