The Straw-Grasping Is Incredible
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Bold And Adversarial Journalism, A Play in Three Acts.
Act I:
Grateful to my millennial research assistant for collecting these so I don’t have to pic.twitter.com/kWk0SECkUU— David Klion🔥 (@DavidKlion) April 30, 2019
He has truly earned his transportation stipend and college credit this evening pic.twitter.com/vBfLNlu6y8— David Klion🔥 (@DavidKlion) May 1, 2019
And just to finish out with some Taibbi, since I think ppl get the point by now…..
It’s amazing that people won’t let this go. The straw-gasping is incredible. pic.twitter.com/2dEqUONHtZ— Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 (@Wilson__Valdez) April 30, 2019
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III wrote a letter in late March complaining to Attorney General William P. Barr that a four-page memo to Congress describing the principal conclusions of the investigation into President Trump “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of Mueller’s work, according to a copy of the letter reviewed Tuesday by The Washington Post.
At the time the letter was sent on March 27, Barr had announced that Mueller had not found a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian officials seeking to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. Barr also said Mueller had not reached a conclusion about whether Trump had tried to obstruct justice, but Barr reviewed the evidence and found it insufficient to support such a charge.
Days after Barr’s announcement, Mueller wrote a previously unknown private letter to the Justice Department, which revealed a degree of dissatisfaction with the public discussion of Mueller’s work that shocked senior Justice Department officials, according to people familiar with the discussions.
The raspberry road that led to Abu Ghraib was paved with bland assumptions that people who had repeatedly proved their untrustworthiness, could be trusted. There is much made by people who long for the days of their fourth form debating society about the fallacy of “argumentum ad hominem”. There is, as I have mentioned in the past, no fancy Latin term for the fallacy of “giving known liars the benefit of the doubt”, but it is in my view a much greater source of avoidable error in the world. Audit is meant to protect us from this, which is why audit is so important.