The memo by which DOJ justified its discovering that Trump didn’t commit obstruction of justice, counter to Mueller’s findings, was launched yesterday, stunning all who learn it. It was stuffed with disingenuous conclusions and, as only one instance, it required the reader to consider that Trump’s warning to witnesses “don’t flip” meant “inform the reality.” It was that unhealthy, which explains why it was torched by each court docket that learn it.
It shouldn’t be a shock.
Barr was the man who marketed himself – virtually begging to be named A.G. – because the man who “may land the airplane,” a tacit acknowledgment that the Mueller investigation would discover hydraulic strains that ran by way of uniquely soiled and harmful methods, leaving the huge physique uncontrollable because it approached the Mueller tarmac. Barr had purpose to be assured, the final time he was A.G., he led the George H.W. Bush administration and remnants of the Reagan White Home by way of the ultimate levels of the Nicaragua-Contra scandal, and everybody walked away, some with minor accidents, although that scandal was far worse than Watergate. Barr’s distinctive piloting expertise owe to his willingness to interrupt sure methods having to do with transparency, reality, and the rule of legislation, which allowed his specific craft to perform usually for a brief time frame. And he did land Trump’s airplane. However now, wanting on the injury, Barr will probably be fortunate if he doesn’t lose his license.
CNN’s Elie Honig described the issues on CNN to Kaitlin Collins: (Video Beneath)
“It is a darkish chapter in DOJ’s historical past. I feel the tag line is Invoice Barr lied to us about Mueller’s investigation, Invoice Barr lied to a court docket about these lies, after which Merrick Garland appealed to attempt to bail out Invoice Barr, and all of it collapsed yesterday.”
We’ve now seen this inner memo, and what Invoice Barr tried to inform a decide was, ‘Effectively, decide, that was a memo with deep authorized evaluation that I used to be actually finding out and counting on once I reached my conclusion that Trump had not dedicated obstruction of justice.
The trial decide stated principally nonsense. It is a memo that was accomplished after the actual fact. It’s basically a CYA, a cover-your-blank memo that you simply did to only paper the file after the actual fact.
The important thing phrase, the portion from which every little thing else flowed, is that Barr lied to the court docket. Attorneys don’t typically get a second likelihood in the event that they mislead a court docket. To proceed the theme, mendacity to a court docket is so harmful that licenses get yanked.
So we study why Barr was so assured. He knew when to lie, and he knew lie. One can seem like an uber-competent pilot if one makes use of such methods. However once more, sooner or later, an incident investigation will reveal that the dangers taken allowed the passengers on his airplane to stroll away unscarred however solely on the expense of the system itself, the one which retains everybody else protected. That system has suffered extreme injury placing many in danger.
@JasonMiciak believes a day with out studying is a day not lived. He’s a political author, options author, writer, and lawyer. He’s a Canadian-born twin citizen who spent his teen and faculty years within the Pacific Northwest and has since lived in seven states. He now enjoys life as a single dad of a younger woman, writing from the seashores of the Gulf Coast. He loves crafting his flower pots, cooking, and at the moment research philosophy of science, faith, and non-math ideas behind quantum mechanics and cosmology. Please be happy to contact for talking engagements or any issues.
