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Mueller’s Empire: Legions of Lawyers, Bottomless Budget, Limitless Jurisdiction
American Greatness ^ | 21 June 2017 | Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on 06/21/2017 6:48:13 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss

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To: Maudeen
FTA: Mueller has a bottomless budget, thanks to a bit of Treasury Department chicanery known as “permanent, indefinite appropriations.”
21 posted on 06/21/2017 8:10:52 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Meet the New Boss

How many leftist attorneys can we stuff into one jail cell -— at Guantanamo Bay, perhaps??? If they start playing procedural gotcha, or “investigating” beyond the original “Russia” issue, I think we need to rise up and find out. The “swamp” could do with a lot less lawyers!!!


22 posted on 06/21/2017 8:17:59 PM PDT by LTC.Ret
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To: Greensea; All

Sessions recused himself on matters of investigating ‘Russia’, meaning possible Russian interference in the election.

So Rosenstein is acting AG on Russia. Rosenstein for some unknown reason brought in Mueller to investigate Russia. He didn’t have to, but presumably, he felt it awkward to serve at the pleasure of the President and at the same time possibly need to investigate the President.

Sessions also did not need to recuse himself.

Both Sessions and Rosenstein seem now to appear as confused team members who have allowed a mess to be created. Others believe the President wanted this situation to develop so as to expose the corruption. On the other hand, there was nothing barring Sessions or Rosenstein from investigating Russia and doing it with full knowledge that the President might also fall under their investigation. If they found no collusion involving the President, then report it and let the press and its leftist members of Congress scream. Instead, it appears Sessions and Rosenstein left the President with a loose cannon in Mueller inside his administration. Or maybe not. It is odd that someone like Mueller with such visible ties to Clinton and her uranium deals would be allowed to be inserted. Perhaps there is a plot to have the insertion of Mueller backfire on Hillary and create a public outcry calling for her to face trial.

If the President fires Mueller prematurely, there will be screams of obstructing justice. GOP members in Congress are impotent to shut down Mueller or cut his funding. Mueller is for the moment free to cause harm.

Here is a reasonable action the President can take that will not allow the press or its leftist cabal in Congress to have any leverage:

“The President shall sign a Directive that suspends approvals of immunity grants without such immunity grants first passing review of his White House Counsels”.

I am confident the President has already seen such actions being prepared and taken. Jay Seculow is a smart, very smart lawyer who is always two to three steps ahead of his opposition. There are other White House lawyers that are just as damned good. So I am not worried.

I expect a conflict of interest noose to be hung around Mueller’s neck by this Fall-Winter. Rosenstein should resign. Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand should replace Rosenstein. Sessions should stay on and be encouraged to be even bolder especially with illegal aliens, illegal voting, pedophilia, Clinton Foundation, etc.


23 posted on 06/21/2017 8:31:46 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Salvavida

You think? I just hate how our party just sit silent while the other side continue their freakin witch hunt! I thought we were the majority now I know differently...seems our party is slowly neutering our prez ...I was raised believing the office of the president was the most POWERFUL AROUND THE GLOBE...but our party GOPe bastards are sabotaging his presidency!


24 posted on 06/21/2017 8:33:18 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Meet the New Boss

I still think the public has a right to know how much money he is spending on all this tomfoolery. I think that all departments should make their spending habits open for public scrutiny (excluding - “top secret” line items)


25 posted on 06/21/2017 8:34:13 PM PDT by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: Hostage

So literally Sessions because of his stupidity and his sanctimonious attitude sunk Trump into a vicious trap! STUPID!! He needs to resign and take mueller along with the resistance member Rottenstien!


26 posted on 06/21/2017 8:41:35 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: RoseofTexas

>>So literally Sessions because of his stupidity and his sanctimonious attitude sunk Trump into a vicious trap! STUPID!! He needs to resign and take mueller along with the resistance member Rottenstien!
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Exactly.


27 posted on 06/21/2017 8:42:53 PM PDT by Kalamata
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To: RoseofTexas

Sessions was caught off balance. He is a hard-nosed prosecutor and a heavy asset to the President. He won’t be sucker punched again.

Things will be fine.


28 posted on 06/21/2017 8:45:09 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Hostage

Seems like Trump and Sessions are constructing a solid foundation. That’s what builders do.


29 posted on 06/21/2017 8:52:10 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Meet the New Boss

Why on earth does a prosecutor, brought in to investigate a case in which there is no apparent crime, need a staff of 14 lawyers?

Because that’s the way it works in the Washington swamp. Robert Mueller hires all his friends, they are well paid while it lasts, and Muller may even get a kickback from each of them.

We the people foot the bill.


30 posted on 06/21/2017 8:57:07 PM PDT by satan (The tree of liberty is dying in the drought.)
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It’s not about the money for these lawyers. They would be making more money in private practice defending white collar criminals than what they are getting paid by the Special Counsel’s office.

It’s about being part of taking down a vile anti-globalist, white nationalist, anti-semitic, misogynistic, etc etc president, as they see it.

Liberal lawyers were falling all over themselves to be a part of taking down Richard Nixon for similar reasons. Even young radical Hillary Rodham managed to snag a position as a lawyer on a congressional Watergate committee.

If successful, they expect to see themselves discussed in fawning terms in countless magazine articles, books and even movies lauding them each for the brilliant legal strategy he or she thought of or the clever way in which he or she uncovered some particular piece of evidence.

Lasting fame in the future history books written by our future progressive historians.


31 posted on 06/21/2017 9:08:45 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Meet the New Boss; flaglady47; Maine Mariner; pax_et_bonum; Seattle Conservative; Bob Ireland; ...
I want to see a list of all of Mueller's hired guns...their names, the names of their law firms....the length and times of their employment, where each will have an office and the amount of staff for that office plus reimbursement for such staff......and I want to see the contractual terms of these hired guns and cronies of Mueller, i.e., retainers, hourly fees for each lawyer plus any other reimbursements of any kind they will receive.

I should think this should be public knowledge...the question i$, who will dig thi$ information out and reveal it to u$ ???

Leni

32 posted on 06/21/2017 9:15:19 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: Meet the New Boss

Only in USA...

Investigate Russian interference with money borrowed from China!

Only in USA...

Whereas middle class manufacturing jobs have flown to China, the democrats are obsessed with Russia.

Only in USA...
I defy anyone to find anything in stores made in Russia. For every item you won’t find, I will show you list of 1000 items in US stores made in China.

With thinking like this, no wonder we owe $20,000,000,000,000 in debt and growing faster than a speeding bullet. $20 Trillion = $61,540 for every living person in USA.


33 posted on 06/22/2017 9:18:06 AM PDT by entropy12 (Read my profile for how to really reduce healthcare costs & improve quality.)
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To: sargon

I doubt it. Either Mueller or President Trump will lose his job. Let’s make it Mueller, tomorrow. What DJT can weather is a rat/media sh!tstorm, but not a cadre of lawyers armed with general writs, and loyal to Hillary and the deep state.


34 posted on 06/22/2017 3:08:47 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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