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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Apr 21
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    To everyone who keeps speciously arguing that Mueller technically didn't investigate "collusion" because that's not a formal legal term: You're wrong. Mueller explicitly states that he took "collusion" to be "largely synonymous with conspiracy," the relevant federal crimepic.twitter.com/fPYXDhdrTU

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      2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Apr 21
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        Further, Mueller cites Rosenstein, who oversaw the investigation and defined its parameters, as having specifically identified the word "collusion" as what Mueller was tasked to investigate. So yes, Mueller investigated collusion, and found none. It's right there in plain English

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Apr 21
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        In fact, Mueller took an expansive view of what acts could constitute a violation under federal conspiracy statutes, and applied this view to Trump officials' allegedly nefarious "contacts" with Russians. The conclusion: none of it amounted to any conspiracy (aka, collusion)pic.twitter.com/xxgUB13aap

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      4. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Apr 21
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        So that's a settled issue, unless you're now rejecting how Mueller himself has characterized his investigative purview. In other words: put down the Collusion Crackpipe, and seek help

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      2. Patterico‏Verified account @Patterico Apr 22
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        If only you had highlighted a passage from the previous sentence you could have seen the part that says Mueller did not analyze the conduct under the rubric of collusion.

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Apr 22
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        If only you could follow the reasoning Mueller set forth, whereby he interpreted his mandate to investigate "collusion" as drawing on federal conspiracy statutes, because these terms are "largely synonymous"

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      2. #Bernie2020‏ @lbf_tweet Apr 21
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        No, that paragraph makes the exact opposite point, that when they use the word "collusion", they don't mean the same thing as e.g Schiff means when he says collusion, and so whatever they say about "collusion", it may not in fact address what he or others have said.

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      3. Lisa McGill‏ @LisaMcGill1258 Apr 21
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        Is this a joke?

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      2. Secret Squirrel™  🕵️ covertly dispersing nutshells‏ @mjones206 Apr 21
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        When they start arguing semantics you know they know they have nothing.

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      3. Dinklebat‏ @Dinkeldash Apr 21
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        We know they’ve had nothing from the moment the dossier was leaked.

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      2. Patterico‏Verified account @Patterico Apr 22
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        If you want to acknowledge that Mueller said he did NOT analyze collusion, but argue that he said that legal dictionaries define it as conspiracy, which he did not find, go ahead.

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      3. Lacrimosa  🌎 🕊️‏ @TheWorldCrier Apr 23
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        M is just clarifying that he was tasked w/finding evidence of joint criminal "collusion" as described by AAG/media. But bc it's both A) not a fed crime & B) synonymous w/conspiracy, which *is* a fed crime, he thus investigated what *we* call "collusion" as fed criminal conspiracy

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      1. pmcall‏ @pmcall Apr 22
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        pmcall Retweeted emptywheel

        Some of the people doing that are referencing thishttps://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1120306634906054656 …

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        emptywheel @emptywheel
        How "Collusion" Appears in the Mueller Report https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/04/21/how-collusion-appears-in-the-mueller-report/ … 1) Mueller explaining that's not what the investigation's about 2) Trump tweeting crazily about it anyway
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      1. Patterico‏Verified account @Patterico Apr 22
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        But when a guy repeatedly says "I am not analyzing x" you should not go around claiming he said he analyzed x.

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      2. Adrian‏ @SillyPutty78 Apr 21
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        Where, exactly, has Mueller stated that "the investigation [was obstructed] to such a point that it can not be properly investigated."?

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      1. RichBro  🇺🇸‏ @richbro22 Apr 21
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        But still, nothing

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      1. nygma619 (Josh S.)‏ @Nygma619 Apr 22
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        Try highlighting that first sentence.

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      1. W.Spackman‏ @tobeiconoclast Apr 22
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        W.Spackman Retweeted Michael Tracey

        Lawyers don't use qualifiers like "largely" without reason. If he had meant to say that collusion was exactly equal to conspiracy that's what he would have said. He didn't.https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1120120963809652738 …

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        Michael TraceyVerified account @mtracey
        To everyone who keeps speciously arguing that Mueller technically didn't investigate "collusion" because that's not a formal legal term: You're wrong. Mueller explicitly states that he took "collusion" to be "largely synonymous with conspiracy," the relevant federal crime pic.twitter.com/fPYXDhdrTU
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