Posted on 03/28/2019 7:45:42 AM PDT by Mount Athos
Given that the Special Counsel’s Office did not charge the persons who fabricated and used the Russia collusion fable to undermine Trump’s campaign and presidency, it would appear that, far from being impartial seekers of truth following the trail of evidence regardless of the political consequences, they were a get-Trump lynch party that simply ran out of rope.
Team Mueller’s authorized jurisdiction encompassed the genesis of the eponymous Steele dossier and its nefarious use by Comey’s FBI to undermine Trump’s candidacy and, failing that, to undo the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. The FBI and Department of Justice’s unprecedented abuse of official power based on the Steele dossier — a political dirty trick that will go down in history — raises far more vital and immediate investigative and national concerns than Russian hackers and social media operatives who will never see the inside of an American courtroom, Paul Manafort’s financial crimes, or the individuals charged with process crimes.
Did Team Mueller investigate or interrogate Christopher Steele, Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS, or the Clinton campaign and DNC operatives who paid for the dossier?
Did the investigation delve into the FBI and Department of Justice’s use of the dossier to obtain FISA warrants to intercept the communications of Trump campaign associate Carter Page? Did they investigate those who drafted, verified, and submitted the misleading and false-by-omission FISA applications?
Did they investigate or question former FBI Special Agent and Team Mueller staffer Peter Strzok, former FBI lawyer and Team Mueller staffer Lisa Page, former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, or other government officials to determine if they or anyone else participated in an effort to spy on the Trump campaign or to overthrow the Trump presidency?
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Yes.
It bought two years to destroy evidence and blunt interest. I wonder if there are any suicides in the works.
More like a diversion.
These people, along with the entire MSM were out for bear. I don’t think people realize how close they were from getting Trump to leave office esp when you consider at first everyone waw against him.
He had Sessions in there recusing himself that opened the door to this debacle.
He GOP senators involved like Corker and the others.
No, only Trump could have weathered this.
The primary purpose, I think, was to impede the investigation into corrupt doings by those in the previous administration. On that point, the Mueller Investigation has been a resounding success.
My guess it that it’s a coverup of anything or anyone that was not employed by the Trump campaign. If they discovered links to the dems, Hillary, the Brits, etc it was ignored since their charter was to look only at Trump or his associates.
Comey just had an interview. He has strong opinions.....almost telling Mueller....you’re dead wrong....
Obstruction of justice. When is LL gonna be in jail? Why wasn’t Hillary indicted for her careless handling of classified data? And her coverup of mishandling classified data?
Anyone with eyes to see knew that it was Hillary and her ilk that were the felons.
Did the investigation delve into the FBI and Department of Justice’s use of the dossier to obtain FISA warrants to intercept the communications of Trump campaign associate Carter Page? Did they investigate those who drafted, verified, and submitted the misleading and false-by-omission FISA applications?
Not part of Mueller's scope memos. That is a job for either another Special Counsel or the DOJ IG to investigate.
What really amazes me is that non one single deep stater who was involved in this has had the fortitude/integrity to “turn states witness” on the whole thing and expose everything. Can the Clinton/Obama racket be THAT powerful that no one will open up?
Mafioso’s and 1% bikers rat out and turn states witness all the time, but not one single deep stater has come out with any conscience to expose the whole thing.
Integrity. Good one. They’re true believers
It may be such a tangle that very few know enough to do great damage. I think most cases would be circumstantial. And there is a history of timely deaths surrounding the Clintons.
They can run the clock out if they get the White House back. What’s the statute of limitations on any of these crimes?
Seth Rich was not available for comment.
“Mafioso’s and 1% bikers rat out and turn states witness all the time, but not one single deep stater has come out with any conscience to expose the whole thing.”
Excellent pint.
Yes. I have long thought it was a pre-emptive way to put the kibosh on any investigations into the actions of the Obama Administration.
It is one of the reasons they went so hard after Gen. Flynn right off the bat. He was an enemy, and outspoken critic of the Iran nuclear “deal”, and knew his way around intelligence circles.
He would have seen this stuff pop up eventually. They had to neutralize him.
Well duh!! It effectively delayed any action against Obama, Clinton and their allies in the deep state, all of whom were the true actors in attempts to influence the 2016 election. And many others din the US and abroad, I might add...
More like a diversion.
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I agree that the primary purpose of the insurance policy was a twofold attack meant not only to distract Trump and the people, but also meant to give fuel to the media attack flame thrower.
But I also agree with the premise that it also served well to cover for the people who thought Trump was going to lose the election and all their activities were going to stay safe and unrevealed.
I expect that both were a success. I do not predict anyone going to jail for sabotaging a Presidency.
There is one major way that I think they fell short of their goals though, aside from people now being keen to what went down, and that is that they expected a lot more people in Trump’s orbit and even inner circle to go down. “Crossfire Hurricane” as originally conceived (and named)supposed to not only take out a lot of targets from the outside (from the FBI & DOJ), but it was also supposed to create a lot of republican friendly fire, particularly the old guard & never-trumpers feeding on the proverbial Trump carcass.
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