I. Background Legal and Evidentiary Principles (Mueller Report, Nov. 2020 update)
Government Unfiltered
Dan Williams
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🗓️ 25 November 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
This section explains the basic elements that are common to most of the relevant obstruction statutes and provides definitions relevant to events discussed in Section II relating to potential issues of obstruction of justice. This episode covers the "Background Legal and Evidentiary Principles," pages 9 to 14, from Volume 2 of the "Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election."
Background Legal and Evidentiary Principles (1:14)
- Legal Framework of Obstruction of Justice (1:18)
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- Obstructive act (2:48)
- Nexus to a pending or contemplated official proceeding (3:25)
- Corruptly (5:14)
- Witness tampering (5:33)
- Attempts and endeavors (7:04)
- Investigative and Evidentiary Considerations (8:12)
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Mueller Report audio, presented by Government Unfiltered. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Dan Williams. |
| 0:10.0 | This version of the Mueller Report contains updates released by the Department of Justice in June and November 2020, |
| 0:18.0 | following lawsuits by Buzzfeed News and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. |
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| 0:28.0 | I'm re-releasing the Mull Report audio to replace the previous versions |
| 0:32.0 | and compiling the subsections into their larger sections. |
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| 1:11.0 | Section 1. |
| 1:15.0 | Background Legal and Evidentiary Principles |
| 1:19.0 | A Legal Framework of Obstruction of Obstruction of Justice The May 17, 2017. framework of obstruction of justice. |
| 1:23.0 | The May 17, 2017 appointment order, and the Special Council regulations provide this office with jurisdiction to investigate federal crimes committed in the course of, and with intent to interfere with, the Special |
| 1:34.2 | Council's investigation, such as perjury, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence, |
| 1:39.2 | and intimidation of witnesses. |
| 1:41.4 | Because of that description of our jurisdiction, we saw evidence for our obstruction of justice investigation |
| 1:46.7 | with the elements of obstruction offenses in mind. |
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