Opinion: We don’t need to see more of the Mueller report. It’s clear Trump obstructed justice.
By Walter Dellinger Walter Dellinger Bio Follow May 15 at 3:30 PM Walter Dellinger was head of the Office of Legal Counsel from 1993 to 1996.
And if you thought the report was merely inconclusive, your natural reaction would be that you need to know more. You would say something like what many House Democrats are repeating endlessly: “We need to see the redactions” and “hear from witnesses” — suggesting that there is as of yet no sufficient basis for judging President Trump’s conduct.
I do not doubt that Congress’s investigatory oversight function is important, legitimate and firmly grounded historically. The president’s response that “we will fight all subpoenas” is unprecedented and ominous. Getting special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and former White House counsel Donald McGahn to testify is a valid and important objective.
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