Posted on 12/08/2017 10:51:34 AM PST by Strac6
An attorney for special counsel Robert Mueller attended Hillary Clinton’s election night party in New York City, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
Andrew Weissmann’s attendance at the party is one of many signs pointing to a troubling bias from the attorney. Weissmann has been described by The New York Times as Mueller’s “lieutenant” and “pit bull.”
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained an email Tuesday that reveled Weissmann praised former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates’ defiance of Trump.
“I am so proud. And in awe. Thank you so much. All my deepest respects,” Weissmann wrote to Yates on Jan. 30. The email followed Yates’ instruction to the DOJ not to defend an executive order banning immigration from seven nations, an act that led to her dismissal by President Trump.
Weissmann is one of several Democratic donors that have been hired by Mueller, a registered Republican. The special counsel’s “pit bull” donated a combined $6,600 to the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
The special counsel’s probe has been criticized by Trump’s allies, but the White House maintains Trump has no intention to fire Mueller.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in October that Mueller’s investigation would end “soon.”
However, it appears the wide-ranging probe will last into 2018.
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I’m not keeping count, and I’m willing to let Mueller continue and self-destruct, but it is ridiculous how his team is stuffed with Clintonites.
You mean the party she didn’t attend and sent Pictures Podesta out to claim the election wasn’t over?
Sessions is on borrowed time. Once the final nail is pounded into Mueller’s coffin, Sessions will be removed from his “dream job”. Hope he enjoyed his ineffective time and his nasty footnote in history.
Sessions is on borrowed time. Once the final nail is pounded into Mueller’s coffin, Sessions will be removed from his “dream job”. Hope he enjoyed his ineffective time and his nasty footnote in history.
What next, maybe he will Hillary Hillary, she's unemployed.
indicts Hillary.
I wonder if the day will ever come.
America needs to see her at least indicted in order to heal from her actions IMHO.
“[Weissman] has a history of serious ethics violations, which were brought up before the First Judicial Department Disciplinary Committee in New York.
The Justice Department said Mr. Weissmann and then-Chief White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler “plainly suppressed” evidence favorable to the defense when he was a federal prosecutor leading the Enron Task Force.
While the Fifth Circuit ruled that the more than 6,000-plus pages of evidence withheld from former Merrill Lynch manager James A. Brown’s attorneys would not have helped his case at trial, it’s not the end of the story.
Sidney Powell, who served as lead counsel in more than 500 federal appeals, filed an ethics complaint against Mr. Weissmann along with William Hodes, one of the bar’s leading ethics experts. It alleged he not only hid evidence but also called “cooperating witnesses” who gave what he knew to be false testimony.
“During his years on the Enron Task Force, Prosecutor Weissmann was widely known for intimidating witnesses, hiding evidence, and unethical and heavy-handed, if not illegal, tactics,” said Powell, who has written about the case for the legal site Seeking Justice.
Fortunately for him, the New York Bar decided to secretly kick it over to the Office of Professional Responsibility at DOJ. The Justice Department was supposed to be making the case against him, but ended up on both sides of the complaint. It was an ethics nightmare that ended without accountability.
“As long as he held the power to indict, however, few dared speak out,” Powell added. “He repeatedly threatened to indict people who contradicted his view of the Enron cases.”
The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) unanimously overturned the conviction that Mr. Weissman and the Enron Task Force secured for the accounting firm Arthur Andersen.
Why?
Because of Mr. Weissmann’s unethical actions, specifically giving jury instructions that removed criminal intent from the law and improperly portrayed the law Andersen was charged with breaking.
The jury was told that “even if petitioner honestly and sincerely believed its conduct was lawful, the jury could convict,” which was not true.
Arthur Andersen was charged under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(b)(2)(A) and (B), which is to “knowingly … corruptly persuad[e] another person … with intent to … cause” that person to “withhold” documents from, or “alter” documents for use in, an “official proceeding.”
Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote in the opinion that the instructions were so vague that they “simply failed to convey the requisite consciousness of wrongdoing.”
“Indeed, it is striking how little culpability the instructions required,” the former Chief Justice wrote. “Only persons conscious of wrongdoing can be said to ‘knowingly corruptly persuade.”
Deep state drones is a better description of those still claiming that. Now, there is a chance Mueller may try to do a sudden 180 to save himself. But it would only be a sign of desperate self preservation, not evidence there was ever a secret plot, at least not one other than to try to impeach Trump.
bttt
Interesting idea—that Mueller might try to be more evenhanded in self-defense. But wasn’t he supposed to have at least one Podesta brother on the ropes by now? I seem to recall the pro-Mueller conservatives telling us that the leftist dominoes were about to start falling, beginning with Podesta.
Prez appoints Rudy Giuliani as new AG.
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That would be great but the Senate would never confirm him because they would be afraid he’d do his job.
‘make no mistake, Mueller is working for the Swamp.’
I have never doubted it.
How long until we find out Mueller also has an Office at Hillary’s House where he runs the investigation from??
The only thing Mueller seems to be achieving is exposing how corrupt and politically biased the swamp truly is.
You're a consistent & reliably good poster, so I must admit this is a rather disappointing emotional admission on your part.
If there is anything at all to be taken away from this sordid affair, a "teachable moment" if you will for current and future generations, is that this level of criminality and corruption is *par for the course* throughout the course of history. And please don't give me any "muh constitution" nonsense; that piece of paper and $2.50 will get you a cup of coffee @ Starbucks.
The key lesson here is that psychopaths aspire to power - seizing control of government and forcing people to cede to their authority. They don't have any other interests or hobbies; they care not a whit about family & friends.
The framers understood this concept intimately well. After all, they had just escaped the clutches of a country that's government traced back to a single, successful gambit for conquest by William I. The founders knew full well the arbitrary blood lust expressed by the ruling nobility for all commoners.
But a simple paper document could only provide a basic framework of checks & balances. Constant diligence was actually needed by the citizenry, otherwise those conspiring in the dark would have an easy time to devise and craft all kinds of mischief, as we've seen in spades.
The key at this point isn't to be surprised and/or outraged at what has transpired - after all, hundreds/thousands of civilizations have all experienced the same events - but to move on to the next question: what are we (Trump) going to do about punishing those who conspired to commit treason? And how do we put sufficient 'fear of god' into them to not try for at least another 50-75 years?
That wasn’t a party. It was a wake. Why did he really go...
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