The Federalist:
Washington DC is atwitter with the news that Special Counsel Robert Mueller III has submitted his report to Attorney General William Barr. If the report does anything short of fully exonerating the president of colluding with the Russians, Americans will have every reason to be outraged at the abuse of the office of special counsel for corrupt and political ends.
The damage has been incalculable. Let’s walk through a few grievances that Americans have with Mueller.
1. Inability to Recover from a Terrible Start.
Was the Mueller probe about investigating a crime or a means of exacting political revenge? One clue is that the regulations guarding against the former were not observed.
28 CFR § 600.1 provides the grounds for appointing a special counsel. The original purpose is supposed to be a “criminal investigation” that presents a “conflict of interest for the Department.” Former attorney general Jeff Sessions, a Donald Trump nominee, was pushed aside on a spurious conflict-of-interest theory in favor of the even more-conflicted Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
Rosenstein granted the special counsel sweeping authority to pursue any “links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump.” If that wasn’t broad enough, Rosenstein added jurisdiction over “any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation.”
Thus, the initial appointment memo gave the special counsel license to investigate anyone connected to the Trump campaign over anything that “may arise” from the investigation. In other words, “here’s a list of people involved in the Trump campaign—go find something on them.”
This is also a violation of 28 CFR § 600.4, which provides that the special counsel is supposed to be appointed with a “specific factual statement of the matter to be investigated.” The “other matters that may arise” jurisdiction is not supposed to be granted in advance. Under 28 CFR § 600.4(b), the special counsel is supposed to consult with the attorney general, who will determine whether to include the additional matters or refer them to the regular prosecutors with jurisdiction.
Thus, for example, the Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn prosecutions should not have been included in the original mandate and should have required a determination that a local U.S. attorney would be conflicted from accepting or declining those cases. In reality, the special counsel used those prosecutions in an unsuccessful bid to coerce witnesses to turn on the president.
Under 28 CFR § 600.3, Rosenstein was supposed to name “a lawyer with a reputation for integrity and impartial decisionmaking…selected from outside the United States Government.” Mueller was, at the time of his appointment, technically outside the federal government only just barely. Trump had just rejected Mueller to fill the very same vacancy created by Trump firing former FBI director James Comey.
I hope no one is expecting this to be the end of the Democrat investigations of Trump with the intention to remove him from office and even imprison him if possible.
I”m guessing that in the near future, before the elections, it will look like it was just the beginning of them.
They are going to double down on every front now, to the point of obsessive compulsive fanaticism.
It’s common knowledge that Mueller had a personal animus toward the president because of some argument about country club fees. He never should have been appointed for that alone among other reasons and yet he was. I think that he took so long to deliver the report because the new AG was going to have his ass if he delivered the report he originally wanted to.
Seeing as “collusion” isn’t even a crime, the report should be:
“Collusion” or “No Collusion.”
A postcard.
Anything else is political bullshit.
And any charges, specifications, and/or convictions unrelated to “collusion” are absolute bullshit – bordering on “conspiracy to suborn justice” and misprision.
izlamo delenda est …
Will there be anything in there about Concord Management? They embarrassed Mueller so badly that he locked their case in a closet like it was a reporter at a Biden fundraiser.
Dirty bastard knew about Jeffry Epstein
and did nothing…
I think it’s possible that Trump has used Rosenstein and Mueller to make the Deep State feel he is weak where he is in fact very strong.
A political chess play.
The primary purpose of the “Mueller Probe” was to find, collect, and destroy evidence of abuses of power and illegal activities, up to and including treason, among Democrats.
Mission accomplished.
The Democrats were sloppy with this material since they thought they’d have a fellow traveler in the White House, so that’s why the panic on all the highest levels of Obama-corrupted government when she didn’t. Placing Muller immediately in that position locked all the evidence down and away from even the President while allowing Mueller unfettered power to find it wherever it was and do whatever he pleased with it, all the while threatening with the full force of Government anyone who might otherwise expose them. When faced with extreme prison conditions without a trial (Manafort), and having to bankrupt yourself paying for lawyers to defend yourself against even scurrilous charges because the prosecutor had the entire U.S. Treasury and a TEAM of lawyers at his disposal to keep you in court until the next Ice Age even WITHOUT ever convicting you while threatening to torment your entire family the same way (Flynn), it was an EXCELLENT tool to chill ANYONE who may want to testify against Democrats. It also gave the Alinsky deflection and confusion (accuse your opponent of doing what you, yourself, are doing) so any effort to even find OUT what Mueller was doing was met with threats of “Obstruction” and “impeachment”.
This is why he needed true-believing, Trump-hating lawyers ONLY on his team. They had to be people he could trust to bury his corruption for fear of their OWN corruption being exposed.
And again, it worked.
We will NEVER know what evidence he destroyed or what witnesses he silenced, but you can be sure he did both. To him, impeaching the President would have been nice, but it was enough to smear him and set the stage for Schiff until they can cheat their way back into the White House, and to bury any chance of their misdeeds coming to light.
I’m sure he’s quite pleased with himself, no matter where it goes from here.
As are his masters…
TSUNAMI, the new resistance theme seems to be, “Trump won’t be able to manipulate the SDNY like he did Mueller.” I have a feeling that Trump is going to wreck the SDNY, too. And NY AG Letitia James is going to wreck herself as well.
And here’s a news flash, media. The SDNY clownshow is a “local story”, no matter how much you try to puff it up. Nobody knows or cares about the petty prosecution hacks you will try to turn into stars. You reached “peak impeachment” long ago. It is never coming back.
Gee, SNS, you make it sound sorta like a conspiracy to commit treason.
Isn’t that illegal? Or is it OK if you get away with it?
“None dare call it Treason” when successful.
Methinks there may be a popular solution to many difficulties.
(not “popular” like a High School cheerleader)
izlamo delenda est …
TIM…misprision. Had to look it up. Needs to be mainstreamed in this day and age especially agains’t the press/democrat partnership.
A.Moose … got it from Billy Shakespeare – dude knew a lot of words – and how to string em together. Seems to be a word, as well as a crime, that we, now in less enlightened times, strive to ignore.
In earlier days these things were handled with aplomb – today we cry and whimper over petty misdemeanors.
izlamo delenda est …
Nothing burger
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The Sir Hillary Clinton instigated report!
Everyone has that one asshole sibling who always flipped the board when they lost a game of Monopoly and never bothered to ever learn how to win the game. They grew up to be hard core democrats, always.
Democrats like to say “Move on” but they can’t.