DOJ Appoints Robert Mueller as Special Counsel - Jerome Corsi Rejects Plea Deal

[Nanker]

No idea. Never saw that one.

[row_33]

well they got me doing this

doing that

and a little bit of something else

and Trump fires me anyways

[boyst]

@CBSNews

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I will not follow any order "unless I believe those are lawful & appropriate orders," Rosenstein says on if POTUS orders him to fire Mueller

https://twitter.com/i/videos/tweet/874639083829702659

what a joke

[Tiberius]

what a joke

Why? Anyone that doesn't follow lock stock and barrel behind Herr GruppenTrumper is a joke?

[row_33]

C'mon Tiberius, you started a little late on your 650 dumb posts a day on here, chop chop...

[Tiberius]

C'mon Tiberius, you started a little late on your 650 dumb posts a day on here, chop chop...

Go feed a squirrel

[ExiledInIllinois]

Blago was convicted of an interesting assortment of matters and sentence to 14 years.

 

Pretending this has anything to do with Trump is well off any form of rational talk.

Yeah. Trump grabbed the brass ring, he's totally immune now. Untouchable.

[B-Man]

USA TODAY:

Robert Mueller should recuse himself from Russia investigation: Former FBI director is too close to his successor, James Comey, to be impartial.

 

 

That does seem to be the case.

[K-9]

USA TODAY:

Robert Mueller should recuse himself from Russia investigation: Former FBI director is too close to his successor, James Comey, to be impartial.

 

 

That does seem to be the case.

If James Comey were the center of this investigation, Otis might have a point. But he's not. Not even close.

[B-Man]

If James Comey were the center of this investigation, Otis might have a point. But he's not. Not even close.

 

 

Thanks for agreeing that Comey is part of the investigation,

 

No matter how "teensey-weensey" you want to make it, that means Mr. Mueller's close friendship should recuse him.

[K-9]

 

 

Thanks for agreeing that Comey is part of the investigation,

 

No matter how "teensey-weensey" you want to make it, that means Mr. Mueller's close friendship should recuse him.

Comey is not now nor has he ever been a subject of the investigation. Of course he was part of it as the former director of the leading investigatory body. He is no longer privy to anything regarding any subsequent investigatory actions since his dismissal.

 

No matter how "BIGSY-WIGSY" you want to make it, there is no compelling case to be made for Mueller to recuse himself on the grounds that he and Comey are friends. Comey is simply not a material entity in the current investigation.

[Tiberius]

USA TODAY:

Robert Mueller should recuse himself from Russia investigation: Former FBI director is too close to his successor, James Comey, to be impartial.

 

 

That does seem to be the case.

Didn't I predict yesterday that you would start targeting Mueller? Your masters have given their marching orders.

 

Media bad, they show idiot Trump as an idiot

 

Congressional Budget Office Bad, they told the truth about GOP tax cut bill (aka health care)

 

And now Mueller, because Trump and company must know he will find something

[Nanker]

Now that Mueller's turned the investigation on the President's "obstruction of justice", he should step down. Because Comey IS a material witness and Comey was Mueller's protege. THAT clearly is a conflict of interests. This is exactly what Comey was trying to do with the leak to the media - get a Special Prosecutor assigned because they have NO limits to what they can investigate. He didn't have the guts to tell his boss that he felt Trump was interfering or attempted to interfere with Flynn's investigation. Hell, he told Congress and the world that he wasn't man enough to say that. So the worm leaks in order to get a SP who has limitless investigation powers. They have zero evidence of collusion by Trump. They have to get him somehow. The coup must continue.

[Benjamin Franklin]

Now that Mueller's turned the investigation on the President's "obstruction of justice", he should step down. Because Comey IS a material witness and Comey was Mueller's protege. THAT clearly is a conflict of interests. This is exactly what Comey was trying to do with the leak to the media - get a Special Prosecutor assigned because they have NO limits to what they can investigate. He didn't have the guts to tell his boss that he felt Trump was interfering or attempted to interfere with Flynn's investigation. Hell, he told Congress and the world that he wasn't man enough to say that. So the worm leaks in order to get a SP who has limitless investigation powers. They have zero evidence of collusion by Trump. They have to get him somehow. The coup must continue.

Republicans invented the modern Special

Prosecutor leviathon witch hunt (Whitewater leads to Lewinsky) like Dems created the cloture workaround. Bad acts have a way of coming around. A pox on both houses.

 

It isn't a conflict of interest to have a work colleague in the midst of an investigation.

 

Obstruction was always going to be on the table once he reached out to close the investigation and fired Comey over Russia.

[ExiledInIllinois]

Republicans invented the modern Special

Prosecutor leviathon witch hunt (Whitewater leads to Lewinsky) like Dems created the cloture workaround. Bad acts have a way of coming around. A pox on both houses.

 

Wasn't this warned when all the 'Pubes were rejoicing over the Comey-Shillary email thing a few weeks before election.

 

Public sector isn't a business Donald... Not a bunch of yes men toadies. Sure you can hire and fire. But there are also checks in place, different set of ethical rules.

 

What was Donald afraid of? Nothing has been getting done since Inauguration Day anyway. Let Comey run his course.

[K-9]

Republicans invented the modern Special

Prosecutor leviathon witch hunt (Whitewater leads to Lewinsky) like Dems created the cloture workaround. Bad acts have a way of coming around. A pox on both houses.

 

It isn't a conflict of interest to have a work colleague in the midst of an investigation.

 

Obstruction was always going to be on the table once he reached out to close the investigation and fired Comey over Russia.

The bell tolled last week when Coates and Rogers testified they wouldn't answer certain questions in a public setting. I suspect their closed testimony on the subject of Trump asking them to intervene in the investigation wasn't favorable.

[snafu]

Now that Mueller's turned the investigation on the President's "obstruction of justice", he should step down. Because Comey IS a material witness and Comey was Mueller's protege. THAT clearly is a conflict of interests. This is exactly what Comey was trying to do with the leak to the media - get a Special Prosecutor assigned because they have NO limits to what they can investigate. He didn't have the guts to tell his boss that he felt Trump was interfering or attempted to interfere with Flynn's investigation. Hell, he told Congress and the world that he wasn't man enough to say that. So the worm leaks in order to get a SP who has limitless investigation powers. They have zero evidence of collusion by Trump. They have to get him somehow. The coup must continue.

 

If Mueller's Dem cronies don't turn up anything then it is a better outcome for Trump.

If Mueller's Dem cronies do turn up something, then Trump will complain about the unfairness and railroading.

[boyst]

Anyone who doesn't see Trump winning is kidding themselves. Trump wins this bull **** every damn time and that's why he is president. Its not because he is Trump. It is because people are tired of the Democrats always blaming anyone and everyone without taking their own responsibilities in to account.

[Tiberius]

The bell tolled last week when Coates and Rogers testified they wouldn't answer certain questions in a public setting. I suspect their closed testimony on the subject of Trump asking them to intervene in the investigation wasn't favorable.

Which of course has to raise eyebrows about what he is hiding about Russia

[Tiberius]

The addition to Mueller’s team of a prosecutor including Andrew Weissmann, Supreme Court advocate and criminal law expert Michael Dreeben, and others experienced in complex fraud and international bribery cases suggests that the probe may be looking at more than “collusion” between Russian officials and Trump team members. For example, “it appears he has recruited an experienced Justice Department trial attorney, Lisa Page, a little-known figure outside the halls of Main Justice but one whose résumé boasts intriguing hints about where Mueller’s Russia investigation might lead. Page has deep experience with money laundering and organized crime cases, including investigations where she’s partnered with an FBI task force in Budapest, Hungary, that focuses on eastern European organized crime. That Budapest task force helped put together the still-unfolding money laundering case against Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash, a one-time business partner of [Paul] Manafort.”) News reports speculate that Mueller could be investigating potential money-laundering by Trump team members.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/06/15/the-criminal-investigation-of-trump-puts-his-presidency-in-peril/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.82fba1bfd002

[4merper4mer]

Wasn't this warned when all the 'Pubes were rejoicing over the Comey-Shillary email thing a few weeks before election.

 

Public sector isn't a business Donald... Not a bunch of yes men toadies. Sure you can hire and fire. But there are also checks in place, different set of ethical rules.

 

What was Donald afraid of? Nothing has been getting done since Inauguration Day anyway. Let Comey run his course.

Did you really just say there aren't toadies and yes men in government?

[B-Man]

KURT SCHLICHTER: Why Should We Trust Mueller?

The establishment is praising Mueller up and down. They tell me he’s honest. They tell me he’s incorruptible. But they also told me Jim Comey was a towering paragon of virtue instead of a towering pile of Harry Reid. . . .

Why should we believe this isn’t rigged? Because people in D.C. promise us that “Hey, this guy is honest?”

I guess we’re supposed to think “Yeah, well this time they’ve got to be telling us the truth. They’re totally due.”

But here’s the problem – we now have lots of new facts that change the original picture of our esteemed special counsel. Yes, as the Democrat steno pool that is the media has pointed out as we got woke to what’s happening, a lot of conservatives (including me) were initially satisfied with Mueller when he was appointed to investigate the Trump/Russia connection that everyone now admits doesn’t exist. But then came some troubling revelations which – whoa! – made us re-evaluate our prior understanding. So we – brace yourselves! – changed our minds in the face of new evidence.

Let’s look at all of the evidence. Mueller seems like a good guy. War hero. No scandals as FBI director. Not a known scumbag or skeevy perv. In Washington terms, the last one alone puts him miles ahead of the competition.

But now we find out that he’s Leaky Jim Comey’s bestest buddy there ever was. These guys are pals, and now Mueller is going to investigate the dude who fired his amigo?

 

 

Related: “I’ll say it: If the special counsel’s office is leaking prejudicial information about an investigation, it should be shut down immediately.”

 

 

Trust Mueller? From the WaPo article on obstruction we get this gem

 

“Five people briefed on the interview requests, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly…”

 

Five friggin’ people on Mueller’s super-secret investigation team leaked!

 

Yeah, let’s trust these people.

 

What percentage is that of the office as a whole

 

 

 

Also: “Sessions can’t sit on this. He’s either got to come out [and say] WaPo is wrong or he’s got to make the entire team recuse itself, start over.”

 

 

 

UPDATE: From Randy Barnett: “Mueller should resign not recuse. If he recuses, the matter will be delegated to one of the Democrat attack lawyers he’s hired.”

 

 

By the way, for those who don’t know, this is a celebrated Georgetown Law Professor who’s now calling for Mueller to step down over conflicts.

[Tiberius]

B-Man spreading the right wing attack propaganda against the prosecutor. Attack the referee!

[B-Man]

From the "Right-Wing" Washington Post

 

MORE MUELLER LEAKS JOLT DC

 

 

 

 

 

If the special counsel’s office is leaking prejudicial information about an investigation, it should be shut down immediately

 

 

 

 

Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein cautions against anonymous sources in bizarre, strange, curious statement.

 

Or maybe he’s saying that WaPo is in Putin’s pocket.

The unending stream of leaks from the Mueller operation is unprofessional AND — REMEMBER? — ILLEGAL.

 

The DoJ should subpoena the journalists and demand they identify their sources. People within the prosecutor’s office who are committing felonies, and breaches of ethics should be prosecuted and fired. And that includes Mueller himself, if he’s doing the leaking.

Edited June 16, 2017 by B-Man

[Tiberius]

 

From the "Right-Wing" Washington Post

 

MORE MUELLER LEAKS JOLT DC

 

 

 

 

 

If the special counsel’s office is leaking prejudicial information about an investigation, it should be shut down immediately

 

 

 

 

Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein cautions against anonymous sources in bizarre, strange, curious statement.

 

Or maybe he’s saying that WaPo is in Putin’s pocket.

The unending stream of leaks from the Mueller operation is unprofessional AND — REMEMBER? — ILLEGAL.

 

The DoJ should subpoena the journalists and demand they identify their sources. People within the prosecutor’s office who are committing felonies, and breaches of ethics should be prosecuted and fired. And that includes Mueller himself, if he’s doing the leaking.

 

 

“The Rosenstein statement suggests there must be a heck of a Trump story coming based on alleged information from anonymous foreign officials,” tweeted conservative commentator Bill Kristol.

The Rosenstein statement suggests there must be a heck of a Trump story coming based on alleged information from anonymous foreign officials

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 16, 2017

I see B-Man has his orders to defame Robert Mueller.

[B-Man]

USA TODAY COLUMN: ..........We need a Robert Mueller resignation or a second special counsel.

 

 

 

Despite a clear requirement that Mueller be “disqualified” from this investigation, his dismissal by either Trump or Sessions on the heels of the president’s firing of Comey would create a political firestorm that the president — even if entirely innocent of any wrongdoing whatsoever—might be unable to survive.

 

 

And Mueller can’t fix things by simply recusing himself from the “obstruction” investigation, while delegating it to a subordinate. Perhaps unwisely, he has chosen lawyers who records show have contributed substantially to Democratic campaigns. Indeed, two have given the maximum $2,700 donation to Hillary Clinton last year, while another worked for the Clinton Foundation. No one could accept them as impartial towards the man who defeated her.

 

So if he cares about the rules, Mueller needs to resign.

[Tiberius]

USA TODAY COLUMN: ..........We need a Robert Mueller resignation or a second special counsel.

 

 

 

Despite a clear requirement that Mueller be “disqualified” from this investigation, his dismissal by either Trump or Sessions on the heels of the president’s firing of Comey would create a political firestorm that the president — even if entirely innocent of any wrongdoing whatsoever—might be unable to survive.

 

 

And Mueller can’t fix things by simply recusing himself from the “obstruction” investigation, while delegating it to a subordinate. Perhaps unwisely, he has chosen lawyers who records show have contributed substantially to Democratic campaigns. Indeed, two have given the maximum $2,700 donation to Hillary Clinton last year, while another worked for the Clinton Foundation. No one could accept them as impartial towards the man who defeated her.

 

So if he cares about the rules, Mueller needs to resign.

Ha ha, next the paid Trump surrogates will be saying that everyone has seen Trump on TV and can't be non-biased! So its impossible to investigate this corrupt wannabe dictator!

[Tiberius]

DICKERSON: The president said last week he would release the tapes of - if there were tapes - of his conversation this week. That hasn't happened. Where is that?

SEKULOW: I think the president is going to address that in the week ahead. There was a lot of issues this past week. The President gave a major address in Cuba, but we had the assassination attempt of Steve Scalise. There were a lot of intervening factors. So the issue of the tapes, I think right now was not priority issue number one when the country was facing an assassination attempt on Steve Scalise and other members of Congress and their staffs by the way. And our thoughts and prayers are still with him. I know he's still in a very difficult situation. But also, he gave a major address in the situation in Cuba and the attempt there to reconcile and redraft a policy that makes sense so the president has a lot of issues and I think it shows that the president is concentrating on governing. This issue will be addressed in due course and I suspect next week.

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-jay-sekulow-on-face-the-nation-june-18-2017/

 

 

??? He's too busy to say if the tapes even exist?

[Tiberius]

So Mueller might be looking into Trump, organized crime and Russia money laundering.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-21/trump-russia-and-those-shadowy-sater-deals-at-bayrock

One of Bayrock's principals was a career criminal named Felix Sater who had ties to Russian and American organized crime groups. Before linking up with the company and with Trump, he had worked as a mob informant for the U.S. government, fled to Moscow to avoid criminal charges while boasting of his KGB and Kremlin contacts there, and had gone to prison for slashing apart another man’s face with a broken cocktail glass.

In a series of interviews and a lawsuit, a former Bayrock insider, Jody Kriss, claims that he eventually departed from the firm because he became convinced that Bayrock was actually a front for money laundering.

Kriss has sued Bayrock, alleging that in addition to laundering money, the Bayrock team also skimmed cash from the operation, dodged taxes and cheated him out of millions of dollars. Sater and others at Bayrock would not comment for this column; in court documents they have contested Kriss's charges and describe him, essentially, as a disgruntled employee trying to shake them down....

Trump has said over the years that he barely knows Sater. In fact, Sater -- who former Bayrock employees say met frequently with Trump in the Trump Organization's New York headquarters, once shepherded the president's children around Moscow and carried a Trump Organization business card -- apparently has remained firmly in the orbit of the president and his closest advisers.

Comey was still Trump's FBI director when he testified before the House Intelligence Committee in March about Russian interference in the 2016 election. During that hearing, Comey was asked if he was "aware of" Felix Sater, his criminal history and his business dealings with the Trump Organization. Comey declined to comment.

It's unclear whether Sater and Bayrock are part of Mueller's investigation. But Mueller has populated his investigative team with veteran prosecutors expert in white-collar fraud and Russian-organized-crime probes. One of them, Andrew Weissmann, once led an FBI team that examined financial fraud leading to the demise of Enron. Before that, Weissmann was a prosecutor with the U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn and part of a team that prosecuted Sater and mob associates for investment scams in the late 1990s.

 

[row_33]

when we be getting around to locking Hillary up?

[Tiberius]

when we be getting around to locking Hillary up?

When she starts acting like the criminal Donald, that's when

[Deranged Rhino]

when we be getting around to locking Hillary up?

 

If anyone goes down, I'm guessing it won't be her. She's got stories to tell and might be more valuable as a witness.

 

This guy though is toast if they do decide to go after anyone on her team:

 

[row_33]

 

If anyone goes down, I'm guessing it won't be her. She's got stories to tell and might be more valuable as a witness.

 

This guy though is toast if they do decide to go after anyone on her team:

 

 

LOL

[grinreaper]

If anyone goes down, I'm guessing it won't be her unless Huma is around. She's got stories to tell and might be more valuable as a witness.

 

This guy though is toast if they do decide to go after anyone on her team:

 

[row_33]

Time for more suicides in the DNC with 2 bullets in the back of the head?

[Nanker]

 

If anyone goes down, I'm guessing it won't be her. She's got stories to tell and might be more valuable as a witness.

 

This guy though is toast if they do decide to go after anyone on her team:

 

[PastaJoe]

Yesterday in Iowa Trump said, "They have phony witch hunts going against me". So if the witch hunts are phony, then that means there are no witch hunts, only justified investigations. By George I think he's got it!

[4merper4mer]

Yesterday in Iowa Trump said, "They have phony witch hunts going against me". So if the witch hunts are phony, then that means there are no witch hunts, only justified investigations. By George I think he's got it!

That was a bigger reach than Aaron Maybin at 10.

[Tiberius]

Trump's admitting Comey told the truth

...

"When he found out that I, you know, that there may be tapes out there, whether it's governmental tapes or anything else, and who knows, I think his story may have changed," Trump said. "You'll have to take a look at that, because then he has to tell what actually took place at the events. ... You'll have to determine for yourself whether or not his story changed."

 

"So it was a smart way to make sure he stayed honest in those hearings?" Fox News anchor Ainsley Earhardt followed up.

 

 

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/23/trump-james-comey-tapes-response-239892

[PastaJoe]

That was a bigger reach than Aaron Maybin at 10.

Exactly, Trump's witch hunt claims are really reaching.

 

Trump: Mueller-Comey friendship is bothersome.

 

Mueller: Trump-Putin friendship is bothersome.