From Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged:
Robert Mueller’s comments today in resigning from DOJ were brief but important. What he said wasn’t actually new or unexpected to anyone who read his report, but unfortunately, in a world where a lot of people take a “TL;DR” approach to important news stories, speaking publically aloud what should already be obvious matters a lot. (This doesn’t mean that what he said won’t still be misrepresented.)
To me, the five words that matter the most are the title of this post:
The order appointing the Special Counsel authorized us to investigate actions that could obstruct the investigation. And we conducted that investigation and we kept the Office of the Acting Attorney General apprised of the progress of our work.
And as set forth in the report after that investigation, if we had had confidence that the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.
The report doesn’t actually say that the president didn’t commit a crime. It lays out a case regarding multiple instances of potential obstruction of justice for others (congress) to pick up because DOJ opinion was that this was the correct thing to do. The report also doesn’t say that no evidence of “collusion” exists, rather that insubstantial evidence for criminal conspiracy exists.