Representative Jim Jordan discusses his perspective on the last minute addition of Aaron Zebley to protect the collective interests of the DOJ/FBI small group and coup-plotters.
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It’s worth noting how the DOJ quickly promoted Aaron Zebley to the position of “Deputy Special Counsel” just yesterday to afford: (1) increased justification; and (2) enhanced credibility, for their narrative.
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Zebley is going to eat up the 5 minutes of each house republican and probably has rehearsed soundbites. Total farce.
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Each Republican member, in turn: “I yield 5 minutes to the Gentleman from Ohio, Mr. Jordan.”
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I think Ratcliffe…who IS actually a prosecutor…might be a better choice. More questions, less drama.
It would make for some serious popcorn.
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Ratcliffe will be a great Attorney General one day. Jim Jordan rocks too. These guys do what is right for the country first!
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Apparently, Aaron will not be allowed to testify…so loudly filibustering their collusion would be de rigur!
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Muller can eat up time by just turning and looking at Zebley
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True. It now is uncertain which committee is offering what.
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Count on them trying to do that, at least. Or saying, “Let me confer with my colleague,” and so on.
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Exactly my conclusion while reading this.
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“It’s worth noting how the DOJ quickly promoted Aaron Zebley to the position of “Deputy Special Counsel” just yesterday to afford: (1) increased justification; and (2) enhanced credibility, for their narrative.”
How the Hell can there be a Deputy Special Counsel…if the office of the Special Counsel has been shut down?
Calling AG Barr? I really hope you are just standing back to let the idiots hang themselves.
Really hope so.
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This stuff is getting old. Call me when the “Big Ugly” stands up again. Here we go again tripping along for another election. It got them the House last time and almost the Senate.
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He was promoted “in name only” for show.
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The Office of Special Counsel is a thing. I am not aware of the positions and ranks within, but I’m pretty certain this clown wasn’t appointed as part of the defunct Mueller “investigation.” Just more theatrics.
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Zebley apparently goes back a long way. Was in the counter-terrorism group until September 10, 2001.
Crazy, huh?
https://www.9news.com.au/world/the-dream-team-tasked-with-taking-down-donald-trump/4af884b3-099b-4702-8765-38dc4b5cffa4
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Spooky.
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I think worse.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/964965772320677888.html
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Promoted?
“Deputy Special Counsel”?
Federal personnel actions require that form SF50 be filed and a copy sent to the employee for all personnel actions.
AG Barr, Doug Collins, Jim Jordan, Justice Watch, etc. etc should request a copy of Zebley’s SF-50.
America deserves to know whose authority and when was this new position created then filled.
Odds are, corrupt Zebley may have acted like a Deputy Special Counsel when Mueller was off sampling drinks, but I doubt they could create that position in secret.
Now that they know Mueller is a liability under Congressional questioning; they want slick zero Zebley to do all of the answering.
The promised Mueller Congressional testimony is another fraudulent bait and switch democrat circus so they can level false accusations by Peloser, shifface, Weissman and now Zebley.
Republicans should consider walking out on this farce.
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Especially with Zebley’s career history.
Note the date he left the counter-terrorism unit.
https://www.9news.com.au/world/the-dream-team-tasked-with-taking-down-donald-trump/4af884b3-099b-4702-8765-38dc4b5cffa4
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Standing back and letting the idiots hang themselves… like Jeff Seesions did?
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Zebley is not going to be sworn in, so he can spew lies and innuendo that will be echoed by the corrupt media.
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He can’t be asked questions or respond. Anything he “says” has to be voiced by Mueller, who IS under oath.
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The puppeteer, in full. He ought to dress like a Ninja — all in black — like those puppeteers in Bunraku, the Japanese puppet theater.
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You mean like antifa?
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Perhaps Antifa wears their puppeteer’s uniform.
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I think Zelby is there because Mueller had no idea what was going on when he was special council. He is addled and needs a caregiver. But we will see.
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Since they spent 2 years building Mueller up as some sort of super hero I’m not sure the Zebley thing is going to work. I like Jordan’s attitude of just proceeding as planned to question Mueller. If Mueller has to consult or try to let Zebley answer for him it really only continues to destroy the stoic Mueller hero angle they worked so hard to build.
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Mueller cannot let Zebley answer. Mueller has to do the talking.
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Louie Gohmert sent a raging e-mail about Mueller, making him out to be the ringleader of the coup, asking for donations to fight him. Why would it require money? Rhetorical question of course, but I did enjoy the rage-tone of the letter.
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This doesn’t look like a big enough fraud on the American people…..Better call in Hillary’s bathroom server lawyer.
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What’s to keep the GOP committee members from pressing Mueller to provide answers independently, without “assistance” from Zebley? Ask Mueller, then halt any inputs from Zebley. If Mueller cannot provide the answers, it shows the man as a tool/figurehead. Don’t give Zebley the opportunity to make any inputs.
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How about bringing in an actual sports timekeeper who will add up the minutes that Mueller “consults” with Zitney and ensures that each member’s 5 minutes are not shortened by those diversions. “Delay of game penalty” is another possibility.
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Wouldn’t it be great if Ratcliff or Jordan asked Mueller why the Weiner laptop wasn’t part of his investigation?
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I really only have one question for the gentleman sent to keep the hand puppet Mueller from embarrassing himself over much; latex or nitrile?
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So Mueller will be a literal puppet for Zebley. What a pitiful, old tool Bob Mueller is.
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Indeed, a man — any man who was still a man in this feminized culture — wouldn’t tolerate being treated like Mueller is being treated.
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So why did the DoJ do this? Between this and the guidelines Mueller requested they complied with, are there still people who think Barr is cleaning it up? Those guidelines were protection for Mueller. More proof Trump is not a dictator. Sigh.
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It’s obvious these 2 great Americans had not seen the 2nd surprise on the day before the hearing–Pelosi’s “Mueller Blitz” media release yet.
The Blitz has several “screeching” All Caps headlines and several underlined condemnatory attacks but one important thing it doesn’t have is one indictable fact. It’s just a contrived political hit job written by high priced lawyers using jargon likely to fool the gullible which is hopefully a small minority of Americans. However, it’s very fortunate, the Republicans won the Senate.
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Why even try ?
Why extend to ~6 hours of testimony when no testimony was preferred to be given ?
In 6 hours one can pick and choose any nicely sounding bite desired.
The witness can now be advised on any question that is needed.
All they need is ~ 1 minute or less of good sound.
How does one counter this ?
It’s tough.
And fruitless as few are watching anyway.
But the way one makes the best of it is to make a louder bang than any other.
Make noise. Clear, poignant, and searing noise. Don’t expect answers.
They may just be forced to air it.
Go big or go home.
On the plus side, as long as it’s not fouled up, there is nothing to lose.
It is a manifest fact this is defense.
They cannot unspin that.
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Mueller I think has some legal jeopardy. Hence the appearance of his counsel at his side. The concern of Zebley contributing to stalling underscores the apparent legal risks Mueller faces. Stalling is a tactic to buy time to organize a proper defense. For what might you ask? How about sedition, obstruction of justice and fraud. Mueller is no choir boy folks.
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Yes Mueller wouldn’t want to accidentally commit perjury. Really bad things happen when you lie, right Bob?
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If he is sitting second chair, might it be to keep Mueller on point, ie, adhere to the report.
Is Barr trying to save the DOJ and FBI? Truly the corruption at these institutions stink to high heaven.
Perhaps with the thought that with most of the corruption gone, Barr is trying to clean it up, return it to respectability.
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Some of the corruption may be gone, but I doubt all of it is or, sadly, will be. And those that are gone won’t be truly gone until they’re on jail.
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This must be an AG Barr sting operation of some sort. Way above my pay grade.
But why would President Trump’s prime Swamp Drainer promote this guy to Deputy Special Counsel at the last minute to protect Mueller?
What is Barr’s Swamp Draining plan with this move. The man is many steps ahead of me on his Swamp Draining.
So far ahead I can’t even make out what he’s actually doing.
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Gomert’s e-mail does, in fact, indict Mueller for several past nefarious deeds. No choir boy, INDEED! But it’s all bluster, without solid proof. Recall Mueller was originally billed as a Republican; the ONLY Republican on the Investigation staff.
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Mueller cant operate without a handler, which was obvious from his 9-minute crap-spray performance. Weissman would be too obvious.
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It’s why VSG POTUS TRUMP turned him down for the position of FBI Director. He recognized immediately that he was an empty suit, well past his prime.
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Is this another attempt to distract? And the wheels on the bus go round and round…and around.
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Zebley is there to tell Mueller what’s in the report as questions are asked. If you watch Jordan question Mueller over the IRS investigation, you see firsthand how incompetent Mueller is. The clown is cluless. Hence the declaration that he will only repeat what’s in the report, and Zebley will tell Mueller what’s in the report as they go along.
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One has to wonder what is hanging over Mr. Mueller’s head that would force him to testify look like a clown in the first place.
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testify
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One more time!
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Desperate democrats trying to revive their political base. Bob never thought he’d have to answer questions. He was just a figurehead pulling in money as Weissman and the cabal did their dirty.
The wonder here, is that Trump, a New York real estate guy, is so clean. If he wasn’t, these guys would’ve brought him down. But it seriously is time to get Comey and the deep state that helped him, in front of a Grand Jury.
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They knew Mr. Handler, alleged “Deputy Special Counsel”, would be there from Day 1. This “last minute” announcement is for effect only. As Sundance says, to drum up outrage, and to give the American people the middle finger once again.
Personally, I think Mueller was always part of their insurance policy. He was just waiting in the wings for Comey to be fired and then they would roll him out as the white hat who would save the day.
The good news is that any objective individual understands from Mueller’s own actions and inactions that he is not, nor was he ever, the lily-white choir boy the UNIParty made him out to be when they pushed the American Citizens into this ridiculous and outrageously expensive witch hunt, claiming we needed to get to the bottom of it. He didn’t even try to be objective, that is clear.
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I guess all those Dem practice sessions with Mueller ( even after the 2 week delay) didn’t go well at all and this is the emergency contingent plan – pathetic
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You know, everyone seems to have one or two questions that they’re just dying to hear Mueller be asked, tomorrow. I was immune to conjuring questions till earlier this evening, when I remembered Mueller (disingenuously and erroneously) declaring, ““If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”
I’d like for someone to ask Mueller to roughly estimate how many cases he’s tried, over the years– 50?; 500?; 2,000?; 5,000?; 10,000? The answer is irrelevant, but after he determines some number– ANY number– then, ask the SOB in how many of those cases did he have confidence that the defendant clearly did not commit a crime– And, Mueller will not be able to say even ‘one’.
Zero. In his 70+ years Mueller has never had confidence that the defendant clearly did not commit a crime. That takes some of the sting out of his ludicrous statement, that Lo-Fo voters may be valuing.
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Hot damn!! Representative John Ratcliffe asked my question this morning, and Mueller stuttered, stammered and finally said ‘he cannot name a precedent in which the Justice Department decided an individual was not exonerated because their innocence had not been proven…’
“Can you give me an example other than Donald Trump where the Justice Department determined that an investigated person was not exonerated because their innocence was not conclusively determined?” the Texas Republican asked.
“I cannot, but this is a unique situation,” Mueller responded.
“It doesn’t exist,” Ratcliffe continued. “Nowhere does it say that you were to conclusively determine Donald Trump’s innocence or that the special counsel report should determine whether or not to exonerate him. It’s not in any of the documents, it’s not in your appointment order, it’s not in any of the special counsel regulations, it’s not in the OLC opinions, it’s not in the Justice manual, and it’s not in the principles of federal prosecution.”
Well, that was fun, but I don’t think I’m gonna go to Law School, this Fall… No offense to the attorneys here at The Treehouse, but I promised The Lord I’d use my mind for good; not evil 😉 My younger brother’s the attorney in the family, and our father discouraged us kids from going into the same field of study, as one another…
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/robert-mueller-says-he-cannot-name-another-case-where-doj-required-proof-of-innocence/
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Jerry Nadler is Going to Have a Meltdown When He Finds Out Mueller Requested Barr Limit His Testimony
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2019/07/23/jerry-nadler-is-going-to-have-a-meltdown-when-he-finds-out-mueller-requested-barr-limit-his-testimony-n2550490
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Judas Obama had his teleprompter and Mueller has his deep state organ grinder. Dance to the scripted tune and let’s get this Kabuki theatre production over with. We have a country to save.
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My personal opinion is Mr Mueller may be suffering from dementia, which would explain his being accompanied today by Mr Zebley.
Also, I now believe it is the intention of the DOJ to “run out the clock” on any serious investigations of related actions taken by the Obama Administration during 2015-16.
In support of this contention, I would cite the lack of any hearings on this subject being held by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
(Why this is, I’m not sure. But a logical inference would be that senior Republicans were somehow involved as well.)
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Zelby was clearly an addition to the hearing to provide baby sitting services to Mueller. I don’t know why Republicans let him get away with answers like “I wont answer that.”
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Aaron Zebley was present at the secret court hearing on January 22, 2018 related to the Comey memos that the Mueller team sought to keep secret.
Transcript at link.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5992989-CNN-Comey-Memos-ICEP-Proffer-Transcript.html#document/p1
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The picture at the link is interesting of Zebley helping Mueller at yesterday’s hearing find material in the report.
Who Wrote the Mueller Report?
GOPUSA StaffRaheem Kassam, Human Events POSTED ON 7:35 AM JULY 25, 2019
http://www.gopusa.com/who-wrote-the-mueller-report/
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Quarles and Zebley were announced to be coming with Mueller the same day Mueller was announced as special counsel. Rosenstein hired them all.
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller Appointed To Lead Russia Inquiry
May 17, 2017
https://www.npr.org/2017/05/17/528861791/former-fbi-director-robert-mueller-appointed-to-lead-russia-inquiry
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JOHNSON: Yeah. He’s bringing along Aaron Zebley, who worked closely with Mueller as – at the FBI and a guy named James Quarles, who had been at the WilmerHale law firm for a long time. Earlier in his career, Ari, he was a Watergate prosecutor, of all things.
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