Mueller must testify publicly to answer three critical questions

thehill.com ^ | June 1, 2019 | JONATHAN TURLEY

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More at the link.

I have been very impressed with Turley before - he is terrific at distilling legalese and issues with many moving parts into clear statements. This is the best discussion of Mueller's attempts to frame Trump as guilty that I've read.

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Sorry - I said “more at the link” before I moved over the rest of the article contents. No more at the link!

[milagro]

Thanks for posting this!

[ETL]

Mueller also needs to be asked about the Obama-Hillary Uranium-One deal...

Gohmert: Mueller “Covering” Involvement In Clinton-Uranium Deal While Trying To Have A “Coup” Against Trump

Posted By Ian Schwartz
June 9, 2018

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said Saturday special counsel Robert Mueller is trying to cover up his involvement with the Uranium One deal that benefited the Clintons while “trying to have a coup against the president.”

REP. LOUIE GOHMERT (R-TX): Robert Mueller has done more damage during his 12 years as FBI director than any other — probably all directors put together...

He has wasted money right and left.

Amazingly, he’s hired people like [Andrew] Weissmann that worked with him and [Rod] Rosenstein in investigating the Russian illegal efforts to obtain our uranium which they quashed information in order to allow the sale to go through so that Hillary could get the $145 million for her foundation.

So it is really outrageous. He’s covering for himself at the same time he’s trying to have a coup against the president.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/06/09/gohmert_mueller_covering_involvement_in_clinton-uranium_deal_while_trying_to_have_a_coup_against_trump.html

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"...he’s [Mueller] hired people like [Andrew] Weissmann that worked with him and [Rod] Rosenstein in investigating the Russian illegal efforts to obtain our uranium which they quashed information in order to allow the sale to go through so that Hillary could get the $145 million for her foundation.

So it is really outrageous. He’s covering for himself at the same time he’s trying to have a coup against the president.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/06/09/gohmert_mueller_covering_involvement_in_clinton-uranium_deal_while_trying_to_have_a_coup_against_trump.html

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Andrew Weissmann

Andrew Weissmann headed the Obama administration’s Department of Justice Criminal Fraud Section. Weissman was knowledgeable of Deputy Assistant Attorney General Bruce Ohr’s collusion with Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson and did not report the illegal activity to his superiors as departmental regulations require.[1] Weissman is now lead prosecutor in the Mueller investigation.[2] Weissmann is suspected in illegal leaks from the Mueller probe.[3]

Weissmann donated $2,300 to the Obama Victory Fund in 2008, $2,000 to the DNC in 2006 and at least $2,300 to the Clinton campaign in 2007. He was at Hillary Clinton headquarters on election night and is part of the anti-Trump Resistance.

Uranium One

Main article: Uranium One bribery scandal

Vadim Mikerin, director of Tenex, plea agreement shows that the Obama DOJ’s Fraud Section was then run by Andrew Weissmann.

The Justice Department instructs prosecutors that when Congress has given a federal offense its own conspiracy provision with a heightened punishment (as it has for money laundering, racketeering, narcotics trafficking, and other serious crimes), they may not charge a section 371 conspiracy. Section 371 is for less serious conspiracy cases. Using it for money laundering — which caps the sentence below Congress’s intent for that behavior — subverts federal law and signals to the court that the prosecutor does not regard the offense as major.

Yet, that is exactly what Rod Rosenstein’s office did, in a plea agreement his prosecutors co-signed with attorneys from the Justice Department’s Fraud Section. (See in The Hill’s report, the third document embedded at the bottom, titled “Mikerin Plea Deal.”) No RICO, no extortion, no fraud — and the plea agreement does not mention any of the extortions in 2009 and 2010, before Committee on Foreign Investment in the US approved Rosatom’s acquisition of Uranium One. Mikerin just plead guilty to a nominal “money laundering” conspiracy charge, insulating him from a longer sentence. Thus, he got a term of only four years’ for a major national security crime.

https://www.conservapedia.com/Andrew_Weissmann

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[truthkeeper]

Thank you for posting this intelligent analysis from Jonathan Turley.

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Great post. Mueller’s got some ‘splainin’ to do.

[ETL]

[2017] Mueller’s Role in Delivering Uranium to Russians Raises Questions

New American ^ | August 2, 2017 | Steve Byas

While the revelation of a secret meeting involving Robert Mueller in the delivery of uranium to the Russians, by itself, does not prove anything of a criminal or unethical nature, it does raise questions that merit an investigation.

After all, when Mueller was FBI director under the Obama administration, he was trusted enough by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to carry out this mission.

If it was a diplomatic mission, why was the FBI director involved?

And if it was a law enforcement mission, why was Clinton involved?

[Steely Tom]

I have been very impressed with Turley before - he is terrific at distilling legalese and issues with many moving parts into clear statements. This is the best discussion of Mueller's attempts to frame Trump as guilty that I've read.

Which is why it will be ignored by the MSM-Democrats.

[Maris Crane]

Thanks, Jonathan, for some HONESTY.

[Erik Latranyi]

If anyone had doubts about Mueller’s intentions, there are none now. He is clearly working to undermine Trump and Barr.

Why?

Mueller’s own involvement in numerous political activities where he gave legal cover. Like Uranium One.

Is Mueller being threatened to be exposed if he does not continue spreading innuendoes about Trump and Barr or is Mueller doing this out of his own hatred for Trump?

It really does not matter. Mueller cannot be trusted.

[Trumpnado2016]

Robert Mueller’s name should be forever synonymous with the words fraud and deception. He should be placed under oath and made to testify publicly on his handling of the entire investigation. He needs to justify all of the time and money wasted on this whole scam.

[be-baw]

“This is the best discussion of Mueller’s attempts to frame Trump as guilty that I’ve read. “

I agree. Mueller’s reputation has tanked, for anyone paying attention. Now it’s time to get him disgraced...to destroy his fantasized legacy.

[JoSixChip]

I hope to see Trump tweet this article out.

[Widget Jr]

Any other lawyer who acted this way would have to answer these questions at a bar hearing.

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Any other lawyer who acted this way would have to answer these questions at a bar hearing.
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Which reminds me, today I read that the Dems have asked the bar association to investigate Attorney General Barr....oh....the irony....

[milagro]

Turley’s closing argument is truly a BRILLIANT hoisting of Mueller on his own petard!

[boycott]

The man just spent $30+ million of taxpayer’s dollars and now says he won’t take questions? He thinks more of himself than he should.

[AnthonySoprano]

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The author evidently didn’t get the notice that Mueller was best friends with Comey and put a zealot in charge that had Congratulated a member of the DoJ that illegally refused to follow legal orders from the President of the United States and on his own attended early meetings of the Coup Ops.

The Author is surprised because he willfully ignored plain and clear obvious evidence.

The people Mueller hand picked, over the years, ran the Get Trump Coup.

Turley celebrated Comey and Mueller as paragons of Integrity and then predicted Huber was going to clean up the Swamp, ignoring that indictment referrals weren’t going to Huber (see McCabe) and the Deep State was cleaning up on books and lies and CNN deals.

Of course, Jonathan Turley is yet again surprised.

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[AnthonySoprano]

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If Mueller sits for questions, he’ll simply not answer questions as to why he took two years and why he ignored an obvious setup.

He’ll take the opportunity to skewer Trump, and say a lot of nothing on the Questions people here want asked.

It’s DC, he’s a old timer Deep Stater, it’s silly to think he’ll answer in a meaningful way or be honest. It’s silly to think he’ll be held accountable.

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[thoughtomator]

failure to even look at the DNC server, that’s another good thing to ask about