Originally Posted by
time4fun
Your reading comprehension deficits are showing, as usual.
Mueller's team could have released a statement that said: The OSC has not determined that that President Trump directed Cohen to alter his Congressional testimony. Instead, they released this incredibly vague statement that focused on specific pieces of evidence, not the actual conclusion of the article.
It's almost guaranteed that the sources here were *not* from Mueller's team. The BuzzFeed article positions them specifically as not being a part of the OSC. So this is probably information from one of the other investigations- likely this is from SDNY (who raided Cohen's office).
Secondly- there are already numerous Court filings that more or less support the notion that Cohen was working with people in the Trump orbit to prepare for his Congressional testimony.
Finally- the OSC's release doesn't say that Buzzfeed's conclusion is inaccurate- it's calling into question what the OSC has specifically been told and the characterization of their documents. It actually very much leaves open the possibility that Cohen told SDNY all of this, and *they* relayed it to OSC, for example. It also leaves open the possibility that the culmination of various pieces of evidence lead to this conclusion, but that the OSC doesn't have any single piece of evidence that ties it all together.
I'm not saying that BuzzFeed's article isn't currently in question. I'm saying that the OSC's statement has some really interesting language here, and that's worth paying attention to. We don't know the motivation behind the statement.