Joyce Vance: The Obstruction Is What Kept Mueller From Charging Conspiracy

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It is that obstructive behavior that ultimately keeps the American people in the dark about what happened," the former prosecutor said.
By Susie Madrak

Lawrence O'Donnell brought on Joyce Vance last night to connect the dots between volume One and Two of the Mueller report.

"We are back with a cliffhanger with our Joyce Vance. Let's take another look of the short version of the question/answer that you found so important yesterday," he said.
REP. VAL DEMINGS: it is fair to say then that there were limits on what evidence was available to your investigation of both russia election interference and obstruction of justice.
MUELLER: That's usually the case.
DEMINGS: That lies by Trump campaign officials and administration officials impeded your investigation.
MUELLER: I would generally agree with that.

O'Donnell asked Vance why that was so important.

"It seems to me, Lawrence, that this is the linkage of volumes One and Two of the Mueller report. We used to look at it separately," she said.

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/07/joyce-vance-obstruction-what-kept-mueller

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1. I wish the initial report had been much more explicit about that.

There should have been a footnote or followup sentence to the 21 times Mueller wrote the investigation "identified no evidence . . . . . ." and the other instances where he contorted his reasoning to let people off the hook, like the trump tower meeting and giving the stolen polling data to the Ruskies.

Mueller did open up a bit about that in the afternoon hearing, thanks to awesome questioning by Democrats.

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2. One compaint I have about Mueller. But maybe it was Bill Barr.

Yes he was much more animated in the intel session.

[Hoyt]

3. If it was Barr's influence, he should have said so and he was asked that in Hearings and said "No."