Opinion: Mr. President, beware the mistakes of Richard Nixon
By Patrick Leahy March 22 at 9:40 PM Patrick J. Leahy, a Democrat, represents Vermont in the U.S. Senate.
For President Trump, that includes his former national security adviser, his personal lawyer, a longtime political adviser, the chairman and deputy chairman of his campaign, and an aide who learned months before anyone else that Russia had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails.”
This week, the president said the Mueller report should be made public. I hope he meant it. But all other signs indicate that he’s preparing to mount an aggressive fight to keep at least portions of it hidden. In January, the White House reportedly hired 17 additional lawyers in anticipation of a battle over the report’s release. It has been said that the White House expects to review any report for executive privilege before it heads to Congress.
On numerous occasions, the Justice Department has disclosed evidence from an investigation when no indictments resulted. In 2016, the department provided Sen. Charles E. Grassley and me, as the leaders of the Judiciary Committee, with 46 sensitive FBI witness-interview summaries from the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server. Just last year, the department publicly released previously classified material relating to an uncharged subject of the Russia investigation.
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