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Mr. Mueller failed ignominiously at the worst possible moment
DEAR EDITOR,
The Robert Mueller Report is out. I think that is about the best thing I can say about it. It might have been better if this fiercely disputed investigation and long-awaited report had stayed suspended for as long as it could have been stretched out, given how and where it ended.
I think that Special Counsel Mueller’s partial summary, as disclosed by Attorney General Barr, raises more questions than answers. In fact, I have some difficulty determining where the answers are, and what they are really saying when found.
Looking closely at the carefully worded and hedged language of the Special Counsel synopsis, I come across more non- answers than any straight answer. Try as I might, I could not come across a single straight, definitive answer on any issue. It is this hodgepodge of guarded, neutral, and escapist verbiage that leaves matters more clouded than helpful. As freely acknowledged and repeatedly so, no conclusions are reached. Thus, there is this masterpiece of evasion, obfuscation and, truth be told, timidity.
It was expected that Special Counsel Mueller would have exhibited more intestinal fortitude and made a call; the hard call and several of them, in fact. Instead, he chose to walk and write straight down the middle in the equivalent of see some evil, but it is not really evil at the core; hear some perversities, but unwilling to interpret the audibles detected; and speak (write) a few pallid truths (if that is what they are) by saying what would require an oracle to unravel.
Mr. Mueller seemed determined to please everyone, by having it both ways. In my time, I have come across some nuanced language, but the kind in this report is so vague as to find a ready home in the Guyana Constitution.
Editor, it is no secret that I have little regard and less interest for the object of the investigation; that goes for his alleged foreign co-conspirators as well. Still, I believe that the summarized report opens the door for more partisan acrimonies and to keep the related political timebombs hanging menacingly in the air.
Supporters are already celebrating raucously taking their lead from their vindicated hero at the top; while opponents are not surrendering any inch and calling for the full report. There is trouble brewing there. Even if the language of the full report is as equivocating as the now public summary, political foes are sure to discover enough to take a view that it is the diametric opposite of exoneration. I do not see how they will not be able to; and particularly as such relates to obstruction of justice.
Already I foresee this draining, distracting affair continuing well into the future. This is not going anywhere anytime soon. The blame for this rests squarely on the shoulders of the suddenly fainthearted Special Counsel.
Given his insistent courage over the last two years, this one is peculiar and inexplicable. The very least Mr. Mueller could have left in the wake of this tedious, contentious investigation was that the president made serious errors of judgment and that he should be held accountable before the Congress.
Or, if the facts and circumstances did not so support, that the Chief Executive made no such misjudgments; then that, too, ought to have been said and written in the most unambiguous manner. Mr. Mueller took comfort and pride in doing neither. If this were a motion picture, it would be titled, The Great Escape.
Now the political dogfight and public hysterias start all over again (or continue unabated), and in several directions at once. Depending on the point of view, Mr. Mueller should be given a medal for his pains or condemned before history for wilting under the fire of expectations. I think he knows much better, and was better equipped to do better, way better. He failed ignominiously at the worst possible moment.
Sincerely,
GHK Lall
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