Alan Dershowitz appears with two panel members of the ‘Tick-Tock-Boom club’ to discuss the potential of Robert Mueller’s testimony.
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On the issue of the May 16th, 2017, Mueller trip to the White House raised by ‘tick-tock’ chairman Greg Jarrett, his emphasis is on the wrong syllable.
If Mueller does appear before congress the substance of Mueller’s White House visit should be ignored, and his status within the visit should be the focus. Not to beat a dead horse, but the purpose of Rosenstein taking Mueller to the White House had nothing to do with Mueller as a candidate for FBI Director.
Congress needs to skip the BS, and get right to the heart of the issue. Here is five Minutes of rapid fire questions for Mueller on this subject:
♦On May 16, 2017, were you applying to become FBI Director?
♦Why did you go to the White House?
♦When did Rod Rosenstein contact you about going to the White House?
♦When did Rod Rosenstein first contact you about becoming special counsel?
♦Did you speak to any members of the DOJ or FBI prior to going to the White House?
♦Were there conversations about a possible ‘special counsel position’ prior to May 16th, 2017?
♦Were you aware President Trump was under investigation prior to your conversation of May 16th, with President Trump?
♦Were you aware of the nature of the investigation, prior to May 16, 2017?
♦Were you aware of the possibility of being appointed ‘special counsel’?
♦Did you take any recording devices into the Oval Office meeting?
♦Did you own the cell phone you left in the Oval Office on May 16, 2017?
♦Between the afternoon Oval Office meeting and the next day announcement to the Gang-of-Eight by Rod Rosenstein and Andrew McCabe, when exactly did you agree to become special counsel?
♦How did Rod Rosenstein contact you between May 16, 2017 and early morning May 17, 2017, about becoming special counsel?
♦Did you immediately agree to become special counsel when asked?
♦How much time transpired between Rosenstein asking you to become special counsel and your acceptance of the position?
See where this line of questioning goes?
The dynamic here is pretty damned obvious.
There was less than 24 hours between the time Mueller and Rosenstein were in the Oval Office (May 16th), and the time Rosenstein told the Gang-of-Eight that Mueller was appointed Special Counsel (May 17th).
That’s not a lot of time for discussion and contemplation by Mueller. Yet, Rosenstein confirmed Mueller’s appointment to the Gang-of-Eight less than 24 hours after the oval office meeting.
So it stands to reason the first contact about the position happened prior to the May 16th Oval Office meeting. If accurate, Mueller was aware Trump was under investigation, AND Mueller was aware he could be special counsel to take over the investigation prior to the Oval Office meeting.
I’ll bet you a dozen donuts the entire purpose of the Oval Office meeting with Mueller was part of the FBI investigation…. and Mueller’s cell phone wasn’t actually Mueller’s cell phone… it was an FBI phone set up so that McCabe’s investigators could listen to the conversation with the target of the investigation, President Trump.
Occam’s Razor – A former FBI Director… meeting with the president of the United States… in the oval office…. in the middle of one of the more consequential time-periods in history… immediately after the firing of the former FBI Director… with family and a network of friends curious as to the outcome…. who is also communicating with the Deputy Attorney General… doesn’t *accidentally* leave his cell phone in the Oval Office.
That background allows people to absorb the intent and motivations of the Special Counsel investigation. How many people even know Robert Mueller interviewed President Donald Trump six days after the FBI launched a criminal “obstruction of justice” investigation, and ten months after the FBI launched the counterintelligence investigation….
..The May 16, 2017, Mueller meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office.
The Mueller Report shows there never was a Trump Russia-Collusion-Conspiracy case to begin with; and with the report showing how most of Mueller’s investigative time was spent gathering evidence for an ‘obstruction case’; and with new revelations from Andrew McCabe, John Dowd and Mueller officials overlayed on the previous Strzok/Page texts; we can now clearly reconcile the May 16th, 2017, meeting between President Trump, Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein and Robert Mueller. Here’s how…
FBI Director James Comey was fired on Tuesday May 9th, 2017. According to his own admissions (NBC and CBS), Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe immediately began a criminal ‘obstruction’ investigation the next day, Wednesday May 10th; and he immediately enlisted Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
These McCabe statements line up with with text message conversations between FBI lawyer Lisa Page and FBI agent Peter Strzok – (same dates 5/9 and 5/10):
It now appears that important redaction is “POTUS” or “TRUMP”. [Yes, this is evidence that some unknown DOJ officials redacted information from these texts that would have pointed directly to the intents of the DOJ and FBI. [WARNING: Don’t get hung on it.]
The next day, Thursday May 11th, 2017, Andrew McCabe testifies to congress. With the Comey firing fresh in the headlines, Senator Marco Rubio asked McCabe: “has the dismissal of Mr. Comey in any way impeded, interrupted, stopped, or negatively impacted any of the work, any investigation, or any ongoing projects at the Federal Bureau of Investigation?”
McCabe responded: “So there has been no effort to impede our investigation to date. Quite simply put, sir, you cannot stop the men and women of the FBI from doing the right thing, protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution.”
However, again referencing his own admissions, on Friday May 12th McCabe met with DAG Rod Rosenstein to discuss the issues, referencing the criminal ‘obstruction’ case McCabe had opened just two days before. According to McCabe:
… “[Rosenstein] asked for my thoughts about whether we needed a special counsel to oversee the Russia case. I said I thought it would help the investigation’s credibility. Later that day, I went to see Rosenstein again. This is the gist of what I said: I feel strongly that the investigation would be best served by having a special counsel.” (link)
Recap: Tuesday: Comey Fired; Wednesday: McCabe starts criminal ‘obstruction’ case; Thursday: McCabe testifies to congress “no effort to impede”; Friday: McCabe and Rosenstein discuss appointing a Special Counsel.
After the weekend, Monday May 15th, McCabe states he and Rosenstein conferred again about the Special Counsel approach. McCabe: “I brought the matter up with him again after the weekend.”
Now, overlaying what we know now that we did not know in 2018, to include the John Dowd interview and McCabe admissions, a very clear picture emerges.
On Tuesday May 16th, Rod Rosenstein takes Robert Mueller to the White House to talk with the target of the ‘obstruction’ criminal investigation, Donald Trump, under the ruse of bringing Mueller in for a meeting about becoming FBI Director.
Knowing McCabe launched a criminal obstruction investigation six days earlier (May 10th); and knowing Mueller was ineligible for the position of FBI Director; this “meeting” looks entirely different.
This meeting looks like an opportunity to gather evidence for the obstruction case.
Heck, perhaps this meeting was even recorded as part of the FBI investigation.
Remember the Rosenstein ‘wear a wire‘ debates? Well, did Rosenstein need to actually wear a wire, or did soon-to-be appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller just carry the recording device into an undercover deposition?… Consider:
WASHINGTON – Andrew McCabe, the disgraced former acting FBI director, reveals in his new book that Robert Mueller temporarily left his cell phone behind after a meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office and that the phone “later had to be retrieved.”
McCabe did not explain why he included the detail in his book.
McCabe says that Mueller left the phone behind after Trump had interviewed Mueller as a potential candidate to replace James Comey as FBI director. The interview reportedly took place in the Oval Office just one day before Mueller had been appointed special counsel in the so-called Russia collusion case. (more)
Oh, I think I know why McCabe included the detail in his book… leverage.
In combination with the ‘wear a wire’ comments, McCabe’s stealth book note is a shot across the bow to Rod Rosenstein and Robert Mueller. Only the insider ‘small group’ would understand what McCabe is threatening. It’s a get out of jail free card that McCabe played to escape the clutches of the 2018 DC criminal referral.
McCabe telling Rosenstein: Don’t try to put yourself of a pedestal and act like you were not a direct participant in the investigation of President Trump; remember the May 16th, operation? And, guess what…. it looks like it worked.
[This would explain why DC U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu dropped the case against McCabe?]
The next day, Wednesday May 17th, 2017, Rod Rosenstein and Andrew McCabe go to brief the congressional “Gang-of-Eight”: Paul Ryan, Nancy Pelosi, ¹Devin Nunes, Adam Schiff, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, Richard Burr and Mark Warner.
… […] “On the afternoon of May 17, Rosenstein and I sat at the end of a long conference table in a secure room in the basement of the Capitol. We were there to brief the so-called Gang of Eight—the majority and minority leaders of the House and Senate and the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. Rosenstein had, I knew, made a decision to appoint a special counsel in the Russia case.”
[…] “After reminding the committee of how the investigation began, I told them of additional steps we had taken. Then Rod took over and announced that he had appointed a special counsel to pursue the Russia investigation, and that the special counsel was Robert Mueller.” (link)
Immediately following this May 17, 2017, Go8 briefing, Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein notified the public of the special counsel appointment.
According to President Trump’s Attorney John Dowd, the White House was stunned by the decision. [Link] Coincidentally, AG Jeff Sessions was in the oval office for unrelated business when White House counsel Don McGahn came in and informed the group. Jeff Sessions immediately offered his resignation, and Sessions’ chief-of-staff Jody Hunt went back to the Main Justice office to ask Rosenstein what the hell was going on.
Now, with hindsight and full understanding of exactly what the purposes and intents were for Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein to bring Robert Mueller to the White House, revisit this video from June 2017:
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The DOJ (Rosenstein) and FBI (McCabe) activity in coordination with the Robert Mueller team was always about the obstruction case from day one; heck, from even before Robert Mueller was appointed.
The totality of all primary effort has always been to protect the ruse of the Russia investigation by throwing out nonsense Russian indictments and keeping Manafort, Flynn and Papadopoulos (the original spygate targets) under control…. while the focus was on building the obstruction case against President Trump. Remember what FBI Agent Peter Strzok said:
…”you and I both know the odds are nothing. If I thought it was likely, I’d be there no question. I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern there’s no big there there.”
(Text Message Link – See Page #459, May 19th, 2017)
It could not be any more clear than it is today.
Mueller’s investigative ‘small group’ were the people inside Main Justice (DOJ) and FBI headquarters who redacted the Lisa Page and Peter Strzok text messages, and removed messages and communication antithetical to their goals.
As Devin Nunes outlined recently the Mueller team also kept key documents and information away from congress; stalled any effort to expose the unlawful aspects of “SpyGate’ and the fraudulent foundation behind the Carter Page FISA application; and undermined any adverse discoveries in the leak investigations (James Wolfe) writ large.
This investigative small group didn’t change when Mueller arrived, they just retooled the focus of their effort based on new leadership and new objectives. Those who created the Trump-Russia collusion/conspiracy case of 2016, evolved into creating the Trump obstructing justice case of 2017, 2018 and 2019.
(Proclamation from Comey Memo Court Filing)
Everything Mueller and Rosenstein were doing in late 2017 and throughout 2018 was intended to drag-out the Russia conspiracy narrative as long as possible, even though there was no actual Trump-Russia investigation taking place. The goal for the “small group” was to bury the risk by Democrats winning the 2018 mid-terms.
It was always the “obstruction” investigation that could lead to the desired result by Mueller’s team of taking down President Trump through evidence that would help Pelosi and Nadler achieve impeachment . The “obstruction case” was the entirety of the case they were trying to make from May 2017 through to March 2019.
All of the hostile DOJ and FBI action toward the people within the targeting of the investigation: Targeting Michael Flynn and Mike Flynn Jr; Paul Manafort’s early morning no-knock FBI raid; Michael Cohen’s FBI office raid; Roger Stone’s FBI and SWAT team raid; etc… All of it, was designed to provoke President Trump into taking action that would further fuel the ‘obstruction‘ case. It was all BAIT.
[¹] Now we know why House Speaker Paul Ryan moved to sideline Devin Nunes under the cloud of an ethics investigation.
What would happen if Schiff allows only Democrats to ask Mueller questions? All this would become irrelevant. Don’t put this past him since as a desperate democrat and would never be punished by Pelosi.
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That’s not how it works. Equal time for each side. What Mueller will do is claim that he can’t discuss matters because of some made up formal sounding legislation. Read some of the testimony that Collins put out for McCabe/Lynch/Baker/Moyer et al. I think when the Rs are asking questions, Mueller will have hearing problems, “can you repeat the question” or memory issues “I don’t remember” and his speech and answers will be super S-L-O-O-O-W to eat at time and cut down on the questions asked by Rs. The Ds will spend their time telling him he is a great man and that he’s had an esteemed career and let him blather on about how wonderful he is. I doubt they’ll ask him too many questions because his investigation begs questions.
I think Trump needs to use all of this special investigation circus and use it as obstruction of justice. Everyone of these ppl knew it was a wasteful exercise, thereby delaying any investigation into the real crimes.
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Agreed about answering R’s. But the D’s will have leading questions all around establishing a) that there was valid grounds for the investigation featuring unusually extensive connections with Russians (they need to protect that cover story as much as possible) b) that if T were not Pres they would have nabbed him for behavioural obstruction (public statements, tweets, disparaging the investigators, disrespecting the process, refusing to be interviewed in person etc.) so that c) the D’s can keep making the claim that ‘nobody is above the law,’ which is the foundation of their upcoming impeachment process.
They WILL impeach, and probably will use Mueller’s testimony as the basis (one of the original possible goals of the exercise). Then the Senate will block one way or another. Then for the election, the Dems can go to the people to get the Senate to impeach him in the event he keeps the Presidency, and to get the Presidency in order to end this corrupt, tyrannical reign, after which they will jail him for whatever using the SDNY jurisdiction. They will rile up the base with this because the corrupt Republican Senate will have protected a clearly corrupt ‘mobster’ President.
Now: YOU might not be convinced by their questions, and you might feel they are all pathetic attempts using wordplay to justify their BS, however you don’t see the world with their eyes, you are watching a different movie. For those watching the D movie, it will all be convincing, very much so, and impeachment is going to roll on forward setting up a truly epic battle for the Senate and Presidency in 2020.
For this reason, it will be Biden or Warren, both fairly senior politicians with DC experience. The younger insurgent types don’t have the right optics for such High Court dramas. I don’t think either Warren or Biden have the chops either – though Kamala Harris might emerge as a Dark Horse prosecutor type in this regard, both ethnic and appropriately gendered to boot – but all these things get manipulated by the Press and they could probably make a Ham Sandwich look electable if they so choose.
So: they WILL be asking questions and the answers, though wiffle-waffle to you, will be T-bone steak and apple pie to them. They smell victory now!
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Put down the tinfoil, and step away from the hat…..
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The bigger question is why the Senate Reps are not interviewing Mueller? The Reps control the Senate. They can set the agenda and obtain the answers they want from Mueller. Graham and Burr are protecting Mueller and aiding the Dems.
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I believe the answer is that in the Senate, there has to be agreement with both parties to do that. Just my recollection. Different rules. Somebody else out there can back me up, or not.
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Mr. Mueller, most men keep their Smartphone tucked securely in the inside pocket of their jacket. Please explain how “your” Smartphone was taken out of your jacket pocket and placed in the office of the President.
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Burr has certainly been Mueller’s close colleague in the past, and has defended him as straight. But times change, so we need convincing evidence that this state of affairs still holds
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The House Republicans will bungle this opportunity.
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Bingo. Most House Republicans are clueless dunces, and this is why demoncrats know they can get away with saying and doing absolutely anything.
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The Republicans should just transfer all available minutes to Jim Jordan and Doug Collins. That will get the job done.
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Correct Mark. The Republicans should give their time to the most skilled interrogator. “Mr. Mueller, You understand you are under oath….”
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“Most House Republicans are clueless dunces”
They are hardly clueless. They are complicit.
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Perhaps you are being too kind. Judging from CONgress actions to date, the House Republicans are obviously co-conspirators. Nobody in DC has POTUS back. They are part and parcel of of the coup-in-progress, if not by sins of commission, then definitely by sins of omission.
And another thing.. When FBI Director Comey was fired, their obstruction trap was sprung. What are the odds then, that White House Counsel McGahn appeared, to notify POTUS of the SC appointment, while AG Sessions was present?
Ya think Session’s resignation “offer” may have been a strategically timed, orchestrated attempt to goad POTUS to accept, which would have cemented their “obstruction” case?
How would it look if both the FBI Director AND the Attorney General were dismissed within days of each other? Looks to me like POTUS deftly side-stepped this one-two punch.
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not so much their stupid as is the fact that most of them are carrying the dims water for them.
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not so much their stupid as is the fact that most of them are carrying the dims water for them.
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It has always been obvious that the key plan was to provoke Donald Trump. And, here is where he very-shrewdly employed “social media.” First, he portrayed himself as impetuous, in addition to (obviously …) being very angry. Second, he prompted his enemies to reply to him also using “Tweets,” and there have been several times where they tweeted what they shouldn’t have.
I think that they believed that, if they could only “ratchet up the heat” high enough, The Donald would axe the investigation. Or, that he would do something – anything would do – to escape it. In general, they ran the investigation across the mid-terms and tried to make it as odious as they could.
But there’s one thing that they didn’t count on: quite simply, “what makes you a billonaire.” Intelligence. Experience. Cunning. The ability to outwit his enemies on their own turf, and to outlast them.
I sincerely hope that William Barr will hand down his first-of-many criminal indictments before this dog and pony show has a chance to take place. Formally introduce the public to the realization that everything has been rotten in the very-highest halls of power for a very long time, and that someone is now going to go to jail for it. To me, the most-logical perp would be James Comey, because he directed the FBI and much of the corruption happened there. This will instantly re-cast all of the House Committee moves as being what they are – part of the same conspiracy. Part of the same coup.
Maybe it’s too much to ask that other, less-radicalized members of the House would then “grow some” and censure their colleagues. These perpetrators have not only “weaponized” the FBI and CIA, but also the House Committees.
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Well-stated MR. Agree, like!
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One of my questions for the Special Counsel:
Mr Mueller, you are here and testifying under oath. I want to remind you that investigations can take abrupt turns. And if we find any of your answers today to be untruthful, you would clearly be a possible target of a Conspiracy investigation and at risk of Obstruction of Justice for lying about your role in Investigating the President of the United States…… So, under penalty of perjury….. Did the FBI use the phone that you left at the White House to listen in to any conversations after you and Mr Rosenstein had your meeting with the President?
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… and a followup question:
“Did the FBI use the phone that you left at the White House to listen in to conversation WHILE you and Mr Rosenstein were IN the room meeting with the President?”
Slightly different objective but a direct corollary to your excellent question
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I want to know whose phone was it he left and where is it now. He may not know the answer to both, but he has to know at least one of the answers. As to who may have have used it for other purposes, he could certainly deny knowledge.
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“… DURING or after…”
Don’t give them an opening to obfuscate. In fact, if I was questioning Mueller, I would ask about DURING first, and then when he might assume he was out of trouble (maybe even following several other questions), come back with “What about AFTER the meeting, did anyone listen in then?”
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“… DURING or after…”
Don’t give them an opening to obfuscate. In fact, if I was questioning Mueller, I would ask about DURING first, and then when he might assume he was out of trouble (maybe even following several other questions), come back with “What about AFTER the meeting, did anyone listen in then?”
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Mr. Mueller answers: “On advice of my attorney, since your question tacitly implies criminal activity and motive, I will refuse to answer this question or any additional question posed by this committee by invoking my Fifth Amendment protections. Have a nice day.”
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My Next Question:
Mr Mueller, have you seen, read, heard, been appraised of or heard reference to, any full or partial audio recordings or written transcripts of audio recordings of the President of the United States that were captured by ANY Agency of the United States Government OR any Foreign Intelligence Service that provided that audio recording to the United States Government?
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MUELLER TAKES THE FIFTH
Now that’s a headline I’d like to see.
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I have no respect for Mueller, but he is appearing on his terms before a Kangaroo Court playing loose and sloppy with political ideology. “Taking the Fifth” is his right and it will neuter Shiff and his band of crap artists. As for the Republicans, they both quit and lost in 2018 and wasted two years when they had the lead. Congress has become a series of circular firing squads exercising the will of their benefactors. In a fairy tale, Mr. Mueller would prance in which his picnic basket and unload the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. As for “headlines” — there is no power of the press anymore. The press is all thinly disguised fifth columnist ideologues. And headline would read: REPUBLICANS FORCE MUELLER TO CLAM UP.
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I predict that Mueller, when confronted by (R) questions, will assume the persona of Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, and pretend that he has Alzheimer’s and dementia, to avoid answering the questions.
Also, I can’t wait to see how Clint Eastwood portrays the incompetent Mueller in his new film, “The Ballad of Richard Jewell.”
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Rosenstein agreed to wear a wire after all–in the form of Bob Mueller’s cellphone.
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We could ask better questions than 90+% of the House reps involved in this “hearing”. This double agent white hat storyline with the criminals who participated in this hoax and scam is and has always been total BS. The Roman Empire operated with more integrity than this bunch.
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We have been watching the Mueller charade for over two years now.
Thanks to Devin Nunes’s persistence, we learned the silly “dossier” was commissioned and funded by Team Hillary in October, 2017…… that was 20 months ago.
That wasn’t supposed to happen. Muller / Weissmann & Co. have been flailing in flop sweat ever since, trying unsuccessfully to entrap Papadopoulos, charging Trump associates with unrelated and process crimes, using Gestapo tactics and working the idiotic Wikileaks angle trying to goad the president into firing the cabal or pardoning someone to manufacture a viable “obstruction” case.
They failed BIGLY, it’s over – the cabal lost and America won. Everyone except the mouth-breathers of the rabid democrat base have moved on.
Mueller’s “testimony” – even if the Republicans drop the ball – will resonate with the electorate about as much as Michael Cohen’s empty blather, John Dean’s dramatics or their theatrical reading of the Mueller Report.
The time for Mueller / Weissmann to pull a rabbit out of their wazoo was over a year ago and it didn’t happen….because like 0bama’s corrupt FBI apparatchik Strzok said before this whole fiasco got rolling: “there just isn’t any there , there”.
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I would add a caveat. Weissmann and his band of Dem investigators have been probably working with Nadler and Schiff providing them a road map on what questions to ask and what the underlying data show. I don’t buy the conventional wisdom that calling Mueller to testify will backfire.
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I have no doubt something like that is in the works.
I just don’t see it getting any traction with the electorate or changing the big picture.
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Mike, I agree with you. I hope we are both wrong, but I’m afraid we’re right.
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a valid point made by Mike
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Not sure where Sundance lives but frankly it would do the House Republicans a ton of good if Meadows or Nunes organized a 2-3 hr meeting where Sundance comes in and briefs all of the folks on the committee about the real facts surrounding this coup to entrap PT on obstruction charges.
Or better yet just hire him to ask all the questions.
I still think worst case is Sundance formulates the top 25-50 questions and we email, text, fed ex them over to every Republican on the Committee.
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I suspect Sundance does not wish a public persona. How about hiring Joe Digenova and yielding all Republican members’ time to him for cross-examination?
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Or, how about sending this article to Barr and ask, “What are you gonna do about this? You gonna indict and prosecute these b*st*rds or are you just a big bag of wind as you demonstrated by blowing into those bag pipes you played the other day?”
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Haha, How about Rachel Mitchell do all the questioning on behalf of the Repubs. I don’t trust our side will be coordinated or prepared with the proper questions and traps against Herr Mueller. Radcliff, yes but is he on this committee? Collins, speaks too fast and although very bright, this needs a certain touch of a trial lawyer to turn the tables. Mueller didn’t write the report. I doubt he even read it. He let his brown shirts do all the dirty work. A few strategic questions and he will become trapped by his own process crimes…wouldn’t that be justice. We are wasting our time with this old fool, get his Brown Shirts on the stand.
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Sundance, et.al. are known by researchers and staff of key players wide and far. In the same way paralegals comb the archives for their bosses, the staff of leading voices and main players are compiling and analyzing leads, views and opinion on the net, in specialty publications and from off the airways. In this process, credit and attribution are rarely noted. But when a particular source becomes particularly useful, that source is noted to emphasize credibility.
In fact, you may rest assured that the Sundance, et.al. research is being meticulously time-lined and searched for both discrepancies and leads. Somebody on the staff of “X” knows the CTH data as thoroughly as anyone else does. Would-be authors alone are scraping up every scrap of detail they find on the CTH.
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No matter what Mueller says he can’t change his report and he himself insisted the report is his testimony.
He can’t make anything worse. There’s no there, there.
His own report concludes…
“While we cannot conclude the President committed a crime, neither can we exonerate him.”
How is that any different than:
NOT GUILTY BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT?
Answer: It Isn’t.
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I wish someone would ask Mueller the following:
Who asked you and why did you transport the U1 sample to Russia?
Do you know Dennis Montgomery and we’re you aware of him spying on Americans using the Hamr Program?
Why did your team not confiscate and personally examine the DNC server?
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The “ Gang of Eight “ in this article has one real American,Devin ! The other seven belong in jail !
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I am still angry that Rosenrat is allowed to slip away with no consequences. Creating an obstruction case against a duly elected President is basically a coup to remove him from office and is treason! Sure he shut down the Mueller fiasco but that should not excuse prior acts😠
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May be on the shelf with an immunity deal…it could happen!
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Another question is……
Did you know and chose to participate in a made up scheme/plot to try and take down a sitting President? Yes or No
The answer will obviously be no and then when Barr proves this whole operation was a fraud, bingo we should get instantly a criminal indictment.
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Great work again, Sundance!
Fox News — WHERE ARE YOU? This truly blockbuster story should be all over — dominating — your 6 PM news.
I wish to add that IMO Mueller’s (pre-planned) reason for “forgetting” to retrieve “his” cellphone was the hope that President Trump would “find” it and then erase its contents and/or destroy it (or have someone else do that). Think Rosemary Woods. Then the plotters would have, in their view, an obstruction case even if POTUS said nothing they could characterize as incriminating.
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dw…..”I’m sorry, fox news is not available right now, but if you leave a message….’ Presently indisposed…having lunch with cnn.
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How many elected officials were in on the obstruction BS case being built by RR, McCabe and Mueller? Apparently Paul Ryan was because he sidelined Deven Nunes for a year. Now Pelosi, Nadler and gang are all in for impeachment. When obstruction didn’t
work move on to impeachment. I think a lot of Congress and Senate were in on the ground floor.
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Bingo
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Bingo
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Muellers does not like being supervised and he does not answer questions regarding prosecutorial process in the past.
After his Report was furnished to AG Barr and Barr provided his conclusions in a summary shortly thereafter, Mueller wrote Barr to have his own summaries released, this letter was leaked to press. First sign Mueller wanted to his cake and eat it too.
Next Mueller provided a 9 minute and 30 second summary of his Report, without questions, stating clearly the Report was based on OLC guidelines when he had repeatedly told Barr it was not. A “clarification” was issued hours later and signed by both Mueller and DOJ. This is strike two.
I believe Barr will have a number of attorneys from FBI and DOJ right behind Mueller correcting him as he provides answers. He knows Mueller has his own interests here and is either a liar or dumb and being played by Weissman and others.
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My sincere wish is the attorney behind him is Barr. If Barr is going to do anything and believes in Justice, he will sit there and say “G’head, Herr Mueller, say that in front of me.”
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Thinking Head Clown says very little.
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Treepers are the BEST! And all these proposed lines of questioning are the bomb-diggity.
But, alas…
Muellers’ little “press conference” was his love letter to the Dems, and a statement to the rest of us: this is ALL you’re gonna get from me, I ain’t got anything else for ya. So he can say, along with everybody else, “well, I’ve already told you…” Blah blah blah. It was a loud and clear signal so he could hopefully minimize expectations on all sides.
The only way he can get squeezed is through the GJ process or if someone flips on him.
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My question to him. In writing the Special Counsel’s report you stated the DNC computer hacks were done by Russians. Yet the FBI never looked at their computers. And the FBI did not look at the data from the Crowdstrike report. On such a highly important manner, a matter that controls the entire investigation, how can you take the word of a firm paid for by the Democrats who were pushing for this narrative?
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that list of questions is dynamite. i’m throwing that up to trump, parscale, jordan, collins, and gaetz.
its so [] obvious.
[left out cuss word]
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My vote is for John Ratcliffe and Jim Jordan.
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Another Question I would Ask Robert Mueller:
Mr. Muller, either before or after your appointment as Special Counsel, were you given a list of names, either in writing or verbally, of the people you were recommended to hire in the Special Counsel’s investigation? Please list every person who gave you a suggestion or recommendation, the date they gave you these recommendations and the names of the people suggested that you hire.
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the SC team was in place prior to Mueller’s hiring
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That’s the point Bryan is making. This isnt Mueller’s team. This is Team Comey/Page/Strzok/McCabe/Rosenstein’s team.
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missed it………..sorry
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Dershowitz assumes this to be a fair open testimony with cross examination.
But it won’t be. It took a month of negotiation and then timing just before POTUS goes to G20 to meet foreign leaders to announce the testimony in a unique format in a months time.
One should expect Mueller to have limited the questioning. I expect there to be no questions on process or personnel. We know Mueller has never accepted those types of questions.
I also expect Barr will have both DOJ and FBI lawyers there, just behind Mueller, to keep his testimony on the rails and not effect other trials still taking place.
The one Russian case being litigated for a year, Concord Management, has the best defense team in this whole Mueller mess. They have already pounced on the Mueller Report and have made very good arguments as to their case. Like, no chargeable statute.
Curiously, the one Russian person/entity defending itself in Court is not seen to the end by Mueller?
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