One Mueller-Investigation Coincidence Too Many

National Review ^ | 12/12/2017 | Victor Davis Hanson

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[DoughtyOne]

"Mueller? Mueller?

Has anyone seen Ferris Mueller?

...from Mueller's Day Off

[DoughtyOne]

Oops: Ferris Mueller's Day Off

[Cicero]

As always, Victor Davis Hanson is worth a full and careful read. Thanks for posting.

He lists an endless number of puzzles, concerning why Mueller hired various Clinton and Obama buddies to investigate Trump—and then let it all gradually leak out.

I’ll skip the last paragraph, which suggests what he thinks may be a possible reason, but quote the next-to-last paragraph here, in which he sums up the puzzle in typical VDH fashion:

“Yet Donald Trump at this point would be unhinged if he were to fire Special Counsel Mueller — given that the investigators seem intent on digging their own graves through conflicts of interest, partisan politicking, leaking, improper amorous liaisons, indiscreet communications, and stonewalling the release of congressionally requested information.”

Maybe that’s what Trump hired him to do.

[thouworm]

Fusion GPS dossier cabal was using spy tradecraft to evade leaving electronic footprints
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3612971/posts

[Mase]

Love VDH.

[Avalon Memories]

The article is a great summation of the massive problems with Mueller and his team. At this point, it can be fairly stated that Mueller is a textbook example of a malicious, corrupt prosecutor.

[Billthedrill]

Indeed, the only remaining trajectory by which Mueller and his investigators can escape with their reputations intact is to dismiss those staff attorneys who have exhibited clear anti-Trump political sympathies, reboot the investigation, and then focus on what now seems the most likely criminal conduct: Russian and Clinton-campaign collusion in the creation of the anti-Trump Fusion GPS dossier and later possible U.S. government participation in the dissemination of it. If such a fraudulent document was used to gain court approval to surveil Trump associates, and under such cover to unmask and leak names of private U.S. citizens — at first to warp a U.S. election, and then later to thwart the work of an incoming elected administration — then Mueller will be tasked with getting to the bottom of one of the greatest political scandals in recent U.S. history.

Precisely none of these people is one whit concerned with their reputations in the eyes of the Little People. Some may care vaguely about damage to their media connections but only insofar as it affects their power. Illegal collusion could not be proven because there wasn't any; the focus then shifted to a perjury trap on General Flynn so that somebody, anybody on the Trump team could be pointed to as having done something wrong; that has failed, and so now the focus is seamlessly moved to obstruction of justice in the form of interference with this farcical show trial and if all that fails, to entirely unrelated charges of past sexual impropriety completely outside the scope of the investigation, either in its original form or the many-tentacled monster it has grown into. This in itself is a political scandal of immense proportion.

The only reputations that have suffered have been those of the media celebrities who are harnessed and marching in lock step to this disgraceful drumbeat. And even at this late date most of them remain petty, vindictive, relentlessly partisan and willing to lie to advance the grand resistance movement of which their bloated egos tell them they're the vanguard. Whether they will ever come to care is yet unproven.

[SaveFerris]

[ Has anyone seen Ferris Mueller? ]

Would you settle for just the first half?

;)

[bigbob]

Actually it was a brilliant idea. How else would we know about them?

[DoughtyOne]

No...

":^)

Now his girl-friend, Mia Saraah????

[SaveFerris]

Back then, perhaps.....

Personally, I thought the blonde girl dancing on the float was cute.

Oh, and the Ferrari.

[DoughtyOne]

I didn't remember her well. She looks cute.

If we all had the same taste in women, it would be a very violent world. LOL

[dontreadthis]

enjoyed reading that, thanks

[silentknight]

Highly unlikely.

Most Americans are too stupid to understand his article.

[SaveFerris]

Any girl that can dance on a float....lol

[Oldeconomybuyer]

There are no coincidences in witch hunts.

[Weirdad]

Great article — thanks for posting.