If President Donald Trump's claims of a partisan witch hunt were not vindicated from the special counsel report's findings, or lack thereof, perhaps the Democrats' hypocrisy on such reports might help his case.
Both former Attorney General Eric Holder and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., arguing for full transparency of special counsel Robert Mueller's report have in the past argued against that when it was looking into a Democrat, ie Ken Starr's investigation of former President Bill Clinton, the Washington Examiner reported.
The irony and hypocrisy were not lost on President Trump on Twitter on Tuesday morning:
"In 1998, Rep. Jerry Nadler strongly opposed the release of the Starr Report on Bill Clinton. No information whatsoever would or could be legally released. But with the NO COLLUSION Mueller Report, which the Dems hate, he wants it all. NOTHING WILL EVER SATISFY THEM! @foxandfriends."
Holder, a deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, defended the long-held law enforcement policies against weaponizing an investigation of someone who was not charged with a crime.
"Although there is a legitimate concern that the American people have a right to know the outcome of an investigation of their highest officials, the reporting requirement goes directly against most traditions and practices of law enforcement and American ideals," Holder told the House Judiciary Subcommittee in 1999, per the Examiner.
The Examiner's report came one day after a similar revelation of hypocrisy by current House Judiciary Committee Chair, Rep. Nadler, who is seeking the Mueller report "in its entirety" – the same transparency he had argued against on that committee with Starr's report on President Clinton: "as a matter of decency and protecting people's privacy rights, people who may be totally innocent third parties, what must not be released at all," the Examiner reported Monday.
The Washington Post picked up on the hypocrisy, too, Tuesday, quoting Nadler on the Starr report:
"It's grand jury material. It represents statements which may or may not be true by various witnesses. Salacious material. All kinds of material that it would be unfair to release."
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