THE BIG PICTURE:
Robert Mueller’s lifetime work record shows many examples of poor judgment.
In my opinion, Mueller’s current investigation will never find any proof that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election, because that did not happen.
If there was any evidence that Trump colluded with the Russian government to steal the 2016 election, using hackers and propaganda, the US intelligence community would have found it in 2016 and leaked it to the New York Times or the Washington Post
Mueller isn’t going to find anything in 2017,
or 2018, that couldn’t be found in 2016.
or 2018, that couldn’t be found in 2016.
Smarmy Democrats speak as though Trump-Russia collusion is already an established fact.
But authoritative assertions from leftist-biased pundits, who speak and write with a confident tone,
are fake news,
not facts!
are fake news,
not facts!
DETAILS:
This blog has previously said:
(1) Mueller should not have been appointed, and
(2) Mueller should have been fired for hiring so many Democrat lawyers.
Mueller’s lifetime work record
shows many examples of poor judgment.
shows many examples of poor judgment.
Mueller bungled the biggest US terrorism investigation since 9/11.
Mueller had been a Marine rifle platoon commander in Vietnam, federal prosecutor, senior Justice Department official, and FBI director from 2001 to 2013.
HELLS ANGELS BUNGLED PROSECUTION:
The government filed racketeering charges against 33 members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club in 1979, alleging bombings, murders and the manufacture and sale of illegal drugs.
The first trial, of 18 defendants, ended with only five convictions.
All convictions were overturned on appeal.
Mueller, who led the U.S. attorney’s special prosecutions unit, then took over the case.
Mueller dropped many of the charges.
In October 1980, Mueller led four prosecutors for the second trial, with 11 defendants.
After four months the jury was deadlocked,
and the judge declared a mistrial.
and the judge declared a mistrial.
Mueller did not to ask for a retrial.
Richard B. Mazer, who was a defense lawyer at both trials, said the government "made a mess of it”.
Mueller returned to private practice.
2001 ANTHRAX ATTACK BUNGLED PROSECUTION
In 1998, President Clinton appointed Mueller as US attorney for the Northern District of California.
In July 2001, President George W. Bush nominated him as FBI director.
His first day on the job was Sept. 4, 2001, one week before 9/11.
Within weeks, a handful of letters with powdered anthrax killed five people and sickened 17 others.
“The director (Mueller) was always the leader of the anthrax investigation, period,” said Michael Mason, former head of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
The FBI focused on Steven Hatfill, a virologist at the U.S. Army’s laboratories at Ft. Detrick, Md.
Hatfill had no experience handling anthrax.
Nor did he have access to anthrax stored at Ft. Detrick or elsewhere.
After media leaks fingered Hatfill, he sued the FBI and the Justice Department on privacy grounds.
In June 2008, the government agreed to pay Hatfill about $5.8 million because he was innocent.
After seven years under Mueller, there was no conviction, and the government paid a $5.8 million fine!
Later, Bruce E. Ivins, an Army microbiologist at Ft. Detrick who specialized in handling anthrax, committed suicide after his lawyers informed him he was about to be charged with murder for the anthrax letter attacks.
The FBI’s Inspection Division conducted a three-week examination of the Directorate of Intelligence, a unit that Mueller created prevent terrorism.
“They inspected it, and they wrote the inspection report, and it said the whole thing’s broken — set it on fire and start from scratch,” said a former official familiar with the report.
KHOBAR TOWERS BUNGLED INVESTIGATION
The 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers apartment complex in the Saudi city of Khobar killed 19 US military men who worked at the Dharan air base three miles away.
Robert Mueller and his longtime ally James Comey claimed the Khobar Towers bombing had been a Hezbollah operation run by the Iranian Government - helping to develop the case that Iran “is the foremost state sponsor of terrorism.”
But several independent investigative journalists kater found out the Khobar Towers bombing was a fundamentalist-Sunni operation, led by Al Qaeda, which hates Shia and which also hates America’s military presence in the Middle East.
I think a real 2016 Russian collusion crime is the $10 million that the DNC and Clinton campaign spent on the Trump Dossier -- paid for with real money that went to Russian sources before the election.
Is anyone investigating that?
MUELLER HIRED SMARMY ANDREW WEISSMAN
TO LEAD TRUMP PROSECUTION TEAM
Mueller’s lead prosecutor, Andrew Weissman, is well-known for tactics that resulted in at least one fellow federal prosecutor filing ethics complaints against him.
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, well-known for his legal moral compass, pointed out that Weissman seems to have no legal scruples whatsoever, essentially filing criminal charges willy-nilly and then letting the courts sort out whether or not his actions were legal.
Wrote Turley:
"Mueller raised some eyebrows early in his tenure as special counsel by hiring prosecutors with controversial reputations for stretching the criminal conduct to the breaking point."
"His chief aide, Andrew Weissmann, has been widely criticized for a pattern of “prosecutorial overreach” in cases like Enron."
"Weissmann’s work against the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen is one such example."
"The convictions that he secured at any cost in that case were unanimously reversed by the Supreme Court."
"The convictions that he secured at any cost in that case were unanimously reversed by the Supreme Court."
Likewise, Weissmann secured convictions against four executives with Merrill Lynch by stretching the criminal code beyond recognition - the Fifth Circuit reversed them.
He also resigned from the Enron task force in the midst of complaints over his tactics.
One should recall that the Enron prosecution was characterized by prosecutorial misconduct throughout the case, including subornation of perjury, lying to the judge and jurors (not to mention the public), and withholding exculpatory evidence.
That Mueller would reach into that prosecutorial cesspool and pull out the one prosecutor who was deemed even too dishonest for that (Enron) probe says clearly that Mueller is not going to allow truth to seep into his prosecution."
It was Weissman who orchestrated the infamous Gestapo-like pre-dawn raid on Paul Manafort in his home, holding him and his family at gunpoint (all were unarmed and posed no threat to federal agents).
The real target of Mueller’s investigation is obviously President Trump.
Paul Manafort and Rick Gates might offer to tell Mueller what they think he wants to hear — even lies — to lesson their prison exposure.
