Posted on 08/31/2018 8:57:02 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Prosecutors Ryan Dickey and Brian Richardson are no longer working for the office of special counsel Robert Mueller, the Justice Department confirmed.
Both lawyers were relatively junior but frequently spotted members of Mueller's corps. Both have worked on court cases that Mueller opened as part of his investigation into Russian interference and coordination with the Trump campaign in the 2016 presidential election.
Peter Carr, a spokesman for the special counsel, declined to explain on Thursday what the departures mean for the state of Mueller's office. Over this summer, as Mueller opened more criminal cases, other Justice Department units including the US Attorney's Office in Washington and the National Security Division have begun to work on the court action, wedging the cases deeper into the Justice Department's portfolio.
Carr said that neither Dickey nor Richardson left the office because of political allegations, the appearance of bias or any other wrongdoing. That signals that their departures appear to differ from the situation of Peter Strzok, a top FBI agent moved off of Mueller's team after it was discovered he sent text messages that disparaged President Donald Trump and commented on the firing of FBI Director James Comey.
Trump, in his ongoing attacks of Mueller on Twitter, has repeatedly called the lawyers in the office "17 angry Democrats." Mueller himself is a longtime Republican previously appointed by presidents of both parties to various federal posts, including FBI director days before September 11, 2001. The special counsel's office now has 15 lawyers at work under Mueller.
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Wasn’t some clickbait site posted on FR claiming bombshells from Mueller today? Maybe this is a wimper?
It means that despite all the media fawning that the rats are starting to jump ship. After the midterms President Trump is going to deal with this nonsense regardless of the consequences. The tables are going to be turned and the true criminals are going to be pursued.
Who else is SICK of hearing Mueller is a “long time Republican”........ BARF ALERT x 10
He HATES Trump, you know, something like McStain. May he RIP.
So this is what Upchuck Todd was wee-wee’d up about? Poofter....
Can they be “turned” to support the causes of Justice and America?
Wouldn’t it be a hoot if those two attorneys were actually plants/informants by the good guys?
Wouldn’t it be a hoot if they are leaving because their names came up in Ohr’s closed-door Senate testimony this week?
How soon before they have a very bad accident?
Dicky was the cybersecurity guy
its not clickbait- its the hopes of the left wing media which was started by F Chuck
WOW, this is HUGE, if they no longer need attorneys then this gig is up.
I thought they were all attorneys. Still over a dozen left.
I like that better!
Agreed. I don’t think Trump much cares about blowback on him for firing all these people, but he does not want to hurt other Republicans on November’s ticket.
This must the ‘Chuck Todd’ bombshell: rats leaving a sinking ship...
From Washington Times: “Notably Mr. Dickey participated in the government’s investigations into defunct file-sharing website Megaupload and Marcel Lehel Lazar, a Romanian computer hacker better known by his online alias ‘Guccifer.’
The Justice Department charged Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and six of his associates in 2012 in connection with operating a website the government blamed with facilitating wide-scale copyright infringement.”
Kim Dotcom went on to offer full Seth Rich testimony to Special Counsel Mueller...
Mueller going to throw a Hail Mary and indict Trump Jr ????
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