Posted on 12/12/2017 9:06:04 AM PST by Golden Eagle
The Justice Department is refusing to reveal details of the process that led up to former FBI Director Robert Mueller being granted an ethics waiver to serve as special counsel investigating the Trump campaign's alleged collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential election.
In response to a POLITICO Freedom of Information Act request, the agency released a one-sentence memo Friday confirming that Mueller was granted a conflict-of-interest waiver in order to assume the politically-sensitive post.
The waiver is believed to relate to Mueller's work in recent years as a partner at the WilmerHale law firm, which also represented former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, as well as White House adviser Jared Kushner, who is also President Donald Trump's son-in-law.
However, the document signed by Justice's top career official, Associate Deputy Attorney General Scott Schools, provides no detail at all of the grounds for the waiver. In fact, it's so vague that it doesn't even convey why anyone would think Mueller needed such a release.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Exactly, this is a major torpedo to the broadside of Mueller and Rosenstein’s already sinking ship. And what the reasons are they have or had listed as the conflicts of interest are already OBE by the massive conflicts being disclosed.
The point made going forward should be “The DOJ has already found and officially recorded that Mueller has a conflict of interest in being appointed Special Counsel.”
Rosenstein did select Mueller. I read that Mueller reportedly has taken out insurance (I assume it to be swamp liability ins.), so it’s no surprise that will suffice as a supplement to the swamp membership “waiver”.
It says he is Associate Deputy AG which just so happens to be the position that Ohr was recently removed from. Dont think the timelines are the same, so there may be several of them, and from what we’ve seen so far, all may be crooked.
It all stinketh to the high heavens.
I don’t think Mueller needed an ethics waiver.
He does not have any ethics.
This just confirms that the fix is in.
NimRod Rosenstein couldn’t find a Special Counsel without a conflict of interest?
Nope, he wanted Mueller, all part of the plan.
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I think it’s sort of presumed when one passes the bar exam. How many lawyers have ethics? Lawyerticians even less so.
Good find. From the article:
- while Schools’ job is one that “almost nobody outside of DOJ knows about or understands,” in the words of Obama-era DOJ official Kathryn Ruemmler, it has never been more crucial to maintaining the department’s stability. -
“Stability” being the key word, that could be easily replaced with many others to bring the article up to current. I’d probably go with “corruption.”
It seems that Mueller and most of his staff should have recused themselves because of conflicts of interest. But only Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III did so.
Spit.
Many believe that Sessions was double crossed by Rosenstein, who was the key player in getting Comey fired (as Comey worked directly for him) and the subsequent appointment of Mueller.
Did Rosenstein pressure Sessions to recuse himself from Russia probe to ultimately get Mueller appointed Special Counsel?
http://netrightdaily.com/2017/12/did-rosenstein-pressure-sessions-to-recuse-himself/
If Trump isn’t willing to do what it takes to make his domestic enemy stop their assault, he ought to just throw in the towel and stop wasting his time.
He isn’t even in control of his own Executive Agencies, DOJ, or the Armed Forces.
This is a joke.
btt
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