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Mueller Scorches the Earth
National Revuew ^ | September 23, 2017 | Andrew McCarthy

Posted on 09/23/2017 4:31:50 AM PDT by BurgessKoch

Robert Mueller’s sprawling special-counsel investigation is playing hardball.

It was not enough to get a search warrant to ransack the Virginia home of Paul Manafort, even as the former Trump campaign chairman was cooperating with congressional investigators. Mueller’s bad-asses persuaded a judge to give them permission to pick the door lock. That way, they could break into the premises in the wee hours, while Manafort and his wife were in bed sleeping. They proceeded to secure the premises — of a man they are reportedly investigating for tax and financial crimes, not gang murders and Mafia hits — by drawing their guns on the stunned couple, apparently to check their pajamas for weapons.

(Excerpt) Read more at amp.nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: andymccarthy; blisteringarticle; manafort; mueller; muellerinvestigation; muelleroutofcontrol; sessionsgraphic; trumprussia
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Money quote: “If there is strong suspicion that Manafort has committed fraud crimes unrelated to the 2016 campaign, then fine, investigate him. But investigate him as you would any other white-collar fraudster who (a) has counsel willing to honor your lawful demands to produce evidence and (b) has, at least ostensibly, been cooperative. Paul Manafort is not Osama bin Laden, so there’s no reason for Bob Mueller to make like the commander of Seal Team Six.

Why is this worth pointing out? Because someday, maybe, we’ll get around to asking: What would have happened if Hillary Clinton’s very real email scandal — with its mountainous evidence of felony mishandling of classified information and destruction of government records — had been investigated with the no-holds-barred vigor Mueller and his band of Hillary donors are applying to the surmise of Trump collusion in Russian espionage?”

1 posted on 09/23/2017 4:31:50 AM PDT by BurgessKoch
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To: BurgessKoch

This is ‘Swamp Justice’. We’re in ‘Banana Republic’ country now.


2 posted on 09/23/2017 4:37:15 AM PDT by CMailBag
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To: BurgessKoch

Must read at the source and thanks! For posting!


3 posted on 09/23/2017 4:46:09 AM PDT by dennisw (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it is enemy action.)
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To: CMailBag

,,,,,,, all the while Hillary and her minions safe and free to continue their corrupt existence .


4 posted on 09/23/2017 4:46:14 AM PDT by Lionheartusa1 ()-: There is nothing democratic about the democrat party :-()
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To: CMailBag

This is ‘Swamp Justice’. We’re in ‘Banana Republic’ country now.
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Probably have been for a long, long time. Mask is off. Gloves are off.


5 posted on 09/23/2017 4:46:33 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: CMailBag
We’re a in ‘Banana Republic’ country now.

Without the bananas ...

6 posted on 09/23/2017 4:46:35 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: BurgessKoch

When the swamp was not drained and in fact swamp facilitators were put in charge of key parts of the government by Trump himself, all was lost. Nothing ever changes in DC.


7 posted on 09/23/2017 4:47:11 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: CMailBag

1984-”Ignorance is strength”


8 posted on 09/23/2017 4:51:22 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: BurgessKoch

There is no excuse for the use of these kinds of tactics. This is intimidation/terrorism, pure and simple.


9 posted on 09/23/2017 4:52:11 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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Too bad Mueller and his staff of Clinton lawyers won’t be on the receiving end of such a raid. Just imagine what such a raid might reveal.


10 posted on 09/23/2017 4:55:38 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Wonder Warthog

There is no excuse for the use of these kinds of tactics. This is intimidation/terrorism, pure and simple.

All of these people should have been fired the next day.


11 posted on 09/23/2017 4:55:53 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: BurgessKoch


12 posted on 09/23/2017 4:56:51 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (World's Most Powerful Nation Falls To Invasion Of Mexican Peasants!)
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To: BurgessKoch

Manafort doesn’t appear to be an idiot. If he had/has any business records at his residence by the time the Gestapo raided his house - with all the warning signs that they were coming - then he is by definition an idiot.


13 posted on 09/23/2017 4:58:10 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Not my circus. Not my monkeys.)
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To: Wonder Warthog

AG Sessions will be remembered as the weakest,
sniveling, most cowardly, most crypto-but-pro-Clinton AG
in US history.
He has done NOTHING to make the DOJ less corrupt.
NOTHING.


14 posted on 09/23/2017 5:00:03 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: BurgessKoch

If AG Sessions still had an active brainwave he would be investigating Mueller for conflict of interest, misuse of public funds, and exceeding his authority as special prosecutor.


15 posted on 09/23/2017 5:02:16 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: BurgessKoch

The FBI is being/has been turned into a partisan political weapon for use against the trump administration. Time to start de-funding.


16 posted on 09/23/2017 5:04:52 AM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (Dump Flake)
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To: mad_as_he$$

First thought was that there is something they want he keeps on his person... Investigation-related or not.

Goods on someone else perhaps.

We lost this place several decades back... Somewhere around 1000 points of light.


17 posted on 09/23/2017 5:05:19 AM PDT by sayfer bullets (I didnt leave the [---] party, the [---] party left me. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: mad_as_he$$

Manafort had literally months to anticipate the raid. It would not surprise me if he planted hundreds of fake leads and documents which are simply red-herrings. Mueller could be wasting two years on documentation that he eventually discovers to be ‘fake’.


18 posted on 09/23/2017 5:05:23 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

Good picture.


19 posted on 09/23/2017 5:05:27 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Truth29

“Too bad Mueller and his staff of Clinton lawyers won’t be on the receiving end of such a raid. Just imagine what such a raid might reveal.”.

Never say “never” because like “Yogi” used to say, “It ain’t over ‘till the fat lady sings”. This entire circus could be turned around on Mueller and his demodummie ilk should SOMEONE decide to do a reversal.


20 posted on 09/23/2017 5:08:59 AM PDT by DaveA37
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