One lingering question for FBI director Robert Mueller

The Boston Glob ^ | KEVIN CULLEN

[TBP]

So now, just weeks after the FBI’s worst nightmare, a gangster and FBI informant by the name of Whitey Bulger came strolling back into town, Congress is about to ignore its own wisdom and let Bob Mueller, the FBI director and former US Attorney in Boston, stay on an extra two years.

Back in the 1980s, when he was serving on the Massachusetts parole board, Albano expressed some sympathy for a group of men who had always maintained they had been framed for the 1965 gangland murder of a hoodlum named Teddy Deegan in Chelsea. The FBI had been instrumental in seeing that the men - Peter Limone, Henry Tameleo, Joe Salvati, and Louis Greco - were convicted. The FBI contended that Tameleo was the consigliere of the Mafia in Boston, and that Limone was a Mafia leader. There is no question that both men were bad actors, and Mafia players, but the evidence showed that neither had anything to do Deegan’s murder.

So in 1983, after Albano indicated he might vote to release Limone, he got a visit from a pair of FBI agents named John Connolly and John Morris. They told Albano that the men convicted of Deegan’s murder were bad guys, made guys.

“They told me that if I wanted to stay in public life, I shouldn’t vote to release a guy like Limone,’’ Albano said. “They intimidated me.’’

Turns out that Connolly was Whitey Bulger’s corrupt handler and Morris was Connolly’s corrupt supervisor. When they weren’t pocketing bribes from Bulger, they were helping him murder potential witnesses who were poised to expose the FBI’s sordid, Faustian deal with the rat named Whitey Bulger.

[TBP]

This is from a very left-wing "newspaper" back when Mueller was still at the FBI, long before there was even an inkling of the witch hunt he's engaged in now.

[TChad]

Albano was appalled that, later that same year, Mueller was appointed FBI director, because it was Mueller, first as an assistant US attorney then as the acting US attorney in Boston, who wrote letters to the parole and pardons board throughout the 1980s opposing clemency for the four men framed by FBI lies.

Everyone should know about this.

[Ken H]

“Just one more question, Mr. Mueller, and I won’t take any more of your valuable time...”

[Mark17]

Bkmk

[japaneseghost]

rare bookmark

[dp0622]

Members of the FBI getting paid off? No way.

I would love to see this POS Mueller in prison, and I HATE that I am saying this, but if Sessions did something illegal (doing nothing isn’t illegal, I think) he should go too.

[JohnnyP]

Colombo?

[a fool in paradise]

>>Four years ago, when questioned about the FBI’s corruption in Boston, Mueller told the Globe, "I think the public should recognize that what happened, happened years ago."

[politicianslie]

Doing NOTHING can be illegal

Mueller hid bribe evidence to Hillary Clinton which led to the Uranium ONE deal being approved. Mueller doing nothing was obstruction of justice at the very least.

Sessions doing NOTHING to shut down Muellers’s coup attempt could make him a co-conspirator.

[Clutch Martin]

The article reads like an O. Henry tale...

[Flick Lives]

Four years ago, when questioned about the FBI’s corruption in Boston, Mueller told the Globe, "I think the public should recognize that what happened, happened years ago."

That response is a huge tell that Mueller was aware of the corruption and he not only did nothing, he helped cover it up.

[Political Junkie Too]

Can Paul Manafort use that line?

-PJ

[MUDDOG]

[Mueller] wrote letters to the parole and pardons board throughout the 1980s opposing clemency for the four men framed by FBI lies.

According to Howie Carr, the letters have disappeared from the official records.

[a fool in paradise]

Censure and MoveOn.org

[a fool in paradise]

>>Doing NOTHING can be illegal

"Mueller defends FBI in Boston bombing, but acknowledges slip-up on suspect’s travel" (WashPost - By Douglas Frantz May 16, 2013)

Mueller told a Senate subcommittee that an FBI investigation of Tamerlan Tsarnaev initiated in March 2011 after a tip from Russian authorities found that Tsarnaev posed no terrorist threat.,.

“As a result of this, I would say, thorough investigation, based on the leads we got from the Russians, we found no ties to terrorism,” Mueller told the Senate Appropriations Committee’s subcommittee on commerce, justice and science.

He acknowledged, however, that electronic notifications that Tsarnaev had left the United States in January 2012 and spent six months in Russia were not shared fully within the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Boston.

[huldah1776]

Mueller should learn the fear of the Lord, who has no statute of limitations on any of His laws. Ahhhh, eternity.

[bitt]

p

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[TBP]

Mueller told the Globe, "I think the public should recognize that what happened, happened years ago."

Tell that to Manafort, Mueller!

And oh, BTW, when those things you allege Manafort did occurred, whop was in charge of the FBI?

[Liz]

"Mueller defends FBI in Boston bombing, but acknowledges slip-up on suspect’s travel"
(WashPost - By Douglas Frantz May 16, 2013)

Mueller told a Senate subcommittee that an FBI investigation of Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev initiated in March 2011 after a tip from Russian authorities found that Tsarnaev posed no terrorist threat.,.

“As a result of this, I would say, thorough investigation, based on the leads we got from the Russians, we found no ties to terrorism,” Mueller told the Senate Appropriations Committee’s subcommittee on commerce, justice and science. He acknowledged, however, that electronic notifications that Tsarnaev had left the United States in January 2012 and spent six months in Russia were not shared fully within the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Boston.

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