Posted on 05/28/2002 12:01:46 PM PDT by OKCSubmariner
This article presents, analyzes and adds important new information about a recent letter to the editor of the Washington Times concerning the nominee for FBI Director, Robert Mueller. The letter was published on page A-11 of the Times on July 28, 2001 and was written by Patrick Downes of Boston. His letter was entitled “FBI Appointment Needs More Investigation”. While Downes letter is to the editor, it provides valuable information about Mueller’s previous role in DOJ collusion to help facilitate FBI and DOJ corruption in mishandling evidence in important cases.
The text of the letter is first reproduced and then my new information and analysis follows after the letter text. Downes’ letter and my information and analysis provide important insights into the story behind Mueller’s and Attorney General Ashcroft’s handling of the corruption at DOJ and FBI concerning Waco, Ruby Ridge and the OKC bombing.
TEXT OF DOWNES’ LETTER:
President Bush’s nomination of Robert S. Mueller III to become the director of the FBI should have raised a few more eyebrows than it did.
Mr. Mueller’s record as a prosecutor should bring into question his ability and willingness to correct some of the long-standing problems facing the FBI. In particular, Mr. Mueller’s record as a prosecutor is not that of someone who has demanded that government be more open and accountable and that it practice fair disclosure of evidence weighed against defendants.
While serving in the northern district of California, Mr. Mueller instituted a policy known as a “Brady waiver” that institutes and protects the federal government from a defendant’s due-process guarantee as afforded by the U.S. Constitution.
The waiver requires defendants who plead guilty to a crime to forgo a defendant’s constitutional right to present evidence of their evidence at a later date. Furthermore, the waiver would be enforceable even if it were established that the government withheld evidence in its possession before, during or after a trial that indicated a defendant is innocent of the charges brought against him or her.
At WACO, RUBY RIDGE and most recently during the trial of OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBER, Timothy McVeigh, the FBI failed to properly disclose all of the evidence in a timely and credible manner. The FBI’s credibility as it relates to the fair and proper disclosure of evidence against criminal defendants is in ruins.
Given that Mr. Mueller instituted a policy that effectively shields the government from accepting responsibility for withholding and concealing evidence, its questionable whether he is the right person to become director at this critical juncture in the FBI’s history.
MY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND ANALYSIS
Even while US Attorney in San Francisco, Mueller worked to cover-up the OKC bombing, Waco and Ruby Ridge evidence by changing the rules of evidence so that the FBI and prosecution did not have to share as much evidence with defense attorneys in the cases as would have been required in the past. He changed the Brady rules of evidence in concert with the US prosecutor Beth Wilkinson in the McVeigh and Nichols case who had assumed a position in the same department at DOJ that Mueller had worked earlier.
Mueller was brought into DC to head the transition team for Ashcroft and Mueller proceeded to steer Ashcroft through the cover-ups by FBI and DOJ on the OKC bombing case. Mueller did such a superb job that Ashcroft personally nominated Mueller to Bush for FBI director to help perpetuate the FBI and DOJ cover-ups of Waco, Ruby Ridge and the OKC bombing.
For some of the details of the FBI and DOJ cover-up of the OKC bombing please read my article Ashcroft Relies On Evidence Obstructed by the FBI and US Prosecutors In OKC Bombing Case which was posted on the FreeRepublic.com on May 29, 2001.
The FBI and DOJ colluded to lie before the court during the trials, to falsify FBI 302 reports, to withhold 302 reports, to falsely rewrite 302 reports, to deliberately not write 302 reports, to doctor and withhold key surveillance tape evidence, and to threaten key John Doe and foreknowledge witnesses including law enforcement and military personnel in OKC.
Mueller was also involved in covering up the Noriega, BCCI and BNL scandals of Bush Senior. Mueller worked with Wilkinson on the Noriega case. Mueller also worked closely at several points with Larry Potts, the former Deputy Director of the FBI, who was kicked out of the FBI for lying about the FBI having Vickie Weaver murdered.
The head of the OKC FBI office, Marquise worked directly with Mueller on the Pan Am 103 bombing and Marquise is to be given the AG Distinguished service award by Ashcroft. Marquise verbally attacked four FBI agents who were on 60 minutes II last month describing the FBI cover-up in the OKC bombing.
If Ashcroft continues to allow himself to be led around by the nose by FBI and DOJ holdovers from the previous administration, such as Robert Mueller, then Ashcroft himself will be rendered useless and will himself become part of the corruption problem plaguing the DOJ and FBI.
It has been six weeks since Ashcroft was hand delivered a letter written by OKC bombing witness Gloria Smith describing three John Does in the case that the FBI deliberately covered-up. Ashcroft has failed to take action to have these John Does adequately investigated, apprehended or questioned and he has not had anyone contact Gloria Smith.
The story of the John Does and Gloria Smith’s letter to Ashcroft was reported in my article OKC Bombing Witness Requests Ashcroft Action On Three John Does which was posted on the FreeRepublic.com on June 14, 2001.
If Ahscroft is relying on DOJ personnel such as Sean Connelly or Beth Wilkinson and especially FBI Director designee Robert Mueller and others involved in the FBI cover-up, then it is doubtful that Ashcroft, the FBI or the DOJ will do anything adequate about Gloria Smith’s John Does or will really investigate the FBI and DOJ cover-ups in the OKC bombing.
Senators Hatch and Leahy have gushed over Mueller in confirmation hearings and recently said that Congress will not need to continue close oversight of the FBI once Mueller is in charge for a while. This is an absolute abdication of the Senate’s role to continue indefinitely overseeing the FBI and is a blank check that should never be given to the FBI and particularly to “Mr. evidence cover-up artist” Robert Mueller.
Even former FBI agent Gary Aldrich who wrote “Unlimited Access” just advocated in his newsletter ( from the Patrick Henry Center) giving Robert Mueller “a blank check” (these are Aldrich’s exact words) to run and cleanup the FBI. Aldrich is like the Senators who really do not want to oversee the FBI, they just want to create the allusion that the FBI can run itself without oversight once a few cosmetic changes are made. They like Mueller so far are still perpetuating the FBI status quo of corrupt policies that endanger the American people and threaten their freedoms and lives.
I do not agree with the way Bob Mueller has done things in the past. If Bob Mueller had no control over the matters that led to 9/11/01, then Bob Mueller should still come forward and tell COngress what he knows went wrong (even if it means telling anything relevant about Ashcroft, the FBI, the CIA or even Bush and Clinton so the problems can be corrected quickly before we have another terror attack.
Mueller should put the welfare of the country ahead of his personal career, ahead of the FBI, the CIA and Bush and CLinton.
If Bob Mueller is tough as nails as you say he is (and as you say you are), does he have the moral courage to now do the right thing and see it through for the good of the country? I pray that he will.
But the last prominent man in government I heard who boasted he was tough as nails was "Tough Tony Lake", the National Security advisor under Clinton. Anthony Lake may have been tough but Congress was not convinced he was moral enough to be confirmed as DCIA. And Lake is suspeced of aiding the wrong Islamic types as well as the wrong Chinese.
Men like Mueller can be forgiven if they repent and make amends. But if they continue to cover even for things they did not do but know about, they will get caught up in the web of deceit and go down hard. He can chose to either be a goat or a hero. The chioce is really simple if he really believes that any wrong doers will not get away with it in the end.
God sees and knows everything from Heaven. He is forgiving for the humble but hard on the arrogant and haughty. God abhors perjury but rewards and forgives a contrite heart.
I'm known as the optimist in my family, as you can tell.
I am raising this as a standard, as a principle that Congress should do the right thing even if I doubt they will.
But regardless of what Congress does, the US belongs to her citizens and we must get the word out to every citizen we can and in effect go over the heads of the Congress, the FBI, the CIA and the White House.
Our country and her freedoms are our birthright and we must do everything moral, ethical and legal to save her and her citizens.
Our citizens must depend and rely on themselves more by helping each other and by not relying so much on failed leaders and bureaucrats in DC and in Congress.
We must find a way to survive corrupt and weak people in our government and to preserve our country.
The spirit,determination, dedication, love of country,and moral character of many on the FreeRepublic gives me hope and confidence that we can save our country.
God can use a few good men and women to accomplish much.
So I say BRING ON THE HEARINGS! At least maybe some of the truth will come out and some changes be made.
We can not expect people like Mueller to do anything more than coverup and if they had their way they would still be saying..."We knew nothing".
I didnt want to believe the government would fail to do the one job they have and yet it is becoming very clear they did and I want to know why.
BFLR
bkmk
Every thing old is new again.
Not feeling good about this guy:
1) Comey likes him...strike one
2) The establishment thinks he’s great...stroke two
3) Now this...strike three
Just to put up a “blast from the past”, and ask a question - Why was he called Loose Lips Leahy ?..Anyone recall ?
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