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The BuzzFeed editor, Ben Smith, on Rachel Maddow's show just now: "Obviously, the special counsel's office is disputing a portion of our story but we're not exactly sure which part."

Pretty much what I just said above. The Mueller statement was vague.
 
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volinbham said:
I presume that SDNY would be required to share all it's findings and evidence with Team Mueller?
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The investigations don't directly overlap.

Who got all the stuff when Cohen's office was raided? It's possible SDNY has evidence SCO does not have. Or maybe a leaker mischaracteriazed the evidence?
 
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Former Department of Justice spokesman Matthew Miller said that the rarity of the special counsel responding to reports may mean the story is "fundamentally wrong."

“You can spend hours parsing the Carr statement, but given how unusual it is for any DOJ office to issue this sort of on the record denial, let alone this office, suspect it means the story’s core contention that they have evidence Trump told Cohen to lie is fundamentally wrong,” he wrote on Twitter.
 
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Velo Vol said:
The investigations don't directly overlap.

Who got all the stuff when Cohen's office was raided? It's possible SDNY has evidence SCO does not have. Or maybe a leaker mischaracteriazed the evidence?
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Didn't it start with Mueller and he referred Cohen down to SDNY around the Stormy Daniels stuff. I would think (but not certain by any means) that Mueller supercedes SDNY on all things Trump related.
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
Former Department of Justice spokesman Matthew Miller said that the rarity of the special counsel responding to reports may mean the story is "fundamentally wrong."

“You can spend hours parsing the Carr statement, but given how unusual it is for any DOJ office to issue this sort of on the record denial, let alone this office, suspect it means the story’s core contention that they have evidence Trump told Cohen to lie is fundamentally wrong,” he wrote on Twitter.
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I find it hard to believe Mueller's team who never makes public statements would choose to do so just to "split hairs" with a bit or two about the story. If they did operate that way then we'd have heard from them a good number of times already.

Guess we have to wait until he writes that detailed letter to Ben Smith explaining exactly which parts of the story he quibbles with and provides documentary evidence to back it up...
 
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lawgator1 said:
Well, it's all very confusing. Going to be an interesting February
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1972 Grad said:
Wrong!
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I would be willing to bet that when Michael Cohen goes before Congress on February 7th, that he will testify under oath that Donald Trump instructed him to lie to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow Project... the issue will be whether or not there is proof. That is where the "characterizations of documents" line comes into play.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
I would be willing to bet that when Michael Cohen goes before Congress on February 7th, that he will testify under oath that Donald Trump instructed him to lie to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow Project... the issue will be whether or not there is proof. That is where the "characterizations of documents" line comes into play.
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I'm betting there's more problems with the story but this alone is a massive problem with the story.

Even you have to admit if it's just what you said above that's more than "hair splitting" as I believe you characterized it.
 
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volinbham said:
I find it hard to believe Mueller's team who never makes public statements would choose to do so just to "split hairs" with a bit or two about the story. If they did operate that way then we'd have heard from them a good number of times already.

Guess we have to wait until he writes that detailed letter to Ben Smith explaining exactly which parts of the story he quibbles with and provides documentary evidence to back it up...
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If the Mueller office was disputing everything in the report... they would have made a categorical denial. They were careful not to do that. That statement could not have been more vague.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
I would be willing to bet that when Michael Cohen goes before Congress on February 7th, that he will testify under oath that Donald Trump instructed him to lie to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow Project... the issue will be whether or not there is proof. That is where the "characterizations of documents" line comes into play.
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Soon.....
 
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volinbham said:
I'm betting there's more problems with the story but this alone is a massive problem with the story.

Even you have to admit if it's just what you said above that's more than "hair splitting" as I believe you characterized it.
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Who cares about that story? I have no love for the integrity of BuzzFeed. If Cohen testifies on February 7th that Trump instructed him to lie to Congress... that is plenty of trouble for Trump. We will just have to wait and see... that's a big day.
 
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