With most Congressional Democrats still stunned from the anticlimatic publication of Mueller's "Russiagate" report, which found that Trump did not collude with Russia, many have been desperate to hear Mueller's side of the story perhaps in hopes that he will unveil some smoking gun in public while the others have quietly turned on Mueller, asking why after a two year probe, he failed to put Trump behind bars.
Now, after the latest development in the never-ending Russia "Witch hunt" to paraphrase the president, it won't be long before virtually all Democrats are convinced that Mueller himself must also a Putin plant.
According to Bloomberg, which cites three people familiar with the special counsel's position, Robert Mueller has balked at testifying publicly before Congress, pushing instead for a closed-door appearance in negotiations with House Democrats.
As the WaPo reported earlier, Mueller III and House Democrats "Have been unable to reach an agreement on how much of the special counsel's expected congressional testimony would be public, and how much would take place in private, according to people familiar with the matter."
The special counsel's office, along with senior Justice Department officials, has been quietly negotiating with the House Judiciary Committee, whose chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, has been eager to have Mueller testify as soon as possible.
With hundreds of former prosecutors - mostly Democrats - recently opining that Trump would have been charged with obstruction, based on the case Mueller detailed, Democrats are hoping that Mueller might say as much himself if pressed to testify.
So far House Democrats have been unable to get any current government officials to publicly testify about Mueller's findings, and the White House asserted executive privilege to fight a subpoena for the unredacted report and the underlying evidence.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-21/mueller-refuses-testify-publicly-congress-infuriating-democrats
Now, after the latest development in the never-ending Russia "Witch hunt" to paraphrase the president, it won't be long before virtually all Democrats are convinced that Mueller himself must also a Putin plant.
According to Bloomberg, which cites three people familiar with the special counsel's position, Robert Mueller has balked at testifying publicly before Congress, pushing instead for a closed-door appearance in negotiations with House Democrats.
As the WaPo reported earlier, Mueller III and House Democrats "Have been unable to reach an agreement on how much of the special counsel's expected congressional testimony would be public, and how much would take place in private, according to people familiar with the matter."
The special counsel's office, along with senior Justice Department officials, has been quietly negotiating with the House Judiciary Committee, whose chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, has been eager to have Mueller testify as soon as possible.
With hundreds of former prosecutors - mostly Democrats - recently opining that Trump would have been charged with obstruction, based on the case Mueller detailed, Democrats are hoping that Mueller might say as much himself if pressed to testify.
So far House Democrats have been unable to get any current government officials to publicly testify about Mueller's findings, and the White House asserted executive privilege to fight a subpoena for the unredacted report and the underlying evidence.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-21/mueller-refuses-testify-publicly-congress-infuriating-democrats
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