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Did New York Mag Admit Mueller Investigation Is a Fishing Expedition?
Newsbusters ^ | September 25, 2017 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 09/25/2017 10:23:35 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

Yesterday's New York magazine had the best summary of the state of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller yet written. It was contained in a single paragraph buried deep in an article with no other surprises so you have to look for it. Yet despite having to wade through material which basically tells us what we already know about that investigation, that one paragraph is so stunning in its revelation amid an otherwise routine summary of what Mueller is possibly up to, that it hits the reader like a hard slap across the face.

Before reaching that revelatory paragraph, New York magazine correspondent Cristian Farias reminds us that it is quite extraordinary that a private citizen, Paul Manafort, was secretly surveilled twice via FISA warrants. Uh, yeah, it was stunning and it also confirms that President Donald Trump was almost certainly right in his claim that Trump Tower was wiretapped. However, we have known this for over a week. 

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fishingexpedition; muellerinvestigation; muelleroutofcontrol; robertmueller; trumprussia
That one paragraph revelation in New York magazine is the perfect description of a fishing expedition.
1 posted on 09/25/2017 10:23:35 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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Why doesn't TRUMP quickly get Assange to Congress & let him show everyone it wasn't the Russians!

Then TRUMP can fire Mueller!!!

2 posted on 09/25/2017 10:26:15 AM PDT by KavMan
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To: PJ-Comix

They should call him in for an update, ask him if he’s found anything on the Russians, and if not then what exactly is he doing?

If he is just fishing the investigation needs to be dismantled.

Or they appoint an independent investigator to look into HilLIARy and give him a nice big fishing tackle budget.


3 posted on 09/25/2017 10:30:00 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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To: PJ-Comix
The whole thing is just arranged welfare payments to the Clinton / Obama apparatus since they were unexpectedly adversely effected by Trump's unexpected arrival as president. They were already spending their 2018 salaries from Hillary when we issued the “Stop Payment” at the polls.
4 posted on 09/25/2017 10:30:16 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: PJ-Comix

Witch hunt is more like it.

We need a special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute the special prosecutor.


5 posted on 09/25/2017 10:32:09 AM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Only their self-aggrandizement matters.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Without a doubt, Mueller and his pack of wolves are billing 24x7 and expect to be paid.


6 posted on 09/25/2017 10:36:34 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: PJ-Comix

As if the Fake Russian Dossier co-sponsored by the FBI wasn’t evidence enough...


7 posted on 09/25/2017 10:42:50 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Hotlanta Mike

The “Golden Showers” dossier was used as evidence for the FISA warrant to wiretap Manafort. Therefore all information collected from that warrant can be discarded as “Fruit of the Poisoned Pee.”


8 posted on 09/25/2017 10:45:36 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Waiting for 2024 Total Eclipse)
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To: PJ-Comix
One individual who is familiar with an aspect of the Mueller inquiry but asked to not be named told New York that, unlike other federal probes that he’s seen in action, where prosecutors build their cases from clear allegations, this one feels different.

“This is a backward investigation,” the individual said. “You don’t have a crime. You’re searching. And so you’re not really sure exactly what you’re searching for. So you start asking around and you see what comes up. And you start creating a paradigm and you see what else comes up and figure out at some point whether or not there’s a crime.”


9 posted on 09/25/2017 10:46:12 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: KavMan

One thing that’s obvious to me is that President Trump clearly doesn’t give a flaming sh!t about Mueller and his team.


10 posted on 09/25/2017 10:46:31 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: KavMan

What exactly “ wasn’t the Russians! “

collusion, Collusion, COLLUSION !?!!

Even MEDDLING !

WhiskeyTangoFox, What is the LAW?


11 posted on 09/25/2017 10:55:34 AM PDT by A strike (Academia is almost as racist as Madison Ave.)
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To: PJ-Comix

I guess we know why the person who supplied the quote did not want to be named.


12 posted on 09/25/2017 10:56:11 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: PJ-Comix

Hillary’s “What Happened” is not to explain truth, but to substantiate the lies she has told as truth to her anonymous backing, the backing we all question, but still are unknown to us.

She believes her path to staying alive is to convince everyone her lies are the truth, even her anonymous backers.

Her loss to Trump is far reaching. It’s a high stakes game, and with the people of this nation behind President Trump Hillary literally blew years of effort by the anonymous for total control of the World’s Human population. She did it. It was her, and her alone that made the decisions that wiped out years of cunning sleight of hand by the anonymous.

It’s truly quite curious they have let her live knowing she’s lying to them as she is now.

It’s why the fishing expedition by Mueller, and company arranged by non other than the group known only as anonymous.


13 posted on 09/25/2017 11:05:44 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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If the Clinton Minions couldn’t find anything there’s nothing to find


14 posted on 09/25/2017 11:11:47 AM PDT by butlerweave (it's the children are)
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To: PJ-Comix
“This is a backward investigation,” the individual said. “You don’t have a crime. You’re searching. And so you’re not really sure exactly what you’re searching for. So you start asking around and you see what comes up. And you start creating a paradigm and you see what else comes up and figure out at some point whether or not there’s a crime.”

Totalitarian Police state sh*t.... shame on Robert Mueller and his thugs...

15 posted on 09/25/2017 11:27:03 AM PDT by GOPJ (What's next? Burning the US Flag on the sideline of professional sports games?! freeper AzJoe)
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To: PJ-Comix

We don’t know that yet. It was not the case for the earlier surveillance in 2014. However, we do know that the fake dossier was used to secure FISA warrant against Carter Page (and leaked to the public). He should be suing whoever signed off on that that warrant request in civil court for big money.


16 posted on 09/25/2017 12:07:32 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: butlerweave
I wonder what Mueller's end game is. Obviously his intent is to hurt Trump however he can to avenge his friend Comey.

Maybe he will get his grand jury to indict Kushner and Trump's son for meeting with that Russian lawyer ("conspiracy to subvert the integrity of the election" or some such nonsense). Or indict Manafort on something.

Or he could write up a report with no substance but lots of arm waving and hand it over to Paul Ryan while giving a press conference telling everyone that this presents a case for impeachment ("obstruction of justice" for firing Comey, "violations of the Civil Rights Act of 1964" for criticizing black NFL players, whatever). He may think the deafening applause from the New York Times and the Washington Post will either convince Ryan to start impeachment proceedings or else lead to a Democrat takeover of Congress so they can start impeachment in January 2019.

17 posted on 09/25/2017 12:11:42 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
IOW, New York magazine is still not doing its alleged job. It remains a DNC talking point shill sheet. Thanks PJ-Comix.

18 posted on 09/29/2017 12:06:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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