Robert "Stonewall" Mueller
Posted on 09/16/2008 2:31:52 PM PDT by Prunetacos
FBI Director Robert Mueller is testifying before the House Judiciary Committee today, currently live-streamed on C-SPAN. An article this morning in The Washington Post dramatically touted the hearing as one in which, as the headline put it, "Lawmakers Are Seeking Answers in Anthrax Case -- FBI's Mueller to Be Queried by House Panel About Evidence Against Researcher." The article itself claimed that "the strength of the government's evidence against Bruce E. Ivins . . . will be tested anew today when FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III appears before the House Judiciary Committee" .....Mueller won't provide the Committee with even a single answer of import, won't even pretend to,.....
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
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Well, it’s certainly a charade, all right. Since this is an article on Salon, naturally it’s all Bush’s fault, and John Conyers and Jerry Nadler are the frustrated Good Guys.
In actuality, Mueller is a lousy director who has undermined Bush ever since he was appointed, the upper ranks of the FBI are crowded with clintonoids and other traitors, and nobody in the FBI OR congress is interested in learning the truth about the anthrax mailings. In fact, the FBI is clearly interested in covering up any terrorist connections, while guys like Conyers, Nadler, and the leftist who wrote this article are only interested in scoring political points.
The likelihood that anything productive or informative will come out of these hearings is about zero.
I really liked the last half hour of the movie “The Majestic”.
Robert "Stonewall" Mueller
As much as I hate to agree with deranged left-wing psycho Glenn Greenwald about anything, I agree with him about this. How anyone believes anything they have to say on this topic is beyond me.
someone knew the right questions to ask - no answer, naturally, but at least it got asked...
Nadler had various good questions about that — including wanting to know the level of concentration of silica found in the anthrax (since, if it were higher than 1/2 of 1%, it would mean it was impossible for it to have been naturally absorbed). Mueller’s response: I don’t know the answers to those questions. I’ll have to get back to you at some point.
I saw the hearing and the Salon article, written an hour into hit, hit the mark exactly.
Politics aside, Greenwald, and bloggers like Empty Wheel and Dr. Nass, are doing important work.
Consider also that Director Mueller refused to conduct a meaningful leak investigation. If he had done so in 2002, the leaks by Attorney Seikaly, whose daughter now represents Al-Timimi, would not have continued in 2003.
He now has publicly accused a dead man of multiple murder and suggested that as validation the NAS could validate the genomics that limited people with access to the strain to 100-300 people. (Without taking into account that once a person has access, another entire tree of potential distribution takes root).
He has always espounsed the philosophy “the buck stops here.” Well, Director Mueller, who should take responsibility for the lack of regard with which the FBI is held? If you had required a proper leaks investigation in 2002, then Amerithrax would not have remained so seriously off track in 5 years. So who bears responsibility? Where does the buck stop?
Do you (or any other Freeper) have any sense of what Mueller’s background was before Bush appointed him. I know that because of the chad wars and because clinton refused to let Bush have a proper transition, the appointment was made quite late, not long before 9/11. And I know that the Democrat congress dragged its feet on Bush’s appointments.
What I’m wondering now is if Mueller was some sort of “compromise” appointment, intended to reach out and please the Democrats so they would confirm him. He sure has done a rotten job, from the first days he got into office.
I’ve looked through his biography from a couple of sources, and I don’t see any obvious red flags. But there sure is something rotten there.
How about no spine. There is a lot of that in DC.
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