Watergate 2.0 - Why Mueller Referred To Detroit, Not Judiciary

The reason why the Mueller investigation did not make any referrals to the U.S. House Judiciary is because the referrals were criminal, and were referred to the Districts, to the two Detroit grand juries.

Now, why would Mueller make criminal referrals to Detroit grand juries and not the House Judiciary?

Perhaps, we could get someone from the media to present this question to the members, or, perhaps, I shall just have to ask them.

But, hey, what do I know?

I know it is about the individual who called for the Special Counsel.

Justice Dept: Mueller prepared no reports to Congress

A request for records akin to Watergate "road map" comes up dry.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's prosecutors never drafted a report to Congress about alleged misconduct by President Donald Trump, Justice Department lawyers indicated in a court filing Friday.

DOJ attorneys said they were unable to locate any records in Mueller's files that were responsive to a Freedom of Information Act request seeking reports and compilations "prepared for the eventual consideration of one or more members of Congress, whether or not such records were actually transmitted to any party outside of the Special Counsel’s Office."

The FOIA request, submitted in November 2018 by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, invoked a grand jury's submission to the House Judiciary Committee in 1974 of a so-called "road map"to evidence in the Watergate scandal. The point-by-point guide received a spate of fresh publicity in the fall of 2018 after a judge ordered disclosure of portions of the nearly half-century-old compendium.

EPIC appeared to be seeking similar records Mueller might have prepared with an eye to sending them to Congress. After getting no response to the request, the privacy-focused group filed suit last March.

According to the court filing Friday, the Justice Department's initial search turned up no records about actual or potential reports to Congress, but the agency agreed to perform another search after EPIC refined their request. That search also came up dry, Justice lawyers told EPIC on Thursday, the filing says.

While the Mueller lawyers may not have prepared any reports explicitly labeled as referrals or potential referrals to Congress, the final report the special counsel's team drafted last spring was prepared in anticipation that substantial portions of it would be released to the public, which includes Congress.

Some observers compared that report as impeachment fodder akin to the Watergate "road map," although the articles of impeachment the House approved last December largely overlooked the conduct in the Mueller report, including acts analyzed by Mueller's prosecutors as potential obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump.

The House Judiciary Committee is still battling for access to grand jury secrets in the Mueller report. Last October, a judge rejected the Trump administration's arguments that such information should remain off limits to lawmakers. The Justice Department's appeal of that decision is pending at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

DOJ did report finding records, including the Mueller report itself, that were responsive to other parts of EPIC's request. The suit will continue as the group challenges privacy-based redactions to the version of the report Justice made public last year.

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