Posted on 04/13/2018 7:58:31 AM PDT by libstripper
What did Bob Mueller know about the FBI’s framing of four innocent men for a murder they didn’t commit, and when did he know it?
This is an important question for the “special counsel,” and for two days I’ve been emailing his press office, asking for answers about his tenure in the U.S. attorney’s office here, specifically, his time as acting US attorney in 1986-87.
No response. Zip, zero, nada.
This is a major FBI scandal, perhaps the most outrageous one in American history. The FBI railroaded four men to prison for a murder the G-men knew they did not commit, and then made sure they remained in prison for upwards of 30 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
I was hoping Howie would bring this can of worms and Mueller’s involvement to light again! Me likee Howie!!
Mueller apparently was the U.S. attorney for Boston for less than six months, and the case in question was already over twenty years old. I doubt it was at the top of his priority list in the short time he was there. And even if he had been interested in getting to the bottom of it, it would have taken him longer than six months just to cut through the hundreds of layers of crap created by his various predecessors, not to mention the falsified evidence filed by the corrupt agents who actually framed the guys.
His daily: "The Chump Line" is the funniest thing evah. I found out about him in the late 80's as a local Western MA conservative host ( just before Rush hit the scene ) "Bill Brady" would have him on and he'd talk about "The Hack's and Lackies" with no show jobs, great pensions and maybe even a State Car workin' for the State of MA. And oh yes, Whitey Bulger and the Kennedy's. Man was he and still is sarcastically funny!
I’m no fan of the FBI’s leadership. I just think this is a very weak case on which to base criticism of Mueller. The lawsuits were settled “on his watch” as FBI director, so he could actually spin himself as the “good guy” who “made things right”. There are plenty of other issues on which to attack Mueller without risking the possibility of this relatively minor issue backfiring on those who use it to criticize him.
To be clear, I mean minor as it relates to wrongdoing on Mueller’s part, not minor as it affected the victims of the 1965 frame-job.
Clinton Blackmail of Mueller Those FBI files they stole when Billy was pres sure have come in handy!
The four men were Henry Tameleo, Peter Limone, Louis Greco and Joseph Salvati. They were convicted of murdering a small-time hoodlum named Teddy Deegan in a Chelsea alley in March 1965.
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The Federal government did NOT appeal the award. Now, that speaks volumes.
Like any successful mobbster, Meuller has wiped his trail.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/candor/556262/
"But what does that actually mean?
“Lack of candor is untruthfulness or an attempt to dissemble from the point of view of the investigator,” said Dave Gomez, a former FBI agent and a senior fellow at George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security. “The problem comes when, in answering a question, the person under investigation attempts to spin his answer in order to present his actions in the best possible light. This is normal human behavior, but can be interpreted as a lack of candor by the investigator.” According to former FBI officials, the obligation of bureau employees—agents or otherwise—to have candor in performance of their duties comes from the need for FBI officials to represent the federal government in legal proceedings, act as witnesses in trials, and manage informants. Under the FBI’s standard, candor is not simply telling the truth—it confers an obligation to disclose relevant information even if an investigator has not directly asked about it. The standards are strict—one former FBI official estimated 20 to 30 bureau employees were dismissed annually for matters of candor. In one case described in a 2012 FBI report, an employee was dismissed after she lied to investigators about her husband’s drug use; in another, an employee was fired after they misled investigators about properly disposing of evidence. Another agent lost his job after using his bureau car to transport his daughter to daycare, and then lied about it.
Several former FBI officials pointed to the 1990s, when then-Director Louis Freeh instituted a “bright line” policy with regards to ethics violations, in response to a number of scandals that had embarrassed the bureau, including agents’ mishandling of the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents. A 2002 Inspector General’s report states that Freeh felt that “the FBI had been too tolerant of certain types of behavior that are fundamentally inconsistent with continued FBI employment,” including “lying under oath, voucher fraud, theft, and material falsification of investigative activity or reporting.” From then on, such violations would be treated as fireable offenses.
“If you have a candor violation, that is treated much more severely than other things that might be more serious, like a DUI,” said Clint Watts, a former FBI agent and a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. “You have to be able to back up your statements, and if you don’t have good candor, you can’t go jamming people up for lying to federal agents.”
McCabe has denied that he was untruthful to investigators. “The OIG’s focus on me and this report became a part of an unprecedented effort by the administration, driven by the president himself, to remove me from my position, destroy my reputation, and possibly strip me of a pension that I worked 21 years to earn,” McCabe said in a statement released after the firing. “This attack on my credibility is one part of a larger effort not just to slander me personally, but to taint the FBI, law enforcement, and intelligence professionals more generally. It is part of this Administration’s ongoing war on the FBI and the efforts of the Special Counsel investigation, which continue to this day.” Special Counsel Robert Mueller is currently investigating whether anyone associated with the Trump campaign had links to or coordinated with Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 election, and whether the president sought to obstruct that investigation.
Former FBI and Justice Department officials I spoke to stressed the professionalism of the officials in charge of the Office of the Inspector General and the Office of Professional Responsibility, whose recommendations Sessions said he was following when he fired McCabe. But these former officials, some of whom did not want to be quoted so as not to insert themselves into the controversy, also said they believed the timing of McCabe’s dismissal was suspicious. Candor cases can drag on for months, they said, in part because they can turn on a difference in perception—whether an employee understood the question, or answered to the best of their knowledge, or simply failed to recall something—and often when someone is close to retirement, that person will simply be allowed to retire."
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