Posted on 03/19/2018 1:48:22 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Memo to President Trump: Shut up and govern.
Memo to congressional leaders, Cabinet members, and senior White House staff: If President Trump orders the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller, mass honor resignations by Cabinet officials and staff should follow, and an impeachment inquiry should immediately commence.
Important clarification: An impeachment inquiry is just that an open investigation, not a show trial with a predetermined outcome.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Memo to President Quin Hillyer: STFU..
Robert Mueller Has Been Botching Investigations Since The Anthrax Attacks
Mystery surrounds Robert Mueller and his investigation into Russia and President Trump. Some think he is the ultimate professional, others that he is a Democrat lackey, still others maintain he is working on Trumps side.
We can see how he works if we look at how Mueller ran his second-most important investigation as FBI Director. In September of 2001, an entity began mailing anthrax through the US Postal system, hitting such prominent targets as NBC and Senator Daschles office. The terrorist attacks killed five and left others hospitalized. The world panicked.
Under Muellers management, the FBI launched an investigation lasting ten years. They now brag about spending hundreds of thousands of investigator hours on this case. Lets take a closer look at Muellers response to understand the context of the investigation who his people investigated, targeted, and found guilty.
The anthrax letters began just a week after the 9/11 attack. While planning the airplane hijackings, Al-Qaeda had been weaponizing anthrax, setting up a lab in Afghanistan manned by Yazid Sufaat, the same man who housed two of the 9/11 hijackers. Two hijackers later sought medical help due to conditions consistent with infection via anthrax: Al Haznawi went to the emergency room for a skin lesion which he claimed was from bumping into a suitcase, and ringleader Mohamed Atta needed medicine for skin irritation. A team of bioterrorism experts from John Hopkins confirmed that anthrax was the most likely cause of the lesion. Meanwhile, the 9/11 hijackers were also trying to obtain crop-dusting airplanes.
So how did Muellers investigative team handle the case?
Mueller issued a statement in October of 2001, while anthrax victims were still dying: the FBI had found no direct link to organized terrorism. The John Hopkins team of experts was mistaken, the FBI continued, Al Haznawi never had an anthrax infection. The crop-dusting airplanes they needed was possibly for a separate and unrelated anthrax attack.
A few weeks later, the FBI released a remarkable profile of the attacker. FBI experts eschewed analysis of the content of the letters, where it was written in bold block letters, Death to America, Death to Israel, Allah is Great. Instead, they focused on a linguistic analysis, stating that the letters writer was atypical in many respects and not comfortable or practiced in writing in lower case lettering. The FBI therefore concluded that it was likely a disgruntled American with bad personal skills.
The investigators hypothesized that the attacker was a lonely American who had wanted to kill people with anthrax for some undefined time period, but then became mission oriented following 9/11 and immediately prepared and mailed the deadly spores while pretending to be a Muslim.
Muellers FBI honed in on Steven Hatfill as the culprit a flag-waving American, who had served in the Army, then dedicated himself to protecting America from bioterrorist threats by working in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
There was no direct link from Hatfill to the attacks, by the FBIs own admission, and the bureau never charged Hatfill. The FBI did however spy on, follow, and harass him non-stop for years. The Department of Justice also publicly outed Hatfill as the possible terrorist.
While Hatfills dignity and life was being trampled on by Americas secret police, Mueller took a stand. But on a different topic. He made front page news for threatening President Bush he would resign over NSA policy. All while his own team was trampling on the rights of an American in the FBIs largest-ever investigation.
Hatfill successfully sued the government for its unlawful actions. He won almost $6 million dollars.
After the Hatfill investigation blew up in the FBIs face, they moved on to Bruce Ivins, another Army researcher who had actually volunteered to help the FBI investigate this case, and had been doing so for years. It wasnt until five years after the attack that Muellers men decided Ivins was a target.
The FBI case against Ivins, once again, was based on circumstantial evidence.
The prosecution stated Ivins purposefully gave a misleading sample of anthrax spore, but Frontline documented this was not true. Ivins was familiar with the area from which the anthrax letters were mailed, the FBI said, but Pulitzer Prize winning ProPublica lays out the accepted facts of the case showing it was impossible for Ivins to make the trip to mail the letters.
The spores used in the attacks were a similar type to the laboratory spores where Ivins worked, but that ignored the fact that the anthrax letters had a unique additive so sophisticated and dangerous a scientist commented, This is not your mothers anthrax that was likely produced by a nation state or Al-Qaeda.
Ivins was never indicted, just given the Hatfill treatment. His house was raided, and he was threatened with a death sentence, or as his lawyer put it, put under relentless pressure of accusation and innuendo. He committed suicide.
One week later, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Taylor stated Ivins was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, and they were confident that Dr. Ivins was the only person responsible for these attacks.
Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, one of the intended victims of the anthrax terror attacks, did not believe that Ivins was the sole actor. Mueller ordered an independent audit of the FBIs case by the National Academy of Science, then formally closed the case in 2010, sticking with the conclusion that Ivins, and Ivins alone, committed the terror attack. One year later the NAS released their results and confirmed what many scientists had been repeating for years: the FBIs science and conclusions were not solid.
A former FBI official involved in the investigation sued the FBI, alleging the FBI concealed evidence exculpatory to Ivins.
Mueller made his position known, saying, I do not apologize for any aspect of this investigation, and stated that the FBI had made no mistakes.
The investigation was an unmitigated disaster for America. Mueller didnt go after al-Qaida for the anthrax letters because he couldnt find a direct link. But then he targeted American citizens without showing a direct link. For his deeds, he had the second longest tenure as FBI Director ever, and was roundly applauded by nearly everyone (except Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert).
Now hes running the Trump-Russia investigation.
Daniel Ashman is the author of two books, “Dominate No-Limit Hold’em” and “Secrets of Short-Handed No Limit Hold’em,” that have been published worldwide and translated into four languages. Follow him at @dashman76.
Why should it matter if an asteroid hit the Tidal Basin? Fannie Foxe is no longer in it.
It seems that whenever a member of the swamp suffers a smack-down, they all pull their wagons around Mueller to protect him......they know he’s part of the swamp and believe losing Mueller will be the Waterloo battle for them...
Either Grahamnesty, McNuts (in a feeble state) or Little Marco! Those are my guesses. All are worthless POS's!
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