Posted on 05/14/2018 2:42:26 PM PDT by ethom
Other than the president himself, perhaps no public figure is more debated and discussed these days than Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
As Alan Dershowitz recalled on “The Cats Roundtable” podcast, Muller is “the guy who kept four innocent people in prison for many years in order to protect the cover of Whitey Bulger as an FBI informer.
… And that’s regarded in Boston of one of the great scandals of modern judicial history. And Mueller was right at the center of it.”
Others have said the charges are unfounded. Whatever the truth, the Bulger affair did not hold him back.
Whatever the truth, the Bulger affair did not hold him back.
Post-Boston, Mueller entered the revolving-door world of federal prosecutors and Big Law, bouncing around in various roles until, in 2001, he landed the job of a lifetime: director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. His ascendancy did not come without words of warning. Time magazine quoted one former prosecutor, anonymously: “The cynics are saying, let him take over the FBI, it’ll be great theater, and he’ll run it into the ground in six months.” The former prosecutor was wrong. It only took Mueller one week.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
“As Mollie Hemingway noted, Mueller “completely botch[ed] the anthrax killer case, wasting more than $100 million in taxpayer dollars, destroying the lives of multiple suspects, and chasing bad leads using bad methods.””
And you say he’s incompetent? In the swamp that’s success!
Good analysis of Mueller. Like Kerry, he served in Vietnam (but did his tour to the end), entered the white, elite liberal legal world and then government service.
However, Mueller seemed to be an establishment man, not a bold thinker, and this is why he failed so many times (Bulger case; anthrax; Boston marathon; 9/11). He couldn’t think outside the “box” and that “boxed” him into his limited perception sphere (unable to see the trees that made up the forest).
Mueller became the perfect bureaucrat, with a hyped media/political persona, and a trail of bodies hidden behind him.
Give J. Edgar Hoover at least one bit of credit for being proactive and thinking outside the box when it came to fighting our communist and black extremist domestic and foreign enemies.
I was at a meeting where the Bureau’s COINTELLPRO program effectively split the Communist Party controlled section of a specific anti-Vietnam major organization from the black extremists who were trying to make inroads into a largely white movement.
Other Bureau greats included friends of mine, Herb “I Led Three Lives” Philbrick (9 years undercover), Ray Wannell - Operation SOLO, GB, a famed SAC, and I even got to brief William Sullivan, the late FBI counter-intelligence head.
They were “thinkers”, not “stinkers” and fools like Mueller and some of his buddies.
In the first against our enemies, you can’t be led by the “Second Best”, and Mueller and Brennan and a couple others from the NSA became just that.
bingo
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Yes, and mostly compromised idiots.
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Looking at him makes me ill.
However, Mueller seemed to be an establishment man, not a bold thinker, and this is why he failed so many times (Bulger case; anthrax; Boston marathon; 9/11). He couldn’t think outside the “box” and that “boxed” him into his limited perception sphere (unable to see the trees that made up the forest).
Mueller became the perfect bureaucrat, with a hyped media/political persona, and a trail of bodies hidden behind him.
Give J. Edgar Hoover at least one bit of credit for being proactive and thinking outside the box when it came to fighting our communist and black extremist domestic and foreign enemies.
I was at a meeting where the Bureau’s COINTELLPRO program effectively split the Communist Party controlled section of a specific anti-Vietnam major organization from the black extremists who were trying to make inroads into a largely white movement.
Other Bureau greats included friends of mine, Herb “I Led Three Lives” Philbrick (9 years undercover), Ray Wannell - Operation SOLO, GB, a famed SAC, and I even got to brief William Sullivan, the late FBI counter-intelligence head.
They were “thinkers”, not “stinkers” and fools like Mueller and some of his buddies.
In the first against our enemies, you can’t be led by the “Second Best”, and Mueller and Brennan and a couple others from the NSA became just that.
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You know a lot. Thank you for that post.
“What to make of Mueller?”
I very much respect Mister Muller’s Marine Corps service. As with John McCain, it’s their post-service conduct that gives me red-rash. Gifted with post-service prominence, their conduct dishonors the service of shipmates. Similar to prep-school classmate John Kerry, I find it curious that former shipmates of both men remain very quiet.
Admittedly, Robert Mueller BS’d me during his tenure at FBI. I’ve since come to view “Mule’r” as a dullard. Not exactly Webster’s definition but it fits my assessment. Mueller is an example of life’s – and histories - occasional tragic joke of granting power to a stupid person. In Mueller’s instance, his aura of quiet, if not stoic, confidence is perhaps some Machiavellian embodiment of the “it’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt”.
Politico reported that Mueller teamed up with then-NYAG Eric Schneiderman’s office. Mueller and Schneiderman have reportedly begun sharing evidence from their parallel probes into Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman.
SOURCE https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/08/trump-robert-mueller-eric-schneiderman https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTv4xbYwomB4u0TL2Wn1q1GwxyM_A3xx0jJYS-GBx_GCd9Fh6oI
MUELLER'S (smirk) BRILLIANT PLAN
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