What I would like to know is how Mueller was selected as Special Counsel and when did he know it. The meeting he had the day before in the WH ostensibly to be interviewed by President Trump for the Comey job smacks of a setup. It makes no sense for Mueller to apply for a job he held before for 12 years. According to the McCabe book, Mueller forgot his cell phone after the interview. Here is Joe diGenova's take.
"Something very interesting that hasn't been written about occurred," diGenova told guest host Gregg Jarrett. "Bob Mueller went into that meeting with [Deputy Attorney General] Rod Rosenstein, and it was just three of them in the Oval Office, and Bob Mueller had a telephone, a cellphone," diGenova told Jarrett.
He left that cellphone in Oval Office after the meeting. And it is now believed by many people that cellphone was used to broadcast the meeting between the president, Rod Rosenstein, and Bob Mueller, back to FBI headquarters, where they recorded the conversation with the president," diGenova said, before adding that Mueller likely left the phone there to "record what happened after they left."
Talk of Mueller leaving behind his cellphone in the Oval Office began with a book written by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. He only mentions the phone off-hand and makes no assertions about clandestine surveillance.
"Mueller had gone in for an interview with Trump, and left his phone there, and then the phone had to be retrieved," McCabe wrote in The Threat: How the F.B.I. Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump.
By that time, the FBI had opened an OFFICIAL obstruction investigation against Trump, for firing Comey. I'm with you. This meeting was Rosenstein's contribution to the coup attempt. Abuse of legal and investigatory process, protected by the "investigatory secrecy" and other means of hiding abuse from view.
State Department is neck deep in this too.
Should be no shocker that the government works to advance the interest of those who are in it and benefit from the perqs and power.
Morning Cousin Mike.....
I think this concept of bringing Mueller before a congressional committee is dumb on the part of the Democrats.
Along with your questions, the Republicans should be sure to inquire as to how the participants in the witch hunt came to be selected. You can believe if a Republican was investigating Pelosi, would they appoint Nunes, Gowdy....that sort....as investigators.
But the Repubs, they can’t be counted on. They have air between the legs which is why the Dems do what they do and get away with it.
Again, on the surface it appears that the Dems are doing the dumb.
But the Repubs....they won’t take advantage.
My worry is that our side gets any time at all, how much they will interrupt, and what limits will be put on our side about what we can ask and what we can't.You can't trust them at all.Democrats don't obey any laws they don't like.
With the demonrats in charge of the hearing I am not expecting a fair and balanced hearing.More like a shortened exchange of only a few hours dominated by demonrats and any attempt to get to the truth of why Mueller continued his op when he knew their was no Russian collusion will be batted away with so much BS one won't even realize why he was even there.