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On Tuesday, the Special Counsel’s Office filed the following memorandum in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia describing false statements made by Paul Manafort after Manafort entered a cooperation agreement with the special prosecutor. The document is partially redacted.
Two 1973 hearings to confirm two attorneys general offer guidance to senators who want to use the hearings this week to protect the Mueller investigation.
What’s most troubling about the story is what it seems to say about the FBI and its leadership.
Questions about the legal basis for, and prudence of, treating the president as a national security threat.
Although I find the president’s behavior shocking, I am not shocked, or at least not surprised, at the FBI’s investigative response.
Between Friday’s New York Times story and other earlier material, we might be in a position to revisit the relationship between the “collusion” and obstruction components of the Mueller investigation.
The White House is finally bulking up with competent lawyers to face the impending confrontation its expects over Robert Mueller’s final report. But Mueller knows how to write a document that will be peculiarly resistant to suppression.
A note of caution.
It’s not about L’Affaire Russe, but the indictment of Natalia Veselnitskaya tells a remarkable story about Russian abuse of the U.S. judicial system.
On Tuesday, Magistrate Judge Katharine H. Parker of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York unsealed a Dec. 20 indictment charging Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who attended the 2016 Trump Tower meeting, with one count of obstruction of justice in an unrelated civil proceeding connected to a money-laundering case.