Emptywheel Blog - Questions to Ask Before Reporting a Breaking Mueller Report
This blog has pretty much been spot on about the investigation reveals:
THE CONCLUSORY REPORT IS NOT COMING NEXT WEEK
When most people think of the Mueller report, they mean this report, dictated by the Special Counsel regulations.
At the conclusion of the Special Counsels work, he or she shall provide the Attorney General with a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions reached by the Special Counsel.
When Mueller is done, he has to submit a confidential report to the Attorney General (who is now Muellers friend William Barr) telling him what he did and didnt do. Given everything Barr said as part of his confirmation process, were unlikely to see this report.
To assess whether this report is what Pete Williams thinks is coming, we should assess whether public evidence is consistent with Mueller being done.
The answer to that is clearly no. Hes still chasing testimony from Roger Stone flunkie Andrew Miller and from some foreign owned corporation (and has been chasing that, in the case of Miller, since last May).
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ANY OVERARCHING CONSPIRACY INDICTMENT WILL NOT BE COMING THIS WEEK
Its possible Mueller is close to charging an overarching conspiracy indictment, laying out how Trump and his spawn entered into a quid quo pro with various representatives of the Russian government, getting dirt on Hillary and either a Trump Tower or maybe a bailout for the very same building in which Manafort met with Konstantin Kilimnik on August 2, 2016. In exchange for all that, Trump agreed to and took steps to deliver on, with some success in the case of election plot participant Deripaska reversing the sanctions that were such a headache to Russias oligarchs.
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MUELLER COULD ENSURE A REPORT GETS DELIVERED TO JERRY NADLER NEXT WEEK
BUT THATS UNLIKELY
Theres one other possibility that would make Williams prediction true: if Mueller deliberately triggered the one other way to deliver a report, by asking to take an action William Barr is unlikely to approve, and if Mueller was willing to close up shop as a result, then a report would go to Congress and if Barr thought it in the public interest to the public.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/02/20/questions-to-ask-before-reporting-a-breaking-mueller-report/