8/ The point above is hard to dispute and not controversial. Even if the newspapers were wrong and McGahn said nothing,
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9/ his silence would matter. I imagine Trump's team would note that he didn't object to the letter. Yet as Bertrand notes in the piece
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10/ linked to at the top of the thread, Cobb makes many assertions but does not dispute McGahn objected to the letter written by Miller.
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11/ That's why Bertrand pushed him on that point, ultimately resulting in an angry email at 1:30 am from Cobb asking her if she is on drugs.
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12/ Several things about Cobb's statements seem odd, even putting aside his rude and unprofessional comments to Bertrand.
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13/ Why did he go out of his way to say that the Miller letter was the President's creation? Miller is not a robot and it's hard to believe
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Easy: There WAS a delay in turning over the doc, tho he suggests it wasn't 3 months. Legit excuse would be privilege.
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If there was a ~3 month delay in turning over a document that Stephen Miller could be said to be author of, then THAT's obstruction.
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Tho fact that he said Mueller knew of letter supports the "noticed-but-privilege-waiver" claim.
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No privilege between WH Counsel and President in response to grand jury subpoena (see In re Lindsey, D.C. Cir. 1998)
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Executive privilege, not atty-client. Q is under what terms could Rosenstein turn it over, not Trump.
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And it's not clear that it was subpoenaed.
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And THOSE questions all seem to go to the issues Cobb is testy about, including voluntariness of WH cooperation here.
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