Posted on 04/12/2018 4:16:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel in May 2017 in reaction to a media still gripped by near hysteria over the inexplicable defeat of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
For nearly a year before Mueller's appointment, leaks had spread about collusion between Russia and the Donald Trump campaign that supposedly cost Clinton a sure victory.
Most of these collusion stories, as we now know, originated with Christopher Steele and his now-discredited anti-Trump opposition file.
After almost a year, Mueller has offered no evidence that Trump colluded with the Russians. Aside from former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, a few minor and transitory campaign officials have been indicted or have pleaded guilty to a variety of transgressions other than collusion.
Ironically, the United States has often interfered in foreign elections to massage the result. Recently, Bill Clinton joked about his own efforts as president to collude in the 1996 Israeli election to ensure the defeat of Benjamin Netanyahu. "I tried to do it in a way that didn't overtly involve me," Clinton said.
The Obama administration did the same in 2015, when it used State Department funds to support an anti-Netanyahu political action group.
Since Mueller's investigation began, a number of top FBI and Department of Justice officials have either retired, or were reassigned or fired.
With the exception of former FBI Director James Comey, all left their jobs due to investigations of improper conduct that took place during the 2016 election cycle. Most were under a cloud of suspicion for lying, having conflicts of interest or misleading investigators.
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First and most importantly … Sessions must GO!
Mueller and Rosenstink are going to be kaput and very soon.
So what is this? The 300th time Mueller is allegedly “done”.
who has any doubt that Mueller’s report will be timed to the midterms.
We are well past the point to expect justice from the justice system. The justice system has been politicized to the extent that it is now a tool of power and oppression by the ruling cabal. The sooner we realize that, the sooner that plans can be implemented to restore the Republic.
>>So what is this? The 300th time Mueller is allegedly “done”.<<
As long as he has his blank check and there are lovely resorts to “investigate,” he will not be done.
This is a dream job: unlimited funds, unlimited scope, no monitoring and no results needed.
How does that old saying go..300th times a charm.
Mr. niteowl77
I'll believe it when it happens. Mueller is doing his utmost, breaking every protocol and law he can hoping that Trump will fire him. Thus far it hasn't worked and Trump is not taking the bait.
VDH's option #3:
Three, Mueller could continue to investigate anyone close to the Trump campaign for another year. If he did that, he would confirm that his inquiry has descended into a political cause. If Mueller calibrates the release of his findings to the fall midterm elections, he will be hailed by Trump opponents as a crusading prosecutor -- despite finding nothing related to collusion. A Democratic takeover of Congress would shut down congressional investigations of FBI and DOJ wrongdoing and further empower Mueller.
Gonna happen and sooner than you think.
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.....in his search for instances of lying, Mueller might re-examine the false testimonies given to investigators by McCabe and by Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin.
In his search for Russian collusion, Mueller might also investigate Steele, Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS and the Clinton campaign. All used Russian sources to leak unproven gossip and smears to the press in an effort to warp the 2016 election.
In his search for obstruction of justice, Mueller might also investigate whether top DOJ and FBI officials deliberately misled the FISA Court before and during after the 2016 election cycle by withholding evidence that the Steele dossier was flawed. Did Justice Department officials inform the FISA Court that Steele's dossier was hired research paid for by the Clinton campaign? Did they tell the court that the FBI had stopped using Steele as a source for purportedly leaking information to the media? Did they tell the court that Comey was on record as saying the Steele dossier might not have been credible?
In his search for felonious behavior concerning the leaking of classified documents, Mueller might determine:
1) Whether the memos regarding presidential conversations that Comey leaked to the press were classified;
2) Whether former top national security and intelligence officials -- among them John Brennan, James Clapper, Samantha Power, Ben Rhodes and Susan Rice -- requested that the redacted names of surveilled Americans be unmasked, and whether officials then illegally leaked those names to the media;
3) Whether FBI officials such as Comey and McCabe leaked confidential findings from their investigations to the press during the 2016 campaign and lied to investigators about it.
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Why leave those investigations to Mueller? Trump does have a DOJ, doesnt he (snicker)?
Fake investigations are the latest tool to make Repub wins illegal. Everyone who joins the Trump administration can expect at least $250K in attorney fees.
No, he will arrest Cohen prior to the midterms.
Nice of Drudge to load his site with pro Mueller and anti Trump headlines and leave them up for days, no mention of Mueller overreach or calls for his firing.
I suspect that Trump has enough dirt on Mueller and friends to bury them all. Trump is just letting them dig their own graves.
Exactly and he wants to have the formal release of that info to coincide with the firing so it proves that Mueller’s witch hunt was to protect his own corruption and that of others.
“We are well past the point to expect justice from the justice system.”
This became very clear to me when Prez Trump’s lawyers file was raided.
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