The men were memorably cast – mostly via Comey’s 2007 testimony – as honorable men standing against government overreach when they talked former President George W. Bush out of pushing ahead the renewal of a controversial surveillance program. That episode included a supposedly dramatic hospital bedside encounter when Bush aides tried to get ailing Attorney General John Ashcroft to sign off on the program’s renewal. But Ashcroft, and in Comey’s telling, Comey himself, stood firmly athwart the pressure and prevailed.
Mueller was a confidante of Comey during the initial incident, backing him up and reportedly offering to resign alongside him should the need arise. After Comey’s testimony in 2007, Mueller’s notes were subpoenaed by Congress as a way of verifying the account (which Bush and then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzalez offer a differing version of).
1 posted on
05/22/2017 6:02:27 PM PDT by
Pic7
To: Pic7
When Comey was initially called to Ashcroft’s bedside, his first call was to Mueller who reportedly responded: “I’ll be right there.”
Now he’s tasked with evaluating Comey’s accounts and recollections as he tries to play arbitrator in a mushrooming saga that’s clouded Trump’s nascent presidency.
2 posted on
05/22/2017 6:02:51 PM PDT by
Pic7
To: Pic7
Trump and Cruz said fawning things about each other too. For a while.
3 posted on
05/22/2017 6:04:45 PM PDT by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: Pic7
Mueller should resign/recuse.
4 posted on
05/22/2017 6:05:05 PM PDT by
Jane Long
(Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
To: Pic7
Mueller appears compromised already!!!!
6 posted on
05/22/2017 6:07:00 PM PDT by
Rapscallion
(The Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land, not Sharia, not Congress not the President.)
To: Pic7
“Investigation” starts off compromised. Deep State witch hunt to take out a sitting president.
To: Pic7
10 posted on
05/22/2017 6:08:50 PM PDT by
timestax
(American Media = Domestic Enemy)
To: Pic7
“Mueller, Comey have had long, close relationship” Yep, just Ass-hat buddies.
11 posted on
05/22/2017 6:10:04 PM PDT by
EXCH54FE
(Hurricane 416,Feisty Old Vet (If it is to be, it's up to me))
To: Pic7
Whatever happened to “conflict of interest” issues in this matter?
To: Pic7
14 posted on
05/22/2017 6:11:10 PM PDT by
bigbob
(People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
To: Pic7
I see Chaffetz tweeted that Comey wants to meet with Mueller before he testifies. Frankly, that right there should disqualify Mueller from serving as Independent Counsel. How independent can you be when you’re meeting, privately with one of the people you will be investigating? It’s no different than Loretta Lynch meeting Bill Clinton on the tarmac.
18 posted on
05/22/2017 6:16:04 PM PDT by
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26 posted on
05/22/2017 6:30:29 PM PDT by
DoughtyOne
(Happy days are here again!)
To: Pic7
“One of the finest people I’ve ever met” can be a backhanded compliment.
To: Pic7
Muller is a lawyer in Washington DC, isn’t he? Calling Comey “one of the finest people I’ve ever met” isn’t saying much.
31 posted on
05/22/2017 7:02:54 PM PDT by
Sooth2222
("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Pic7
Mueller who invited CAIR at the FBI for advice and education on how should the FBI treat muslims....
To: Pic7
Didnt Mueller also have members of the FSB at an FBI antiterror conference?
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