Russiagate: What The Media Didn’t Get

Russiagate: What The Media Didn’t Get
Then-president Barack Obama (L) talks with then-FBI director James Comey on October 28, 2013. JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images
Ronald J. Rychlak
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The Mueller report is in. According to Attorney General William Barr, it clears the president and his team of any charges of collusion with the Russians.

The report left open the issue of obstruction, but that is a hard case to make without an underlying crime (such as collusion). Reviewing the evidence, Barr concluded that it was insufficient for him to proceed with a prosecution for obstruction.

Ronald J. Rychlak
Ronald J. Rychlak
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Ronald J. Rychlak is the Jamie L. Whitten chair in law and government at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of several books, including “Hitler, the War, and the Pope,” “Disinformation” (co-authored with Ion Mihai Pacepa), and “The Persecution and Genocide of Christians in the Middle East” (co-edited with Jane Adolphe).
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