"Bungling Bob" Mueller might indict Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Lenin and Beria for this insidious Russian collusion!
Posted on 08/15/2018 12:34:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump questioned the validity of the ongoing Russia investigation on Wednesday after some of the agents who began the process were fired. “The Rigged Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on as the ‘originators and founders’ of this scam continue to be fired and demoted for their corrupt and illegal activity,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “All credibility is gone from this terrible Hoax, and much more will be lost as it proceeds.”
Trump cited former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker, who said that the firing of agent Peter Strzok was a “step in the right direction.”
“The action was a decisive step in the right direction in correcting the wrongs committed by what has been described as Comey’s skinny inner circle,” Swecker said on Fox News on Wednesday, referring to former FBI director James Comey, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and Strzok.
He added that Comey’s team was using personal email addresses and sending classified information on them while investigating Hillary Clinton and portraying themselves as heroes.
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I’m torn now.
If the investigation continuing means more firing of corrupt deep staters, then let it continue.
How can credibility that never existed be gone?
Beat me too it.
Even a great man misspeaks occasionally.
"Bungling Bob" Mueller might indict Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Lenin and Beria for this insidious Russian collusion!
I have a feeling Trump is going to fire Mueller the day after the November election with the credible reason that Mueller needed to wrap up before November, everyone agreed, and he didn’t. Now, you’re fired!
Mueller is pretty much convinced he’s personally immune in all of this, and that he can hide out in the swamp. Under that belief, look for Mueller to get an indictment on some really cheesy bogus charges on someone close to Trump. Allegations that the guy had sex with a dead boy while snorting a line of coke and taking a sack full of cash at midnight in the basement of the Russian Embassy. That there is no truth to it doesn’t matter. It only needs a shelf life of two weeks, and the media can keep it alive that long.
And this indictment will be handed down October 20, just in time to screw with the midterms. On November 10, the indictment will quietly go down the memory hole, having served its purpose.
This is a coup attempt not an investigation!
With the chastising of the prosecutors by the judge early on, does anybody have a sense what the outcome will be? Is Manafort guilty? He put on no defense.
Apparently the DOJ declined to prosecute Manafort for this same set of facts in the past.
If Mueller wins a conviction, he and the democRATS will spin it as vindication and that Trump and his campaign were compromised by the Russians.
But if he loses this one, I think it's over with. He's done. He has nothing substantial to follow-up a loss of the Manafort prosecution. A bunch of small fish but no Russian collusion or obstruction of justice.
Any FReepers been following the trial and want to venture a guess as to the outcome?
I agree. He’s just spinning it because, as we all know, the liberal media will now make a mountain out of “loss of credibility” of their fake “probe” which is really a coup.
It never had any.
There’s no excuse not to shut it down, then. Get it gone. Now.
I don't think it was wise to present a defense with no witnesses. I don't know how it will go, but if Manafort is found guilty, all hell's going to break loose on the part of the anti-American leftist liberals.
See? We told you so! Manafort is guilty, and so is Trump!
Never mind that the case has nothing to do with Trump.
“Mueller is pretty much convinced he’s personally immune in all of this, and that he can hide out in the swamp. “
Well, he better start thinking of Uranium One and his role in it.
The prosecution rested, and, in a gigantic display of balls, Manafort’s lawyer stood up and said, “Your honor, the defense rests”.
The time honored principle of innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt is in play here.
Just the people who have standing to tell us it was OK if Hillary did it.
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How Hillary Clinton's email scandal took root
May 27, 2016
Melina Mara / The Washington Post
Robert O'Harrow Jr.The Washington Post
Alice Crites contributed to this report.
From her earliest days as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton's aides and senior officials focused intently on accommodating the secretary's desire to use her private email account, documents and interviews show.
Hillary Clinton's email problems began in her first days as secretary of state. She insisted on using her personal BlackBerry for all her email communications, but she wasn't allowed to take the device into her seventh-floor suite of offices, a secure space known as Mahogany Row.
For Clinton, this was frustrating. As a political heavyweight and chief of the nation's diplomatic corps, she needed to manage a torrent of email to stay connected to colleagues, friends and supporters. She hated having to put her BlackBerry into a lockbox before going into her own office.
Her aides and senior officials pushed to find a way to enable her to use the device in the secure area. But their efforts unsettled the diplomatic security bureau, which was worried that foreign intelligence services could hack her BlackBerry and transform it into a listening device. On Feb. 17, 2009, less than a month into Clinton's tenure, the issue came to a head. Department security, intelligence and technology specialists, along with five officials from the National Security Agency, gathered in a Mahogany Row conference room. They explained the risks to Cheryl Mills, Clinton's chief of staff, while also seeking "mitigation options" that would accommodate Clinton's wishes.
"The issue here is one of personal comfort," one of the participants in that meeting, Donald Reid, the department's senior coordinator for security infrastructure, wrote afterward in an email that described Clinton's inner circle of advisers as "dedicated [BlackBerry] addicts." Clinton used her BlackBerry as the group continued looking for a solution.
But unknown to diplomatic security and technology officials at the department, there was another looming communications vulnerability: Clinton's BlackBerry was digitally tethered to a private email server in the basement of her family home, some 260 miles to the north in Chappaqua, N.Y., documents and interviews show. Those officials took no steps to protect the server against intruders and spies, because they apparently were not told about it.
The vulnerability of Clinton's basement server is one of the key unanswered questions at the heart of a scandal that has dogged her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Since Clinton's private email account was brought to light a year ago in a New York Times report - followed by an Associated Press report revealing the existence of the server - the matter has been a source of nonstop national news. Private groups have filed lawsuits under the Freedom of Information Act. Investigations were begun by congressional committees and inspector general's offices in the State Department and the U.S. Intelligence Community, which referred the case to the FBI in July for "counterintelligence purposes" after determining that the server carried classified material.
The FBI is now trying to determine whether a crime was committed in the handling of that classified material. They are also examining whether the server was hacked. One hundred forty-seven FBI agents have been deployed to run down leads, according to a lawmaker briefed by FBI Director James Comey. The FBI has accelerated the investigation because officials want to avoid the possibility of announcing any action too close to the election.
The Washington Post reviewed hundreds of documents and interviewed more than a dozen knowledgeable government officials to understand the decisions and the implications of Clinton's actions. The resulting scandal revolves around questions about classified information, the preservation of government records and the security of her email communication.
From the earliest days, Clinton aides and senior officials focused intently on accommodating the secretary's desire to use her private email account, documents and interviews show. Throughout, they paid insufficient attention to laws and regulations governing the handling of classified material and the preservation of government records, interviews and documents show. They also neglected repeated warnings about the security of the BlackBerry while Clinton and her closest aides took obvious security risks in using the basement server.
Senior officials who helped Clinton with her BlackBerry claim they did not know details of the basement server, the State Department said, even though they received emails from her private account. One email written by a senior official mentioned the server.
The scandal has pitted those who say Clinton was innocently trying to find the easiest way to communicate against those who say she placed herself above the law in a quest for control of her records. She and her campaign have been accused of confusing matters with contradictory and evolving statements that minimized the consequences of her actions.
Clinton, 68, declined to be interviewed. She has said repeatedly that her use of the private server was benign and that there is no evidence of any intrusion. In a news conference last March, she said: "I opted for convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the State Department, because I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two." During a Democratic debate on March 9, she acknowledged using poor judgment but maintained she was permitted to use her own server: "It wasn't the best choice. I made a mistake. It was not prohibited. It was not in any way disallowed."
The unfolding story of Clinton's basement server has outraged advocates of government transparency and mystified political supporters and adversaries alike. Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., who is presiding over one of the FOIA lawsuits, has expressed puzzlement over the affair. He noted that Clinton put the State Department in the position of having to ask her to return thousands of government records - her work email. "Am I missing something?" Sullivan asked during a Feb. 23 hearing. "How in the world could this happen?"
An aide selects a reporter to ask Hillary Clinton, former U.S. secretary of state, left, a question during a news conference at the United Nations in March. Clinton defended the legality of her use of a private email account and server while she served as secretary of state, saying that she had done so out of a desire for convenience but should have used a government account for work purposes.
Hillary Clinton began preparing to use the private basement server after President Obama picked her to be his secretary of state in November 2008. The system was already in place. It had been set up for former president Bill Clinton, who used it for personal and Clinton Foundation business. On Jan. 13, 2009, a longtime aide to Bill Clinton registered a private email domain for Hillary Clinton, clintonemail.com, that would allow her to send and receive email through the server.
Eight days later, she was sworn in as secretary of state. Among the multitude of challenges she faced was how to integrate email into her State Department routines. Because Clinton did not use desktop computers, she relied on her personal BlackBerry, which she had started using three years earlier.
For years, employees across the government had used official and private email accounts. The new president was making broad promises about government transparency that had a bearing on Clinton's communication choices. In memos to his agency chiefs, Obama said his administration would promote accountability through the disclosure of a wide array of information, one part of a "profound national commitment to ensuring an open government." That included work emails.
One year earlier, during her own presidential campaign, Clinton had said that if elected, "we will adopt a presumption of openness and Freedom of Information Act requests and urge agencies to release information quickly." But in those first few days, Clinton's senior advisers were already taking steps that would help her circumvent those high-flown words, according to a chain of internal State Department emails released to Judicial Watch, a conservative nonprofit organization suing the government over Clinton's emails.
Leading that effort was Cheryl Mills, Clinton's chief of staff. She was joined by Clinton adviser Huma Abedin, Undersecretary Patrick Kennedy and Lewis Lukens, a senior career official who served as Clinton's logistics chief. Their focus was on accommodating Clinton. Mills wondered whether the department could get her an encrypted device like the one from the NSA that Obama used. "If so, how can we get her one?" Mills wrote the group on Saturday evening, Jan. 24. Lukens responded that same evening, saying he could help set up "a stand alone PC in the Secretary's office, connected to the internet (but not through our system) to enable her to check her emails from her desk." Kennedy wrote that a "stand-alone separate network PC" was a "great idea." Abedin and Mills declined to comment for this article, according to Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon. Lukens also declined to comment, according to the State Department.
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SOURCE https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/how-clintons-email-scandal-took-root/2016/03/27/ee301168-e162-11e5-846c-10191d1fc4ec_story.html?utm_term=.8b5ab46c6b37
I want Mueller to lose to show everyone he has nothing after a year and a half and is on a witch hunt to get Trump no matter who's in the way.
I want him to go away with his tail between his legs. Disgraced and humiliated.
Now just a cotton pickin’ minit here. Let’s be fair. This irresponsible remark is causing liberal heads to explode everywhere, but especially in California. It’s no wonder there are so many wildfires there, kindling massive conflagrations that burn down communities and cause death and destruction. It’s all Trump’s fault! His tweets kill! Take away his twitter account, Kelly, before the redwoods are all gone. And you call him the “best President ever.” Indeed. I bet he’s laughing to himself as another Californian head explodes, and Mexican migrants start running back towards the border without so much as casting a vote on behalf of a deceased citizen, or picking so much as one tomato. The racist.
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