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pnwmom

(109,000 posts) Mon Mar 25, 2019, 06:09 PM Mar 2019

Did Barr pressure Mueller to wrap it up? That's something I want to know. n/t

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Did Barr pressure Mueller to wrap it up? That's something I want to know. n/t (Original Post) pnwmom Mar 2019 OP

That Would Appear to be Obvious dlk Mar 2019 #1

I was hoping against all hope that Barr, at the end of his legal career, The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2019 #2

it wouldn't have taken much to not confirm him. from what I have heard Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2019 #5

I felt Mueller was being pressed to wrap up the minute Barr was nominated .. nt Jarqui Mar 2019 #3

It looks like it to me. vsrazdem Mar 2019 #4

looks like it to me cause Moscow Mitch is voting ... not ... to release the full report uponit7771 Mar 2019 #7

YES Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2019 #6

Nothing to be pressured on. Mueller from the on set was to white wash the investigation rockfordfile Mar 2019 #8

Where's your evidence for that? I don't believe Barr's letter, purporting to summarize Mueller. pnwmom Mar 2019 #10

You know that's what happened because there's too many loose ends, things not finished. blueinredohio Mar 2019 #9

I read somewhere today, think it was on nbc.com that Mueller had asked for an octoberlib Mar 2019 #11

dlk

(11,578 posts)

1. That Would Appear to be Obvious

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2019, 06:15 PM

Mar 2019

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,878 posts)

2. I was hoping against all hope that Barr, at the end of his legal career,

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2019, 06:19 PM

Mar 2019

would rather be remembered as an Elliot Richardson rather than as a Robert Bork. Obviously my hopes were misplaced. Once a stooge always a stooge, I guess.

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)

5. it wouldn't have taken much to not confirm him. from what I have heard

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 25, 2019, 07:00 PM

Mar 2019

he's not a horrible person - just has a wayward belief, deep in his soul, that
the president is above everyone else.

Jarqui

(10,130 posts)

3. I felt Mueller was being pressed to wrap up the minute Barr was nominated .. nt

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2019, 06:39 PM

Mar 2019

vsrazdem

(2,177 posts)

4. It looks like it to me.

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2019, 06:56 PM

Mar 2019

What about the secret Country A that just got turned down by the SC to release its documents. That was Mueller. What happens to those documents now. Pawning Rick Gates off to ? Southern District. Lots of unanswered questions here.

uponit7771

(90,367 posts)

7. looks like it to me cause Moscow Mitch is voting ... not ... to release the full report

Reply to vsrazdem (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 25, 2019, 07:01 PM

Mar 2019

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)

6. YES

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2019, 07:00 PM

Mar 2019

rockfordfile

(8,704 posts)

8. Nothing to be pressured on. Mueller from the on set was to white wash the investigation

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2019, 07:11 PM

Mar 2019

pnwmom

(109,000 posts)

10. Where's your evidence for that? I don't believe Barr's letter, purporting to summarize Mueller.

Reply to rockfordfile (Reply #8)

Mon Mar 25, 2019, 09:05 PM

Mar 2019

Barr wrote a 19 page memo last summer saying a President can't commit obstruction, and now he's saying Trump didn't commit obstruction.

Big surprise.

blueinredohio

(6,797 posts)

9. You know that's what happened because there's too many loose ends, things not finished.

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2019, 08:33 PM

Mar 2019

We'll never know until congress subpoenas him and Barr.

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)

11. I read somewhere today, think it was on nbc.com that Mueller had asked for an