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Some on Mueller’s Team See Their Findings as More Damaging for Trump Than Barr Revealed
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Posted on 04/03/2019 5:32:26 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

NYT -Some of Robert S. Mueller III’s investigators have told associates that Attorney General William P. Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated, according to government officials and others familiar with their simmering frustrations.

At stake in the dispute — the first evidence of tension between Mr. Barr and the special counsel’s office — is who shapes the public’s initial understanding of one of the most consequential government investigations in American history. Some members of Mr. Mueller’s team are concerned that, because Mr. Barr created the first narrative of the special counsel’s findings, Americans’ views will have hardened before the investigation’s conclusions become public.

However, the special counsel’s office never asked Mr. Barr to release the summaries soon after he received the report, a person familiar with the investigation said. And the Justice Department quickly determined that the summaries contain sensitive information, like classified material, secret grand-jury testimony and information related to current federal investigations that must remain confidential, according to two government officials.

Mr. Barr was also wary of departing from Justice Department practice not to disclose derogatory details in closing an investigation, according to two government officials familiar with Mr. Barr’s thinking. They pointed to the decision by James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, to harshly criticize Hillary Clinton in 2016 while announcing that he was recommending no charges in the inquiry into her email practices.

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To: Bigtigermike

Im in the process of reading the Priestap hearing and am at the beginning of the minority’s first round of questioning. Priestap sure works hard to make his organization look like an eagle scout club.

But, he contradicts himself too.He painted Comey as a saint, but glosses over the affair between Strok and Page despite saying that agents having affairs are fodder for blackmail though he didn’t use that word. It pits the agents themselves at risk as well as national security. Yet he glossed it over without reprimand.

He seems to be doing his best to act like an ostrich.

If thats the kind of leadership in the ranks of counterintelligence, then we’re just as well off without such an agency. They’re all in bed together so they’re going to cover for each other.

The evidence is in their own paperwork and testimonies.


21 posted on 04/03/2019 5:48:05 PM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: dowcaet

Just told my girlfriend this. I understand that the POTUS is waiting for the IG report, but Dems are going to do everything they possibly can to hammer on his approval number to try and get them within “impeachment range”. They have no choice, they have nothing to run on in 2020.


22 posted on 04/03/2019 5:48:37 PM PDT by NImerc
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To: Bigtigermike

Did anyone here expect anything different from these communist scum?


23 posted on 04/03/2019 5:48:57 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Gay State Conservative; GOPJ; DoughtyOne

The Mueller team was supposed to be very “professional,” not the sort to leak to the NYT. Does that mean they refrained from leaking as long as they were getting paid?


24 posted on 04/03/2019 5:49:25 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: Bigtigermike

“damaging”... “troubling”

Who chose these words?


25 posted on 04/03/2019 5:49:31 PM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: Bigtigermike

Well it’s the NY Times which is like reading World Weekly News but with less of a reputation.


26 posted on 04/03/2019 5:50:51 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: thoughtomator

If Barr lied Mueller would have come out IMMEDIATELY and called him a liar period end of story


27 posted on 04/03/2019 5:51:58 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Bigtigermike

Still leaking....and lying


28 posted on 04/03/2019 5:52:14 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: thoughtomator

Yep, The NYT is probably going with what Comey said his friends on the SC team secretly told him.


29 posted on 04/03/2019 5:53:29 PM PDT by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz)
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To: Bigtigermike

Probably the same dip$hits who leaked info all during the investigation.


30 posted on 04/03/2019 5:53:38 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Bigtigermike

Bring it on jack@asses or shut the pie holes. If some on Mueller’s team are spreading their scurrilous opinions to the Slime then there should be a lawsuit or two in the wings.


31 posted on 04/03/2019 5:53:45 PM PDT by Lent
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To: Bigtigermike

The first barrier one must get beyond is this: Why would any sane person believe any propaganda delivered by the neo-Nazi racists at the NYT?


32 posted on 04/03/2019 5:53:51 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: Bigtigermike

blah, blah, blah

“investigators have told associates that...”
“according to government officials...”
“and others familiar with...”
“some members of Mr. Mueller’s team...”
“a person familiar with the investigation said...”


33 posted on 04/03/2019 5:54:50 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th
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To: Bigtigermike

If the Hillary sycophants on Mueller’s team didn’t say anything I would be surprised.

5.56mm


34 posted on 04/03/2019 5:56:15 PM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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To: Lent

This crap won’t stop until someone goes to prison. It better happen soon.


35 posted on 04/03/2019 5:57:02 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Bigtigermike

But they don’t leak, remember.

So they are not to be trusted since they are leakers.


36 posted on 04/03/2019 5:57:37 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (This article needs a fact checked)
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To: Bigtigermike

Anonymous sources?
No evidence, just conjecture?
Leak not from Mueller himself?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...


37 posted on 04/03/2019 5:57:46 PM PDT by entropy12 (Legal immigrants under chain migration not any better than illegal immigrants! Merit ONLY!!)
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To: Bigtigermike
Every bit of this stuff is all about protecting The Clinton’s and Obama’s from their treason and the deep state for their coverup of that treason...
38 posted on 04/03/2019 5:58:15 PM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: thoughtomator

“damaging”... “troubling”

Who chose these words?


They chose those words because they are opinions not substantive allegations. They can’t say “criminal” because it would be substantive and they can be sued for lies like that.


39 posted on 04/03/2019 5:58:54 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

The officials and others interviewed declined to flesh out why some of the special counsel’s investigators viewed their findings as potentially more damaging for the president than Mr. Barr explained. LOL so basically they are “Guessing” there is something in there LOL..if Barr LIED, Mueller would have screamed it from the freakin ROOFTOPS the second Barr released his report


40 posted on 04/03/2019 5:59:19 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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