REUTERSIn a letter to Attorney General William Barr, White House Counsel Emmet Flood blasted Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report about his probe into Russian collusion and potential obstruction of justice committed by President Donald Trump—calling it “part ‘truth commission’ report and part law
In a letter to Attorney General William Barr, White House Counsel Emmet Flood blasted Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report about his probe into Russian collusion and potential obstruction of justice committed by President Donald Trump—calling it “part ‘truth commission’ report and part law school exam paper.”
“Prosecutors simply are not in the business of establishing innocence, any more than they are in the business of ‘exonerating’ investigated persons,” he wrote. “Because they do not belong to our criminal justice vocabulary, the SCO’s inverted-proof-standard and ‘exoneration’ statement can be understood only as political statements.”
Flood also addressed speculation that the report was intended to be a “road map” for Congress to start impeachment hearings. If that was true, he wrote to Barr that it was further evidence of Mueller’s “refusal to follow applicable law.” Upon receiving the report from Mueller, Barr came to his own conclusions about the obstruction of justice issue alongside outgoing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein—with both of them concluding that the 10 instances of potential obstruction outlined in the report were not enough to bring charges against the president.
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