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   From: deplorable.redneck@nytimes.com   
      
   No collusion.   
      
   All we know at this point is that Special Counsel Robert Mueller   
   delivered his report on Russia’s interference in the 2016   
   presidential election to Attorney General William Barr on   
   Friday. What we don’t know is how the attorney general will   
   handle the report.   
      
   Barr has several options. The fairest would be to immediately   
   turn the report over to President Trump’s legal team and give   
   them a week to write a response. Barr could then issue both   
   reports simultaneously so that the American public could judge   
   the comparative merits of both sides of this adversarial process.   
      
   But there may well be pressures on the attorney general to send   
   the report to Congress – thus making it public – as soon as he   
   can vet it for possible national security omissions. If that’s   
   what the attorney general does, then it is imperative that the   
   American public withhold conclusions about the report until the   
   Trump legal team has had the opportunity to respond in the court   
   of public opinion.   
      
   This is crucial because prosecutorial reports – and Special   
   Counsel Mueller is a prosecutor – are, by their very nature, one-   
   sided. Prosecutors only listen to inculpatory evidence rather   
   than including exculpatory evidence. They interview witnesses   
   against the subject, but not witnesses in favor of the subject.   
   That is why the Trump legal defense team needs to provide its   
   assessment of the Mueller investigation.   
      
   Americans are impatient. The Mueller investigation has gone on   
   since May 2017. So, there will be an impulse to arrive at   
   judgments, at least preliminary ones, without waiting for the   
   rebuttal.   
      
   The Mueller report itself might give us some clues as to the   
   manner in which the investigation was conducted. How much   
   reliance was placed on bought or rented witness? That is,   
   defendants who were given the opportunity to cooperate with   
   prosecutors in order to reduce their sentences.   
      
   Great caution ought to be exercised in accepting evidence from   
   any such source, especially since they have not been cross-   
   examined or subject to other challenges. We may also learn about   
   whether there are any ongoing investigations by ordinary federal   
   prosecutors in New York, Washington or Virginia.   
      
   In addition, we may see a roadmap for further investigations by   
   Congress.   
      
   It is unlikely that the president will be charged with   
   obstruction of justice for firing FBI Director James Comey,   
   especially since the person overseeing the Mueller   
   investigation, Rod Rosenstein, was centrally involved in that   
   decision, offering the memorandum that justified it.   
      
   Nor is it likely that the president or his campaign will be   
   charged with any sort of collusion since there is no such crime   
   in the criminal code. It is possible that we may see some   
   allegations of campaign law violations, but those are likely to   
   be rather technical and not rise to the level of an impeachable   
   offense.   
      
   So hold your breath and stay tuned, America. And please, don’t   
   rush to judgment until you have not only read this report but   
   any response the Trump legal team may offer. You will hear more   
   from me once I’ve had an opportunity to read the report and any   
   response.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/alan-dershowitz-mueller-just-   
   filed-russia-report-heres-what-barr-should-do-with-it   
                 
      
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