On 2019 Jul 26 10:40:26, you wrote to DALE SHIPP:

 DS>> Attempts to Obstruct do not have to be successful to be a crime.  You
 DS>> are totally misconstruing what the Mueller report and Muller said.

 BA> It seems to me that in order for a charge of 'obstruction' to be
 BA> successful there would have to be some underlying criminal
 BA> investigation that was being obstructed.

nope... how could they obstruct an investigation being done in secret? they
couldn't... granted, this investigation was not done in secret... i'm shooting
at your blanket statement that the investigation also has to be being
obstructed... that's false...

 BA> There was no underlying crime

there absolutely are crimes being performed... quite a few of them, actually...
 the emoluments clause has been broken many times and continues to be broken
now...

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 them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
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