Aides Say Mueller Is An Asshole And A Screwup

[eddiew37]

Robert Mueller is the kind of person that can't admit when he screwed up, aides say. Robert Mueller can’t own up to his mistakes, aides say

November 26, 2017
Carlos Ballesteros

Robert Mueller, special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election, is a “gruff guy” who routinely undermined his subordinates and evaded responsibility as head of the FBI, according to several former aides and investigators who worked with Mueller interviewed by the Los Angeles Times.

​

In a lengthy profile published on Friday, the Times dredged up some of Mueller’s most difficult moments throughout his career as government prosecutor and as the sixth director of the FBI, a post he maintained from 2001 until 2013.

Those interviewed criticized Mueller’s handling of many high-profile cases stretching back to 1979, his temperament with government witnesses, and for directing his subordinates at the FBI to shield him from criticism.

One former aide went so far as to say that Mueller is “someone that can’t accept the fact that he screwed up.”


The Times profile begins by focusing on Mueller’s tenure at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where he was criticized for mishandling high-profile cases and for his treatment of government witnesses and subordinates.

The first of these cases took place in 1979, when Mueller, as head of the U.S. attorney’s special prosecutors unit, took over the case against 33 members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club charged with drug trafficking, murder, and bombings. The first trial, which sought to imprison 18 of the accused members, was unsuccessful, as the five convictions reached in the case were overturned on appeal.

Mueller then took over the case and lead a team of four prosecutors in the second trial with 11 eleven defendants. However, as reported by the Times, “after four months, the jury said it was deadlocked, and the judge declared a mistrial. Mueller decided not to ask for a retrial.”

Mueller then transferred to the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston where he oversaw cases against Panamanian president Manuel Noriega, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, and head of the Gambino crime family, John Gotti.

However, his success was marked by a disdain from some of his subordinates. As noted by the Times, Mueller sparked resentment “when he referred privately to reassigning career lawyers as ‘moving the furniture.’”

After a short stint in private practice, Mueller returned to public service as a homicide prosecutor in Washington, D.C. in 1995, where Mueller reportedly had a tough time forging relationships with victims, suspects, and government witnesses and was charged with being cold and unsympathetic.


"He was a gruff guy, and a lot of times, there wasn't much warmth or ability to really build a bond or connect with a victim-witness," one of Mueller’s fellow investigators told the Times. "There's times when you've got to bond with the suspect to get what you need. His personality wasn't necessarily the best for that."

Mueller was also criticized for his time as head of the FBI. He led the investigation into the deadly anthrax attacks in the years after 9/11 for nearly seven years, ultimately leading in the prosecution of the wrong suspect, who later successfully sued the government for $5.8 million.

After agents successfully traced back the anthrax to an Army microbiologist who committed suicide once he was informed of the impending charges, Mueller “was reluctant to publicly address the missteps” in the case.

"I think he was personally embarrassed," a former aide told the Times. "I would assess him as someone that can't accept the fact that he screwed up."

Later, as director of the FBI, Mueller instructed his staff to protect him from the agency’s oversight division, according to former colleagues interviewed by the Times.

Most notably, Mueller is charged with scrapping a highly-critical review of his Directorate of Intelligence, a unit that he had created at the FBI to investigate terrorism more effectively.

After an internal inspection reported that Mueller should “set [the unit] on fire and start from scratch,” his top aides decided to protect the director at all costs by hiding the report from the Justice Department’s inspector general.

“It was, ‘The director will get skewered. We've got to protect him, and we can't issue this,’” a former official told the Times. “Anywhere it said ‘inspection,’ they changed it to ‘review.’ And said this was a review, not an inspection, and therefore they didn't have to issue it to … the inspector general.”

Lastly, the Times article delves into Mueller’s unsuccessful attempt at negotiating with Russian officials to turn over Edward Snowden in 2013.

According to a former official, Mueller would call his Russian counterpart, Alexander Bortnikov, “starting at 3 a.m. in Washington” every day for at least a week, “begging to talk to the guy.” Bortnikov reportedly never answered the phone, and Snowden was granted asylum in Russia soon after.

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BRI jc Blues and ice are NOT his aides

 

[Reasonable]

So a career government employee who couldn't hack it in the real world, got it.

Still dwelling in the bottom of the barrel I see.

Bob Mueller is a graduate of Princeton University, Mueller served as a Marine Corps officer during the Vietnam War, receiving the Bronze Star Medalwith Combat "V" for heroism and the Purple Heart Medal. After graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1973, he worked at a private firm in San Francisco for three years until his appointment as an assistant U.S. Attorney in the same city. Prior to his appointment as FBI director, Mueller served as a United States Attorney, as assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division and as acting deputy attorney general.

He earned a reputation as a no-nonsense, straitlaced attorney and investigator.[3][4][5]Lauded for his non-partisan and non-political approach, he has been credited with transforming the FBI from an agency primarily focused on law enforcement into one of the world's top organizations handling counterespionage and counterterrorism.[6]

In May 2017, Mueller was appointed by the Justice Department as special counseloverseeing an ongoing investigation into alleged foreign electoral intervention by Russia in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

You obviously failed to read the thread, apparently the guy is a douchebag.

No the problem is you believe everything you read.

 

[jc456]

Scooter Libby didn't fall on anything - he was indicted for giving false statements. He was tripped up in questioning. The comments for which he was charged had nothing to do with Bush....MUCH like how the 2 indictments Mueller have don't have anything to do with Trump.

Quite the contrary... if Scooter said he outed Plame on the orders of Bush or Cheney, they'd have been in serious trouble. But he fell on his sword, took all the blame himself after trying to lie his way out of it, and Bush commuted his sentence. (Cheney was upset Bush didn't give him a full pardon.)

Don't see Manafort or Flynn taking one for the team like that.

why would they? nothing to do with trump.

 

[Reasonable]

The Russian collusion conspiracy is one of the craziest smears the Dirty Democrats have ever come up with and the worst part about it is that the Press plays along with it.

Where are you posting from? Greenland?

1. No Evidence A Crime of 'Collusion' Ever Happened.
-- 'There is no such criminal act / law regarding 'Collusion'. .

2. No Evidence A Crime Involving Trump Happened.

3. No Evidence Trump Was Involved In the 'Non-Crime'

4. Evidence Exists Showing Conflict Of Interest Of Entire Special Counsel Team

5. Evidence Exists That Lead Special Counsel is an a$$hole, that Lead Counsel is a F*-up - having 'blown the biggest terrorist case since 9/11', and that Lead Counsel collaborated with then US AG Eric holder and then President Barak Obama to hide Russian crimes of bribery, extortion, intimidation, 'buying politicians (like Hillary), and yet hit the evidence until after the Uranium One deal went through.

6. The only indictments Mueller have are 2 tax evasion charges dating back to 2006 / 2009?! There is an additional 'indictment' of a Mueller / Obama-plant who was caught wearing a wire and who was shopping a book deal weeks before 'indicted'.

7. Having found ZERO crimes involving Trump and ZERO evidence against Trump, Mueller has abandoned his 'Russian Interference / Russian Collusion' tasking to investigate non-crimes in Israel and a documentary regarding an exiled Turkish Cleric ... none of which have anything to do with President Trump.

8. The media just reported Mueller has a history of being a f*-up as a prosecutor, and he was Comey's mentor ... which explains why Comey has been / is such a f*-up

9. The media is reporting that Mueller's Counsel is not leaking like a sieve...mostly about how he has nothing, is a f*-up, and how he has 'wandered off the reservation' in his witch hunt...

10. Mueller and his Counsel have undermined and sabotaged their own investigation from the very start, stacking the deck - making it look like a witch hunt from the start.


Mueller, his Counsel, and the DNC's entire witch hunt is now a PUBLIC joke...they are a laughing stock...and everyone knows it - but snowflakes refuse to admit it - THERE IS NOTHING THERE, THIS IS A WITCH HUNT, AND NOTHING MORE THAN 1 OR 2 'SCOOTED LIBBY' INDICTMENTS WILL HAPPEN.

You left out Obama being born in Kenya.

he was, glad you found out.

So we can add birther to your resume that includes never thinking trump told a lie.

 

[jc456]

So a career government employee who couldn't hack it in the real world, got it.

Still dwelling in the bottom of the barrel I see.

Bob Mueller is a graduate of Princeton University, Mueller served as a Marine Corps officer during the Vietnam War, receiving the Bronze Star Medalwith Combat "V" for heroism and the Purple Heart Medal. After graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1973, he worked at a private firm in San Francisco for three years until his appointment as an assistant U.S. Attorney in the same city. Prior to his appointment as FBI director, Mueller served as a United States Attorney, as assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division and as acting deputy attorney general.

He earned a reputation as a no-nonsense, straitlaced attorney and investigator.[3][4][5]Lauded for his non-partisan and non-political approach, he has been credited with transforming the FBI from an agency primarily focused on law enforcement into one of the world's top organizations handling counterespionage and counterterrorism.[6]

In May 2017, Mueller was appointed by the Justice Department as special counseloverseeing an ongoing investigation into alleged foreign electoral intervention by Russia in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

You obviously failed to read the thread, apparently the guy is a douchebag.

No the problem is you believe everything you read.

dude crack me the fk up. can you say irony?

 

[Reasonable]

Scooter Libby didn't fall on anything - he was indicted for giving false statements. He was tripped up in questioning. The comments for which he was charged had nothing to do with Bush....MUCH like how the 2 indictments Mueller have don't have anything to do with Trump.

Quite the contrary... if Scooter said he outed Plame on the orders of Bush or Cheney, they'd have been in serious trouble. But he fell on his sword, took all the blame himself after trying to lie his way out of it, and Bush commuted his sentence. (Cheney was upset Bush didn't give him a full pardon.)

Don't see Manafort or Flynn taking one for the team like that.

why would they? nothing to do with trump.

Who hired Manafort?

 

[jc456]

The Russian collusion conspiracy is one of the craziest smears the Dirty Democrats have ever come up with and the worst part about it is that the Press plays along with it.

Where are you posting from? Greenland?

1. No Evidence A Crime of 'Collusion' Ever Happened.
-- 'There is no such criminal act / law regarding 'Collusion'. .

2. No Evidence A Crime Involving Trump Happened.

3. No Evidence Trump Was Involved In the 'Non-Crime'

4. Evidence Exists Showing Conflict Of Interest Of Entire Special Counsel Team

5. Evidence Exists That Lead Special Counsel is an a$$hole, that Lead Counsel is a F*-up - having 'blown the biggest terrorist case since 9/11', and that Lead Counsel collaborated with then US AG Eric holder and then President Barak Obama to hide Russian crimes of bribery, extortion, intimidation, 'buying politicians (like Hillary), and yet hit the evidence until after the Uranium One deal went through.

6. The only indictments Mueller have are 2 tax evasion charges dating back to 2006 / 2009?! There is an additional 'indictment' of a Mueller / Obama-plant who was caught wearing a wire and who was shopping a book deal weeks before 'indicted'.

7. Having found ZERO crimes involving Trump and ZERO evidence against Trump, Mueller has abandoned his 'Russian Interference / Russian Collusion' tasking to investigate non-crimes in Israel and a documentary regarding an exiled Turkish Cleric ... none of which have anything to do with President Trump.

8. The media just reported Mueller has a history of being a f*-up as a prosecutor, and he was Comey's mentor ... which explains why Comey has been / is such a f*-up

9. The media is reporting that Mueller's Counsel is not leaking like a sieve...mostly about how he has nothing, is a f*-up, and how he has 'wandered off the reservation' in his witch hunt...

10. Mueller and his Counsel have undermined and sabotaged their own investigation from the very start, stacking the deck - making it look like a witch hunt from the start.


Mueller, his Counsel, and the DNC's entire witch hunt is now a PUBLIC joke...they are a laughing stock...and everyone knows it - but snowflakes refuse to admit it - THERE IS NOTHING THERE, THIS IS A WITCH HUNT, AND NOTHING MORE THAN 1 OR 2 'SCOOTED LIBBY' INDICTMENTS WILL HAPPEN.

You left out Obama being born in Kenya.

he was, glad you found out.

So we can add birther to your resume that includes never thinking trump told a lie.

it came from the clinton's . Trump merely stayed on them. so you're in error yet again.

 

[g5000]

Robert Mueller, special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election, is a “gruff guy” who routinely undermined his subordinates and evaded responsibility as head of the FBI, according to several former aides and investigators who worked with Mueller interviewed by the Los Angeles Times.

​

I'm tired of all of this anonymous bullcrap.

 

[jc456]

Scooter Libby didn't fall on anything - he was indicted for giving false statements. He was tripped up in questioning. The comments for which he was charged had nothing to do with Bush....MUCH like how the 2 indictments Mueller have don't have anything to do with Trump.

Quite the contrary... if Scooter said he outed Plame on the orders of Bush or Cheney, they'd have been in serious trouble. But he fell on his sword, took all the blame himself after trying to lie his way out of it, and Bush commuted his sentence. (Cheney was upset Bush didn't give him a full pardon.)

Don't see Manafort or Flynn taking one for the team like that.

why would they? nothing to do with trump.

Who hired Manafort?

Podesta Group. what was the indictment for?

 

[Reasonable]

Poor stubborn snowflake, I sympathize with you....just having gotten over Gore losing to Bush, now you suffer another historic, mind0numbing loss that will take you several more decades to get over...

Uh, dude, I voted for Bush in 2000. Then he actually took office, and I found myself with an underwater mortgage and a busted 401K.

The mindnumbing loss is going to be the recession we are going to get because of Trump's gross incompetence.

Funny, we bought our dream home in 2001 and our 401k did great. Then Obama hit, our 401k tanked and we had to sell our dream home and move to something smaller due to a sinking economy and my banker wife getting laid off after 22 years. Thanks for going after the banks Obama and ruining our retirement.

Idiot forgets the recession was during bush’s term.

 

[Lewdog]

The Raw Story? I seriously would like to know where the fuck you guys get some of these sites.

I have to quit clicking on them, and now some of these hack sites are showing up on my Yahoo feed that never did before.

 

[jc456]

Robert Mueller is the kind of person that can't admit when he screwed up, aides say. Robert Mueller can’t own up to his mistakes, aides say

November 26, 2017
Carlos Ballesteros

Robert Mueller, special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election, is a “gruff guy” who routinely undermined his subordinates and evaded responsibility as head of the FBI, according to several former aides and investigators who worked with Mueller interviewed by the Los Angeles Times.

​

In a lengthy profile published on Friday, the Times dredged up some of Mueller’s most difficult moments throughout his career as government prosecutor and as the sixth director of the FBI, a post he maintained from 2001 until 2013.

Those interviewed criticized Mueller’s handling of many high-profile cases stretching back to 1979, his temperament with government witnesses, and for directing his subordinates at the FBI to shield him from criticism.

One former aide went so far as to say that Mueller is “someone that can’t accept the fact that he screwed up.”


The Times profile begins by focusing on Mueller’s tenure at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where he was criticized for mishandling high-profile cases and for his treatment of government witnesses and subordinates.

The first of these cases took place in 1979, when Mueller, as head of the U.S. attorney’s special prosecutors unit, took over the case against 33 members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club charged with drug trafficking, murder, and bombings. The first trial, which sought to imprison 18 of the accused members, was unsuccessful, as the five convictions reached in the case were overturned on appeal.

Mueller then took over the case and lead a team of four prosecutors in the second trial with 11 eleven defendants. However, as reported by the Times, “after four months, the jury said it was deadlocked, and the judge declared a mistrial. Mueller decided not to ask for a retrial.”

Mueller then transferred to the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston where he oversaw cases against Panamanian president Manuel Noriega, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, and head of the Gambino crime family, John Gotti.

However, his success was marked by a disdain from some of his subordinates. As noted by the Times, Mueller sparked resentment “when he referred privately to reassigning career lawyers as ‘moving the furniture.’”

After a short stint in private practice, Mueller returned to public service as a homicide prosecutor in Washington, D.C. in 1995, where Mueller reportedly had a tough time forging relationships with victims, suspects, and government witnesses and was charged with being cold and unsympathetic.


"He was a gruff guy, and a lot of times, there wasn't much warmth or ability to really build a bond or connect with a victim-witness," one of Mueller’s fellow investigators told the Times. "There's times when you've got to bond with the suspect to get what you need. His personality wasn't necessarily the best for that."

Mueller was also criticized for his time as head of the FBI. He led the investigation into the deadly anthrax attacks in the years after 9/11 for nearly seven years, ultimately leading in the prosecution of the wrong suspect, who later successfully sued the government for $5.8 million.

After agents successfully traced back the anthrax to an Army microbiologist who committed suicide once he was informed of the impending charges, Mueller “was reluctant to publicly address the missteps” in the case.

"I think he was personally embarrassed," a former aide told the Times. "I would assess him as someone that can't accept the fact that he screwed up."

Later, as director of the FBI, Mueller instructed his staff to protect him from the agency’s oversight division, according to former colleagues interviewed by the Times.

Most notably, Mueller is charged with scrapping a highly-critical review of his Directorate of Intelligence, a unit that he had created at the FBI to investigate terrorism more effectively.

After an internal inspection reported that Mueller should “set [the unit] on fire and start from scratch,” his top aides decided to protect the director at all costs by hiding the report from the Justice Department’s inspector general.

“It was, ‘The director will get skewered. We've got to protect him, and we can't issue this,’” a former official told the Times. “Anywhere it said ‘inspection,’ they changed it to ‘review.’ And said this was a review, not an inspection, and therefore they didn't have to issue it to … the inspector general.”

Lastly, the Times article delves into Mueller’s unsuccessful attempt at negotiating with Russian officials to turn over Edward Snowden in 2013.

According to a former official, Mueller would call his Russian counterpart, Alexander Bortnikov, “starting at 3 a.m. in Washington” every day for at least a week, “begging to talk to the guy.” Bortnikov reportedly never answered the phone, and Snowden was granted asylum in Russia soon after.

​

BRI jc Blues and ice are NOT his aides

oh if were to comment on the jack ass, he is merely an incompetent old fk.

 

[jc456]

Poor stubborn snowflake, I sympathize with you....just having gotten over Gore losing to Bush, now you suffer another historic, mind0numbing loss that will take you several more decades to get over...

Uh, dude, I voted for Bush in 2000. Then he actually took office, and I found myself with an underwater mortgage and a busted 401K.

The mindnumbing loss is going to be the recession we are going to get because of Trump's gross incompetence.

Funny, we bought our dream home in 2001 and our 401k did great. Then Obama hit, our 401k tanked and we had to sell our dream home and move to something smaller due to a sinking economy and my banker wife getting laid off after 22 years. Thanks for going after the banks Obama and ruining our retirement.

Idiot forgets the recession was during bush’s term.

then what did obummer inherit? you lost me.

 

[Lewdog]

Before this investigation Mueller was well respected by EVERYONE... and now all of a sudden these fucked up sites out of no where are posting stories to discredit him. It's a joke.

 

[Reasonable]

Scooter Libby didn't fall on anything - he was indicted for giving false statements. He was tripped up in questioning. The comments for which he was charged had nothing to do with Bush....MUCH like how the 2 indictments Mueller have don't have anything to do with Trump.

Quite the contrary... if Scooter said he outed Plame on the orders of Bush or Cheney, they'd have been in serious trouble. But he fell on his sword, took all the blame himself after trying to lie his way out of it, and Bush commuted his sentence. (Cheney was upset Bush didn't give him a full pardon.)

Don't see Manafort or Flynn taking one for the team like that.

why would they? nothing to do with trump.

Who hired Manafort?

Podesta Group. what was the indictment for?

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
^^ thinks Podesta hired Trump’s campaign manager..

 

[Pete7469]

Robert Mueller is the kind of person that can't admit when he screwed up, aides say. Robert Mueller can’t own up to his mistakes, aides say

November 26, 2017
Carlos Ballesteros

Robert Mueller, special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election, is a “gruff guy” who routinely undermined his subordinates and evaded responsibility as head of the FBI, according to several former aides and investigators who worked with Mueller interviewed by the Los Angeles Times.

​

In a lengthy profile published on Friday, the Times dredged up some of Mueller’s most difficult moments throughout his career as government prosecutor and as the sixth director of the FBI, a post he maintained from 2001 until 2013.

Those interviewed criticized Mueller’s handling of many high-profile cases stretching back to 1979, his temperament with government witnesses, and for directing his subordinates at the FBI to shield him from criticism.

One former aide went so far as to say that Mueller is “someone that can’t accept the fact that he screwed up.”


The Times profile begins by focusing on Mueller’s tenure at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where he was criticized for mishandling high-profile cases and for his treatment of government witnesses and subordinates.

The first of these cases took place in 1979, when Mueller, as head of the U.S. attorney’s special prosecutors unit, took over the case against 33 members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club charged with drug trafficking, murder, and bombings. The first trial, which sought to imprison 18 of the accused members, was unsuccessful, as the five convictions reached in the case were overturned on appeal.

Mueller then took over the case and lead a team of four prosecutors in the second trial with 11 eleven defendants. However, as reported by the Times, “after four months, the jury said it was deadlocked, and the judge declared a mistrial. Mueller decided not to ask for a retrial.”

Mueller then transferred to the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston where he oversaw cases against Panamanian president Manuel Noriega, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, and head of the Gambino crime family, John Gotti.

However, his success was marked by a disdain from some of his subordinates. As noted by the Times, Mueller sparked resentment “when he referred privately to reassigning career lawyers as ‘moving the furniture.’”

After a short stint in private practice, Mueller returned to public service as a homicide prosecutor in Washington, D.C. in 1995, where Mueller reportedly had a tough time forging relationships with victims, suspects, and government witnesses and was charged with being cold and unsympathetic.


"He was a gruff guy, and a lot of times, there wasn't much warmth or ability to really build a bond or connect with a victim-witness," one of Mueller’s fellow investigators told the Times. "There's times when you've got to bond with the suspect to get what you need. His personality wasn't necessarily the best for that."

Mueller was also criticized for his time as head of the FBI. He led the investigation into the deadly anthrax attacks in the years after 9/11 for nearly seven years, ultimately leading in the prosecution of the wrong suspect, who later successfully sued the government for $5.8 million.

After agents successfully traced back the anthrax to an Army microbiologist who committed suicide once he was informed of the impending charges, Mueller “was reluctant to publicly address the missteps” in the case.

"I think he was personally embarrassed," a former aide told the Times. "I would assess him as someone that can't accept the fact that he screwed up."

Later, as director of the FBI, Mueller instructed his staff to protect him from the agency’s oversight division, according to former colleagues interviewed by the Times.

Most notably, Mueller is charged with scrapping a highly-critical review of his Directorate of Intelligence, a unit that he had created at the FBI to investigate terrorism more effectively.

After an internal inspection reported that Mueller should “set [the unit] on fire and start from scratch,” his top aides decided to protect the director at all costs by hiding the report from the Justice Department’s inspector general.

“It was, ‘The director will get skewered. We've got to protect him, and we can't issue this,’” a former official told the Times. “Anywhere it said ‘inspection,’ they changed it to ‘review.’ And said this was a review, not an inspection, and therefore they didn't have to issue it to … the inspector general.”

Lastly, the Times article delves into Mueller’s unsuccessful attempt at negotiating with Russian officials to turn over Edward Snowden in 2013.

According to a former official, Mueller would call his Russian counterpart, Alexander Bortnikov, “starting at 3 a.m. in Washington” every day for at least a week, “begging to talk to the guy.” Bortnikov reportedly never answered the phone, and Snowden was granted asylum in Russia soon after.

​

It is easy to throw someone under the bus when your name doesn't appear in the story.

I'm not discounting the LA Times sources here, just noting that I would respect them more if they didn't hide behind the cover of an anonymous source.

Totally agree. Any story from any source that can't name a source is suspect, even if you want to believe the story. I want to believe the story that Ruth Badger Ginsburg is legally dead, but a cyborg they get out of the fridge now and then. Someone will forget to turn the thermostat back on eventually.

 

[Reasonable]

JC is exactly the viewer Fox is looking for.

Where are you posting from? Greenland?

1. No Evidence A Crime of 'Collusion' Ever Happened.
-- 'There is no such criminal act / law regarding 'Collusion'. .

2. No Evidence A Crime Involving Trump Happened.

3. No Evidence Trump Was Involved In the 'Non-Crime'

4. Evidence Exists Showing Conflict Of Interest Of Entire Special Counsel Team

5. Evidence Exists That Lead Special Counsel is an a$$hole, that Lead Counsel is a F*-up - having 'blown the biggest terrorist case since 9/11', and that Lead Counsel collaborated with then US AG Eric holder and then President Barak Obama to hide Russian crimes of bribery, extortion, intimidation, 'buying politicians (like Hillary), and yet hit the evidence until after the Uranium One deal went through.

6. The only indictments Mueller have are 2 tax evasion charges dating back to 2006 / 2009?! There is an additional 'indictment' of a Mueller / Obama-plant who was caught wearing a wire and who was shopping a book deal weeks before 'indicted'.

7. Having found ZERO crimes involving Trump and ZERO evidence against Trump, Mueller has abandoned his 'Russian Interference / Russian Collusion' tasking to investigate non-crimes in Israel and a documentary regarding an exiled Turkish Cleric ... none of which have anything to do with President Trump.

8. The media just reported Mueller has a history of being a f*-up as a prosecutor, and he was Comey's mentor ... which explains why Comey has been / is such a f*-up

9. The media is reporting that Mueller's Counsel is not leaking like a sieve...mostly about how he has nothing, is a f*-up, and how he has 'wandered off the reservation' in his witch hunt...

10. Mueller and his Counsel have undermined and sabotaged their own investigation from the very start, stacking the deck - making it look like a witch hunt from the start.


Mueller, his Counsel, and the DNC's entire witch hunt is now a PUBLIC joke...they are a laughing stock...and everyone knows it - but snowflakes refuse to admit it - THERE IS NOTHING THERE, THIS IS A WITCH HUNT, AND NOTHING MORE THAN 1 OR 2 'SCOOTED LIBBY' INDICTMENTS WILL HAPPEN.

You left out Obama being born in Kenya.

he was, glad you found out.

So we can add birther to your resume that includes never thinking trump told a lie.

it came from the clinton's . Trump merely stayed on them. so you're in error yet again.

Lmao. A volunteer at the Clinton campaign wrote one email to another staff member bringing up that Obama was born in Kenya. WhenHillary found out about it she fired her immediately. Is there no conspiracy theory falsehood you won't believe?

 

[Reasonable]

Robert Mueller is the kind of person that can't admit when he screwed up, aides say. Robert Mueller can’t own up to his mistakes, aides say

November 26, 2017
Carlos Ballesteros

Robert Mueller, special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election, is a “gruff guy” who routinely undermined his subordinates and evaded responsibility as head of the FBI, according to several former aides and investigators who worked with Mueller interviewed by the Los Angeles Times.

​

In a lengthy profile published on Friday, the Times dredged up some of Mueller’s most difficult moments throughout his career as government prosecutor and as the sixth director of the FBI, a post he maintained from 2001 until 2013.

Those interviewed criticized Mueller’s handling of many high-profile cases stretching back to 1979, his temperament with government witnesses, and for directing his subordinates at the FBI to shield him from criticism.

One former aide went so far as to say that Mueller is “someone that can’t accept the fact that he screwed up.”


The Times profile begins by focusing on Mueller’s tenure at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where he was criticized for mishandling high-profile cases and for his treatment of government witnesses and subordinates.

The first of these cases took place in 1979, when Mueller, as head of the U.S. attorney’s special prosecutors unit, took over the case against 33 members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club charged with drug trafficking, murder, and bombings. The first trial, which sought to imprison 18 of the accused members, was unsuccessful, as the five convictions reached in the case were overturned on appeal.

Mueller then took over the case and lead a team of four prosecutors in the second trial with 11 eleven defendants. However, as reported by the Times, “after four months, the jury said it was deadlocked, and the judge declared a mistrial. Mueller decided not to ask for a retrial.”

Mueller then transferred to the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston where he oversaw cases against Panamanian president Manuel Noriega, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, and head of the Gambino crime family, John Gotti.

However, his success was marked by a disdain from some of his subordinates. As noted by the Times, Mueller sparked resentment “when he referred privately to reassigning career lawyers as ‘moving the furniture.’”

After a short stint in private practice, Mueller returned to public service as a homicide prosecutor in Washington, D.C. in 1995, where Mueller reportedly had a tough time forging relationships with victims, suspects, and government witnesses and was charged with being cold and unsympathetic.


"He was a gruff guy, and a lot of times, there wasn't much warmth or ability to really build a bond or connect with a victim-witness," one of Mueller’s fellow investigators told the Times. "There's times when you've got to bond with the suspect to get what you need. His personality wasn't necessarily the best for that."

Mueller was also criticized for his time as head of the FBI. He led the investigation into the deadly anthrax attacks in the years after 9/11 for nearly seven years, ultimately leading in the prosecution of the wrong suspect, who later successfully sued the government for $5.8 million.

After agents successfully traced back the anthrax to an Army microbiologist who committed suicide once he was informed of the impending charges, Mueller “was reluctant to publicly address the missteps” in the case.

"I think he was personally embarrassed," a former aide told the Times. "I would assess him as someone that can't accept the fact that he screwed up."

Later, as director of the FBI, Mueller instructed his staff to protect him from the agency’s oversight division, according to former colleagues interviewed by the Times.

Most notably, Mueller is charged with scrapping a highly-critical review of his Directorate of Intelligence, a unit that he had created at the FBI to investigate terrorism more effectively.

After an internal inspection reported that Mueller should “set [the unit] on fire and start from scratch,” his top aides decided to protect the director at all costs by hiding the report from the Justice Department’s inspector general.

“It was, ‘The director will get skewered. We've got to protect him, and we can't issue this,’” a former official told the Times. “Anywhere it said ‘inspection,’ they changed it to ‘review.’ And said this was a review, not an inspection, and therefore they didn't have to issue it to … the inspector general.”

Lastly, the Times article delves into Mueller’s unsuccessful attempt at negotiating with Russian officials to turn over Edward Snowden in 2013.

According to a former official, Mueller would call his Russian counterpart, Alexander Bortnikov, “starting at 3 a.m. in Washington” every day for at least a week, “begging to talk to the guy.” Bortnikov reportedly never answered the phone, and Snowden was granted asylum in Russia soon after.

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It is easy to throw someone under the bus when your name doesn't appear in the story.

I'm not discounting the LA Times sources here, just noting that I would respect them more if they didn't hide behind the cover of an anonymous source.

Totally agree. Any story from any source that can't name a source is suspect, even if you want to believe the story. I want to believe the story that Ruth Badger Ginsburg is legally dead, but a cyborg they get out of the fridge now and then. Someone will forget to turn the thermostat back on eventually.

I see you know nothing about journalism and sources. You must be a deplorable. Right?

 

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Robert Mueller is the kind of person that can't admit when he screwed up, aides say. Robert Mueller can’t own up to his mistakes, aides say

November 26, 2017
Carlos Ballesteros

Robert Mueller, special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election, is a “gruff guy” who routinely undermined his subordinates and evaded responsibility as head of the FBI, according to several former aides and investigators who worked with Mueller interviewed by the Los Angeles Times.

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In a lengthy profile published on Friday, the Times dredged up some of Mueller’s most difficult moments throughout his career as government prosecutor and as the sixth director of the FBI, a post he maintained from 2001 until 2013.

Those interviewed criticized Mueller’s handling of many high-profile cases stretching back to 1979, his temperament with government witnesses, and for directing his subordinates at the FBI to shield him from criticism.

One former aide went so far as to say that Mueller is “someone that can’t accept the fact that he screwed up.”


The Times profile begins by focusing on Mueller’s tenure at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where he was criticized for mishandling high-profile cases and for his treatment of government witnesses and subordinates.

The first of these cases took place in 1979, when Mueller, as head of the U.S. attorney’s special prosecutors unit, took over the case against 33 members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club charged with drug trafficking, murder, and bombings. The first trial, which sought to imprison 18 of the accused members, was unsuccessful, as the five convictions reached in the case were overturned on appeal.

Mueller then took over the case and lead a team of four prosecutors in the second trial with 11 eleven defendants. However, as reported by the Times, “after four months, the jury said it was deadlocked, and the judge declared a mistrial. Mueller decided not to ask for a retrial.”

Mueller then transferred to the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston where he oversaw cases against Panamanian president Manuel Noriega, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, and head of the Gambino crime family, John Gotti.

However, his success was marked by a disdain from some of his subordinates. As noted by the Times, Mueller sparked resentment “when he referred privately to reassigning career lawyers as ‘moving the furniture.’”

After a short stint in private practice, Mueller returned to public service as a homicide prosecutor in Washington, D.C. in 1995, where Mueller reportedly had a tough time forging relationships with victims, suspects, and government witnesses and was charged with being cold and unsympathetic.


"He was a gruff guy, and a lot of times, there wasn't much warmth or ability to really build a bond or connect with a victim-witness," one of Mueller’s fellow investigators told the Times. "There's times when you've got to bond with the suspect to get what you need. His personality wasn't necessarily the best for that."

Mueller was also criticized for his time as head of the FBI. He led the investigation into the deadly anthrax attacks in the years after 9/11 for nearly seven years, ultimately leading in the prosecution of the wrong suspect, who later successfully sued the government for $5.8 million.

After agents successfully traced back the anthrax to an Army microbiologist who committed suicide once he was informed of the impending charges, Mueller “was reluctant to publicly address the missteps” in the case.

"I think he was personally embarrassed," a former aide told the Times. "I would assess him as someone that can't accept the fact that he screwed up."

Later, as director of the FBI, Mueller instructed his staff to protect him from the agency’s oversight division, according to former colleagues interviewed by the Times.

Most notably, Mueller is charged with scrapping a highly-critical review of his Directorate of Intelligence, a unit that he had created at the FBI to investigate terrorism more effectively.

After an internal inspection reported that Mueller should “set [the unit] on fire and start from scratch,” his top aides decided to protect the director at all costs by hiding the report from the Justice Department’s inspector general.

“It was, ‘The director will get skewered. We've got to protect him, and we can't issue this,’” a former official told the Times. “Anywhere it said ‘inspection,’ they changed it to ‘review.’ And said this was a review, not an inspection, and therefore they didn't have to issue it to … the inspector general.”

Lastly, the Times article delves into Mueller’s unsuccessful attempt at negotiating with Russian officials to turn over Edward Snowden in 2013.

According to a former official, Mueller would call his Russian counterpart, Alexander Bortnikov, “starting at 3 a.m. in Washington” every day for at least a week, “begging to talk to the guy.” Bortnikov reportedly never answered the phone, and Snowden was granted asylum in Russia soon after.

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