Posted on 08/01/2017 7:41:07 PM PDT by Helicondelta
Greg Andres is the 16th lawyer to be added to Mueller’s team. He worked under Eric ‘Fast N’ Furious’ Holder from 2010 to 2012.
Via Reuters:
A former U.S. Justice Department official has become the latest lawyer to join special counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, a spokesman for the team confirmed.
Greg Andres started on Tuesday, becoming the 16th lawyer on the team, said Josh Stueve, a spokesman for the special counsel. Most recently a white-collar criminal defense lawyer with New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell, Andres, 50, served at the Justice Department from 2010 to 2012.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Yes, Mueller is begging to be fired.
It’s all part of the plan. Ask Ryan (Romney) and McConnell (Bush) what comes next.
Yeah and unrealistic Freepers, who have never prosdcuted a jaywalking charge, think Sessions can put together multiple, interlocking cases involving 5-6 HIGH PROFILE PEOPLE ,in total leakproof secrecy, with a loyal staff of maybe 10, overnight.
This is bigger than ABSCAM, bigger than the spy takedowns whi h took months with FULL SUPPORT of FBI and everyone in govt , but Freepers think thus should happen in minutes.
Unbelievable.
To me this Mueller guy looks like something that crawled out of Satan’s pocket.... Scary looking dud....
I don’t expect miracles. Neither do many others here. You assume far too much. Most of us have witnessed corruption for decades. But in the case of Sessions, we experience betrayl, cowardice, and the innocent persecuted while the guilty are untouched. If you are not outraged by that, it speaks toward your character, not mine.
For all the people that say there couldn’t possibly be anything that Mueller could investigate about Manafort...all you need to do is read that info from Manafort’s daughter to know there probably is ....also..read the lawsuit by Dustin Hoffman.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/paul-manafort-blackmail-russia-trump-235275
I suspect there is plenty to investigate. The question is whether they can get Manafort to flip.
His background shows he has dealt with a treasure trove of money launderers and mafia figures. He was sued by a Ukranian Prime Minister along with Semion Mogilevich who has a connection to Firtash.
Why people don’t get this is beyond me. Blinders in all things Trump. Trump could be perfectly innocent but those around him not...or they could all be innocent..or all guilty. We don’t know.
That said, I would like to point out that it is possible to spoof texts.
Something I am sure Mueller is looking at.
Sessions is especially conflicted, having been part of the campaign under investigation.
Rosenstein is conflicted, having "supported Trump" with a "fire Comey" memorandum.
Calls for a special counsel into the Trump campaign started in earnest with Comey's March 20 announcement to the public, that aspects of the Trump campaign were under counterintelligence investigation. In that same March 20 hearing, Comey refused to answer if there were any open criminal investigations into anybody in the Trump campaign.
Absolutely NONE of the above and soon, if you have honir, you will be ashamed you ever said such things. I expect it from dweeb noobs here. Not from you.
Talk to a prosecutor about even a low level corruption case, & you’ll find it takes months, then multiply that by the very small team he must use for secrecy and the necessity to do this without help from 90% of those inside & you’ll see what he’s doing is quite heroic.
RUBIO: Finally, who are those senior leaders at the FBI that you shared these conversations with?COMEY: As I said in response to Senator Feinstein's question, deputy director, my chief of staff, general counsel, the deputy director's chief counsel, and then, more often than not, the number three person at the FBI, who is the associate deputy director, and then, quite often, the head of the national security branch.
Deputy Director = Andrew McCabe
Chief of Staff = Jim Rybicki [FBI Chief of Staff/Senior Counselor]Rybicki Told Comey That He Doesn't Fully Trust Jeff Sessions
General Counsel = James Baker
McCabe, Rybicki, and Baker are confidantes
All four of them did not fully trust Attorney General Jeff Sessions -- and because the events were unprecedented in their experience.
Deputy Director's Chief Counsel =
Associate Deputy Director = David L. Bowdich
Head of National Security Branch = Carl Ghattas as of Feb 28, 2017
Here are some examples. This article doesn’t include the one that the son in law was running a Ponzi scheme . It roped in Dustin Hoffman
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/10/politics/ukraine-manafort-hacked-texts/index.html
“I was there when it happened. I saw him on his shady email,” she allegedly wrote. “They don’t write emails. They log on and write in the drafts So it’s never transmitted over any servers.”
“He has no moral or legal compass,” Andrea allegedly wrote about her father earlier as part of the same conversation.
“You know he has killed people in Ukraine? Knowingly,” Andrea Manafort allegedly wrote of her father in March 2015 in an angry series of texts to her sister, Jessica, about her father’s personal and professional life.
... In theory, he can look at anything in Trump's life or businesses, because a Russian link might appear anywhere. --
Those two statements appear, to me, to be contradictory. "only links or coordination between the Trump campaign" and "anything in Trump's life or businesses" are quite different in scope.
The accusation is against the campaign, which did not exist before 2015. NOTHING before 2015, no event before 2015 is relevant to the inquiry.
That doesn't mean no crimes may have been committed by campaign people before 2015, just that those events are not in Mueller's jurisdiction.
Neither are crimes by campaign people, while the campaign was underway, that were not done "on the job."
This has turned into nothing more than a jobs program for Clinton/Obama lawyers, whose job is to justify this “investigation” by inventing a crime.
These people are just getting started; the dems are getting a bonanza of opposition research without having to put forth a nickel. And bet that Mueller and his cronies won’t go home without a trophy in the form of an indictment of someone in the Trump administration.
It was. All of this is written down and public. Mueller has an absurd interpretation of his jurisdiction. The more that fact becomes reported (not necessarily as an absurdity), the brighter the spotlight on Rosenstein and Mueller to justify looking outside the campaign, when the accusation is improper action by the campaign.
Not to say there aren't perhaps other crimes, just that those crimes aren't in Mueller's jurisdiction.
No doubt about it. I don't even think that proposition is contentious. There are plenty of ways to throw the fight, and I think the GOP is as surprised as anybody to have taken the majority.
-- Then, with Mueller and the MSM, and the newly minted "D" majority, they'll try to complete the coup with impeachment. --
Impeachment isn't the only way to neutralize the presidency. Congress is already doing the full Alinsky. Isolate Trump and ridicule him.
If 15 lawyers couldn’t find anything, what makes him think the 16th lawyer will. This is ridiculous.
$500 to $1500/hour for lawyers. Mueller Thanks all you tax payers on behalf of his democrat contributor buddies.
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