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You play this game of pretending you can't see into someone head when you want to defend them. You don't like Pence, so he's a liar. But CNN is biased for saying that Trump is lying when he is lying. And so on. It's super tired.
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Oh, fuck... It's Pence. He's the worst.
And it's the same game you play. You just gave the benefit to Yglesias while infering the worst on the part of Barr.
It is tiring. When you do it here, and you do it all the time, it's tiring. It's also predictable.
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We know a lot about what Mueller has found, without Barr's letter, because he has prosecuted people and made many court filings. You choose to pretend that none of that is knowable.
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Those findings undo Mueller's finding that Trump was not involved in a criminal conspiracy how? Shall we list the crimes to which these people plead guilty to demonstrate how little they refute Mueller's ultimate finding there was no conspiracy? Of course, if we do that, you'll pull the Pavlovian, "But Trump only escaped because Manafort and Stone refused to dime him out." Right.
Like I said, more predictable than the weather.
When this report comes out, if there's nothing terribly damaging in it, I wonder how long it will take you to start claiming the really bad stuff is in the redactions. I truly hope they release this thing with old school black bar redactions, in context of the original text, so that a reader can develop a sense of whether what was redacted was material or not. Otherwise, we risk this stupid guessing game - about which none of the public gives a shit except weirdos like us - going on forever.
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