Posted on 07/20/2017 7:36:49 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s lawyers and aides are scouring the professional and political backgrounds of investigators hired by the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, looking for conflicts of interest they could use to discredit the investigation — or even build a case to fire Mr. Mueller or get some members of his team recused, according to three people with knowledge of the research effort.
The search for potential conflicts is wide-ranging. It includes scrutinizing donations to Democratic candidates, investigators’ past clients and Mr. Mueller’s relationship with James B. Comey, whose firing as F.B.I. director is part of the special counsel’s investigation.
The effort to investigate the investigators is another sign of a looming showdown between Mr. Trump and Mr. Mueller, who has assembled a team of high-powered prosecutors and agents to examine whether any of Mr. Trump’s advisers aided Russia’s campaign to disrupt last year’s presidential election.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
We need pictures. We need to know what these people look like. We need to be able to recognize them on the street
One thing about Obama - he brought fellow travelers like Holder and Lynch with him to the DOJ, and they were very loyal to the cause, and did his bidding. Of course, they had cover from the media and the Deep State.
. . .“In 2004,” retired Foreign Service officer and intelligence analyst Kenneth J. Dillon tells Accuracy in Media (AIM), “the FBI learned that the anthrax mailer was an al-Qaeda operative. Under White House pressure, Mueller suppressed this finding and continued to hunt for a domestic suspect. When scientist Bruce Ivins committed suicide in 2008, Mueller blamed him for the mailings, then lied to a Senate committee about it.”
Although the anti-Trump special counsel railroad is on schedule, pending a Trump decision to fire Rosenstein and Mueller, it is still important for the public to know some of the details about how Mueller botched the anthrax case by falsely blaming various American scientists for the letters that killed five people and injured dozens.
At the time of the anthrax attacks, I was working closely with AIM founder Reed Irvine, who never backed down from a search for the truth. A series of AIM Reports challenged the FBI’s handling of the case and examined how various members of the news media, most notably New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, pushed dubious theories targeting innocent American scientist Steven Hatfill. Kristof operated on the basis of a phony theory, fed to him by a leftist, speculating that the anthrax letters were mailed by a right-winger, probably a white guy working for a U.S. lab. The FBI went along with the false premise, ignoring the obvious evidence of an al-Qaeda role.
To illustrate how Mueller botched the case, consider that the FBI didn’t have a shred of evidence against Dr. Hatfill, but drove him out of two prestigious jobs and ruined his career. At one point, the FBI claimed to have fished a piece of Hatfill’s lab equipment, supposedly an anthrax weapons device, out of a pond. The FBI spent $250,000 to drain the pond but found no evidence of anthrax in it. The device was a minnow bucket.
Acting like the KGB, one FBI agent followed Hatfill as he went to buy some paint, and ran over his foot with a car. Hatfill was given a ticket by D.C. police for walking over to the FBI car and trying to take a picture of his tormentor. It appeared that the FBI was trying to provoke Hatfill so they could arrest him on some flimsy charge and claim they were right about him all along. This is similar to how a special counsel operates.
Comey took over for Mueller at the FBI and could have reopened the case in order to determine why, in the end, the Department of Justice awarded Hatfill nearly $6 million in damages. Comey could have cleaned house, purging corrupt agents. Instead, Comey decided to maintain the cover-up and keep Mueller’s so-called sterling reputation intact. As a result, the FBI still maintains that another scientist, Ivins, who was persecuted and driven to suicide, was the culprit.
Even before the embarrassment with the minnow bucket, columnist Dan K. Thomasson had written that the FBI’s handling of the anthrax case “has to be the most incredible display of bizarre ineptness since former FBI director Louis Freeh took personal charge of the investigation to nail Richard Jewell for the bombing in Atlanta’s Olympic Park” in 1996. Jewell wasn’t guilty of anything except some genuine heroism that saved lives. . .
NYT and their anonymous sources are probably fake news. They could just be using this as bait to goad Trump into tweeting to confirm or deny something they really don’t know.
The name Scooter Libby ring any bells for ya?
Wait...who is leaking this from inside the Trump “team” ?
Also, before we get all excited, this is NYT. So Fake News until proven otherwise.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3570795/posts?page=19#19
Find someone to meme this. Trumps face on the hulk. Big dog tags on the the brute dogs. NYT and CNN. Put a WAPO tag on the Poodle. A US Flag on the womans face.
There was no “there” there for Scotter Libby and yet he was found guilty.
Many people here are missing the link to felix sater in all of this. He was a CI for loretta lynch..among many other things..including an asset for cia..sater claims trump knew that he was an asset.
But I wouldnt trust that at all. Some of Sater docs have recently been unsealed and he is snitch again.
Its very very possible that govt aka weissmann..etc already has a lot of info given trump jr was working with sater when he was a snitch
Corallo has resigned as legal spokesperson. I was surprised he was hired in first place given his tweets and comments etc.
They all need to plead 5th in the senate hearing
Good. They’ve never had to deal with someone from the private sector who has the resources, will, and strength of character as Trump. Most people working public jobs, no matter what agency, are just not nearly as talented or intelligent as the people in the private sector. On their best day.
The name Scooter Libby ring any bells for ya?
Amen!!
Since REAL history is no longer being taught, maybe ignorance is a justified defense?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3570786/posts
Washington Post has article on the same info from 4 other writers....
How huge is this ?
Nonsense. How would you and your family like the district attorney or the FBI or IRS sniffing around aspects of your life, looking at your private matters in the hopes of finding anything amiss?
Even assuming you’re as pure as the wind driven snow
One problem is that, if President Trump is innocent, he doesn’t need leverage. He just needs the truth.
Read the book “THree felonies a day”. That is the average number of felonies an average white collar person in America is likely to commit in a day, whether they want to or not.
Tell that to Scooter Libby.
Tell that to Scooter Libby. The Special Prosecutor knew who the Valerie Plame leaker was before the investigation started, but they were going after Cheney and Rove. Scooter Libby did no leaking which was the subject of the investigation.
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