Posted on 03/20/2018 7:20:12 PM PDT by bitt
Mueller's involvement in one of the FBI's most embarrassing cases
resident Donald Trump directed angry tweets at Special Counsel Robert Mueller over the weekend. The tweets were prompted by the Department of Justice’s decision to fire Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Friday as recommended by the bureau’s Office of Professional Responsibility took action on McCabe after the DOJ’s Inspector General handed over evidence that the former FBI agent lied under oath and leaked information to the media.
Trump’s Tweets on Mueller appeared to some Republicans and Democrats to be a veiled threat to fire Mueller. Those lawmakers warned the president that it would be the ‘beginning of the end for his presidency’ if Trump fired the special counsel. They also criticized Trump’s attorney John Dowd for suggesting over the weekend that the Mueller probe should end. Ty Cobb, the president’s personal attorney, reassured lawmakers on Monday that the president does not plan to fire Mueller.
But Dowd is not alone.
McCabe’s firing should raise serious questions as to where Mueller’s investigation is going. Mueller’s past involvement in cases casts a very different light on the former FBI director than the one painted by his proponents and the media, said David Schoen, a civil rights and defense attorney. Schoen has been outspoken on the special counsel and criticized Mueller’s top attorney Andrew Weissmann’s involvement in the investigation, as reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at saraacarter.com ...
Just peeked at your profile and see that you're in Tennessee.How did you find out about Howie?
Sorry...Arkansas!
McDitch is apparently owned by the ChiComs.
I suspect Mueller took this job with the hopes that his "legacy" would be "The Man Who Brought Down a Sitting President", and his so-called investigation has proceeded with that goal in mind.
Obviously they are trying to box Trump into a corner - where they hope to destroy him. Since it is obvious that the Dems run the country, the solution may be a civil war, forced by the Left, where the people re-exert their sovereignty. Let's hope it doesn't come to that.
It does not appear that there is a scope of this investigation. As far as I can tell, Mueller's brief is do whatever you must to install Hildy as Prez... An IC is supposed to investigate a possible crime; no crime is specified so far - collusion is NOT a crime. Therefore, it seems to me, Mueller has no legal standing to prosecute anyone. From his first charges against Paul Manafort, I have been asking, 'Is Mueller now the DOJ?' Can he investigate any crime he wishes?
I question if IC Mueller has any legal standing under the present circumstances.
It is not out of context
It doesn’t refer to Mueller.
I grew up in Mass, been listening to Howie a long time. His wit makes the memories of living there palatable! XD
Did you forget your sarc tag?
Holy cow, dude. Gowdy was arguing to KEEP Mueller after Dowd called for getting rid of him, just like the entire Sara Carter article is about how he shouldn’t be there.
Did you not listen to Gowdy’s full rant?
I understand what she meant, but it’s like she cut out a paragraph. I’ve made similar fubar edits myself.
My quoted content from the article is self-explanatory: In the previous paragraph she references “many” against him and then shifts gears right into 2 members of Congress who argue to keep him without any premise in the article whatsoever.
OUT OF CONTEXT. She cut something, or omitted a transition. Been there, done that.
She accurately quoted the statement by the idiot Gowdy
The whole story exposed Mueller for what he is
Those paragraphs were about Diwd’s statement and Gowdy’s response
Nothing more nor less
I caught this segment on the Howie Carr program. It was stunning. The FBI not only allowed 4 individuals to be sentenced to prison who they knew to be innocent, These men were at the time sentenced to death. And, why? So the FBI could coverup for an informant who was the actual murderer. This same informant then went on to kill more people while he was in the witness protection program.
As is typical with a bureaucracy, instead of fixing the error, they compound it. Mueller wrote letters to the parole board insisting these same innocent men be kept in prison. The FBI office knew and Mueller knew they were innocent. Consider that Mueller was willing to have 4 innocent men put to death to cover his corrupt witness.
Glad you see it your way. /s
Of course they are trying to box Trump in. Some of that is just politics but this is worse than just politics. This is a corrupt system trying to protect itself. This is a bunch of rats in a dirty apartment protesting the arrival of a cat.
There is too much already known to allow this charade to continue. The top brass in the FBI were involved in rigging an election, spying on a political campaign, inventing evidence, perjury, obstruction of justice and untold additional corruptions. These are the activities you expect in some of the most backwater banana republics, and we have rightly created diplomatic crises with foreign countries in the past for conduct less corrupt than this.
My big fear now is the Mueller is whitewashing the crimes of the FBI, State Department, Justice Department, the DNC, and many senators and congress people. That cannot be allowed. We must demand a 2nd SP or even a 3rd.
First, there is no excuse to investigate Trump and not the entire election process. If Russia interfered in the past they will again and he needs to root it all out. The fact that he has ignored everyone but Trump (among many other conflicts of interest and biased decisions) shows he is not interested in the truth of the matter. He is not out for Justice for the American people and the American system, he is out to get Trump. Second, the selection of Mueller is suspect, as is the recusal of Sessions, as is the lack of investigation into DWS, the DNC “leak”, and Awan hacking of Congress - I have great fear Mueller’s real task is to cover up a very big web of very deep corruptions inside Washington.
We don’t need a civil war. We need to demand the rule of law and due process be enforced. We must demand equal justice under the law. The GOP is in charge politically and while no doubt many of them are compromised, the party can be forced into action if they fear political retribution. Plain old civil disobedience can accomplish this. That used to be a “tactic of the left” if you will. But the tables have turned almost entirely. The right has to start getting used to getting organized and taking action on the streets.
You got that exactly right. His entire operation is a perversion of justice and a step too far. Except beyond what you wrote I will add I believe his secret mandate is to whitewash and hide a deep web of corruption inside DC. He is trying to exonerate the FBI for its corruptions. There is more evidence of FBI collusion and interference in the election than there is of any Russian involvement. At most, Russians used our right to free speech to try to influence people (but more likely they just wanted to foment confusion and dissent and they have succeeded incredibly well in that task). But the FBI conspired with one candidate, whitewashed her criminal behavior, paid foreign government spies to manufacture allegations against another candidate, perjured themselves in federal court, and continue to obstruct justice in myriad ways. Enough of this. We need to investigate all of it if it means locking up 1/2 of DC I don’t care. Put them on a barge on the Potomac until we build a big enough prison.
Ah, but from whom? Millions of good Americans need to flood D.C. and shut it down and demand representative govt... but those Americans are all working a job and have not the time. sigh
Then we accept the consequences of our inaction. And don’t get me wrong I am perfectly aware of my own hypocrisy. It is easy for me to write this, less so to act on it. But movements don’t often explode from zero to 100 in an instant. They build. And this one is building.
If I remember correctly it was June of 1972 when the Watergate burglars were arrested. It was late 1974 when Nixon was implicated and resigned - more than 2 years. This is going to take time. And it is going to require a number of key defections from people who are currently still in denial and still reflexively defending Clinton and the previous administration. Remember Nixon won in ‘72 by a massive landslide more than 60% of the vote. 2 years later more than half of them demanded his ouster.
If it is too early to clog the streets, fine. But it is definitely too early to stop the rhetorical arguments. This is a battle that can be won, without firing a shot, on the basis of principle and rule of law. To lose this battle is to admit we the people of the Unites States, of all races, creeds and colors, have lost the country (which we already have, but have not admitted it yet) to the clerks and by the corruption of our leaders.
30 years ago there were no FEMA programs to pay out to victims of natural disasters - a noble idea if we weren't $21 tril in debt. Folks in D.C. are becoming multi-millionaires. Paul Ryan has just passed a budget bill with a trillion dollar deficit -- and NO additional border security. The betrayals by our elected reps is palpable.
I am in mourning. I would give up my SS & Medicare to save the country - trust in the Lord. But D.C. would take mine gladly while preserving them for others - to be determined by D.C.
America today... The Lord can miraculously save the country still, but it would be painful... especially to those whose G*d IS the government.
We can save the country. I don’t know what the first step is but I’d start with we all have to recognize human frailty. You take any random group of 100 people picked from the phone book and some will be very humanistic caring people and some will be total scum but most will just be average people living their lives trying to avoid harming others while providing for and protecting their families.
When you start to dole out power over the citizens you begin to entice the worst elements in some people. It is impossible to expect the millions of clerks and bureaucrats are actually altruistic humanists with only the common good in mind at all times.
From this it evolves to where not just are decent people with the power become indifferent or worse, but to where the worst people are attracted to the positions of power. Just one example: the plain fact is that police and prosecutors are going to know more about drug smuggling, drug dealing, drug networking, drug sourcing, money laundering etc than almost any other person/profession. So who is more likely to be involved in drug crimes - the typical person or a person in a position of authority? This is not to condemn law enforcement it is just to make the point about the risk of power. We must always remain suspicious of government and always vote to limit their power and expand our freedom. We have created a wonderful system of checks and balances, even police departments have internal affairs and citizen oversight. But I am sorry to say I believe they have all become decayed for a variety of reasons.
You mentioned FEMA, and my response is the Cajun Navy. We have to stop thinking that taxes are a form of charity. They are not. We must do our part, and we must stop asking and stop expecting that our tax dollars are going towards any real social good. We have been spending more and more money every year in every city and state and in the country and the same problems persist and even get worse. The definition of insanity - doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
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