{"id":36270,"date":"2019-03-27T01:48:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T01:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36270"},"modified":"2019-03-27T01:48:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T01:48:43","slug":"release-the-findings-sooner-not-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36270","title":{"rendered":"Release the findings sooner, not later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mueller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36271\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mueller-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mueller-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mueller.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reports out of Washington now tell us that Attorney General William Barr is going to release special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s findings on collusion in &#8220;weeks, not months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is a good thing. Although I would prefer the reports would have said &#8220;days, not weeks or months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t join the chorus that sings the tune that Barr might be running interference for the guy who appointed him, Donald Trump. I still believe the attorney general is enough of a stand-up guy to do the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller&#8217;s 22-month investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russians ended with a determination that the campaign did not collude. It has sparked shouts of joy among Republicans and groans of dismay among Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t yet know for ourselves what Mueller has determined. All we&#8217;ve seen and heard so far is Barr&#8217;s interpretation of what Mueller found. I want to see the real thing, as much of it as possible, with own eyes. I want to digest those findings for myself.<\/p>\n<p>I want AG Barr to disprove fears of many critics that he&#8217;s a Trump toadie who is doing the president&#8217;s bidding. He did take an oath to defend the Constitution and did not swear any particular loyalty to the president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>As for any possible GOP resistance to releasing the findings to the public, I only can ask: If those findings shore up what we&#8217;ve been told already, that Donald Trump is in the clear, isn&#8217;t it in everyone&#8217;s best interest to see those findings as quickly as possible?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reports out of Washington now tell us that Attorney General William Barr is going to release special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s findings on collusion in &#8220;weeks, not months.&#8221; That is a good thing. Although I would prefer the reports would have said &#8220;days, not weeks or months.&#8221; I won&#8217;t join the chorus that sings the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36270\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Release the findings sooner, not later<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,14],"tags":[7131,1424,3983,7093,8203],"class_list":["post-36270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-collusion","tag-donald-trump","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe","tag-william-barr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36272,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36270\/revisions\/36272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}