Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/24/politics/barr-mueller-report/index.html🙂
"Justice Department releases unredacted Barr memo detailing decision not to charge Trump with obstructing Russia probe" -snip
"concluded that Barr didn't actually rely on the memo for legal advice, never seriously considered charging Trump, already made up his mind before he commissioned the memo" -snip
Shocked, totally shocked, Barr did that.
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Yesterday, Judge Amy Berman Jackson concluded that Barr was also "disingenuous" with her on the question of why Donald Trump did not face criminal charges—specifically on the matter of obstruction of justice—based on the evidence collected as part of the Mueller probe.Jackson ruled that the legal advice Barr pointed to was not real: what happened was that the then-attorney general decided to give Trump a pass, and he then had the Deparment of Justice cook up an after-the-fact rationalization of the decision Barr had already made.
The judge agreed that Barr not only took steps to "obfuscate the true purpose" of the memo, she also concluded that it is time to release the document to the public.