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and the aftermath.

I'm Quinted Jurassic and this is the LawFair podcast April 10th 2019.

Today I'll be reading an article by myself in Benjamin Wittes published today.

It's titled Memo to the Press, How Not to Screw Up on the Mueller Report.

Back in February, writing with Susan Hennessy and Michaela Fogel, we laid out four principles

for reading the Mueller Report.

The report was then still vapor, a document whose preparation was widely hypothesized by

most analysts, and in some form required by regulation.

It's expected arrival at the Justice Department had been reported by a number of news outlets,

but about its content, no solid information was available.

While we were still self-consciously behind the veil of ignorance about what special

counsel Robert Mueller had concluded, it seemed like a good time to lay out some ground

rules for how to read it fairly.

Our proposals were simple.

People should be prepared to accept Mueller's prosecutorial judgments we argued.

They should accept the factual record described in the report.

They should not assume the report covers more than it in fact conveys.

There being a lot of legal questions about President Trump's behavior that lie outside

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