https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/06/dowd-dings-mueller.php

Well, I had an obligation as counsel to the president to find out what was going on and I’m so glad Judge Sullivan ordered the transcript because we now know the truth and we also know that this entire report by Mueller is a fraud and we’re going to find more of these things. Isn’t it ironic that this man who kept indicting and prosecuting people for process crimes committed a false statement in his own report? By taking out half my words they changed the [garbled], the tenor, and the contents of that conversation with Robert Kelner. And it’s an outrage and there’s probably more of it.

Sean, they not only went after Donald Trump. They went after his lawyers. I mean that paragraph that they put out in that [fraud?] is a smear of me and my reputation. And when I used to be a prosecutor, if anyone made an allegation about a lawyer and what he was doing and that he was crossing the line, I’d call the lawyer and talk to him. Now I met with Mueller and [James] Quarles the whole time. They never said a word to me. Instead they pulled this ambush in their report.

Henry Livermore Abbott • 15 hours ago
Every lawyer on this site understood that Mueller’s 11 vignettes of obstruction were worthless: They were unvetted and unchallenged by opposing counsel, not scrutinized for exculpatory evidence, and bound together with Soviet era legal theories.

Depending on what else we learn, Weissman’s license to practice may be in play.
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CosmotKat Henry Livermore Abbott • 15 hours ago
Even those not trained in the law, but thoroughly up to date on the issues, understood this was to be a report based on lies and distortions. The report opens with a distortion regarding the Russian interference in the 2016 election. There is yet to be proof the Russians were the perpetrators of the DNC computer hack. It goes down hill from there.
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Henry Livermore Abbott CitizenKane • 13 hours ago
CK, my references weren’t to ethics but to common procedures for depositions and trials: exams, cross-exams, impeachments, Brady Rule, etc. And because not one of Mueller’s little vignettes have been subject to this process, their current status is no more than a claim. The Dowd elision illustrates the reasons why. I can’t do better than the ancient Romans: Falsus et uno, Falsus et omnibus.[sic – more often “Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus”]
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HdwJunkie • 15 hours ago
It is safe to assume with Mueller/Weissman in charge, that any exculpatory material was not presented, and most incriminating evidence was likely manufactured, as in this case, via careful edits. License to Lie should be required reading for everyone who reads PLB.
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murphy300 • 14 hours ago
Dowd is correct. If he had NOT made the call he would have been committing malpractice. It’s not that the call was unethical, NOT making the call would have been unethical. And, for the cherry on top, since it was a lawyer-to-lawyer call there was no way it could be portrayed as influencing Gen. Flynn. I wish I could believe that the judges involved in these cases would call out the so-called lawyers who come up with this nonsense, but that is expecting too much.
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Jim Bob 1028 • 14 hours ago
Sorry, guys, but the vast majority of people will never “understand[] what the report does to Dowd” because they get their news from the corporate media.

The release of the full transcript should have been a “bombshell” in the parlance of corporate media, a Google search will reveal that it was all but ignored by the corporate media.

Instead, corporate media ran with the FAKE NEWS that a member of the Trump transition team was arrested for child pornography.

The Mueller Report portrays George Nader as a sleazy lobbyist with Middle East connections who sought connections with politicians of every stripe, not as a member of the Trump campaign or transition team. The best Nader could do was to con Eric Prince — who also had no formal position in the Trump Campaign or the transition team according to Mueller — to fly to an infamous meeting in the Seychelles. Instead, the Mueller Report states directly that Nader had previously made connections with Clinton’s campaign team as well as Trump’s. To the corporate media, though, that’s enough to make Nader a senior member of Trump transition team.

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andrewfalcon • 12 hours ago
My hope is that when all the dust settles, the image of Robert Mueller is in tatters and that his reputation as a Boy Scout is shattered forever. This man is a skunk of the highest order. Whatever honor he accumulated during his military service has long been eclipsed by his nefarious deeds as a classic Washington insider and should bring him dishonor for all eternity.

I know there is talk that Mueller might be a figurehead for this report, that it is the loathsome Andrew Weissmann who is responsible for the lead role in whatever went on during the May 2017 to March 2019 period of the investigation. Weissmann is his own version of skunk and deserves his own place in the Washington DC Hall of Shame. But 95% of the people in this country couldn’t identify Weissmann if their life depended on it. As long as Mueller remains silent and the report bears his name, Mueller is THE GUY. He owns all of it. It is time he starting owning the shame as well.
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Amadeus27 • 12 hours ago
This is easy to explain. Dowd outsmarted Mueller and his team, and this is their revenge.
Listen to Byron York’s fascinating two-part interview of Dowd earlier this year. The strategy was to protect Trump by flooding the zone with information. They sent McGahn and his notes; they waived claims of executive privilege; they asked Mueller what he wanted and gave it to him–everything except an interview with Trump. At the end, Mueller gave up when he couldn’t identify any information that Trump had that had not already been provided. Mueller’s whole plan was to interview Trump, a notoriously undisciplined talker, and trap him into obstruction/lying claims. Dowd took that away from him.
Dowd outsmarted Team Mueller, and they’ll never forgive him.
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AnnieOakley • 9 hours ago
So here’s my question: If Mueller was tasked to determine whether obstruction of justice took place by Donald Trump, any of his family or campaign by means of lying and/or manipulation of facts, isn’t Robert Mueller HIMSELF now guilty of the same obstruction of justice by lying about and manipulating testimony of those whom he investigates for this report?
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Michael Bowler • 6 hours ago
Mueller was hired, with full understanding, to create an impeachment document.

He could have done what he did do a year ago. If he did, and it had the same effect, the Democrats might not have the necessary majority to perform an impeachment. Yup, the release of the report was timed with malice aforethought. I know it, you know it, he knows we know it. Most of the public is only dimly aware that he did anything, let alone what we know…

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a federal judge (Judge Emmet Sullivan) released the transcript of a voicemail he left for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s lawyer Rob Kelner shortly after he agreed to cooperate with Mueller.

THE MESSAGE

“Hey, Rob, uhm, this is John again. Uh, maybe, I-I-I-‘m-I’m sympathetic; I understand your situation, but let me see if I can’t … state it in … starker terms,” the message to Rob Kelner said. “If you have … and it wouldn’t surprise me if you’ve gone on to make a deal with, and, uh, work with the government, uh … I understand that you can’t join the joint defense; so that’s one thing. If, on the other hand, we have, there’s information that … implicates the President, then we’ve got a national security issue, or maybe a national security issue, I don’t know … some issue, we got to-we got to deal with, not only for the President, but for the country. So … uh … you know, then-then, you know, we need some kind of heads up. Um, just for the sake of … protecting all our interests, if we can, without you having to give up any … confidential information. So, uhm, and if it’s the former, then, you know, remember what we’ve always said about the President and his feelings toward Flynn and, that still remains, but — Well, in any event, uhm, let me know, and, uh, I appreciate your listening and taking the time. Thanks, Pal.”

Dowd resigned as Trump’s lead counsel for the Mueller investigation in March 2018.

The 448-page Mueller report, hints at the voicemail as part of a possible effort by Trump’s team to influence Flynn

“After Flynn withdrew from a joint defense agreement with the President and began cooperating with the government, the President’s personal counsel left a message for Flynn’s attorneys reminding them of the President’s warm feelings towards Flynn, which he said ‘still remains’, and asking for a ‘heads up’ if Flynn knew ‘information that implicates the President,'” Mueller’s report said. “When Flynn’s counsel reiterated that Flynn could no longer share information pursuant to a joint defense agreement, the President’s personal counsel said he would make sure that the President knew that Flynn’s actions reflected ‘hostility’ towards the President.'”

“This is clearly a baseless, political document designed to smear and damage the reputation of counsel and innocent people,” Dowd

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., have highlighted how parts of the transcript were left out, including Dowd saying his request was “not only for the president, but for the country,” he was not asking for confidential information, and he did not appear to be certain that Flynn had decided to cooperate with Mueller’s team.

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Flynn admitted to lying to the FBI about his communications with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, which were about sanctions during the transition before Trump took office, and reached a plea deal with Mueller’s team.
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“Isn’t it ironic that this man who kept indicting and prosecuting people for process crimes committed a false statement in his own report?” Dowd said. “By taking out half my words,” he added that they changed the “tenor and the contents” of his conversation with Flynn’s lawyer.

“It’s an outrage. And there’s probably more of it”

Is anyone?

What Mueller failed to mark was the grand jury material in the 448 page report. Mueller’s marking of grand jury material in his summaries is besides the point. Barr decided that the entire report (i.e., the 448 page report, redacted as legally required) along with Meuller’s summaries should be repeated together. Meuller even acknowledged that Barr’s decision in that regard was a good faith decision.

<b.Mueller's failure to mark grand jury material in the 448 page report created the delay in releasing everything.