Posted on 10/21/2017 6:05:10 PM PDT by Kaslin
The fabricated "Russian collusion" meme, cooked up by a bitter and vindictive Hillary Clinton after her stunning and thoroughly deserved loss in last fall's presidential election, is likely to have no end other than soiling many, many reputations:
Is special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, appointed in mid-May to lead the investigation into suspected ties between Donald Trump’s campaign and various shady (aren’t they all?) Russian officials, the choirboy that he’s being touted to be, or is he more akin to a modern-day Tomas de Torquemada, the Castilian Dominican friar who was the first Grand Inquisitor in the 15th Century Spanish Inquisition?
Given the rampant media partisanship since the election, one would think that Mueller’s appointment would lend credibility to the hunt for violations of law by candidate, now President Trump and his minions. But I have known Mueller during key moments of his career as a federal prosecutor. My experience has taught me to approach whatever he does in the Trump investigation with a requisite degree of skepticism or, at the very least, extreme caution.
Harvey Silverglate is a noted civil libertarian and author of Three Felonies a Day, an indictment of our top-heavy legal structure, which can find a crime to suit every citizen, and on demand. His anecdotes about Mueller should help dispel the choir-boy reputation of the former FBI chief, whose bad luck it is to be conducting a partisan witch hunt into non-existent "crimes" even as the FBI's sterling reputation is cratering under the weight of the Uranium One scandal during the Obama administration and James Comey's plummeting public standing.
When Mueller was the acting United States Attorney in Boston, I was defense counsel in a federal criminal case in which a rather odd fellow contacted me to tell me that he had information that could assist my client. He asked to see me, and I agreed to meet. He walked into my office wearing a striking, flowing white gauze-like shirt and sat down across from me at the conference table. He was prepared, he said, to give me an affidavit to the effect that certain real estate owned by my client was purchased with lawful currency rather than, as Mueller’s office was claiming, the proceeds of illegal drug activities.
My secretary typed up the affidavit that the witness was going to sign. Just as he picked up the pen, he looked at me and said something like: “You know, all of this is actually false, but your client is an old friend of mine and I want to help him.” As I threw the putative witness out of my office, I noticed, under the flowing white shirt, a lump on his back – he was obviously wired and recording every word between us.
Years later I ran into Mueller, and I told him of my disappointment in being the target of a sting where there was no reason to think that I would knowingly present perjured evidence to a court. Mueller, half-apologetically, told me that he never really thought that I would suborn perjury, but that he had a duty to pursue the lead given to him. (That “lead,” of course, was provided by a fellow that we lawyers, among ourselves, would indelicately refer to as a “scumbag.”)
The Left is now afraid of Mueller.
Fasten your seat-belt. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
Why would the Left be worried?
There is a theory that Mueller has uncovered mountains of evidence against Democrats. Further, that this evidence was amassed by a team of die-hard Leftists who cannot be successfully smeared by the die-hard Leftists in the media. The staff didn’t mind digging through and organizing all this dirt on Hillary, because they “knew” it would never see the light of day. Lastly, that Mueller has been working for and with Sessions the whole time.
The Left is just figuring this out.
When you see NYT and WAPO articles critical of Mueller I’ll believe Mueller is working with Sessions against Hillar and company.
Until then, I am of the view that the Mueller investigation of Trump is to make sure the Clinton uranium corruption deal never gets investigated.
Is there any reason at all to think this will change, and he will look at the real and provable crimes on the left?
Wild Weasels don’t make good pets.
Thank you for that good explanation.
If Sessions is not a Trojan Horse and they pull it off, it will be historic.
That was basically my question.
What do you think of the theory that Mueller is destroying the dirt on the Dems and some Republicans that’s been discovered?
His balls are not invulnerable. He delivered a sample of uranium to Moscow in the diplomatic pouch at the request of Hillary.
Mueller delivered a sample of uranium to the Russians in ‘09 in the Sell Out American National Security To Enrich The Clinton Foundation Deal, aka Uranium One. That’s all we need to know about this SOB’s credibility.
The deep state hates Trump. But he could fire Mueller and Sessions and make the deep state really hate him.
that theory exists because no thinking person can comprehend that such massive corruption could go unpunished or that Sessions would let it.
Mueller is corrupt.
The theory you state is quite intriguing. I hope it’s correct. Is there any credible information that could support it?
Can you imagine if Mueller starts prosecuting some Trump staffers, or even Trump on some kind of suborning perjury charge, or obstruction etc. and still no evidence of collusion, while letting Hillary, Lynch etc. who colluded and were corrupt skate? Would not end well.
That’s an excellent point.
I’m no expert on this, but my understanding is that Mueller is specifically investigating Trump and his staff on the accusation of collusion. There is no special investigator looking into anyone in the 0vomit administration.
That is just one of the many reasons I find the whole Mueller investigation so appalling. It’s like you have murderers, rapists, traitors, running free and the DOJ looks the other way, but if someone in the Trump administration drives 1 mph over the limit we need an investigation.
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