Rep. Jerrrold Nadler: America Is Done Waiting for the Mueller Report

[spanone]

Someday, Trump will not be in office. Congress needs a full accounting of his misdeeds to ensure they don’t happen again.

Last Sunday, Attorney General William Barr sent us a letter summarizing what he says are the “principal conclusions” of the special counsel, Robert Mueller. The next day, together with five other committee chairmen, I wrote back to the attorney general, demanding that he provide us with the full Mueller report — not a summary, but the full report and all of the relevant evidence — by April 2.

For nearly two years, the country has waited to read the report. Over those many months, President Trump has raged against the institutions that make our democracy possible — among them, the free press, the courts and his own Department of Justice. When the special counsel indicted members of the president’s inner circle, his attacks got louder.

Before the formal investigation began, Mr. Trump fired his F.B.I. director. He later fired his attorney general. He reportedly attempted to fire the special counsel himself. Despite this profoundly unacceptable behavior, the special counsel persevered and wrote his report.

We — the members of the Judiciary Committee, the House of Representatives and the entire American public — are still waiting to see that report. We will not wait much longer. We have an obligation to read the full report, and the Department of Justice has an obligation to provide it, in its entirely, without delay. If the department is unwilling to produce the full report voluntarily, then we will do everything in our power to secure it for ourselves.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/opinion/mueller-report-trump.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. If Barr stonewalls (and I expect he will), is there a Daniel Ellsberg out there somewhere?

[spanone]

2. I think we're about to find out if the three branches of government are really equal...

or if oversight is a joke and the president is above the law.

[Efilroft Sul]

13. Very insightful statement there.

[FakeNoose]

17. If there is, s/he probably was working for Mueller, not Barr

We still have patriots left in the FBI.
Just sayin'

[ananda]

19. Exactly!

We need another Pentagon Papers right now!!!

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Whatever happened to rump saying that it was okay to see the Mueller report? Or, as I ...

expect, this was BS from the beginning from rump (in secret coop w/ Barr)...

[spanone]

4. He's never held to his words. He lies daily and the media has come to ignore it.

this is how a trump becomes normalized.

this is how America becomes a third-world country.

[watoos]

10. Exactly, Trump lies so often,

that when he says something it's a pretty safe bet to believe the opposite.

[BigDemVoter]

11. Hell, even the "liberal" media lies for him.

I was so disgusted to hear on CNN that the "Mueller report exonerates" Pussy Grabber. One would THINK that professional fucking journalists (and not the Fox variety) would KNOW when a 400 page report has been SUMMARIZED by Pussy Grabber's hand picked AG.

[jmowreader]

32. I don't think it was "summarized"

It would be extremely hard to write a summary of a document that big in two days. More than likely they took what we know about the Russian Troll Farms, threw a little “but Trump didn’t have anything to do with them” bs in, and wrote the summary before Mueller issued his report.

[BigDemVoter]

33. Excellent point. And I'm pretty sure there are plenty of "alternative facts" Barr would have us

believe.

[BigmanPigman]

24. That was 10 whole days ago.

Remember his taxes that he was going to release...where are those? LIAR IN CHIEF = WORST POTUS EVER!

[Maraya1969]

26. Speaking of taxes, when is Congress going to subpoena MF45 for his?

[BigmanPigman]

29. Right after he shows us his brilliant healthcare plan that will replace the ACA.

[malaise]

5. Go Dems!!

Rec

[BlueJac]

6. K&R

[pdsimdars]

7. Stop threatening and JUST DO IT ALREADY. When it was Clinton, Star turned over his

and the public saw it 2 days later. It's already been over a week.

[watoos]

12. Nadler gave Barr until April 2nd,

A subpoena should be filed on April 3rd.

[SilasSouleII]

23. Just heard onTRMS

That subponea will be filed on Wednesday if they don't get the full report tomorrow. Then if they ignore the subpoena it triggers the mass protests that have been organized previously if Mueller was fired.

[Maraya1969]

27. I thought an ignored subpoena was supposed to trigger the cops and handcuffs????

[bluestarone]

8. K&R

[gademocrat7]

9. K&R

[DontBooVote]

14. "...not going to wait much longer"?? It better fucking be just a few more hours, which will be

April 2!

[Botany]

15. Rep. Jerrrold Nadler: America Is Done Waiting for the Mueller Report

[DFW]

16. Jerry does not mince words, and he won't be distracted by Barr's legalese. Jerry speaks it fluently.

He will get the House Judiciary committee to issue a subpoena in short order. When Barr refuses to comply, a Contempt of Congress citation will follow. Barr will still refuse. THEN the constitutional confrontation starts. DO we have a dictatorship or don't we? I give it a 50-50 chance we'll know the answer to that before the Easter Bunny has completed his rounds, and a 90-10 chance we'll know by May Day.

[dchill]

22. Barr speaks pidgin legalese.

[Initech]

18. There's no fucking way they could have read all 300 - 400 pages in two days.

I call bullshit. They knew what they wanted it to say and now they are burying the evidence. They either didn't read it, or they set a new record for speed reading. I'm pointing to the latter.

[warmfeet]

20. It's a republic

if you can keep it.



I vote for keeping it.

What say you?

[James48]

21. You can BET MONEY

That Trump will try a distraction - like closing the border with Mexico, on APRIL 3 just to try and knock the Mueller report out of the headlines.

Count on it.

[LuvNewcastle]

30. Yes, that's what I expect.

A big distraction.

[Blue Owl]

25. Why should we have to wait, anyways?

[onit2day]

28. It's the business of congress not Barr who just keeps getting in the way

[Mc Mike]

31. Go, Rep. Nadler!

Get em, gang!