'Toontime: Mueller Time!

Latest: Party line vote for issuing subpoenas, 24-17, today.
{03/04/2019} The House Judiciary chairman, Jerry Nadler, said in a press statement that his committee will subpoena the ENTIRE Mueller Report, not just a conveniently redacted version passed upon by the White House. The committee also wants the underlying evidence collected by the former FBI Director, as well as records from five former White House aides, including a former chief of staff and legal counsel. Attorney General Barr offered to release a redacted version sometime in mid April, but that does not meet the congressional investigators' demands, who gave Barr until April 2nd to comply. The committee vote for a subpoena is set for Wednesday.

credit: Jimmy Margulies

{29.03.2019} Could any fair minded person judge whether a person is innocent based on a partisan four page summary of a supposedly unbiased 300 page report (Fox News says it is 657 pages long, which probably includes appendices) of a two year investigation? That is what Trumpland, which now includes the US Senate, is expecting the 'Merican people to do. Poppycock. Ask yourself this dear reader: if Mueller's report is truly exonerating of Individual I would not his cronies be rushing to lay the full report before the public? You betcha! Instead they attacked the House Intelligence Committee chairman, Adam Schiff for his willingness to independently investigate the facts supporting a conclusion that Don Veto and/or his campaign knowingly abetted the Russian intelligence operation to influence the 2016 election.

The ranking member impugned Schiff's professional competence saying, "We have no faith in your ability to discharge your duties." Don Veto's son insultingly calls Rep. Schiff (D Ca), "a piece of Schiff". Very droll, MiniMe, but you and your old man are not out of the outhouse yet! Mueller may have concluded there was insufficient evidence to support a criminal charge of conspiracy, but there is already credible evidence on the record that Trump's campaign cooperated with what they knew to be a Russian black propaganda operation. Rep. Schiff referred to this evidence in his response to the Repugnant attack. Schiff believes there is ample evidence of collusion, and said he’s long insisted such evidence may or may not rise to the level of a criminal charge. But Individual I's curiously cooperative attitude toward Russia and its leading autocrat troubles Schiff. And it should.  Mueller certainly did not clear Individual I of the obstruction of justice charge or illegal campaign payments, no matter what the delusional occupant of the White House twits.

Democrats were quick to defend Chairman Schiff. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) offered strong praise for Schiff. "The American people have seen Mr. Schiff demonstrate on a regular basis responsibility, thoughtfulness, rationality and a commitment to finding the truth," Hoyer told reporters Thursday. "Apparently, all four of those aspects upset the president." The congressional investigations will continue while the effort to obtain Mueller's entire report from Trump's minions drags on.

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There is a press report that AG Barr has agreed to send a copy of the Mueller Report to the White House before a version becomes public, giving the occupying gang an opportunity to also assert executive privilege over report passages in an already heavily redacted document on grounds of national security, grand jury secrecy, and attorney client privilege.  The fix is in, folks.

credit: John Cole, Scranton Times-Tribune