Congress prepares for 'reticent' witness Robert Mueller

[turbinetree]

By benjamin siegel and katherine faulders

Jul 23, 2019, 12:49 PM ET

Facing pointed questions about a hot-button government investigation in June 2013, then-FBI Director Robert Mueller didn't budge.

"I'm not going to speculate," he flatly told Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, when pressed on the details of a probe into an Internal Revenue Service targeting scandal.

On Wednesday, Mueller will return to Capitol Hill to face questions about his investigation into Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. Republicans and Democrats, who have spent hours preparing for Mueller's appearance with prep sessions and mock hearings with committee staffers playing the role of Mueller, don't expect him to be any more forthcoming.

"He is a reticent witness even under the best of circumstances," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said at the Aspen Security Forum, held in Colorado last week.

"[Mueller] never gives a 10-word answer when a one word answer will do," one senior Democratic aide said. "He does not volunteer information."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/congress-prepares-reticent-witness-robert-mueller/story?id=64489951

WE can find out tomorrow if the country will be a democracy or if it will go full blown fascist state..............

[katmondoo]

1. If our founders had that kind of courage there would be NOT be a United States of America

[CrispyQ]

2. Mueller will be a big nothing & he will be followed by the same.

I think too many people at the end of their careers are making the decisions. Too many people who lived through Watergate & think, "We survived that so we'll survive this, too." I think there is a reluctance for long time politicians & law enforcement to admit, much less publicly call out, exactly what the Republican Party has become, a party of lying, cheating, thieving, self-righteous, hypocritical bigots whose lust for power is about to hijack our representative government. One party rule under the guise of democracy.