What the AG is going to do is whitewash the report.

Matt Taibbi has the obituary.

Or, from the Washington Post,

Every report on past presidential scandal was a warning. Why didn’t we listen?

“No group of prosecutors and supporting personnel ever have labored under greater public scrutiny,” the special counsel report declares on its opening page. “Every decision seemed to be a delicate one and previously uncharted courses frequently had to be faced. Each action occurred in the midst of a national turmoil.”

It was 1975, and the Watergate Special Prosecution Force had just issued a lengthy report after 28 months investigating Richard Nixon’s administration and his campaign

Embedded in all of these reports are strident calls for reform, urgent pleas for citizens to defend their democracy, grudging conclusions that new laws or old guardrails alone will not protect us, and, above all, the simple exhortation to elect leaders of integrity.

“Watergate was not invented by enemies of the Nixon Administration or even by the news media,” he wrote in his opening statement to the committee’s massive 1974 report. “On the contrary, Watergate was perpetrated upon America by White House and political aides, whom President Nixon himself had entrusted with the management of his campaign for reelection.”

So much of this article can be modified for the current administration.

“Russiagate was not invented by enemies of the Trump Administration or even by the news media,” he wrote in his opening statement to the committee’s massive 2019 report. “On the contrary, Russiagate was perpetrated upon America by White House and political aides, whom President Trump himself had entrusted with the management of his campaign for reelection.”

The report of the Senate committee, appearing just weeks before Trump’s resignation, detailed the offenses of the Russiagate era: the broad effort to destroy the integrity of the electoral process, the hush-money payments and assurances of clemency for some of the original defendants, the use of federal agencies as instruments of political revenge and electoral machination, and so much more.

Will there be a Sam Ervin, Howard Baker, Fred Thompson, etc. to review the report and confront the president?

the Taibbi article is great!

unfortunately, liberals may not wake up from this russiagate fever dream in time to realize they have to present a real alternative to the politics of the reactionary right.

the fake #resistance‘s choice to consume conspiracy theories promoted by mass media instead of developing & promoting a popular left politics has done little else but fortify public support for the trump administration heading into the next cycle.

one of the worst things about the years of russiagate BS was that it allowed liberals to fantasize that the win & governance by trump was something both foreign and abnormal, rather than what it actually is: a distillation of the nation's dominate ideology, 100% made in america

here's a quote from a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend that i liked :

Not a profound observation, but the reason this Mueller bullshit became so intoxicating for liberals was because it reinforced core elements of their worldview: conflict between countries (and patriotically closing ranks toward ones "own" country), seeing the state as a neutral arbiter of justice, and, relatedly, fundamental hostility or suspicion of class conflict and mass mobilization as the motor of change.

CNN:

The Special Counsel’s investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 US Presidential Election.

Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said the evidence gathered in the special counsel’s investigation was “not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense,” Barr wrote.

love 2 tell queer people that they were “giddy when trump won” when they criticize a liberal conspiracy fandom that served as a placeholder for having a winning political strategy

I want to read as much of the report as possible. I think it may expose Chauncy Gardener.

More Taibbi worth reading.

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This describes my GF's mum perfectly. She's sat in front of MSNBC night after night for the past two years, lapping it up. I'd really like to know how shocked she is at the news, but I'm scared to ask. So is the GF.