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Ten Senators on the Judiciary Committee have documented over sixty questions that they want to get answered by Robert Mueller, under oath. Questions they feel were not totally addressed in the Redacted Mueller Report.
This List was reported by Maddow last night. My curiosity was piqued by that report, thus the follow-up on that soon-to-be historical document today. Here are some of the more incisive questions for Mueller, which were categorized under the major sections (shown in bold, below):
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Unanswered Questions from the Mueller Report
Set out below are several key issues and questions based on the redacted version of the "Report on the Investigation Into Russian Interference In the 2016 Presidential Election," released to the public on April 18, 2019. This is not an exhaustive list of issues or questions, and Members may have additional areas of concern and questions.
Russian Interference Offers of assistance from Russia or its potential intermediaries to the Trump campaign, including the June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
• Was the office able to determine why none of the Trump campaign officials who learned of offers of assistance from Russia or who received such offers directly never reported those offers to US law enforcement officials?
Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's sharing of internal campaign strategy and polling data with Russian operative Konstantin Kilimnik.
• To what degree was the investigation able to determine why Paul Manafort volunteered to work for the Trump campaign for free, and whether he discussed the possibility of joining the Trump campaign team with foreign nationals?
• To what degree was your investigation able to determine whether members of the campaign other than Rick Gates were aware that internal campaign strategy and polling data was being shared with Kilimnik? [Vol. I, p. 136]
Trump campaign efforts to benefit from Russian hacking and WikiLeaks' release of stolen documents.
• To what degree did your investigation examine the role of Cambridge Analytica, AggregateIQ (AIQ), or SCL Group in the 2016 election? Did your investigation examine the possibility that US election or Trump campaign information was shared with Russia through these entities?
• How did the non-cooperation of witnesses, including efforts to conceal or destroy evidence, impact your ability to uncover all contacts between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and Julian Assange or other representatives of WikiLeaks?
Trump Campaign efforts to obtain Hillary Clinton's emails.
• Was the Office able to determine whether then-candidate Trump was updated on the efforts to obtain Clinton's emails?
Trump campaign efforts to establish "back channel" communications with Russia.
• To what degree was your investigation able to determine the content of these back channel communications between Trump campaign and Russian government representatives?
Trump personal and business ties with Russia, including Trump Tower Moscow (2015-2016).
• To what degree was your investigation able to determine whether the Kremlin encouraged Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov or his son Emin to develop a personal and business relationship with Donald Trump and members of his family?
• To what degree was your investigation able to determine the extent of efforts by Michael Cohen and Felix Sater, who had served as "an informal agent of the Trump Campaign in Moscow" [Vol. I, p. 69], to garner Kremlin support for the Trump Tower Moscow project and Donald Trump's campaign for president? Was the investigation able to determine the extent of the ties between the Kremlin and intermediaries in Russia who were in contact with Sater?
• To what degree was your investigation able to determine whether the Trump Tower Moscow project was part of an effort to gain influence over Donald Trump?
• To what degree was your investigation able to determine whether the Kremlin encouraged any other efforts to develop personal and business ties to Donald Trump?
Their letter is addressed to the Chair of their Committee, Lindsey Graham. SO the chances of Mueller actually being called in to testify, range from nil, to the distance between Lindsey’s lips and Donald Trump’s buttocks.
BUT, their questions would serve as a good Road Map for the other Committees, who ARE likely to call in Mueller.
A good Road Map too for any thinking, caring American who is fed up with the on-going Trump obstruction and abuse of power. Sick and tired of Trump’s on-going-shredding of every American value and norm.
Hit the link.
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PS. Just discovered that there was another post on the topic from 7am today:
by Mark Sumner
Please, check that post out too.