Lindsey Graham letter to Mueller

[elleng]

Source: CNN

Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham sent a letter to special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday asking whether Mueller felt Attorney General William Barr misrepresented their phone conversation in his Senate testimony this week.

Read the letter:

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/03/politics/graham-letter-to-mueller/index.html

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. I hope Mueller is too smart to fall for this

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[VarryOn]

17. Me too....

If I'm Mueller, I've long left DC for a Carribbean island somewhere. I'd tell them to pound sand and stay away.

[Iliyah]

2. Just the phone call?

[ancianita]

3. After Graham said he's DONE with Mueller's Report, it's manipulative bullshit. Ignore him, Bob!

[Delmette2.0]

4. FFS

I believe Mueller is not going to fall for this. Especially after Graham had a hissy fit and said he was done with the hearings on the Mueller Report.

[machoneman]

5. O.K. no lawyer here but: 1.) why didn't Lindsey 1st ask if Barr misrepresented the 4-page.....

initial 'summary"?

Why not? Because little Lindsey, already a noted military legal eagle (no kidding) knows NOT to ask a question he already has the answer to. Barr did misrepresent the entire report and he and Barr know it.

2.) Now asking only about the phone call, Lindsey knows if Mueller didn't tape record it (illegal unless BOTH D.C. based parties agreed to it and you know Barr didn't) it will be a classic he said, she said issue (although it's actually a he said, he said...).

Barr can lie through his teeth here and deny ANYTHING he said. Keep in mind Barr also had his lawyer staff listen in per media reports and being the 'effin liars they all are, can deny ANY charge Mueller tries to refute them on.

One can only hope the line was bugged and although Mueller himself didn't record anything, one hopes the FBI did. Even if this can't be used in court later, having a transcript could still prove very useful....and here's why.

Leaking the tape to Nadler's House committee would allow him and other majority representatives to frame a whole series of questions to be put to Barr in writing or, in a hearing (given he eventually appears.). He would be in real jeapordy of lying to Congress again since he would not have guessed the logic behind the questions until it was too late.

[srobertss]

8. It was interesting to watch him respond to the request for the notes made during the call

It looked to me like little wheels were turning in his head about what those notes contained. Wonder if they are now busy recreating those notes.

Part of me worries Müeller doesn’t want to publicly refute Barr. And that the only reason Graham sent the letter is because he already knows this and is using the letter to warn him that any cooperation with Nadler will be framed that way.

If Müeller really wanted to take a serious stand, why did he refuse to make a statement that Trump could be indicted for obstruction if he weren’t president? Especially if Barr told him privately what he said publicly, that he shouldn’t have even investigated if he wasn’t going to make a decision on whether he could be indicted as a private citizen.

I probably just need to unplug and quit my hand wringing until we hear one way or the other about the House hearing.

[ArizonaLib]

14. I bet Mueller has his own notes

I am sure this will be investigated by the house. I am also sure that Barr would refuse sharing his office's the notes forever (maybe not redacted ones).

I hope Nancy brings the House!

[Cold War Spook]

18. Do you have to tell the other person that there is someone else listening to the conversation?

That is the only way I would talk to someone like Graham.

[awesomerwb1]

6. I thought Lindsey said it was over???

Just trying one more thing* to try to trip up Mueller, but than it's over. Promise.

*Just the call?

[marble falls]

7. I think Sen Elmer Fudd is trying to set a trap.

[elfin]

9. Hope Mueller responds that he would be happy to answer that

and other questions when he comes before the whole committee as Barr did.

[elleng]

10. Yes

[riversedge]

11. Would be wonderful if he did that. Why should Lindsey be the only one to ask a question!!

[BigmanPigman]

12. Did he get the idea from Klobuchar?

She sent Mueller a letter after Barr sort of told her to ask him her question earlier this week during his testimony. Rachel Maddow discussed this last night on her show.

[elleng]

13. Right.

Maybe he did!

[DeminPennswoods]

15. Didn't Graham say "It's done. It's over."

when responding to a reporter's question about the Mueller report? Don't know why he'd give two hoots about what Mueller thinks.

[elleng]

16. Yes, he did.

Someone(s) getting to him, suggesting 'it's over' not such a good thing for him/repugs to say???