Posted on 12/01/2018 5:21:05 PM PST by bitt
Special Counsel Mueller is building a report, not a case.
Right after Special Counsel Robert Mueller racked up yet another guilty plea to a false-statements charge on Thursday, a friend asked me, “Doesn’t this destroy Michael Cohen’s credibility as a witness?”
Easier to destroy Satan’s conscience, I thought. Cohen would have to have some credibility before it could be destroyed, and how much could reside in a self-described “fixer” who openly compared himself to Tom Hagen, the lawyer-gangster in The Godfather? (I’ll stipulate that he has a law degree, but Cohen has always struck me as the Fredo of Trump World.)
Nevertheless, the flaw in my friend’s question was not the assumption that Cohen had some smidgeon of value as a witness until it was extirpated by his plea of guilty to lying to Congress (after he had already, in August, pled guilty lying to a financial institution, among other fraudulence). The real flaw was the assumption that Special Counsel Mueller is lining up witnesses and building a criminal case, as prosecutors do.
He is not.
No prosecutor builds a case the way Mueller is going about it. What prosecutor says, “Here’s our witness line-up: Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos, Alex van der Zwaan, Rick Gates, Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen. And what is it that they have in common, ladies and gentlemen of the jury? Bingo! They’re all convicted liars.”?
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
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The creepy Deep State is running a political opposition research operation designed to get rid of Donald Trump.
We, the people, have been misled for too long. Robert Mueller has nothing because there is nothing:
<><> Where is the evidence that Trump colluded with Russians to sabotage Hillary's campaign?
<><> Where is the evidence of vote-tampering?
<><> Where and when were the meetings held to plot strategy?
<><> Just what is the strategy?
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Mueller is misusing his public position in various ways. Trump does not have to fire him. We, the people have a strong case.
SOURCE https://www.justice.gov/jmd/misuse-position-and-government-resources
MISUSE OF POSITION AND GOVERNMENT RESOURCES
Misuse of Position | Use of Official Title | Personal Use of Government Property | Use of Non-Public Information | Use of Official Time | Disclosing Procurement Information | Letters of Recommendation on Official Stationery
An employee may not use his official position, including information learned by virtue of his position, for his personal benefit or for the benefit of others.
MISUSE OF POSITION An employee may not use his public office for his own private gain or for that of persons or organizations with which he is associated personally. An employee's position or title should not be used to coerce; to endorse any product, service or enterprise; or to give the appearance of governmental sanction. An employee may use his official title and stationery only in response to a request for a reference or recommendation for someone he has dealt with in Federal employment or someone he is recommending for Federal employment.
5 C.F.R. § 2635.702 (see Subpart G - Misuse of Position; Use of Public Office for Private Gain)
USE OF OFFICIAL TITLE Generally, an employee engaging in teaching, speaking or writing in his personal capacity may not use his official title or position to identify himself in connection with the activity or to promote any book, seminar, course, program, etc. The two exceptions to this rule are as follows:
1. An employee may allow the use of his title if it is included as part of several other biographical details and the title is given no more prominence than other information; and
2. An employee may allow the use of his title in connection with an article published in a scientific or professional journal provided there is an appropriate disclaimer.
5 C.F.R. § 2635.807(b) (see Subpart H - Outside Activities; Teaching, Speaking and Writing)
An employee engaging in fundraising in his personal capacity is also prohibited from using his official title, position or authority. In addition, he cannot solicit funds or other support from a subordinate or from any person that has business with his component.
5 C.F.R. § 2635.808(c) (see Subpart H - Outside Activities; Fundraising activities)
PERSONAL USE OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY An employee should recognize her responsibility to protect and conserve government property and resources, and to make an honest effort to use official time and government property only for official business. 5 C.F.R. § 2635.704 through .705 Use of Government property, and Use of official time. An employee may not use the official time of another employee for anything other than official business. The use of any government property, including computers and the Internet, for any partisan political activities is always prohibited.
Department of Justice employees are generally authorized to make minimal personal use of most office equipment and library facilities where the cost to the Government is negligible and on an employee's own time. 28 C.F.R. § 45.4. This is the Department's de minimis use policy, and would permit an employee to send a short, personal electronic message to another individual. However, personal messages sent to large groups of people and messages sent to disseminate information on non-Governmental activities, such as charitable events and causes, commercial activities such as personal businesses, and religious observances, are prohibited.
If an employee of the Department of Justice has questions about the Department's rules covering the limitations on personal use of government equipment and resources, or questions about whether planned personal use of office equipment is permitted, she should consult with her supervisor, or her ethics official.
USE OF NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION An employee may not engage in a financial transaction using nonpublic information nor allow the use of such information to further his private interests or those of another. Nonpublic information is information an employee gains on the job which has not been made available to the general public and is not authorized to be made available upon request.
5 C.F.R. § 2635.703 (see Subpart G - Misuse of Position; Use of Non-public Information)
USE OF OFFICIAL TIME An employee shall use official time in an honest effort to perform official duties. Generally, personal activities should not be conducted during duty hours.
5 C.F.R. § 2635.705 (see Subpart G - Misuse of Position; Use of official time)
DISCLOSING PROCUREMENT INFORMATION An employee is prohibited from disclosing contractor bid or proposal information or source selection information to any person other than one authorized to receive such information. 48 C.F.R. § 3.104-4-5
LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION ON OFFICIAL STATIONERY An employee may sign a letter of recommendation using his official title and office letterhead in response to a request for an employment recommendation or character reference for someone provided it is based on his personal knowledge of the ability or character of the person. In addition, the individual must be someone with whom the employee has dealt with in the course of his Federal employment or someone he is recommending for Federal employment.
5 C.F.R. § 2635.702(b) (see Subpart G - Misuse of Position; Use of public office for private gain)
1. Protect 0bama
2. Protect HRC
3. Protect Dems
4. Protect the DS, Ryan included
5. Clean up the cr@p that leads to any of the above, himself included
6. Burn whoever he can on the way down
7. Then, ‘get’ GEOTUS, his family, his businesses, and his fortune, while we pay for it all.
8. Kill anyone who gets in the way, former pres, active duty, agency or other personnel, bystanders, and all those who saw him with uranium
9 Make sure those purged FBI files on ISIS, the MB, Islamic terrorists, and others who support them stay purged.
10. Rinse. Wash. Repeat.
11. Bill for as much money as you think you can steal in this process.
Who wouldn’d want to p!$$ on Mueller’s grave?
I think I am in the wrong profession.
It was never a case for criminal prosecution.
It has always been a case of Opposition Research for political purposes.
And that stuff should be illegal when done with tax money.
U Go Gryl,
Stick Weasel Mueller with a spit and roast him.
I tell ya, these guys at the TrotskyiteReview are quick. Years behind the painfully obvious.
Its about giving Democrats and Never Trumper Republicans sufficient justification to impeach and remove Trump from office.
All a Mueller report needs to do is sound damning. Criminal responsibility doesn’t need to be established.
My analogy is that Mueller is like when the bring the drug dogs into the high school. NOw they don’t KNOW there are drugs but everyone agrees that would be a bad thing, just like everyone agrees having Russia hack or meddle or collude or whatever would be bad.
So the dog alerts on a locker, but when the bust it open there’s no drugs inside. But, there’s an overdue library book!
So they call the kid in and ask if he’s got anything in his locker that shouldn’t be. He says no, so they charge him with one count of stealing library materials and one count of lying.
Then they tell him they think there are kids with drugs, figuring he once had drugs in the locker or the dog wouldn’t have alerted. All he has to do is give them some names and maybe they’re just take the book back and say they found it, and he’ll only have a light penalty for lying.
The only difference is, Mueller is ruining lives and running up millions of dollars in legal expenses for the subjects of his witch hunt. But like the school, he didn’t go into it with evidence that a crime had been committed, he went into it to sniff around and see if he could find any, and so far the only crimes are ones that he created.
I try my best not to hate anyone. But the two at the top of my current ‘Despise List’ are Mueller and Soros.
I don’t like to think of the cosmic retribution in store for those two...
Excellent analogy as to what’s been going on.
https://twitter.com/64Jodieplace64/status/1068903371644567552
One of the most-overlooked aspects of Uranium One is the fact that Australia signed a very similar deal with Putin just a few years earlier
Who was Australia’s foreign minister at the time?
A good friend of the Clinton Foundation
Alexander Downer
great analogy!
Write it and hand it to the Dems and the MSM and hope all the BLAH BLAH BLAH works ,LOL
Jimmah and McLame excepted.
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