Article snippet: WASHINGTON — He sat still in his chair, his ankles crossed, his hands folded, his responses often halting, determined not to give the partisans on the dais what they wanted. After a Democrat tried desperately to show the former special counsel had left a trail of bread crumbs leading toward impeachment, Robert S. Mueller III refused to so much as repeat the word. When a Republican tried to take a victory lap around Mueller’s failure to charge President Trump with obstruction of justice, the former FBI director corrected him curtly. “We made a decision not to decide,” Mueller said Wednesday, deploying the cautiousness that has become a hallmark of his investigation. His first and only appearance in front of Congress to testify about his findings was seen as a make-or-break moment for the restive group of Democrats demanding Trump’s impeachment and a potential turning point for Republicans seeking to put the intrigue of the Russia investigation behind them. It put the understated prosecutor and a three-ring binder containing his 448-page report center stage in the partisan theatrics he has worked fastidiously to avoid. But as he spoke to two House committees in the middle of a wreath of cameras over six and a half hours, Mueller gave his questioners little to work with on partisan footballs like impeachment or the conspiracy theories about the origins of his investigation, turning phrases like “I can’t answer that” or “I’ll leave it with the report” into a lull... Link to the full article to read more