Gregg Jarrett: Why Robert Mueller should resign as special counsel

Fox News ^ | May 19, 2017 | Gregg Jarrett

[Jane Long]

Robert Mueller has a serious conflict of interest that should disqualify him from serving as special counsel.

He has had a long and close relationship with someone who will surely become a pivotal witness –James Comey.

No one doubts Mueller’s sterling credentials. That is not the issue. He is imminently qualified. The problem arises in his duty to fairly and objectively evaluate the evidence he gathers.

How can Americans have confidence in the results if they know the special counsel may harbor a conspicuous bias? They cannot. The conflict inevitably discredits whatever conclusion is reached. It renders the entire investigatory exercise suspect, and it only elevates the controversy surrounding it.

[Logical me]

HEY SESSIONS! why do we not have a special prosecutor investigating the clintons and thier foundation, or did you guys forget and forgive

Been wondering what the hell is the hold up. Maybe it just proves all Republican leadership is ignorant.

[hoosiermama]

Not necessarily and Mueller didn’t bother to tell him about it.

My understanding is when their is a familial or personal relationship one may continue to work on a case noting the bias if you have revealed the relationship from the beginning. To not reveal the relationship is unethical and can lead to legal/disbarment action.

Let’s see how quickly Bueller Mueller takes to do the right thing.

[matthew fuller]

Mueller was appointed “Special Counselor” according to what I heard. Not aware of any real differences.

[RoseofTexas]

Just pray for Trump his enemies are too damn evil and powerful...I don’t even tune on to Dobbs anymore..as much as I love him I’m just tired of the mentra by the liberal mediapukes...they face no consequences! Unless the people rise and take to the streets in massive numbers protesting the mediabastards and the liberals consider our president doomed.... if they have lied their way to getting a special prosecutor over made up lies...could you imagine what evil plan they have down the road? I have no faith in your system or our representatives! The line will be exaggerated line and somehow they will produce false documents ..don’t under estimate them they have it all planned out! That loony bin Maxine Waters let the cat outta the cat when she kept telling everybody that Trump was going to be impeached by summer’s end ....she spilled the beans...those people are FREAKIN EVIL!!!!

[Vic S]

If he doesn’t find anything this gives the Demorats a way out. They can say he was tainted.

Trump should keep him, he’ll be replaced by a deep state operative. Having said this, I don’t trust Mueller. No one gets to be FBI director for 12 years w/out being part of the swamp.

[robert14]

I think you guys are missing the point of the investigation. It is about our President, only. The investigation will not go outside Presdent Trump and his immediate staff. It does not include leaking, unmasking, Hillary servers, etc. The investigators will be blind to any laws broken by anyone else outside of Trumps people. Read the letter explaining the charge. It is a setup, period.

[robert14]

Mueller was FBI director when Hillary was SOS. What did he do about it?

[Grampa Dave]

Mueller is a long time friend and associate of the Criminal Comey.

Take a few minutes to read how criminal Comey has been for decades and in the pockets of the Clintons and Obama.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3553445/posts

The Inside Story on James B. Comey
State of the Nation ^ | 18 May 2017 | Lisa Frank via State of the Nation
Posted on 05/19/2017 11:28:56 AM PDT by Rockitz

Subtitle: Former FBI Director the Ultimate Inside Man

SOTN Editor’s Note: The following exposé was originally posted as an excellent comment on Facebook

Subject: Dropping the Hammer on Comey… Brilliant!

[Jane Long]

Thanks for the ping/link to that Criminal Comey background thread.

[Jane Long]

😉

[TonyM]

I am so ashamed of Sessions. He was my Senator and I thought he would be great as the AG but he is an embarrisment. I have not heard a damn thing from him on going after Clinton or any of the many Obama adminstration crimes.

[SueRae]

Bravo.. I was eyerolling as I read it...

[flaglady47]

“‘Eminently’, NOT ‘imminently’.

Some lawyer. I wouldn’t hire him to represent me.”

How petty of you. Did you do the research that Jarrett did to ferret out all this info and bring it to the public? And to warn Trump about this? No you say? Then lay off Gregg Jarrett with your BS.

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[Carthego delenda est]

Well let’s see, Bob Mueller was in charge of investigating the missing nuke secrets at Los Alamos. He never did find anything, but certainly did make Wen Ho Lee’s life unpleasant for a little while.

It was Mueller’s FBI that went after Super Villain Martha Stewart and made America’s streets a bit safer by locking her up for a while.

It was Mueller’s FBI that ‘investigated’ the Oklahoma City Bombings, discussed at length here on Free Republic.

After 9/11 it was the FBI under Mueller, in which middle managers, Frasca and Maltbie, rejected all terrorist warnings from field agents Sinder, Cowley and Williams, and then afterwards, Frasca and Maltbie were promoted.

Mueller was appointed chief of the DoJ’s criminal division by President George H.W. Bush when that BCCI investigation was getting closer and closer to the White House and old Bob made sure that it got no closer!

And to insure that Treasury was in line during that period, Bush family cousin, John Walker, had been appointed the chief enforcement officer there -— the same John Walker, later appointed as a judge, who would have the future FBI director, James Comey, clerking for him.

[lonevoice]

Robert Mueller has a serious conflict of interest

That's exactly why Deputy AG Rosentstein appointed him, and exactly why Jeff Sessions was like a boyscout running into a buzzsaw when he recused himself from all things Russia.

[laplata]

‘Eminently’, NOT ‘imminently’.

Some lawyer. I wouldn’t hire him to represent me.

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That’s a transcript, smart ass. If you’re too stupid to know that, I wouldn’t hire you, either.

Jarrett brings up excellent points.

[flaglady47]

You can thank Rosenstein for this appointment of Robert Mueller, and then thank Sessions for being a fool and recusing himself in the first place, doing Trump no favors. And then thank whoever is advising Trump to select Rosenstein, a Dem, to the position of Deputy under Sessions, and then thank Trump for having been such a fool to fall for such advice. And now some of his staff (Kutchner perhaps?) are trying to persuade Trump to hire Joe Lieberman to head the FBI? Another Dem at heart liberal on most things, politician who ran for VP on the Dem ticket?

Trump better get his head out of the sand fast, and start taking his advice from Bannon, Lewandowski, Bossi, and them that brung him to the dance, or Trump is going to be in deep political doo doo. He’s being surrounded by East Coast liberals, be they Pubs or Dems, and these elitists are doing him no favors. Their “advice” is going to sink Trump into a political hole he is going to have a heck of a time digging himself out of. Not the time to be going all naive on us about some of those advising you, President Trump. To your detriment.

[Hattie]

Investigate the Investigators!!