Opinion: The conclusion of the Mueller probe laid bare grave institutional failures
By Harry Litman Harry Litman Contributing columnist focused on legal issues Bio Follow Contributing columnist April 18 at 3:32 PM The most important day concerning the 22-month inquiry by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III quickly became deeply unsettling Thursday, laying bare grave failures by nearly all of the institutions and officials to which the country has been looking for answers to public questions of surpassing importance.
The style and form of Barr’s news conference was even more one-sided. Barr crescendoed repeatedly at his several declarations echoing the president’s mantra of “no collusion” . And the most bizarre aspect of the entire performance was his sympathetic portrayal of the president’s overwrought state of mind, resembling every bit a personal defense attorney rather than the chief law enforcement officer of the United States.
Next, it has to be said that Superman himself met some kryptonite. There had been speculation that Mueller had declined to make a bottom-line, “traditional prosecutorial determination” in order to leave that decision to Congress. Mueller alluded to that option in the report, but he offered up what was essentially a non-decision.
There is, however, another interpretation of Mueller’s conduct. At the very end of the voluminous report, Mueller writes that “the conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President’s corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law.
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