61% think mueller will find trump comitted an impeachable or criminal offense

[WuWei]

Was he the head of the OLC?

[TheDoctorIsIn]

@WuWei

Was he the head of the OLC?

Yes, of course.

https://www.justice.gov/olc

ABOUT THE OFFICE

By delegation from the Attorney General, the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel provides legal advice to the President and all executive branch agencies. The Office drafts legal opinions of the Attorney General and provides its own written opinions and other advice in response to requests from the Counsel to the President, the various agencies of the Executive Branch, and other components of the Department of Justice. Such requests typically deal with legal issues of particular complexity and importance or those about which two or more agencies are in disagreement. The Office is also responsible for reviewing and commenting on the constitutionality of pending legislation.

[WuWei]

No. The OLC is an advisory group to the AG. Barr was not the head of the OLC.

[TheDoctorIsIn]

@WuWei

No. The OLC is an advisory group to the AG. Barr was not the head of the OLC.

Of course he was. He was at the top of the Org Chart.

[tnt]

@DougBH

The people who wanted the unredacted memo released wanted to show that Barr was acting on his own and had already made a decision. The judge agreed and ordered the memo released. The memo showed that indeed Barr was following the recommendations of those in the DOJ and not acting on his own.

Barr is the boss. The buck stops with him. Taking others advice, good. It’s still his final decision.

@DougBH

There was no crime to cover up.

That has absolutely no legal bearing on an obstruction of justice case.

@DougBH

There was no evidence hidden, there was no falsification of evidence.

These are not the only ways to obstruct justice.

Other ways include - firing the investigator.

[tnt]

@WuWei

No. The OLC is an advisory group to the AG. Barr was not the head of the OLC.

Is he obligated to take the advice of the OLC?

and BTW, the OLC works for the AG. They are under him.

[WuWei]

No, nobody is “obligated” to take advice.

Sure, if you say so. It’s not exactly like a stock boy being “under” the produce manager.

Please think.

[WuWei]

@TheDoctorIsIn

@WuWei

No. The OLC is an advisory group to the AG. Barr was not the head of the OLC.

Of course he was. He was at the top of the Org Chart.

Come on man!

[SixFoot]

@DougBH

The people who wanted the unredacted memo released wanted to show that Barr was acting on his own and had already made a decision. The judge agreed and ordered the memo released. The memo showed that indeed Barr was following the recommendations of those in the DOJ and not acting on his own. The reasoning of the memo was sound. There was no crime to cover up. There was no evidence hidden, there was no falsification of evidence. There was no obstruction.

It’s no wonder libs are always starved for drama.

[tnt]

If he’s not obligated to take their advice then he made his own decision.

The OLc works for the AG. That’s all.

[STODR]

Your right he did make a decision to follow their advice.

[WuWei]

Low, low information.

[DougBH]

Duh. That does not mean that he has to follow the recommendations of specialist analysts, as he can overrule them. In this case, he followed the recommendations as they were persuasive.

[JimmyC]

So they concluded that no reasonable prosecutor would have brought charges

[JimmyC]

As long as your requests to obstruct are for the right reasons and those who were asked to obstruct did not actually carry out the requests then it would be hard to make an obstruction case stick.

[tnt]

@JimmyC

As long as your requests to obstruct are for the right reasons and those who were asked to obstruct did not actually carry out the requests then it would be hard to make an obstruction case stick.

So much dumb.

“officer, I believed the car was mine. I was just taking it back.”

and:

“I asked a hit man to kill him, but he was busy that day, so no harm, no foul.”