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Robert S. Mueller III served as special counsel for the Justice Department from 2017 to 2019.
The work of the special counsel’s office — its report, indictments, guilty pleas and convictions — should speak for itself. But I feel compelled to respond both to broad claims that our investigation was illegitimate and our motives were improper, and to specific claims that Roger Stone was a victim of our office. The Russia investigation was of paramount importance. Stone was prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes. He remains a convicted felon, and rightly so.
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The jury ultimately convicted Stone of obstruction of a congressional investigation, five counts of making false statements to Congress and tampering with a witness. Because his sentence has been commuted, he will not go to prison. But his conviction stands.
Russian efforts to interfere in our political system, and the essential question of whether those efforts involved the Trump campaign, required investigation. In that investigation, it was critical for us (and, before us, the FBI) to obtain full and accurate information. Likewise, it was critical for Congress to obtain accurate information from its witnesses. When a subject lies to investigators, it strikes at the core of the government’s efforts to find the truth and hold wrongdoers accountable. It may ultimately impede those efforts.
We made every decision in Stone’s case, as in all our cases, based solely on the facts and the law and in accordance with the rule of law. The women and men who conducted these investigations and prosecutions acted with the highest integrity. Claims to the contrary are false.
Justice in America is dead. We used to talk about damage to it. We used to remark with each setback how difficult it would be to promote justice around the world. We were deluding ourselves. Justice has been near death for decades.Trump, Barr & McConnell, have however, killed it.
Black Americans have, of course, long known this. Even though black incarceration have fallen, blacks make up a third of our prison populations, almost three times their proportion of the overall population. Hispanics are also over-represented in prisons. Whites--much under-repr
That's a travesty of justice--that compounds the injustices that result from grotesque income inequalities in America, educational inequalities, and the healthcare inequalities that we have seen manifested again during this COVID crisis.
But, we have also seen the breakdown of our justice system in many other ways. Since the founding of this country, there has always been two systems of justice--one for the rich and one for the rest of us.
Those who are well-connected and can afford lawyers do much better.
They can spend years litigating. Wall Street firms see fines in the millions of dollars as a mere cost of doing business. Trump in private life as in public life has used the legal system like a cudgel against his enemies (and suppliers) & to hide from accountability himself.
All this pre-dated Trump, as did the way the powerful escaped justice. Nixon: Pardoned. Iran-Contra felons: Pardoned. War criminals whose lies resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands in Iraq: No stomach to prosecute them.
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Thread by @djrothkopf: Justice in America is dead. We used to talk about damage to it. We used to remark with each setback how difficult it would be to promote jus…
Black Americans have, of course, long known this. Even though black incarceration have fallen, blacks make up a third of our prison populations, almost three times their proportion of the overall population. Hispanics are also over-represented in prisons. Whites--much under-repr
That's a travesty of justice--that compounds the injustices that result from grotesque income inequalities in America, educational inequalities, and the healthcare inequalities that we have seen manifested again during this COVID crisis.
But, we have also seen the breakdown of our justice system in many other ways. Since the founding of this country, there has always been two systems of justice--one for the rich and one for the rest of us.
Those who are well-connected and can afford lawyers do much better.
They can spend years litigating. Wall Street firms see fines in the millions of dollars as a mere cost of doing business. Trump in private life as in public life has used the legal system like a cudgel against his enemies (and suppliers) & to hide from accountability himself.
All this pre-dated Trump, as did the way the powerful escaped justice. Nixon: Pardoned. Iran-Contra felons: Pardoned. War criminals whose lies resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands in Iraq: No stomach to prosecute them.
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Thread by @djrothkopf: Justice in America is dead. We used to talk about damage to it. We used to remark with each setback how difficult it would be to promote jus…
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