Judging by Mueller's staffing choices, he may not be very interested in justice
If anyone should be going to jail, it should be Weissmann.
Posted on 01/04/2018 8:59:42 PM PST by SSS Two
Mueller’s “Pit Bull” Andrew Weissmann under scrutiny as Rosenstein agrees to turn over documents to Nunes
The Department of Justice has agreed to turn over all documents related to the controversial dossier to the House Intelligence Committee after four months of wrangling and legal threats ended in a Wednesday night phone call and agreement.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein spoke at length Wednesday night, just hours before Nunes’ imposed midnight deadline on the Justice Department passed.
Rosenstein not only agreed to provide all the documents requested, which include unreacted FBI interviews with witnesses, as well as, access to eight key FBI and DOJ witnesses but information on Andrew Weissmann, whose now a senior member of the special counsel.
Moreover, the committee notes that the Justice Department is “researching records related to the details of an April 2017 meeting between DOJ Attorney Andrew Weissmann (now the senior attorney for Special Counsel Robert Mueller) and the media, which will also be provided to this Committee by close of business on Thursday, January 11, 2018.” Weissmann, who is considered a top criminal prosecutor, was described in a New York Times report as Mueller’s “legal Pit Bull.”
Department of Justice officials could not be immediately reached for comment.
Judicial Watch, a government watchdog group, released multiple internal Justice Department emails in early December, showing senior employees of the Justice Department lavishing praise on then-former acting Attorney General Sally Yates after she defied President Donald Trump’s January, 2017, travel ban executive order.
“I am so proud,” Weissmann told Yates in an email. Weissmann, who joined Mueller’s team in June, was was then a top prosecutor in the Justice Department’s criminal division. “And in awe. Thank you so much. All my deepest respects.” Yates was fired by Trump for her insubordination. Weissman’s role in the Special Counsel is significant. He is described as Mueller’s right hand man the investigation, which appears to be expanding from its original edict to investigate alleged collusion between members of the Trump campaign with Russia, to a broader financial investigation of Trump, members of his family and campaign officials. “It is my hope that this agreement will provide the Committee with all outstanding documents and witnesses necessary to complete its investigations into matters involving DOJ and FBI,” stated Nunes in the letter. “As agreed, designated Committee investigators and staff will be provided access to all remaining investigative documents, in un-redacted review at DOJ on Friday, January 5, 2018.”
The committee will review all documents to include “FBI Form FD- 1023s and all remaining FBI Form FD- 302s responsive to the Committee’s August 24, 2017 subpoenas,” the letter states. The FD-302 forms are the reported summaries of interviews conducted by the FBI.
Nunes states there is only one “agreed-upon exception pertains to a single FD-302, which, due to national security interests, will be shown separately by (FBI) Director (Christopher) Wray to myself and my senior investigators during the week of January 8, 2018.”
He added that the committee “is extremely concerned by indications that top U.S. Government officials who were investigating a presidential campaign relied on unverified information that was funded by the opposing political campaign and was based on Russian sources.”
The salacious and unsubstantiated dossier was compiled by former British MI-6 spy Christopher Steele, who was paid by the security firm Fusion GPS. The Washington Post revealed in October, the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign paid Fusion GPS for the opposition research conducted by Steele.
Nunes had originally issued subpoenas for the documents and records on Aug. 24, but committee staff told this reporter they had been “stonewalled” by both the FBI and Justice Department for months.
“Going forward, it’s crucial that we memorialize our conversations on this issue, and that we’re as transparent as possible with the American people, who deserve answers to the questions the Committee is investigating,” Nunes states.
All of the documents? I doubt it. If Rosensteiin’s pals hide or destroy documents, who will know? If there is evidence or even proof that there are more, all Rosenstein has to say is, “They must have been lost.”
Just like Obama finally having the Hawaiian Secretary of State’s turn over Obama “Birth Certificate”?
“Mueller get out of town. You are over. “
Don’t count on it. Mueller is Comey’s buddy, these people live in their bubble, they have no shame and no conscience. If he had any sense of decency, he would never have accepted to head this witch hunt at the outset.
Maybe McCain will come out and be the sacrificial lamb for them and then die before they can cross examine him.
These career bureaucrats, including Weissman, Comey, Strzok, etc, who never in their little lives made policy, DID NOT come up with this on their own.
Somebody told them to do this, and, like good bureaucrats, they did.
The issue is, when and if the FBI rebellion is quenched and its functionaries are prosecuted, will the American color revolution’s leaders escape, and will they remain dangerous?
I’m all for “getting” Comey and Mueller IF that ends the threat - but if it makes the enemy more dangerous then it may be a mistake.
Look, we are dealing with an active coup attempt, using lawfare as the weapon of choice. This is much, much more than "corruption". Mueller, Comey, and Rosenstein did not think this up, nor did they act without direction from above and some sort of promise of protection. Bureaucrats have never, and will never, make a revolution. It's just not in their nature.
There is a hidden hand, or hands, behind all this. And if the actual conspirators have decided to cut their FBI team loose, they may well be moving on to more forceful options.
“Chalk up another win for the good guy column in the game of “Gotcha”
He hasn’t won anything yet. He’s inside the red zone, but there’s a lot of game to be played yet.
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The mistake they or their brain stay made, was thinking that Mueller could step out of that specialty, and lead an actual prosecution of the President, when his specialty was avoiding actual prosecution.
Mueller's meeting with Comey to discuss Comey’s testimony to the House, which was admittedly designed to get Mueller appointed as special counsel, is now blowing up in their faces as the documents that Comey admitted to leaking are now being labeled as classified, putting them both in major jeopardy.
Interesting angle. Gotta love Sarah!!
“There is a hidden hand, or hands, behind all this.”
Jarret.
Hillary.
Obama.
Rice.
Lynch.
Those are the big fish. Obama is untouchable. There will never be any prosecution of him.
The others? That remains to be seen.
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I do not think that Team Clinton and Team Obama have much overlap, although they have some common interests.
This plan is quite far-reaching and imaginative. I don’t think it fits the Clinton M.O.
Hillary! was a tool of Team Obama in 2016, and that’s all she was. I think this is all about Jarrett, Holder, (possibly) Lynch, and of course Obama and whoever has been running him all this time.
Judging by Mueller's staffing choices, he may not be very interested in justice
If anyone should be going to jail, it should be Weissmann.
Bingo.
You get it.
If they prosecute Comey, then it might be possible to prosecute Lynch.
(If we had bacon, we could have bacon and eggs. If we had eggs.)
And Brennan and Clapper.
You sure that was Weissman? I think Comey was calling the shots on that case.
The Arthur Anderson case?
Yes - Weissmann.
He was also an ethical ba$tard on other cases.
Weissmann, as deputy and later director of the Enron Task Force, destroyed the venerable accounting firm of Arthur Andersen LLP and its 85,000 jobs worldwide — only to be reversed several years later by a unanimous Supreme Court. Next, Weissmann creatively criminalized a business transaction between Merrill Lynch and Enron. Four Merrill executives went to prison for as long as a year. Weissmann’s team made sure they did not even get bail pending their appeals, even though the charges Weissmann concocted, like those against Andersen, were literally unprecedented. Weissmann’s prosecution devastated the lives and families of the Merrill executives, causing enormous defense costs, unimaginable stress and torturous prison time. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the mass of the case. Weissmann quietly resigned from the Enron Task Force just as the judge in the Enron Broadband prosecution began excoriating Weissmann’s team and the press began catching on to Weissmann’s modus operandi.
Weissman may have prosecuted the case. Comey was deputy attorney general at the time. In fact, I think he is the one that announced the indictment.
My recollection is that Comey was heavily involved in the decision to go after Arthur Andersen as a company, rather than the actual employees who were involved that were criminally negligent with regard to their professional responsibilities.
He may have been. Read the link I sent you. Weissmann’s role is there in black and white (with hyperlinks in the story to other facets).
bkmk
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