35 Questions for Bob Mueller

I teamed up with the great @AshaRangappa_ and @jgeltzer.

We came up with a list of questions the public has a right to know.

That's in addition to the 60 excellent questions from Senate Judiciary Committee Dems.

justsecurity.org/64137/what-con… <thread>

2. Think of our 35 questions as a supplement.

Here's a link to the 60 questions for Bob Mueller from the Senate Judiciary Committee Dems:

feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/…

What follows is a sample of some of the 35 questions that @jgeltzer @AshaRangappa_ and I came up with ...

3. Arguably the most important question on our list for Mueller is about missing counterintelligence analysis and why Congress has not been adequately briefed by Mueller/FBI.

For more background, read this important @pbumpinterview with @RepAdamSchiff:
washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…

4. Two of our questions for Mueller on #Obstruction get at ways of thinking about Volume 2 of the report that many commentaries have missed.

#21 is influenced by @SenAmyKlobuchar's great two rounds of questions of AG Barr in May.

#22 gets at the issue of "no underlying crime."

5. Qs #25 #26 get at what election law experts consider weakest, if not outright flawed, part of Mueller Report on conspiracy, which may have let Don Jr off the hook.

cc: @rickhasen @ThePaulSRyan

For more, former White House Counsel Bob Bauer's critique:
justsecurity.org/63920/the-fail…

6. Question #27 gets at a key issue @SethAbramson has homed in on.

The missing analysis in Mueller Report of potential conspiracy/collusion involving any quid pro quo between Trump (e.g., getting Moscow Tower) and Putin (e.g., getting changes in GOP on Russia, sanctions relief).

7. On Question #28, gotta wonder what Bob Mueller or other members of the Special Counsel team would say if called as a witness in one of the civil suits involving the Russian-Trump Campaign (where the burden of proof is much lower).

cc: @ianbassin @protctdemocracy

8. What Michael Cohen told Congress, in Feb 2019, wasn't so different from what Buzzfeed News had reported about POTUS instructing Cohen to lie.

Yet that was the singular news report the Special Counsel's Office publicly repudiated.

Why? What explains it?

That's Question #10

9. Lots more in the 35 Questions.

Great to team up with such amazing colleagues @jgeltzer and @AshaRangappa_.

As @just_security notes: We have provided an email link for readers to send in questions they would want Congress to ask Mueller.

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