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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Barr's current line appears to be "it will take us weeks to get the redactions done" before he can release anything, even to Congress.
I'm a corporate attorney and I've heard judges laugh at that line.
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Really? Because it routinely takes people weeks to redact discovery responses of a similar size. Why do you think most discovery deadlines in state and fed rules allow 30 days for response (which is routinely extended by agreement of counsel)?
Also, why wouldn't the brevity and speed of Barr's letter, along with the fact that he has admitted Mueller gave him a heads-up on the report weeks ago, indicate that:
1. Barr had a summary of the report, either verbally or written or both, from Mueller long before the actual report was given to him; and,
2. He worked with Mueller in advance to get a letter together (they are friends and have a professional history), which allowed him to offer one so quickly (he certainly didn't read 300 pages with exhibits over the weekend).
When Mueller delivered his report, by law a notice he'd done so was required to be filed in Court. Barr and Mueller both knew this, and so knew that there would be immense pressure put on Barr to issue something to the public very quickly. While I absolutely believe that the report will contain saucy, sleazy, and ugly bon mots regarding Trump, and Barr may attempt to avoid their disclosure, the speed and brevity of the Barr letter may be 1 part conspiracy to hide bad facts and 5 parts coordination between Mueller and Barr in advance to release something as quickly as possible.
I mean, we all agree there's no way:
1. Barr is misrepresenting Mueller on the material, big issue (collusion);
2. Barr wrote that letter over the weekend; or,
3. Barr or his staff read all the material in the report over the weekend.
This letter and its release were weeks in the making, and that planning could only occur if Mueller was coordinating on some level with Barr, and we already know that his office had tipped off Barr regarding the report a few weeks ago.
Given this timing, if you think Barr's letter is a ratfuck, you also have to think or at least suspect that possibly Mueller was partly in on the ratfuck. One can think anything he likes, but that would some wildly unusual thinking.
