The Disreputable Robert Mueller

[alang1216]

See you believe the oil and natural gas is from decayed dinosaurs. too funny.

OK, I'll bite, where does the oil and natural gas come from?

 

[PoliticalChic]

I couldn't care less if you disagree.....I have noticed that you are only wrong on days ending with the letter 'y.'

You wound me.

You better be wearing the Hurt Locker outfit…

 

[william the wie]

The most prodigious liar ever to pollute the Oval Office left in 2016.

And you wrote what about his rampage of lies?

You forgot to include a link about the quantity of Obama's lies. I found none that supported your assertion. If you're patient you can view 12 pages of Trump lies.

Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before."

What's the lie?

Whatever MSM tells him is a lie.

 

[jc456]

"Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before, & all their local politicians do is complain & ask for more money. The pols are grossly incompetent, spend the money foolishly or corruptly, & only take from USA....," Trump tweeted April 2.

Puerto Rico has not received $91 billion
The federal government’s recovery website shows shows $40.7 billion has been allocated (Congress appropriated the spending) through December 2018. Of that, $19.4 billion has been obligated (the government has promised to spend the money) and of that $11.2 billion has been spent. The money comes from various agencies and funds including FEMA, U.S. Housing and Urban Development, the Community Development Fund and the Disaster Relief Fund.

A senior administration official told PolitiFact that Trump arrived at the $91 billion figure by combining the roughly $41 billion already allocated with additional estimated future FEMA costs of $50 billion. (The Washington Post’s Fact Checker wrote that the $50 billion was a high end estimate of what would need to be committed under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1988.)

That means the $50 billion is speculative, said Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense.

"It may be spent, it may not, and some of it will be far into the future," he said.

so dude where is the lie? I'm still waiting? the article says, 41 + 50, in my math education that = 91 billion. so, how's he wrong?

Does the big font help?

Yep, they GOT funding for 91 billion. again, dude, you'd count the legs on a centipede to see if there were really 100 legs, and then say they lied about the name when you found out that not all do. Again, you have no objectivity nor care to take input from others. Nor, recognize facts.

 

[jc456]

See you believe the oil and natural gas is from decayed dinosaurs. too funny.

OK, I'll bite, where does the oil and natural gas come from?

so you can't look it up? instead you ask me to post a link eh? too fking funny. most teachers ask the students to do some research so they get something out of the lesson. not you eh?

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/on-energy/2011/09/14/abiotic-oil-a-theory-worth-exploring

 

[alang1216]

See you believe the oil and natural gas is from decayed dinosaurs. too funny.

OK, I'll bite, where does the oil and natural gas come from?

so you can't look it up? instead you ask me to post a link eh? too fking funny. most teachers ask the students to do some research so they get something out of the lesson. not you eh?

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/on-energy/2011/09/14/abiotic-oil-a-theory-worth-exploring

Actually most geologists believe oil and natural gas is biological in origin. Yet another conspiracy by scientists?

Only you know where you think it came from. I was guessing you'd go with extraterrestrial origins. I did find this:

The hypothesis of abiotic oil holds an interesting place in Earth sciences. Most geophysicists will agree that it is plausible for some amount of hydrocarbons to arise from natural processes. That plausibility exists within very limited bounds, because all of the oil we've found so far has been fossil fuel, metamorphosed from ancient organic biomass. We can tell this for a certainty because of the chemical signatures that come with it. When a primeval biome got buried and transformed into oil over millions of years, pure hydrocarbon fuel is not what was left over. It's full of the other chemical biomarkers that tell us whether that was a swamp full of plants and algae or an inland sea full of plankton and prehistoric megafauna. They broke down into the chemicals of life such as chlorophyll and hemoglobin, and left us biomarkers such as pristane, phytane, steranes, triterpanes and porphyrin, among many others. This is why there is no question that if abiogenesis does take place, it does so on a very small scale, small enough that we haven't found any of it yet. It is not a pseudoscience — so long as it's kept within known bounds. But most of the proponents of abiogenesis argue that it is responsible for all oil, or most oil, or that we have a limitless supply from the depths of the Earth, constantly regenerating itself. This perspective — distinct from the plausible version — is pure pseudoscience, as it's trivially disproven on a lab bench with a mass spectrometer and any sample of natural crude oil from anywhere in the world.​

 

[Ava]

Those conflicts are pretty weak.

As a card-carrying member of the Great RIght-Wing Conspiracy, I find very little to complain about with Mueller. The letter creating the position was more broad than it should have been, but with those marching orders he did was he was told to do. He is certainly to be commended for keeping their work confidential for that long period of time - something that every other relevant deliberative body over the past three years has failed to do.

I dare say it would be difficult to find a dozen qualified lawyers in Washington who do not think Trump is a total dick, so complaints about the political inclinations of the staff lawyers are also a bit strained.

And truly, how can you complain about his work product? The people he indicted were clearly guilty of crimes, and those for whom he could not establish a Prima Facia case were let off without indictment. Congress may use some of his work product to try to embarrass Trump and his posse, but you can't lay that on Mueller.

Mueller is not "disreputable" by any rational measure. Indeed, you look like the mirror image of those attacking Barr right now.

Yes, he is.

He destroyed lives when he KNEW there was no collusion.

He threatened Flynn's Son, he bankrupted him and several other Men who actually know what Honor is.

Mueller was, and still is, an apparatchik. A hired gun. A mercenary POS.

The people that work in the 'Justice' Department are interested in anything but...

They are careerists. Ladder-climbers. Cold-Blooded sharks with dead eyes. Assassins.

They care nothing for Justice, guilt or innocence.

I do not believe any of them do. They're all Lawyers. And lawyers have the same 'honor' as a cold-blooded killer.

Mueller definitely wanted hard to find criminal charges against our great president and the fact that he didn't and weaseled out by turning the report over to Barr ( something he did not HAVE to do ) just makes the case for Trump's innocence even more tenacious.

Trump...2020!

 

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you don't know what he ignored... 'cause....


are you ready?....









the report hasn't been released. & the bullshit pablum you are trying to peddle is suggesting that hillary conspired with the rooooskies to .....


lose?


you go any farther up trump's butt- you are gonna turn into an oompa loompa.

amazing how you continue to come in here with no objectivity. amazing. wow.

when all you got is: you go any farther up trump's butt- you are gonna turn into an oompa loompa,
I'd say the discussion isn't worth having. I mean. really when you sit around discussing topics you look at your opponent and go you go any farther up trump's butt- you are gonna turn into an oompa loompa.

Dude Hilarious. I bet you still think the dossier has facts in it. right? Even though the info has been debunked. Go for it, tell me what in it is fact. And we know Mueller never went down the dossier path. we don't need to see the report. No one was ever questioned. Follow along?

ooOOooo you were saying you wanted to see the report not too long ago.... were you lying then or now, troll? it doesn't matter what the dossier says cause that wasn't the reason for all them thar FISA warrants. you wanna talk bias? thy name is barr....

why did barr intervene & give a 4 page summary from a 300+ page report instead of allowing mueller's summary to be released?

the OP wouldn't answer that.

why is trump et al regurgitating the falsehood that he has been exonerated when barr did include part of mueller's conclusion?

the OP wouldn't answer that.

“while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him”
^^^ what? what was that?

why did barr not allow this part be released in its ENTIRETY, instead leaving the first part of the sentence omitted?

“[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”

again... the OP didn't answer that

barr should have recused himself, not only based on his 19 page audition for the AG gig, but his son in-law is a whitehouse lawyer.

hey young-n, Show the report as I have always said, redact the names of those not under any indictment. you don't need to know them. It's none of your business.

I don't need to see it, however, the mere fact that there are no sealed indictments is all I needed to know. No sealed indictment=exonerated. learn, I've now said that ~hundred times in here.

When are you going to grow up?

young-n? lol.... bless your little troll heart................ you don't think the SDNY or NY AG don't have indictments ready to go?

what's that have to do with the Mueller report? you deflecting yet again? funny how you do that daily. You never have any facts son.

yawn.... when are you gonna get some new material? i never deflect. i answered something that YOU posted about me.... & i answered everything that needed to be answered about mueller.

nice try, but it's getting boring.

 

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you don't know what he ignored... 'cause....


are you ready?....









the report hasn't been released. & the bullshit pablum you are trying to peddle is suggesting that hillary conspired with the rooooskies to .....


lose?


you go any farther up trump's butt- you are gonna turn into an oompa loompa.

Don't wipe the egg off your ugly kisser....it's an improvement, you lying low-life.

Get lost.

can't reCONcile the two 'eh? i understand, oomps.

BTW, hitlery bought the dossier. slam dunked you junior. conspired with the ruskies. your pals.

BTW, hitlery bought the dossier.

after it was given up by a (R) candidate....

slam dunked you junior.

you must be ancient to be calling me 'jr'.

conspired with the ruskies. your pals.

now you are just being stupid.

so still nothing eh son? got your ruskies.

And hitlery paid for the dossier. care to challenge that?

answered that already.

 

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Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before."

What's the lie?

Trump's Tweet was wrong about the dollar amount the territory has received and wrong when he said it was a record.

so what are the numbers? why don't you all ever provide the supporting material to make your point? right now, you got absolutely nothing. ready set go!

a few key words is all what was needed.

trump lied puerto rico 91 billion - Google Search

you lazy ass troll.

 

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Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before."

What's the lie?

Trump's Tweet was wrong about the dollar amount the territory has received and wrong when he said it was a record.

so what are the numbers? why don't you all ever provide the supporting material to make your point? right now, you got absolutely nothing. ready set go!

Since you seem incapable of following a link:
Donald Trump falsely tweets that Puerto Rico got $91 billion in hurricane aid
By Amy Sherman on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 at 5:35 p.m.

In this Jan. 31, 2018 file photo, Public Works Sub-Director Ramon Mendez, wearing a hard hat at left, works with municipal workers, as they install a new post to return electricity in El Ortiz sector of Coamo, Puerto Rico. (AP)
After Democrats and Republicans in the Senate failed to reach an agreement on disaster aid for Puerto Rico, President Donald Trump falsely tweeted about the amount of hurricane aid already distributed.

"Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before, & all their local politicians do is complain & ask for more money. The pols are grossly incompetent, spend the money foolishly or corruptly, & only take from USA....," Trump tweeted April 2.

Then he praised his own leadership:

"....The best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico is President Donald J. Trump. So many wonderful people, but with such bad Island leadership and with so much money wasted. Cannot continue to hurt our Farmers and States with these massive payments, and so little appreciation!"





We found that Trump is wrong about the dollar amount the territory has received and wrong when he said it was a record.

His comments about hurricane aid follow other misleading statements he made related to the 2017 hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico. Trump mischaracterized the death toll saying the estimate was "done by Democrats," and he exaggerated the poor condition of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid before the hurricanes.

The future of aid to Puerto Rico is up in the air after the Senate failed to move forward on legislation. Both parties have pointed fingers at each other for not reaching an agreement after months of proposals.

While proposals from both parties have included $600 million for food assistance for Puerto Rico, Democrats want millions more for other needs in Puerto Rico including for the electrical grid, FEMA reimbursement and water projects.

Puerto Rico has not received $91 billion
The federal government’s recovery website shows shows $40.7 billion has been allocated (Congress appropriated the spending) through December 2018. Of that, $19.4 billion has been obligated (the government has promised to spend the money) and of that $11.2 billion has been spent. The money comes from various agencies and funds including FEMA, U.S. Housing and Urban Development, the Community Development Fund and the Disaster Relief Fund.

A senior administration official told PolitiFact that Trump arrived at the $91 billion figure by combining the roughly $41 billion already allocated with additional estimated future FEMA costs of $50 billion. (The Washington Post’s Fact Checker wrote that the $50 billion was a high end estimate of what would need to be committed under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1988.)

That means the $50 billion is speculative, said Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense.

"It may be spent, it may not, and some of it will be far into the future," he said.

How far into the future? A look at Katrina spending shows it can last for more than a decade after a storm.

There is still Disaster Relief Fund money being paid out related to Katrina (and Rita and Wilma, also 2005 storms), to the tune of nearly $200 million this year, Ellis said.

Sorting out exactly how much the federal government has spent after disasters is tricky. Some hurricanes hit more than one state, and some states receive money for multiple disasters.

Comparing how much various jurisdictions have gotten for different disasters is not an apples-to-apples comparison because some disasters create more damage. Comparisons to disaster aid in Puerto Rico versus other storms also omits inflation and that it is more expensive to get disaster supplies to Puerto Rico ,which is located approximately 1,000 nautical miles from the U.S. mainland.

"Obviously Puerto Rico is not in the continental U.S. so all supplies have to be sent by ship or plane, which increases costs," Ellis said. "You can truck supplies into Louisiana and Texas and Florida. Inflation is a factor -- $1 billion in 2005 is worth more than $1 billion in 2017."

Federal officials did not respond to our questions asking how Trump concluded that the $91 billion figure was more than any other disaster. But federal reports show that the government has already spent more on Hurricane Katrina -- and that’s without factoring in inflation. The Congressional Research Service estimated in 2014 that "Congress provided roughly $120 billion for Hurricane Katrina."

In his attack on Puerto Rico disaster spending, Trump said that we "cannot continue to hurt our Farmers and States with these massive payments, and so little appreciation!"

The federal government pays for disasters in various states and the territory of Puerto Rico, which is a part of the United States. (This is despite the comments by White House spokesman Hogan Gidley on MSNBC who referred to Puerto Rico as "that country." He called it a slip of the tongue.)

Our ruling
Trump tweeted "Puerto Rico got $91 Billion for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before."

Trump arrived at that figure by combining the $41 billion already allocated with additional estimated future FEMA costs over the life of the disaster of $50 billion. But that future payment is speculative, and it will be years before we know how much of it is realized.

Even if the $91 billion is the ultimate cost down the road, the federal government already has estimated it spent $120 billion on Hurricane Katrina.

so dude where is the lie? I'm still waiting? the article says, 41 + 50, in my math education that = 91 billion. so, how's he wrong?

puerto rico did not receive 91billion already... as trump tried to peddle. & it wasn't a record amount either.

It is estimated that Hurricane Harvey had total costs of $125 billion—second only to Hurricane Katrina in the period of record, which had an approximate cost of $161 billion.

Hurricane Costs

 

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dude, you said trump lied. he didn't. fking deal with it. you lost.

If I told you that most scientists believed the Earth was flat, would you call me a liar? What if I pointed out that I was talking about the Middle Ages, would you still call me a liar?

he's a troll... that is ALL he's capable of.

 

[jc456]

Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before."

What's the lie?

Trump's Tweet was wrong about the dollar amount the territory has received and wrong when he said it was a record.

so what are the numbers? why don't you all ever provide the supporting material to make your point? right now, you got absolutely nothing. ready set go!

Since you seem incapable of following a link:
Donald Trump falsely tweets that Puerto Rico got $91 billion in hurricane aid
By Amy Sherman on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 at 5:35 p.m.

In this Jan. 31, 2018 file photo, Public Works Sub-Director Ramon Mendez, wearing a hard hat at left, works with municipal workers, as they install a new post to return electricity in El Ortiz sector of Coamo, Puerto Rico. (AP)
After Democrats and Republicans in the Senate failed to reach an agreement on disaster aid for Puerto Rico, President Donald Trump falsely tweeted about the amount of hurricane aid already distributed.

"Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before, & all their local politicians do is complain & ask for more money. The pols are grossly incompetent, spend the money foolishly or corruptly, & only take from USA....," Trump tweeted April 2.

Then he praised his own leadership:

"....The best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico is President Donald J. Trump. So many wonderful people, but with such bad Island leadership and with so much money wasted. Cannot continue to hurt our Farmers and States with these massive payments, and so little appreciation!"





We found that Trump is wrong about the dollar amount the territory has received and wrong when he said it was a record.

His comments about hurricane aid follow other misleading statements he made related to the 2017 hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico. Trump mischaracterized the death toll saying the estimate was "done by Democrats," and he exaggerated the poor condition of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid before the hurricanes.

The future of aid to Puerto Rico is up in the air after the Senate failed to move forward on legislation. Both parties have pointed fingers at each other for not reaching an agreement after months of proposals.

While proposals from both parties have included $600 million for food assistance for Puerto Rico, Democrats want millions more for other needs in Puerto Rico including for the electrical grid, FEMA reimbursement and water projects.

Puerto Rico has not received $91 billion
The federal government’s recovery website shows shows $40.7 billion has been allocated (Congress appropriated the spending) through December 2018. Of that, $19.4 billion has been obligated (the government has promised to spend the money) and of that $11.2 billion has been spent. The money comes from various agencies and funds including FEMA, U.S. Housing and Urban Development, the Community Development Fund and the Disaster Relief Fund.

A senior administration official told PolitiFact that Trump arrived at the $91 billion figure by combining the roughly $41 billion already allocated with additional estimated future FEMA costs of $50 billion. (The Washington Post’s Fact Checker wrote that the $50 billion was a high end estimate of what would need to be committed under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1988.)

That means the $50 billion is speculative, said Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense.

"It may be spent, it may not, and some of it will be far into the future," he said.

How far into the future? A look at Katrina spending shows it can last for more than a decade after a storm.

There is still Disaster Relief Fund money being paid out related to Katrina (and Rita and Wilma, also 2005 storms), to the tune of nearly $200 million this year, Ellis said.

Sorting out exactly how much the federal government has spent after disasters is tricky. Some hurricanes hit more than one state, and some states receive money for multiple disasters.

Comparing how much various jurisdictions have gotten for different disasters is not an apples-to-apples comparison because some disasters create more damage. Comparisons to disaster aid in Puerto Rico versus other storms also omits inflation and that it is more expensive to get disaster supplies to Puerto Rico ,which is located approximately 1,000 nautical miles from the U.S. mainland.

"Obviously Puerto Rico is not in the continental U.S. so all supplies have to be sent by ship or plane, which increases costs," Ellis said. "You can truck supplies into Louisiana and Texas and Florida. Inflation is a factor -- $1 billion in 2005 is worth more than $1 billion in 2017."

Federal officials did not respond to our questions asking how Trump concluded that the $91 billion figure was more than any other disaster. But federal reports show that the government has already spent more on Hurricane Katrina -- and that’s without factoring in inflation. The Congressional Research Service estimated in 2014 that "Congress provided roughly $120 billion for Hurricane Katrina."

In his attack on Puerto Rico disaster spending, Trump said that we "cannot continue to hurt our Farmers and States with these massive payments, and so little appreciation!"

The federal government pays for disasters in various states and the territory of Puerto Rico, which is a part of the United States. (This is despite the comments by White House spokesman Hogan Gidley on MSNBC who referred to Puerto Rico as "that country." He called it a slip of the tongue.)

Our ruling
Trump tweeted "Puerto Rico got $91 Billion for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before."

Trump arrived at that figure by combining the $41 billion already allocated with additional estimated future FEMA costs over the life of the disaster of $50 billion. But that future payment is speculative, and it will be years before we know how much of it is realized.

Even if the $91 billion is the ultimate cost down the road, the federal government already has estimated it spent $120 billion on Hurricane Katrina.

so dude where is the lie? I'm still waiting? the article says, 41 + 50, in my math education that = 91 billion. so, how's he wrong?

puerto rico did not receive 91billion already... as trump tried to peddle. & it wasn't a record amount either.

It is estimated that Hurricane Harvey had total costs of $125 billion—second only to Hurricane Katrina in the period of record, which had an approximate cost of $161 billion.

Hurricane Costs

He didn’t say that. He said they Got, funding. He still didn’t lie. Your source lied. Ironic eh?

 

[The Professor]

Either he has an immunity deal he arranged when he saw the handwriting on the wall, or he heard footsteps, and bailed out.

Or, you might need to take off your tin hat to understand this, there was no conspiracy and Mueller was a professional doing the job he was given. Maybe he is just what he appears to be, the last honest man in DC?

Trump bashers think that Mueller is the torch bearer for everything that is noble and just. Of course, as in most things, they are wrong. Muller leaves behind him a record of incompetency and ruthlessness

.Muller mishandling the anthrax investigation back in the early 1990s His ignorance, arrogance and total disregard for individual rights and due process ruined the lives of innocent people, including Steven Hatfill. Hatfill sued and was awarded almost $6 million.

Mueller Has Been Botching Investigations Since The Anthrax Attacks

Mueller didn't give a royal damn about how many innocent people he hurt as long as he deluded Americans that he was doing his job

“In the aftermath of the attacks, Mueller directed the “post-9/11 round-up” of around 1,000 immigrants who mostly happened to be in the wrong place (NYC area) at the wrong time, as FBI Headquarters encouraged more and more detentions for what seemed to be essentially PR purposes. Field offices were required to report daily the number of detentions in order to supply grist for FBI press releases about FBI “progress” in fighting terrorism. Consequently, some of the detainees were brutalized and jailed for up to a year despite the fact that none turned out to be terrorists.”

No, Robert Mueller And James Comey Aren't Heroes | HuffPost

The fact that Mueller gave Hillary a free pass on her multiple crimes – including Russian collusion - while conducting a witch hunt on Trump proves he is biased and corrupt, The stench of Hillary Clinton emanates from his every pore.

There is one more case that reveals Mueller's true character. The FBI let four men rot in prison for decades even though they knew the men were innocent. Mueller did his best to keep them there.

“In 2001, the four men convicted of Teddy Deegan’s murder [in 1965] were exonerated. Turned out the FBI let them take the rap to protect one of their informants, a killer named Vincent “Jimmy’’ Flemmi, who just happened to be the brother of their other rat, Stevie Flemmi. Thanks to the FBI’s corruption, taxpayers got stuck with the $100 million bill for compensating the framed men, two of whom, Greco and Tameleo, died in prison.

“Albano was appalled that, later that same year, Mueller was appointed FBI director, because it was Mueller, first as an assistant US attorney then as the acting US attorney in Boston, who wrote letters to the parole and pardons board throughout the 1980s opposing clemency for the four men framed by FBI lies.

“Of course, Mueller was also in that position while Whitey Bulger was helping the FBI cart off his criminal competitors even as he buried bodies in shallow graves along the Neponset

“Four years ago, when questioned about the FBI’s corruption in Boston, Mueller told the Globe, “I think the public should recognize that what happened, happened years ago.’’

A lingering question for the FBI’s director

Mueller is dishonest and ruthless. The only thing he cares about is himself. He will destroy people's lives to protect his image.

 

[Care4all]

Those conflicts are pretty weak.

As a card-carrying member of the Great RIght-Wing Conspiracy, I find very little to complain about with Mueller. The letter creating the position was more broad than it should have been, but with those marching orders he did was he was told to do. He is certainly to be commended for keeping their work confidential for that long period of time - something that every other relevant deliberative body over the past three years has failed to do.

I dare say it would be difficult to find a dozen qualified lawyers in Washington who do not think Trump is a total dick, so complaints about the political inclinations of the staff lawyers are also a bit strained.

And truly, how can you complain about his work product? The people he indicted were clearly guilty of crimes, and those for whom he could not establish a Prima Facia case were let off without indictment. Congress may use some of his work product to try to embarrass Trump and his posse, but you can't lay that on Mueller.

Mueller is not "disreputable" by any rational measure. Indeed, you look like the mirror image of those attacking Barr right now.

The Mule allowed men he knew were innocent to rot and die in prison, in order to protect his stoolies....He's as low of a scumbag as you can get.

and that is simply NOT TRUE, and a right wing creation and lie you happened to believe, without actually researching it...


Mueller, Hannity claims, was linked to legendary organized crime figure James “Whitey” Bulger. But is that true? The Boston Globe did some fact-checking, and this is what they found.

1- First, regarding Hannity’s claims about Robert Mueller’s connection to Whitey Bulger: Mueller’s office wasn’t even involved. Mueller served in the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston from 1982 to 1988, but it was the FBI and the New England Organized Crime Strike Force (prosecuting attorneys who worked independently of the U.S. attorney’s office and reported directly to the Department of Justice) that were responsible for the Bulger scandal. The FBI and the Strike Force used Bulger to help them uncover Mafia crimes, all the while not doing a thing about the crimes Bulger himself had committed. Long story short: Mueller could not have been involved with Bulger because he wasn’t even involved with the FBI or the Strike Force.


2- Let’s move on to another of Hannity’s claims. He alleges that because of Robert Mueller, four men were framed by an FBI informant and wrongfully imprisoned for many years. Two of those men even died in prison.

Was Mueller involved with that? Let’s start with the basics: the informant who framed the men was not Bulger. In fact, it was Joseph “The Animal” Barboza, and the trial against Joseph Salvati, Peter J. Limone, Louis Greco, and Henry Tamelo took place in 1968. Mueller was born in 1944. When the trial took place, Mueller was busy serving in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. Mueller didn’t even graduate from law school until 1973, so he could hardly have been involved in the Salvati trial.

What is true about Hannity’s claim is that the FBI was found to have had corrupt relationships with Bulger and his sidekick, Stephen Flemmi. This information started to become public knowledge in 1988, and an investigation into the FBI’s “mishandling” of informants as far back as the 1960s began at that time. Again, Mueller had nothing to do with the FBI or Bulger.

Did Mueller look the other way when he knew Salvati and his colleagues had been wrongfully convicted? The Globe found that according to the attorneys for the men, the former federal judge who oversaw the wrongful imprisonment trial, and the court records from that trial, there was nothing that linked Mueller to the case.




3- Hannity also claimed that Robert Mueller was one of the prosecutors who wrote letters to the Massachusetts Parole Board opposing the release of Salvati and his colleagues. Again, former federal judge Nancy Gertner, who oversaw the Salvati trial, and Juliane Balliro, Limone’s attorney, examined the parole board records for the four men. They found no letters from Mueller in the files, and his signature “never appeared on anything I ever saw or can recall,” Balliro told the Globe.

READ THE REST HERE:

Fact-checking Claims about Robert Mueller’s FBI Past - Civics Nation

 

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Trump's Tweet was wrong about the dollar amount the territory has received and wrong when he said it was a record.

so what are the numbers? why don't you all ever provide the supporting material to make your point? right now, you got absolutely nothing. ready set go!

Since you seem incapable of following a link:
Donald Trump falsely tweets that Puerto Rico got $91 billion in hurricane aid
By Amy Sherman on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 at 5:35 p.m.

In this Jan. 31, 2018 file photo, Public Works Sub-Director Ramon Mendez, wearing a hard hat at left, works with municipal workers, as they install a new post to return electricity in El Ortiz sector of Coamo, Puerto Rico. (AP)
After Democrats and Republicans in the Senate failed to reach an agreement on disaster aid for Puerto Rico, President Donald Trump falsely tweeted about the amount of hurricane aid already distributed.

"Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before, & all their local politicians do is complain & ask for more money. The pols are grossly incompetent, spend the money foolishly or corruptly, & only take from USA....," Trump tweeted April 2.

Then he praised his own leadership:

"....The best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico is President Donald J. Trump. So many wonderful people, but with such bad Island leadership and with so much money wasted. Cannot continue to hurt our Farmers and States with these massive payments, and so little appreciation!"





We found that Trump is wrong about the dollar amount the territory has received and wrong when he said it was a record.

His comments about hurricane aid follow other misleading statements he made related to the 2017 hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico. Trump mischaracterized the death toll saying the estimate was "done by Democrats," and he exaggerated the poor condition of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid before the hurricanes.

The future of aid to Puerto Rico is up in the air after the Senate failed to move forward on legislation. Both parties have pointed fingers at each other for not reaching an agreement after months of proposals.

While proposals from both parties have included $600 million for food assistance for Puerto Rico, Democrats want millions more for other needs in Puerto Rico including for the electrical grid, FEMA reimbursement and water projects.

Puerto Rico has not received $91 billion
The federal government’s recovery website shows shows $40.7 billion has been allocated (Congress appropriated the spending) through December 2018. Of that, $19.4 billion has been obligated (the government has promised to spend the money) and of that $11.2 billion has been spent. The money comes from various agencies and funds including FEMA, U.S. Housing and Urban Development, the Community Development Fund and the Disaster Relief Fund.

A senior administration official told PolitiFact that Trump arrived at the $91 billion figure by combining the roughly $41 billion already allocated with additional estimated future FEMA costs of $50 billion. (The Washington Post’s Fact Checker wrote that the $50 billion was a high end estimate of what would need to be committed under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1988.)

That means the $50 billion is speculative, said Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense.

"It may be spent, it may not, and some of it will be far into the future," he said.

How far into the future? A look at Katrina spending shows it can last for more than a decade after a storm.

There is still Disaster Relief Fund money being paid out related to Katrina (and Rita and Wilma, also 2005 storms), to the tune of nearly $200 million this year, Ellis said.

Sorting out exactly how much the federal government has spent after disasters is tricky. Some hurricanes hit more than one state, and some states receive money for multiple disasters.

Comparing how much various jurisdictions have gotten for different disasters is not an apples-to-apples comparison because some disasters create more damage. Comparisons to disaster aid in Puerto Rico versus other storms also omits inflation and that it is more expensive to get disaster supplies to Puerto Rico ,which is located approximately 1,000 nautical miles from the U.S. mainland.

"Obviously Puerto Rico is not in the continental U.S. so all supplies have to be sent by ship or plane, which increases costs," Ellis said. "You can truck supplies into Louisiana and Texas and Florida. Inflation is a factor -- $1 billion in 2005 is worth more than $1 billion in 2017."

Federal officials did not respond to our questions asking how Trump concluded that the $91 billion figure was more than any other disaster. But federal reports show that the government has already spent more on Hurricane Katrina -- and that’s without factoring in inflation. The Congressional Research Service estimated in 2014 that "Congress provided roughly $120 billion for Hurricane Katrina."

In his attack on Puerto Rico disaster spending, Trump said that we "cannot continue to hurt our Farmers and States with these massive payments, and so little appreciation!"

The federal government pays for disasters in various states and the territory of Puerto Rico, which is a part of the United States. (This is despite the comments by White House spokesman Hogan Gidley on MSNBC who referred to Puerto Rico as "that country." He called it a slip of the tongue.)

Our ruling
Trump tweeted "Puerto Rico got $91 Billion for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before."

Trump arrived at that figure by combining the $41 billion already allocated with additional estimated future FEMA costs over the life of the disaster of $50 billion. But that future payment is speculative, and it will be years before we know how much of it is realized.

Even if the $91 billion is the ultimate cost down the road, the federal government already has estimated it spent $120 billion on Hurricane Katrina.

so dude where is the lie? I'm still waiting? the article says, 41 + 50, in my math education that = 91 billion. so, how's he wrong?

puerto rico did not receive 91billion already... as trump tried to peddle. & it wasn't a record amount either.

It is estimated that Hurricane Harvey had total costs of $125 billion—second only to Hurricane Katrina in the period of record, which had an approximate cost of $161 billion.

Hurricane Costs

He didn’t say that. He said they Got, funding. He still didn’t lie. Your source lied. Ironic eh?

uh-huh... just like the funding allocated for military base/housing/school construction, went to their respective recipients, right?

that WALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL will need mo' money, mo' money, mo' money....

 

[PoliticalChic]

so what are the numbers? why don't you all ever provide the supporting material to make your point? right now, you got absolutely nothing. ready set go!

Since you seem incapable of following a link:
Donald Trump falsely tweets that Puerto Rico got $91 billion in hurricane aid
By Amy Sherman on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 at 5:35 p.m.

In this Jan. 31, 2018 file photo, Public Works Sub-Director Ramon Mendez, wearing a hard hat at left, works with municipal workers, as they install a new post to return electricity in El Ortiz sector of Coamo, Puerto Rico. (AP)
After Democrats and Republicans in the Senate failed to reach an agreement on disaster aid for Puerto Rico, President Donald Trump falsely tweeted about the amount of hurricane aid already distributed.

"Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before, & all their local politicians do is complain & ask for more money. The pols are grossly incompetent, spend the money foolishly or corruptly, & only take from USA....," Trump tweeted April 2.

Then he praised his own leadership:

"....The best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico is President Donald J. Trump. So many wonderful people, but with such bad Island leadership and with so much money wasted. Cannot continue to hurt our Farmers and States with these massive payments, and so little appreciation!"





We found that Trump is wrong about the dollar amount the territory has received and wrong when he said it was a record.

His comments about hurricane aid follow other misleading statements he made related to the 2017 hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico. Trump mischaracterized the death toll saying the estimate was "done by Democrats," and he exaggerated the poor condition of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid before the hurricanes.

The future of aid to Puerto Rico is up in the air after the Senate failed to move forward on legislation. Both parties have pointed fingers at each other for not reaching an agreement after months of proposals.

While proposals from both parties have included $600 million for food assistance for Puerto Rico, Democrats want millions more for other needs in Puerto Rico including for the electrical grid, FEMA reimbursement and water projects.

Puerto Rico has not received $91 billion
The federal government’s recovery website shows shows $40.7 billion has been allocated (Congress appropriated the spending) through December 2018. Of that, $19.4 billion has been obligated (the government has promised to spend the money) and of that $11.2 billion has been spent. The money comes from various agencies and funds including FEMA, U.S. Housing and Urban Development, the Community Development Fund and the Disaster Relief Fund.

A senior administration official told PolitiFact that Trump arrived at the $91 billion figure by combining the roughly $41 billion already allocated with additional estimated future FEMA costs of $50 billion. (The Washington Post’s Fact Checker wrote that the $50 billion was a high end estimate of what would need to be committed under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1988.)

That means the $50 billion is speculative, said Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense.

"It may be spent, it may not, and some of it will be far into the future," he said.

How far into the future? A look at Katrina spending shows it can last for more than a decade after a storm.

There is still Disaster Relief Fund money being paid out related to Katrina (and Rita and Wilma, also 2005 storms), to the tune of nearly $200 million this year, Ellis said.

Sorting out exactly how much the federal government has spent after disasters is tricky. Some hurricanes hit more than one state, and some states receive money for multiple disasters.

Comparing how much various jurisdictions have gotten for different disasters is not an apples-to-apples comparison because some disasters create more damage. Comparisons to disaster aid in Puerto Rico versus other storms also omits inflation and that it is more expensive to get disaster supplies to Puerto Rico ,which is located approximately 1,000 nautical miles from the U.S. mainland.

"Obviously Puerto Rico is not in the continental U.S. so all supplies have to be sent by ship or plane, which increases costs," Ellis said. "You can truck supplies into Louisiana and Texas and Florida. Inflation is a factor -- $1 billion in 2005 is worth more than $1 billion in 2017."

Federal officials did not respond to our questions asking how Trump concluded that the $91 billion figure was more than any other disaster. But federal reports show that the government has already spent more on Hurricane Katrina -- and that’s without factoring in inflation. The Congressional Research Service estimated in 2014 that "Congress provided roughly $120 billion for Hurricane Katrina."

In his attack on Puerto Rico disaster spending, Trump said that we "cannot continue to hurt our Farmers and States with these massive payments, and so little appreciation!"

The federal government pays for disasters in various states and the territory of Puerto Rico, which is a part of the United States. (This is despite the comments by White House spokesman Hogan Gidley on MSNBC who referred to Puerto Rico as "that country." He called it a slip of the tongue.)

Our ruling
Trump tweeted "Puerto Rico got $91 Billion for the hurricane, more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before."

Trump arrived at that figure by combining the $41 billion already allocated with additional estimated future FEMA costs over the life of the disaster of $50 billion. But that future payment is speculative, and it will be years before we know how much of it is realized.

Even if the $91 billion is the ultimate cost down the road, the federal government already has estimated it spent $120 billion on Hurricane Katrina.

so dude where is the lie? I'm still waiting? the article says, 41 + 50, in my math education that = 91 billion. so, how's he wrong?

puerto rico did not receive 91billion already... as trump tried to peddle. & it wasn't a record amount either.

It is estimated that Hurricane Harvey had total costs of $125 billion—second only to Hurricane Katrina in the period of record, which had an approximate cost of $161 billion.

Hurricane Costs

He didn’t say that. He said they Got, funding. He still didn’t lie. Your source lied. Ironic eh?

uh-huh... just like the funding allocated for military base/housing/school construction, went to their respective recipients, right?

that WALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL will need mo' money, mo' money, mo' money....

A cartoon of Democrats talking to a Muslim woman???

 

[PoliticalChic]

Those conflicts are pretty weak.

As a card-carrying member of the Great RIght-Wing Conspiracy, I find very little to complain about with Mueller. The letter creating the position was more broad than it should have been, but with those marching orders he did was he was told to do. He is certainly to be commended for keeping their work confidential for that long period of time - something that every other relevant deliberative body over the past three years has failed to do.

I dare say it would be difficult to find a dozen qualified lawyers in Washington who do not think Trump is a total dick, so complaints about the political inclinations of the staff lawyers are also a bit strained.

And truly, how can you complain about his work product? The people he indicted were clearly guilty of crimes, and those for whom he could not establish a Prima Facia case were let off without indictment. Congress may use some of his work product to try to embarrass Trump and his posse, but you can't lay that on Mueller.

Mueller is not "disreputable" by any rational measure. Indeed, you look like the mirror image of those attacking Barr right now.

The Mule allowed men he knew were innocent to rot and die in prison, in order to protect his stoolies....He's as low of a scumbag as you can get.

and that is simply NOT TRUE, and a right wing creation and lie you happened to believe, without actually researching it...


Mueller, Hannity claims, was linked to legendary organized crime figure James “Whitey” Bulger. But is that true? The Boston Globe did some fact-checking, and this is what they found.

1- First, regarding Hannity’s claims about Robert Mueller’s connection to Whitey Bulger: Mueller’s office wasn’t even involved. Mueller served in the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston from 1982 to 1988, but it was the FBI and the New England Organized Crime Strike Force (prosecuting attorneys who worked independently of the U.S. attorney’s office and reported directly to the Department of Justice) that were responsible for the Bulger scandal. The FBI and the Strike Force used Bulger to help them uncover Mafia crimes, all the while not doing a thing about the crimes Bulger himself had committed. Long story short: Mueller could not have been involved with Bulger because he wasn’t even involved with the FBI or the Strike Force.


2- Let’s move on to another of Hannity’s claims. He alleges that because of Robert Mueller, four men were framed by an FBI informant and wrongfully imprisoned for many years. Two of those men even died in prison.

Was Mueller involved with that? Let’s start with the basics: the informant who framed the men was not Bulger. In fact, it was Joseph “The Animal” Barboza, and the trial against Joseph Salvati, Peter J. Limone, Louis Greco, and Henry Tamelo took place in 1968. Mueller was born in 1944. When the trial took place, Mueller was busy serving in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. Mueller didn’t even graduate from law school until 1973, so he could hardly have been involved in the Salvati trial.

What is true about Hannity’s claim is that the FBI was found to have had corrupt relationships with Bulger and his sidekick, Stephen Flemmi. This information started to become public knowledge in 1988, and an investigation into the FBI’s “mishandling” of informants as far back as the 1960s began at that time. Again, Mueller had nothing to do with the FBI or Bulger.

Did Mueller look the other way when he knew Salvati and his colleagues had been wrongfully convicted? The Globe found that according to the attorneys for the men, the former federal judge who oversaw the wrongful imprisonment trial, and the court records from that trial, there was nothing that linked Mueller to the case.




3- Hannity also claimed that Robert Mueller was one of the prosecutors who wrote letters to the Massachusetts Parole Board opposing the release of Salvati and his colleagues. Again, former federal judge Nancy Gertner, who oversaw the Salvati trial, and Juliane Balliro, Limone’s attorney, examined the parole board records for the four men. They found no letters from Mueller in the files, and his signature “never appeared on anything I ever saw or can recall,” Balliro told the Globe.

READ THE REST HERE:

Fact-checking Claims about Robert Mueller’s FBI Past - Civics Nation

Rule #1
Every argument from Democrats and Liberals is a misrepresentation, a fabrication, or a bald-faced lie.


And your post just proved it.





Here are the exact words of Mueller's mandate:
Mueller's mandate was to investigate 'any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation"\

and other matters within the scope of
28 CFR § 600.4:






Mueller could have investigated Hillary and the entire corrupt DNC.




But here's what happened instead:


1.The Hillary campaign paid for an anti-Trump Russian creation called the dossier: they used law firm Perkins Coie to funnel money to GPS Fusion and Christopher Steele


2. The Hillary campaign screamed that they had been hacked, but refused to allow any government agencies to inspect the supposedly hacked servers

3. The FBI admitted that they knew the dossier was fake from the start, but used it to get a FISA warrant to surveil Trump and associates

4. A secret cabal at the highest levels of the FBI and the DoJ worked with GPS Fusion to undermine the Trump campaign...before and after the election.

5. FBI found classified data on Huma and Anthony Weiner’s laptop….so they gave them a pass

6. The FBI decided no charges against Hillary before they interviewed her…..with no record kept of the interview, and not under oath.

7. Both Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills were found to be lying to the FBI….but given a pass ...and allowed to keep their laptops, and destroy any evidence on same

8. FBI agents Strzok and Page and McCabe talked over a plan to overturn the election….an ‘insurance policy’

9. Loretta Lynch with Comey’s acquiescence, worked to benefit Hillary’s campaign

10. Obama knew about Hillary’s use of unsecured emails, as he conversed with her on same…kept his name out of the reports.

11. BTW…..Mueller, Comey and Rosenstein were all government officials when Hillary received the $145 million bribe for the sale of our uranium.

....Robert Mueller was the FBI Director during the time of the Russian uranium probe, and so was his successor James Comey who took over in 2013 as the FBI was still developing the case. Rod Rosenstein, then-U.S. Attorney....


12. The FBI offered to pay Christopher Steele if he could corroborate the dossier….so he told Yahoo New’s Michael Isikoff about the dossier, had him print the information….then told the FBI that Isikoff independently discovered the “facts”…

Steele admitted, in a British court, that he leaked the material to Yahoo. September 23 Yahoo ran the story.

The FBI took the Isikoff Yahoo story to the FISA court to get the warrant….then fired Steele for sharing it with news outlets.

13. After the FBI fired Steele, he continued to confer with Bruce Ohr and the DoJ…and Rod Rosestein and Sally Yates.

In September of 2016, this was Steele’s statement to Bruce Ohr that he “was desperate thatDonald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.”


14. And in another stunning revelation, the memo asserts that Justice Department official Bruce Ohr was used to pass information from the author of the dossier, Christopher Steele, to the DOJ.
Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, worked at the time for Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm research firm that commissioned the dossier. Bruce Ohr, who worked closely with Deputy Attorney Generals Sally Yates and Rod Rosenstein, passed his wife’s opposition research on Trump to the FBI, the memo says.


15. Fired by the FBI as untrustworthy, Steele is maintained by the DoJ as a contact, and all the while, Bruce Ohr’s wife is drawing a salary from the group Hillary hired to produce the dossier….GPS Fusion.

Bruce Ohr’s wife’s connections to Hillary’s paid dossier-producers, GPS Fusion, was never disclosed to the FISA court.

16. Not Hillary Clinton’s Campaign, nor the DNC, nor Christopher Steel, nor Fusion GPS, nor Bruce Ohr’s wife, the roles of none of these participants in the creation of the dossier….not a one was revealed to the FISA court.

17. The memo also says that the FBI’s deputy director, Andrew McCabe, told Congress that a FISA warrant against the campaign adviser, Carter Page, would not have been granted without use of the dossier. That despite the FBI later determining that very little of the Democrat-funded document was corroborated


18. Let’s compare the zealous and very aggressive action by Mueller against Flynn, Manafort, Papadopoulos, and Carter Page with the immunity and passes given above…..

19..The memo notes that the Papadopoulos information “triggered” the FBI investigation into possible Trump campaign collusion.
It says that there is no evidence that Page and Papadopoulos engaged in a conspiracy. “
Spy Warrant Granted Based On Dossier And News Stories Planted By Fusion GPS



…and lots of evidence of associations of Democrats with the Kremlin….

…completely different treatment.

20. And all of the players in on the fix were demanding the Memo not be released….and lied about why it should not be released.




Clearly, like you, Mueller is a shill for Hillary and the DNC.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Either he has an immunity deal he arranged when he saw the handwriting on the wall, or he heard footsteps, and bailed out.

Or, you might need to take off your tin hat to understand this, there was no conspiracy and Mueller was a professional doing the job he was given. Maybe he is just what he appears to be, the last honest man in DC?

Trump bashers think that Mueller is the torch bearer for everything that is noble and just. Of course, as in most things, they are wrong. Muller leaves behind him a record of incompetency and ruthlessness

.Muller mishandling the anthrax investigation back in the early 1990s His ignorance, arrogance and total disregard for individual rights and due process ruined the lives of innocent people, including Steven Hatfill. Hatfill sued and was awarded almost $6 million.

Mueller Has Been Botching Investigations Since The Anthrax Attacks

Mueller didn't give a royal damn about how many innocent people he hurt as long as he deluded Americans that he was doing his job

“In the aftermath of the attacks, Mueller directed the “post-9/11 round-up” of around 1,000 immigrants who mostly happened to be in the wrong place (NYC area) at the wrong time, as FBI Headquarters encouraged more and more detentions for what seemed to be essentially PR purposes. Field offices were required to report daily the number of detentions in order to supply grist for FBI press releases about FBI “progress” in fighting terrorism. Consequently, some of the detainees were brutalized and jailed for up to a year despite the fact that none turned out to be terrorists.”

No, Robert Mueller And James Comey Aren't Heroes | HuffPost

The fact that Mueller gave Hillary a free pass on her multiple crimes – including Russian collusion - while conducting a witch hunt on Trump proves he is biased and corrupt, The stench of Hillary Clinton emanates from his every pore.

There is one more case that reveals Mueller's true character. The FBI let four men rot in prison for decades even though they knew the men were innocent. Mueller did his best to keep them there.

“In 2001, the four men convicted of Teddy Deegan’s murder [in 1965] were exonerated. Turned out the FBI let them take the rap to protect one of their informants, a killer named Vincent “Jimmy’’ Flemmi, who just happened to be the brother of their other rat, Stevie Flemmi. Thanks to the FBI’s corruption, taxpayers got stuck with the $100 million bill for compensating the framed men, two of whom, Greco and Tameleo, died in prison.

“Albano was appalled that, later that same year, Mueller was appointed FBI director, because it was Mueller, first as an assistant US attorney then as the acting US attorney in Boston, who wrote letters to the parole and pardons board throughout the 1980s opposing clemency for the four men framed by FBI lies.

“Of course, Mueller was also in that position while Whitey Bulger was helping the FBI cart off his criminal competitors even as he buried bodies in shallow graves along the Neponset

“Four years ago, when questioned about the FBI’s corruption in Boston, Mueller told the Globe, “I think the public should recognize that what happened, happened years ago.’’

A lingering question for the FBI’s director

Mueller is dishonest and ruthless. The only thing he cares about is himself. He will destroy people's lives to protect his image.

I'm gonna take notes on this one, Prof

 

[edward37]

Those conflicts are pretty weak.

As a card-carrying member of the Great RIght-Wing Conspiracy, I find very little to complain about with Mueller. The letter creating the position was more broad than it should have been, but with those marching orders he did was he was told to do. He is certainly to be commended for keeping their work confidential for that long period of time - something that every other relevant deliberative body over the past three years has failed to do.

I dare say it would be difficult to find a dozen qualified lawyers in Washington who do not think Trump is a total dick, so complaints about the political inclinations of the staff lawyers are also a bit strained.

And truly, how can you complain about his work product? The people he indicted were clearly guilty of crimes, and those for whom he could not establish a Prima Facia case were let off without indictment. Congress may use some of his work product to try to embarrass Trump and his posse, but you can't lay that on Mueller.

Mueller is not "disreputable" by any rational measure. Indeed, you look like the mirror image of those attacking Barr right now.

The Mule allowed men he knew were innocent to rot and die in prison, in order to protect his stoolies....He's as low of a scumbag as you can get.

and that is simply NOT TRUE, and a right wing creation and lie you happened to believe, without actually researching it...


Mueller, Hannity claims, was linked to legendary organized crime figure James “Whitey” Bulger. But is that true? The Boston Globe did some fact-checking, and this is what they found.

1- First, regarding Hannity’s claims about Robert Mueller’s connection to Whitey Bulger: Mueller’s office wasn’t even involved. Mueller served in the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston from 1982 to 1988, but it was the FBI and the New England Organized Crime Strike Force (prosecuting attorneys who worked independently of the U.S. attorney’s office and reported directly to the Department of Justice) that were responsible for the Bulger scandal. The FBI and the Strike Force used Bulger to help them uncover Mafia crimes, all the while not doing a thing about the crimes Bulger himself had committed. Long story short: Mueller could not have been involved with Bulger because he wasn’t even involved with the FBI or the Strike Force.


2- Let’s move on to another of Hannity’s claims. He alleges that because of Robert Mueller, four men were framed by an FBI informant and wrongfully imprisoned for many years. Two of those men even died in prison.

Was Mueller involved with that? Let’s start with the basics: the informant who framed the men was not Bulger. In fact, it was Joseph “The Animal” Barboza, and the trial against Joseph Salvati, Peter J. Limone, Louis Greco, and Henry Tamelo took place in 1968. Mueller was born in 1944. When the trial took place, Mueller was busy serving in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. Mueller didn’t even graduate from law school until 1973, so he could hardly have been involved in the Salvati trial.

What is true about Hannity’s claim is that the FBI was found to have had corrupt relationships with Bulger and his sidekick, Stephen Flemmi. This information started to become public knowledge in 1988, and an investigation into the FBI’s “mishandling” of informants as far back as the 1960s began at that time. Again, Mueller had nothing to do with the FBI or Bulger.

Did Mueller look the other way when he knew Salvati and his colleagues had been wrongfully convicted? The Globe found that according to the attorneys for the men, the former federal judge who oversaw the wrongful imprisonment trial, and the court records from that trial, there was nothing that linked Mueller to the case.




3- Hannity also claimed that Robert Mueller was one of the prosecutors who wrote letters to the Massachusetts Parole Board opposing the release of Salvati and his colleagues. Again, former federal judge Nancy Gertner, who oversaw the Salvati trial, and Juliane Balliro, Limone’s attorney, examined the parole board records for the four men. They found no letters from Mueller in the files, and his signature “never appeared on anything I ever saw or can recall,” Balliro told the Globe.

READ THE REST HERE:

Fact-checking Claims about Robert Mueller’s FBI Past - Civics Nation

Hannity is garbage like Trump 2 pieces of crap in the same bowl