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  1. The Logan Act threat against Papadopoulos is even more risible now that Obama’s henchmen are openly collaborating with Iran. Would love to have Trump point this out the next time Pelosi rants about “impeachment” or “prison” for Trump.

  2. I think Barr is a straight shooter and will unravel this spider web of deception, corruption, and treason.

  3. Going through all of this, as someone who still holds idealistic standards about truth and the rule of law, is extremely depressing.

  4. Michael Towns:

    Agreed.

    I hope we never get used to it, and I hope my growing cynicism does not prove correct.

  5. Falling (sadly) into a less and less and less Mueller category, a Jordan Schachtel thread on just released FOIAED FBI docs (quoting): *** “FBI concludes Hillary Clinton was in “violation of basic server security” w/ home-brew server.
    -Discusses possibility that *all* of her emails were stolen.
    -Review found HRC stripped classification of highest possible level.” ***

    Link: https://mobile.twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1137090107033493504

    Stomach turning stuff, all taken in all.

  6. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/robert-mueller-russia-investigation-special-counsel-dershowitz

    The conclusion of Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation should mark the end of special counsel- or special prosecutor-led probes, Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Thursday.

    “The Mueller investigation puts the final nail in the coffin of special counsels [or] special prosecutors. The attorney general could do this himself,” Dershowitz continued.

    Barr said earlier Thursday he thought Mueller should’ve reached a conclusion on the obstruction question against President Trump.
    ..
    Dershowitz later echoed that sentiment: “Mueller should have come to a conclusion. I think if he had come to a conclusion, it would’ve been there was no obstruction of justice.”

    He added the Justice Department has “staff people,” civil servants and “full-time line prosecutors” who could fill the hole left by the absence of future special counsels’ or special investigators’ offices.

  7. No one has ever been convicted of a Logan Act violation, but that didn’t stop Mueller et. al.

    Remember what Comey said about mishandling classified material in Hillary’s case. The statute doesn’t require intent, but only two convictions had been delivered under those circumstances. Because two is somehow not enough, Hillary must go free.
    ______

    I agree very much with Neo’s sentiment that “we never get used to it.”

    But I think the thing that unnerves me the most about the Mueller investigation, was that he/they didn’t even attempt to appear fair and unbiased. I mean the composition of the team primarily. I had to look up “Rhee.” That’s Jeannie Rhee, Hillary’s personal attorney, a so-called expert in cyber security. (Ha!) Who would think it was OK to put her on the Mueller team?

    It’s not that I’m surprised that Mueller would be that corrupt. It’s that he didn’t think there would be any consequences to putting together a team that blatantly questionable.

  8. The Kilimnik reveal probably indicates that Kilimnik was just another lure sent at the Trump Campaign by someone in the Obama Administration.

  9. ” One of the most upsetting things is that the government has inexhaustible resources and private people they target have to pay their own legal fees, not to mention the stress involved, which acts as pressure to lie to get the whole thing over with.” – Neo

    The even more depressing part is that, as taxpayers, we not only pay to have our government harass our fellow citizens — if the FBI is taken to court, we pay their defense fees and, if they lose, any settlements to the plaintiffs.

    This will continue until government LEOs have to pay their own way for charges of bias and misconduct.
    I mean, by reimbursing the government it they lose, otherwise they face the same problems as their alleged victims during the investgation and trial, but NOT having an unlimited purse to draw from, otherwise few legitimate complaints will prosper.
    However, I know personally of two cases where the FBI was smacked down by judges for over-reach that was nearly on par with what we’ve been seeing.

  10. “It’s not that I’m surprised that Mueller would be that corrupt. It’s that he didn’t think there would be any consequences to putting together a team that blatantly questionable.” – TommyJay

    It looked horrible on the face of it at the beginning, because it was (see Dershowitz’s comments above), but the silver lining did finally show up (as predicted by some): if there had been any scintilla of evidence of Trump or close associates actually conspiring with real Russian operatives (rather than FBI bait), they would have found it.

  11. Should anyone be sure that Herr Müller uses Gestapo tactics?
    He not only looks the aryan ideal and is of pure SS eligible Teutonic Preußen stock, he also is right out of central casting to be an Einsatzgruppen officer.
    He was the inspiration for Col. Landa. His professional history is just icing on the cake.

  12. And while it won’t tell you anything you didn’t already know if you have been following this story about the Steele Dossier like I have, Andy McCarthy literally fillets the document in exacting detail in an essay yesterday from NR.

  13. McCarthy didn’t tell us anything I didn’t know (although he collected and analyzed it very well), but Jeff Carlson did:

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/5-discrepancies-call-the-accuracy-of-muellers-report-into-question_2951924.html

    The Mueller report appears to have been carefully worded by the lawyers working under former special counsel Robert Mueller, and perhaps Mueller himself, in a manner designed to inflict political damage on President Donald Trump.

    Additionally, we now know that sections of the report were also selectively edited to provide damaging portrayals. Examples include the representation of the transcript of a phone call between the president’s attorney, John Dowd, and the attorney for former national security adviser Michael Flynn, a letter from the attorney of an individual referenced in the Mueller report [Giorgi Rtskhiladze & the “stopped tapes,” which included some details I hadn’t seen before], and a sequence of dates concerning the meeting between Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos and Australian diplomat Alexander Downer [Mueller misdated the meeting with Downer and skipped over the attempts to entrap Papdopoulos].
    Lastly, there are troubling and disturbing details surrounding a heavily used witness in the Mueller report, George Nader.

    That’s actually only 4; he didn’t mention there that “Rosenstein & Sessions Discussed Need to Remove Comey” well before he was fired by Trump.

    The information about Nadler was, as the NYT says, a real bombshell.

    Although the media has frequently reported Nader as being tied solely to the Trump campaign, this description is inaccurate. The Mueller report notes that “Nader developed contacts with both U.S. presidential campaigns during the 2016 election” and ABC News reported that Nader “had frequent access to almost every White House — Democrat and Republican — since President Ronald Reagan was in office — except for the Obama White House — sources and records showed.”

    Nader was arrested June 3 [2018] on charges of possessing child pornography on one of his cell phones. The sequence of events leading to his arrest is telling. On Jan. 17, 2018, Nader was interviewed by FBI agents on a matter unrelated to the current charges. At the conclusion of the interview, Nader was notified of a search warrant for his phones.


    On Feb. 12, 2018, the phones were searched for evidence under the search warrant, which was unrelated to any matters of child pornography. It was at this point that the child pornography was discovered and referred to the charging agent.

    On April 19, 2018, a sealed complaint was filed against Nader for possession of child pornography, although Nader was no longer in the country. He didn’t return to the United States until June 3, when he was arrested.

    Representing him during what was reported as seven interviews with staff of the office of the special counsel was Kathryn Ruemmler, who served as White House counsel under Obama and had previously worked with Andrew Weissmann, a prosecutor on the Mueller team, on the Enron Task Force.

    According to the Washington Post, following Nader’s initial FBI interview at Dulles Airport, [I think he means the January one] “over the following weeks, Nader began to cooperate with authorities, providing grand jury testimony about his interactions with Trump supporters, according to people familiar with the matter.” Given that Nader’s cooperation with the special counsel appears to have occurred through at least February, Nader’s possession of child pornography was known to at least some within the FBI while Nader was providing testimony to Mueller’s team.

    If accurate, this raises substantial questions as to why Nader was later allowed to leave the country, given the Feb. 12, 2018, discovery of the child pornography on his phone.

    The larger question raised by these issues is the notable omission of critical details within the Mueller report—many of them taking place in Volume II, which deals with issues of obstruction.

    If it’s this easy to uncover discrepancies with limited public information, one wonders what may exist in comparison to underlying source documents.

    (h/t from https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/more_evidence_mueller_report_was_a_dishonest_hit_job_omitting_key_facts_to_distort_conclusions.html)

  14. The Gossip Factory cuts both ways.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/doj-official-bruce-ohr-conduit-for-dossier-author-got-28000-bonus-during-russian-probe_2955292.html

    The Justice Department gave Bruce Ohr a $28,000 bonus in 2016, documents show.
    Ohr began meeting that year with Christopher Steele, the author of the anti-Trump dossier.
    Ohr’s 2016 bonus is double what he received in 2015.
    Tom Fitton, whose group Judicial Watch obtained the documents, said they indicate that Ohr “was rewarded for his role in the illicit targeting of President Trump.”

    Fitton is just making allegations, of course, but if he “had confidence that the former associate deputy attorney general clearly did not commit a crime, he would have said so.”

    Maybe the DOJ can appoint a special counsel to investigate.

  15. More, More, More on Ohr, Ohr, Ohr.
    Sundance reminds us what was happening when Bruce got that nice bonus.

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/06/07/foia-docs-twice-demoted-doj-official-bruce-ohr-received-28000-bonus-during-work-on-sketchy-dossier/

    This is a prime example of what historically sent people to the pitchforks. According to newly released FOIA documents received by Judicial Watch, twice-demoted DOJ official Bruce Ohr received pay raises and a $28,000 bonus while working on the anti-Trump operation. (full pdf below)
    Bruce Ohr was originally demoted in December 2017 stripping away his title of associate deputy attorney general based on what DOJ officials said were “undisclosed contacts” with FBI informant Christopher Steele. We later found out Bruce Ohr completely disclosed his contacts; so his first demotion was a complete CYA move by DOJ officials (ie. Rosenstein).

    A month later, in January 2018, Bruce Ohr was demoted a second time, removing his title as head of the DOJ Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. No reason was given for the second demotion. His employment remained (as it does today) but no official word as to his title.

    However, it is now discovered that Bruce Ohr received performance bonuses for the same work effort he was later demoted for:

    The corruption and audacity within both the FBI and DOJ seems unlimited. They truly act as if they are beyond the reach of accountability. Finding out that Bruce Ohr received performance bonuses for conduct that led to his demotion is blood boiling.

    Yet, the professional political class wonder why us proles are angry?

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