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Here’s how Hillary Clinton responded to the Mueller report - The Boston Globe

posted onApril 28, 2019
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Article snippet: Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee who lost her bid to Donald Trump, responded to the Mueller report’s findings, saying that Congress should be “fearless” in pursuing more answers on Russian interference in the election — but stopped short of calling for impeachment. “Mueller’s report leaves many unanswered questions. . . But it is a road map. It’s up to members of both parties to see where that road map leads — to the eventual filing of articles of impeachment, or not,” she wrote in a Washington Post opinion article that was published late Wednesday afternoon. In the article, Clinton took a measured tone as she called on Congress to see past party lines to hold hearings to help fill in the gaps on the report filed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and warned against jumping “straight to an up-or-down vote on impeachment.” In her argument, Clinton acknowledged how her own husband, Bill Clinton, had a close call with impeachment: “In 1998, the Republican-led House rushed to judgment. That was a mistake then and would be a mistake now,” she wrote. She also referred to the procedures that surrounded the Watergate scandal during the Nixon administration — during which she was a young staff attorney on the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment inquiry — as an example of how Congress should act: “The televised hearings added to the factual record and, crucially, helped the public understand the facts in a way that no dense legal report could.”... Link to the full article to read more

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