Neal Katyal Quotes
If I got my hands on the Mueller report, the thing I'd want to see is what are the reasons why Barr made the conclusion about obstruction of justice that he did? Was it because of the facts? If so, why didn't he try and interview Trump to learn all the facts?
Barry Bonds was a star professional baseball player whose accomplishments were aided by taking illegal drugs. He lied about his use of drugs, and the Department made a very large effort over years to finally prosecute him. However during that time there were almost no prosecutions of the thousands of bankers and financiers who had lied, cheated, forged legal documents and in the process almost permanently ruined the American economy—the Great Recession of 2008. The Justice Department claimed that white collar cases are very complex and take longer to prepare prosecutions. Critics claimed that there are so many law breakers, that the government does not want to prosecute all the felons, but just go after a few, and this is easier if time has gone by and public anger has receded or been forgotten.
the CIA and the FBI This was not the only time where the CIA and the FBI impeded investigations of serious criminals. Both for example withheld evidence and lied to the Warren Commission investigating the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. The FBI for years helped Southern Law Enforcement officials cover up their and other racial murders and assaults. The CIA had a history of lying to a number of presidents. Each time a reorganization and house cleaning promised to change the agency, but it only works for a while. In the case of the Nazis, it started with our intelligence agencies trying to bring Nazi and Japanese scientists who had committed war crimes to the U. S. to help develop weapons against the Russians, who were also lying to their own people and bringing them to Russia to develop weapons for use against the West. Then Nazi spymasters were brought over and soon, any Nazi War criminal who would claim that he and information about the Communists of Eastern Europe or Russia. Finally, it was lower level Nazi concentration camp guards who had murdered inmates. At that time the intelligence agencies did not want American knowing that many war criminals were living well in the United States even though they were often wanted for crimes in Germany of other European countries. So they preferred that the investigations cease and the media not focus on the problem. There is no evidence that President Reagan knew about the investigation obstructions, however his assistant Pat Buchanan had a history of trying to stop of delay the deportation of Nazi War criminals who had lied on their applications to enter the United States. Many analysts noted a tendency toward anti-semitism in his personal and public life, and he was particularly unconcerned when the victims of the war crimes had been Russians or other European communists.
Neal Kumar Katyal is an American lawyer and academic. He is a partner at Hogan Lovells and the Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University Law Center. During the Obama administration, Katyal served as Acting Solicitor General of the United States from May 2010 until June 2011. Previously, Katyal served as an attorney in the Solicitor General's office, and as Principal Deputy Solicitor General in the U.S. Justice Department. He is currently a Partner of Chamath Palihapitiya Social+capital Partnership and a member of the board of Social Capital Ventures Inc.
