Mueller report

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• SOURCE: Salon
  3/28/19
  

  The death of the Robert Mueller myth and the liberal ‘field of dreams'

  by James Sleeper

  Those who longed for a quick, dramatic Trump takedown have seen their hopes crushed. Time to face the truth.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/24/19
  

  Historians Describe How The Use the Mueller Report When Teaching

  Educators are using the report from former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in the classroom.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/15/19
  

  Why the Founders would be aghast that Trump would take ‘oppo research’ from foreign governments

  by Christopher McKnight Nichols

  Alexander Hamilton considered “the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils” among the “most deadly adversaries of republican government.”

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• 5/30/19
  

  What Should Historians Do About the Mueller Report?

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  We need to be more emphatic in asserting history's role in bringing clarity to complex public issues. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/13/19
  

  How the Mueller report could end the Trump presidency without impeachment

  by Jasmin Bath

  Democrats should run on a message from 1860: You need a president you can trust.

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• 11/10/19
  

  What If Donald Trump Resigned?

  by Vaughn Davis Bornet

  When President Richard Nixon finally decided the time had come, he wrote a one line notification of what he was doing. 

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  5/14/19
  

  Redacting Democracy

  by Karen J. Greenberg

  What You Can’t See Can Hurt You

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/19/19
  

  The public, not Robert Mueller, will determine Donald Trump’s fate

  by Kathryn Cramer Brownell

  Will Trump be Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton?

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/23/19
  

  Is Obstruction an Impeachable Offense? History Says Yes

  by Adam Liptak

  Constitutional scholars say offenses involving the lawless use of official power threatening the constitutional order are what the framers thought could justify removal from office.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  4/25/19
  

  Suicide Watch on Planet Earth

  by Tom Engelhardt

  As the Flames Began to Rise, the Arsonists Appeared.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/21/19
  

  ‘The President himself may be guilty’: Why pardons were hotly debated by the Founding Fathers

  The Mueller report raised the issue the Constitution’s framers feared in 1787: Abuse of presidential power.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  4/18/19
  

  Video of the Week: Mueller report 'devastating for the president'

  Princeton history professor Sean Wilentz says the Trump administration is using an old Nixonian strategy: "Redact, delay, redact, delay, double talk."

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  4/18/19
  

  Redactions: The Declassified File

  The release of the redacted Mueller report today focuses new public attention on the systemic problem of over-classification. Here are some classic examples of U.S. government over-zealousness in applying a figurative Magic Marker to information that was already public or should be public.

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• 4/18/19
  

  Do Those Closest to Trump Think He's Fit for Office?

  by Vaughn Davis Bornet

  If Trump can’t or won’t support a rational federal government in all three branches, something will have to be done about it.

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• SOURCE: AP
  4/16/19
  

  Redaction nation: US history brims with partial deletions

  The released Mueller Report will likely be highly redacted. Here's the history behind those black marks. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  3/26/19
  

  Mueller’s Investigation Erases a Line Drawn After Watergate

  But the end of the inquiry made clear that President Trump had successfully thrown out the unwritten rules that had bound other chief executives in the 45 years since President Richard M. Nixon.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/22/19
  

  Every report on past presidential scandal was a warning. Why didn’t we listen?

  Robert Mueller’s predecessors investigated Watergate, Iran-contra and Bill Clinton. Here's what recent those examples can teach us.