Here is what I said to @maddow tonight about Barr and Mueller. (And then I sprinted to the flight gate and made it w a full minute to spare.) https://t.co/rvl7quOx7q
Одно можно сказать точно. Если они идут на такие беспрецедентные шаги, значит есть, что скрывать. Как Барр отвечает на вопросы, мы видели на слушаниях в Конгрессе.
Attorney General Barr stopped answering questions the moment he was asked about his interactions with the Trump White House.
“We believe the only way to begin restoring public trust in the handling of the Special Counsel’s investigation is for Special Counsel Mueller himself to provide public testimony in the House and Senate as soon as possible. The American people deserve to hear the truth.” https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/41819/
Several people interviewed by the Inspector General’s office over the past year tell POLITICO that Horowitz’s team has been intensely focused on gauging Steele’s credibility as a source for the bureau. One former U.S. official left the interview with the impression that the Inspector General’s final report “is going to try and deeply undermine” Steele, who spent over two decades working Russia for MI6 before leaving to launch his own corporate intelligence firm. <...> With his reputation on the line, Steele—who has not commented publicly on the Trump-Russia investigation—intends to rebut the Inspector General’s characterizations, if necessary, in the form of a rare public statement, according to people familiar with his plans. He declined to be interviewed by the inspector general, citing, among other things, the potential impropriety of his involvement in an internal Justice Department investigation as a foreign national and former British intelligence agent. Steele’s allies have also repeatedly noted that the dossier was not the original basis for the FBI’s probe into Trump and Russia. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/17/mueller-report-steele-justice-department-1280578
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Date: 2019-04-18 12:15 pm (UTC)Одно можно сказать точно. Если они идут на такие беспрецедентные шаги, значит есть, что скрывать. Как Барр отвечает на вопросы, мы видели на слушаниях в Конгрессе.
Ждём теперь слушаний с Мюллером.
“We believe the only way to begin restoring public trust in the handling of the Special Counsel’s investigation is for Special Counsel Mueller himself to provide public testimony in the House and Senate as soon as possible. The American people deserve to hear the truth.”
https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/41819/
Пытаясь забежать вперёд, Барр следует завету Роя Кона про то, что нападение - лучшее средство защиты https://yakov-a-jerkov.livejournal.com/1265238.html?thread=39662678#t39662678 Выполняется изначальный план про “investigate the investigators”, в частности с попыткой дискредитации Кристофера Стила.
Several people interviewed by the Inspector General’s office over the past year tell POLITICO that Horowitz’s team has been intensely focused on gauging Steele’s credibility as a source for the bureau. One former U.S. official left the interview with the impression that the Inspector General’s final report “is going to try and deeply undermine” Steele, who spent over two decades working Russia for MI6 before leaving to launch his own corporate intelligence firm. <...>
With his reputation on the line, Steele—who has not commented publicly on the Trump-Russia investigation—intends to rebut the Inspector General’s characterizations, if necessary, in the form of a rare public statement, according to people familiar with his plans. He declined to be interviewed by the inspector general, citing, among other things, the potential impropriety of his involvement in an internal Justice Department investigation as a foreign national and former British intelligence agent. Steele’s allies have also repeatedly noted that the dossier was not the original basis for the FBI’s probe into Trump and Russia.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/17/mueller-report-steele-justice-department-1280578