Posted on 4/4/2019, 7:22:11 PM by detective
A hysteria without a cause; a report without a point.
The pointlessness of it all. That is the major takeaway from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s much-anticipated final report on the Trump/Russia probe.
After an exhaustive 22-month investigation, Mueller found that there was no criminal collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. This was already manifest to anyone who had closely followed the investigation — anyone, that is, who had taken note that no predicate crime was specified when Mueller was appointed (the special-counsel regulations require one), or anyone who had read the indictments Mueller filed, which demonstrated that Russia’s operations predated Trump’s entry into the 2016 campaign, that some of them were actually anti-Trump in nature, and that Russia (which is notoriously adept at espionage) neither needed nor sought American collaborators. “There is no allegation,” observed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in announcing charges against Russian operatives brought by the special counsel he had appointed, “that any American was a knowing participant in this illegal activity.” Never was such an allegation even hinted at against the president, nor against any of his associates, a handful of whom were charged either with crimes that had nothing to do with the 2016 campaign or with process crimes (mostly lying to investigators) that were not committed until after the campaign was over.
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There was never a reason to appoint a special counsel.
There was no investigation of collusion.
Mueller's Special Council was just an illegal two year attempt to sabotage the Trump presidency and overturn an election.
..and now ya got nadler who’s gonna keep it alive for another 2 years...
The weasels at NRO aided and abetted.
“The weasels at NRO aided and abetted.”
Yes they did.
Why did neither Mueller nor Rosenstein issue an interim report? That would have enabled Trump to govern without a cloud of suspicion that he might be a clandestine agent of Russia, yet permitted the overarching inquiry into Russia’s operations and even the obstruction probe to continue.
McCarthy puts his finger on things, but probably doesn’t go far enough.
Yes, Rosenstein was a careerist who was able to stay afloat in the DOJ under both Republican and Democrat adminstrations. He was US Attorney in Maryland under Obama while Obama and Holder were trying to federalize the Baltimore police department using the Freddy Gray pretext. You more or less have to have no principle other than advancing your career to thrive under such different ideological regimes.
But to go beyond what Andy is saying, I suspect McCabe, Comey and others put it to Rosenstein that Trump was going to be removed from the office by the deep state, and that the smart play, the play Rosenstein always followed in his career, was to suck up to the side that was going to win.
The appointment of Mueller by Rosenstein has been spun to place it in a good light by claiming, as Andy does here, that Rosenstein was able to take it out of the clutches of the corrupt McCabe and give control to the noble Mueller.
Sorry, not buying it. Mueller hired the same FBI team (Strzok and Page) as well as unethical rabid partisans like Weissman to staff his team. Mueller only removed Strzok and Page when evidence of their anti-Trump bias began to escape outside of the team.
Mueller was part of the corruption. And it wasn’t pointless.
It may well have won them the House in 2018. It has functioned as a shield on the corruption in the DOJ, FBI, CIA and elsewhere for years. The prospect that Trump might actually be removed from office as a result led GOP Establishment politicians to slow walk his appointees in the Senate and gave pause to those like Huber and Horowitz who wanted to give the appearance of the rule of law but were really just holding their fingers up to the wind to see what would happen to Trump before actually doing anything meaningful. Communications records that might have evidenced a conspiracy among Comey, McCabe, Mueller, Rosenstein and others in the appointment of the Special Counsel and in other matters of the illegitimate government investigation of the Trump campaign have probably been purged in the ordinary course of business after the years-long delay gained by the Mueller probe in staving off an examination of the origin of the coup against Trump.
We still need a second special counsel. There is abundance evidence of probable cause of official corruption and a conspiracy to deny Donald J. Trump and his campaign their civil rights to participate in an election and exercise their political rights as American citizens free of illegitimate surveillance and entrapment by his political opponents in the Obama Administration law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
The DOJ and the FBI cannot be trusted to investigate themselves.
....$37 million taxpayer dollars later
..zip..nada .. zilch.
$37,000,000 tax payer money.
Redistributed to Hillary supporting ambulance chasing lawyers.
Hell of a retirement plan for Mueller and company.
Very late to the party.
Precisely. Us rubes saw what the vaunted ex-Fed did not.
DOJ, FBI, CIA, NSA
You can’t just remove a few people and clean this mess up. The monsters rose to positions of importance, and brought in underlings who were just as corrupt. Like the fat marble in a good steak, the corruption is all through these organizations. I see no hope of cleaning this up.
“There was never a reason to appoint a special counsel.”
Jeff Sessions will go down as one of the worst AGs in American history.
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Thanks for the post.
You make excellent points.
Part of the problem with commenting on these articles is that the deep state and Mueller have been so corrupt and so dishonest that it is difficult to include every bad thing they have done.
You definitely added to the article.
Thanks.
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