Adequately describe how the case for obstruction of justice included derogatory information about what the president did, from sources familiar with those conversations and you remember the a. G. Found that the evidence, quote, is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense. Now the president and the doj are hitting back. The president went after the New York Times, the first two report the story calling it a quote, unquote, fake newspaper. For more lets go to cara skinnal, what are you learning . Why did the folks from team mueller speak up like this . Reporter well according to our reporting that several of muellers investigators, it is not clear how many share this view, but some are frustrated that the fourpage letter summarizing the 400page investigation that took two years to complete did not adequately reflect the views of the investigators. And according to the people that these concerns rest a lot on the obstruction of justice iss
Intrusion, related to a 2010 pact he made with Chelsea Manning. Officials say assange agreed to help manning crack a password on Defense Department computers in order to gain access to classified documents. Let me back up. Because assange became a house hold name in 2006 when he founded wikileaks and over the course of the next few years the organization would become infamous from the Guantanamo Bay and information on wars in afghanistan and iraq and in 2016 wikileaks made all kinds of headlines for publishing hacks emails from the dnc and chair john podesta. Fast forward to todays indictment and the Justice Department calls it one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States. But all along, assange and his colleagues have maintained their work was all about the pursuit of truth and journalism. A claim his attorney doubled down on today. This sets a dangerous precedent for media and journalists in europe and elsewhere around the world. This m