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Mueller says deleted information could have changed the course of his
Mueller says deleted information could have changed the course of his investigation April 18, 2019
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Attorney General William Barr announced definitively on Thursday that there was "no collusion" between President Trump, his campaign, or any Americans and the Russian government during the 2016 election. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report, though, was decidedly more hesitant about making such confident claims. In a key part of the text highlighted by The Associated Press' Zeke Miller, Mueller notes that his investigation was hindered by witnesses invoking "their Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination," by witnesses living overseas, and that "even when individuals testified or agreed to be interviewed, they sometimes provided information that was false or incomplete."
The most concerning caveat, though, was that Mueller admitted "relevant communications" were deleted by some of the individuals who were interviewed by the special counsel's team, or were otherwise encrypted or written using an application that didn't provide "long-term retention of data." As a result, "the Office was not able to corroborate witness statements through comparison to contemporaneous communications or fully question witnesses about statements that appeared inconsistent with other known facts."
Here's his key passage:
[W]hile this report embodies factual and legal determinations that the Office believes to be accurate and complete to the greatest extent possible, given these identified gaps, the Office cannot rule out the possibility that the unavailable information would shed additional light on (or cast in a new light) the events described in the report. [The Department of Justice]
Mueller appears to leave open the possibility that he could have reached different conclusions if such communications had been available to his team. Read the full text of his long-awaited report here.
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Re: Mueller says deleted information could have changed the course of his
IOW, Team Trump did exactly of what they accused Clan Clinton.
Trump has a long, long legal history of "lacking" necessary documentation.
However Mueller established and confirmed Trump as a chronic, habitual and maliciously pathological liar. That sets up avenues by which future prosecutors can impeach Trump for lying, so destruction of incriminating evidence is more likely, and the evidence may be unnecessary for moving forward with a case where the missing documentation would otherwise be crucial.
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Re: Mueller says deleted information could have changed the course of his
It's mostly Paul Manafort who used encrypted email and deleted communications from several accounts that can't be recovered.
Also Russian communications that Mueller couldn't access. Not so much tRUMP or his admin that deleted communications. But only that NONE of his official meetings with Putin have documented discussions.
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