>>6617277

Report's vol two lacked evidence of obstruction. Pointed at new stories – mostly those that made assertions and innuendo of wrongdoing via anonymous sources. That is all his team produced. Shallow allegations. Unsubstantiated.

So regardless of constitutionality of an indictment (sealed or otherwise), there was nothing in the burger.

But his additional point about sealed indictment being unconstitutional is a bit strained, really. The constitutional restriction, as inferred by DOJ policy analysts and policy-makers of previous Admins, is inapplicable to someone who is no longer a sitting president.

Can lawfags clear this up? If the indictment is sealed, on ice until the individual is no longer in office, would that not be constitutional?

>>6617287

Ordinarily, a two-volume report would not have been written. It was written for public consumption. His team wrote it knowing it would be released.

Prosecutors do not write such reports because of the role of the prosecution in a judicial system based on the presumption of innocence. The correct way to speak, is prosecution. There is no duty to announced on innocence. The Mueller team was not, is not, the investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury.

Mueller has managed to blur the Rule of Law into a smudge on his forehead. Dope.

Also, he is not the Supreme Court. He does not decide what is and is not constitutional. Well beyond his job.

Put it this way. He could have written a two-page brief that stated the conclusion. Any further explanation would have been part of the process of reaching the conclusion – a process that entails back and forth, and not published, discussions within the DOJ.

The Mueller team came up with a strange theory about how to construct a charge of obstruction of justice. They floated it and it went over like a concrete balloon. So not even their eagerness can justify the claim that Mueller would have written in the report that President Trump was innocent of obstruction of justice if he thought that was true.

Mueller has done a deep disservice to his country. Supposedly this was his legacy move as a man of the Law. Humph.