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Robert Mueller should step aside: Friends shouldn’t be investigating friends
Legal Insurrection, All Rights Reserved. ^ | Sunday, June 11, 2017 | William A. Jacobson

Posted on 06/11/2017 9:02:13 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

Whether they were just close professional friends, or consider themselves personally friendly, the fact is that they are not at arms length. This relationship, at least as reported, appears to be much more than the routine interactions you might expect two law enforcement officers to have had in the regular course of business.

Something doesn’t seem right here. Comey manipulated the system into getting his friend appointed Special Counsel, and now that friend will be investigating matters in which Comey is a key witness. More than that, Comey’s own actions in leaking government property raise legal issues as to whether Comey himself violated the law.

Even assuming Mueller is able to separate his past with Comey from his present investigation, that relationship damages the whole purpose of having a Special Counsel who is completely independent in fact and appearance.

In a truly independent investigation, friends shouldn’t be investigating friends. Mueller should step aside to remove the taint on the Special Counsel investigation created by friend and witness James Comey.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: comeymueller; conflictofinterest; firemueller; mueller; muellercomey; muellerstepdown; specialcounsel
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To: Meet the New Boss

Would the reg allow Dreeben or does it have to be someone outside govt.


41 posted on 06/11/2017 9:57:02 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: RummyChick

outside govt


42 posted on 06/11/2017 10:02:13 AM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: RummyChick
Mueller just hired Dreeben who is well respected

I make no claim to be as "in the know" re DC personalities as you seem to be. However, wasn't the same said about Comey.....Mueller?

Since Shapespear is already in the news today, I'll close with

....and we all know that Dreeben is an honorable man.

43 posted on 06/11/2017 10:03:22 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Roccus

S/B...Shakespeare


44 posted on 06/11/2017 10:07:24 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Roccus

You have a point.

But what I am getting at is the other side likes dreeben..so wouldn’t object...but apparently law wouldnt allow his appointment.


45 posted on 06/11/2017 10:10:59 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: Meet the New Boss

Thanks. It makes sense


46 posted on 06/11/2017 10:11:56 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: Homer1

“If Mueller is honorable, he will recuse himself.”

In my book almost ANYONE CONNECTED to the obama’s and/or the clinton’s or the democratic party destroyed their honor, if they ever had any, a long time ago.


47 posted on 06/11/2017 10:19:24 AM PDT by kagnew
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To: Homer1

“If Mueller is honorable, he will recuse himself.”

In my book almost ANYONE CONNECTED to the obama’s and/or the clinton’s or the democratic party destroyed their honor, if they ever had any, a long time ago.


48 posted on 06/11/2017 10:19:24 AM PDT by kagnew
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To: Roccus

Mueller?

Just to show exactly how Old School I really am, I’d leave Mueller just exactly where he is right now....

So that he can just “Twist slowly in the wind” along with his lamea$$ investigation and seditious buddies.

I’d hate to have to pay to extradite ANY of the bums.


49 posted on 06/11/2017 10:21:13 AM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (...against all enemies, foreign or domestic...)
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To: Grampa Dave

I’m sure the FBI would s totally capable of running forensics on the laptop and will have a record of anything deleted from the server


50 posted on 06/11/2017 10:24:59 AM PDT by McGavin999
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To: Unrepentant VN Vet

My point exactly.

The ONLY reason I even bothered to vote last Nov. was Trump.

It’s pitchforks and torches time, folks.


51 posted on 06/11/2017 10:29:22 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Trump should do nothing but f the sort. Rod Rosenstein should call Mueller in and lay the facts out and give Mueller the opportunity to recuse himself and if f he des not should fire him. Rod Rosenstein is the one who hired him, he should be the one to clean up the mess.

President Trump needs to stay far away from this mess.


52 posted on 06/11/2017 10:30:37 AM PDT by McGavin999
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To: PGR88

This crap is not MAGA. We are being taken for a swim in the swamp. The Achilles Heel of this administration is quite apparent. Why dance with these treasonous scum and why is the swamp not drained. Parts of the Obama administration are still running things within government and in exile.


53 posted on 06/11/2017 10:42:04 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

NO!! Mueller should RECUSE HIMSELF. Just as Jeff Sessions was forced to recuse himself for attending an Obama cocktail party that also included the Russian ambassador, Mueller should recuse himself for being asked to investigate his friend. This should be the one and only line from ALL Republicans henceforth.


54 posted on 06/11/2017 10:49:18 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: Grampa Dave

“Room service.”


55 posted on 06/11/2017 10:51:50 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: RummyChick
"I am one of the very few here that think that trump should STHU and vet his tweets with legal counsel."

I do cringe at a few of his tweets. However, looking at the universal obsession that the Swamp Media has against his tweets, I can only believe that the tweets are immensely successful. There is no question that the Trump tweets often set the agenda. I think they do far more good than bad, and submitting them to the bureaucracy for approval would essentially eliminate their effectiveness.

56 posted on 06/11/2017 10:55:06 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

A big lawyer gravy train... whoever authorized funding for this is an isiot. The idiot party knee jerked and participated again in attacking Trump.

Those idiots still call it Russia investigation when Russia is not investigated, let alone Obama or Hillary.

This is a complete fraud from the get go.


57 posted on 06/11/2017 10:58:35 AM PDT by lavaroise
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To: Meet the New Boss
Rosenstein needs to amend the Special Counsel appointment to limit it to only the Manafort and Flynn matters and take everything else back into the regular DOJ as the investigation demonstrates there is no basis for a Special Counsel since there is no conflict of interest, as there was no collusion by Trump with the Russian government to hack the election.

Rosenstein should not have appointed the Special Counsel so quickly based on a leak in the newspaper. I think he is part of the swamp. How convenient to name Mueller so fast.

58 posted on 06/11/2017 11:00:01 AM PDT by this is my country
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To: Grampa Dave; All

In other words -there WERE no ‘notes’ and he couldn’t get a back-time date on some new ones - So - we’re to take his word for it that he destroyed the original notes that he made to protect himself -

If he DID have original notes and DID destroy them, them just and say but this is what they were - not manufacture new ones. (and wouldn’t destroying such notes, along with not reporting them to his superiors, be a crime?)

sure smells like LIE LIE LIE thru’ his teeth - and these notes should be totally inadmissible for Anything.

UN-freaking believable.


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60 posted on 06/11/2017 11:19:27 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fourth estate? Ha! Our media has become the KCOTUS, the Kangaroo Court of the United States.)
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