Until further notice, disappointed in Mueller

Not just for not indicting Junior, and for not making a recommendation to charge Trump's obstruction of justice, but this:

Special counsel Robert Mueller was expected to step down days after concluding his investigation in March. Yet he remains a Justice Department employee — and the department won’t say why.

  

Until I know the reason, I have to assume it's Mueller's choice.

Whatever role Mueller now has, keeping him on the Justice Department payroll offers one clear advantage to President Donald Trump’s administration: It makes it easier for Attorney General William Barr to block Mueller from testifying before Congress.

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Barr has said repeatedly he doesn’t object to Mueller testifying. But he may defer to the wishes of Trump, who tweeted last weekend: “Bob Mueller should not testify. No redos for the Dems!”

I wouldn't say that's a "may". I'd say it's a sure bet.

The president stewed for days about the prospect of the media coverage that would be given to Mueller, a man Trump believes has been unfairly lionized across cable news and the front pages of the nation’s leading newspapers for two years, according to three White House officials and Republicans close to the White House.

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While Trump told those around him that Mueller had “exonerated” him, a sense was growing in the West Wing that the special counsel’s gravitas would add weight to some of the politically damaging and embarrassing material about Trump in the special counsel’s report. Although the president had previously indicated he would not have a problem if Mueller testified, he lashed out against the prospect over the weekend, furthering his administration’s efforts to stonewall all Democratic lines of inquiry.

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Trump feared a repeat — but bigger — of the February testimony of his former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, which dominated news coverage and even overshadowed a nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam.

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While Mueller is a Justice Department employee, the department would generally handle requests for him to appear before Congress, and the Justice Department could delay or block Mueller from voluntarily appearing. Congress could issue a subpoena to compel him to appear before the committee.

It isn’t clear what grounds the Justice Department would use to justify an attempt to block Mueller’s testimony.

The same as they're using to keep the full Mueller report from the Judiciary Committee: We don't have to if we don't want to. Try and make us.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said last week the committee was “firming up the date” for Mueller’s testimony and hoping it would be May 15.

Hoping. I was led to believe it was all but certain. That's what I get for relying on a Twitter statement.

Barr has already defied a subpoena to provide the full, unredacted version of Mueller’s report, and Nadler has scheduled a Wednesday vote to hold the attorney general in contempt of Congress.

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On the day the report was turned over to Barr, Mueller’s spokesman, Peter Carr, issued a statement saying that Mueller would be “concluding his service within the coming days.” He said a small staff remained at the special counsel’s office to “assist in closing the operations of the office.”

When asked Monday about Mueller’s continued employment, Carr said he had nothing to add beyond that March 22 statement.

Also, Barr should be charged with obstruction of justice for his refusal to turn over the full report, and add stonewalling, plus intention to deny or delay Mueller's testimony.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.