One important thing to circle back to from earlier is the idea Ratcliffe raised that Mueller broke protocol by writing a report about decisions that weren’t reached.
“You wrote 180 pages, 180 pages about decisions that weren’t reached, about potential crimes that weren’t charged or decided. And respectfully, respectfully by doing that, you managed to violate every principle in the most sacred of traditions about prosecutors not offering extra prosecutorial analysis about potential crimes that aren’t charged.”
Neal Katyal, the former acting solicitor general who helped write the special counsel guidelines 20 years ago, took issue with this assertion and has said it’s factually inaccurate.