The Report, Episode Fifteen: Mueller's Report

Susan Hennessey, Benjamin Wittes
Friday, November 8, 2019, 2:20 PM

Today, we released the fifteenth episode of Lawfare’s narrative audio documentary, The Report, which recounts the story Robert Mueller lays out in his 448-page report.

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Today, we released the final episode of Lawfare’s narrative audio documentary, The Report, which recounts the story Robert Mueller lays out in his 448-page report.


This episode details the challenges Mueller faced as he tried to reach a conclusion about the president’s conduct. After two years of investigating, Mueller confronts a series of hurdles in making his final judgment about obstruction of justice. Some factual questions stand in his way, but Mueller’s most formidable obstacles all come from the Department of Justice itself. An old Office of Legal Counsel opinion and the intervention of Attorney General Barr both mute the impact of Special Counsel’s final report:



Susan Hennessey was the Executive Editor of Lawfare and General Counsel of the Lawfare Institute. She was a Brookings Fellow in National Security Law. Prior to joining Brookings, Ms. Hennessey was an attorney in the Office of General Counsel of the National Security Agency. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of California, Los Angeles.
Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.

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