{"id":53776,"date":"2018-04-26T12:33:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T16:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aim4truth.org\/?p=53776"},"modified":"2018-08-06T07:54:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T11:54:47","slug":"robert-mueller-the-unstoppable-deep-state-bully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aim4truth.org\/2018\/04\/26\/robert-mueller-the-unstoppable-deep-state-bully\/","title":{"rendered":"ROBERT MUELLER: The Unstoppable Deep State Bully"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Congressman Louie Gohmert\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
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R<\/span>obert Mueller has a long and sordid history of illicitly targeting innocent people that is<\/span>a stain upon the legacy of American jurisprudence. He lacks the judgment and credibility\u00a0<\/span>to lead the prosecution of anyone.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I do not make these statements lightly.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Each time I prepared to question Mueller during Congressional hearings, the more\u00a0<\/span>concerned I became about his work ethic. Then as I went back to begin compiling all that\u00a0<\/span>information in order to recount personal interactions with Mueller, the more clearly the\u00a0<\/span>big picture began to come into focus. At one point I had to make the decision to stop\u00a0<\/span>adding to this or it would turn into a far too lengthy project.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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My goal was to share some first-hand information as other Republican Members of\u00a0<\/span>Congress had requested, adding,\u00a0<\/span>\u201cYou seem to know so much about him.\u201d <\/span><\/div>\n
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This article is\u00a0<\/span>prepared from my viewpoint to help better inform the reader about the Special\u00a0<\/span>Prosecutor leading the effort to railroad President Donald J. Trump through whatever\u00a0<\/span>manufactured charge he can allege. Judging by Mueller’s history, it doesn’t matter who\u00a0<\/span>he has to threaten, harass, prosecute or bankrupt to get someone to be willing to allege\u00a0<\/span>something –\u00a0<\/span><\/span>anything\u00a0<\/span>–\u00a0<\/span>about our current President, it certainly appears Mueller will do\u00a0<\/span>what it takes to bring down his target, ethically, or unethically, based on my findings.<\/span><\/div>\n
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What does\u00a0former\u00a0Attorney General\u00a0Eric Holder say?\u00a0Sounds\u00a0like much\u00a0the\u00a0same\u00a0thing\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>I just said. Holder: \u201cI\u2019ve known Bob Mueller for 20, 30 years; my guess is he\u2019s just trying<\/span>to make the case as good as he possibly can.\u201d Holder does know him. He has seen\u00a0<\/span>Mueller at work when Holder was obstructing justice and acting in contempt of\u00a0<\/span>Congress. He knows Mueller\u2019s FBI framed innoc<\/span>ent people and had no remorse in doing\u00a0<\/span>so. Let\u2019s look at what we know.<\/span><\/div>\n
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What I have accumulated here is absolutely shocking upon the realization that Mueller’s\u00a0<\/span>disreputable, twisted history speaks to the character of the man placed in a position to\u00a0<\/span>attempt to legalize a coup against a lawfully-elected President.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Any Republican who says anything resembling,\u00a0<\/span>\u201cBob Mueller will do a good job as Special\u00a0<\/span>Counsel,\u201d \u201cBob Mueller has a great reputation for being fair,\u201d or anything similar; (A)\u00a0<\/span>wants President Trump indicted for something and removed from office regardless of\u00a0<\/span>his innocence; (B) is intentionally ignorant of the myriad of outrageous problems permeating Mueller\u2019s professional history; or (C) is cultivating future Democrat votes when he or she comes before the Senate someday for a confirmation hearing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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There is simply too much clear and convincing information available to the contrary.\u00a0<\/span>Where other writers have set out information succinctly, I have quoted them, with\u00a0<\/span>proper attribution. My goal is to help you see what I have found.<\/span><\/div>\n
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In his early years as FBI Director, most Republican members of Congress gave Mueller\u00a0<\/span>pass in oversight hearings, allowing him to avoid tough questions. After all, we were\u00a0<\/span>continually told,\u00a0<\/span>\u201cBush appointed him.\u201d I gave him easy questions the first time I\u00a0<\/span>questioned him in 2005 out of deference to his Vietnam service. Yet, the longer I was in\u00a0<\/span>Congress, the more conspicuous the problems became. <\/span><\/div>\n
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As I have said before of another\u00a0<\/span>Vietnam veteran, just because someone deserves our respect for service or our\u00a0<\/span>sympathy for things that happened to them in the military, that does not give them the\u00a0<\/span>right to harm our country later. As glaring problems came to light, I toughened up my\u00a0<\/span>questions in the oversight hearings. But first, let’s cover a little of Mueller’s history.<\/span><\/div>\n
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MUELLER\u2019S MINIONS HELP MOBSTER WHITEY BULGER ELIMINATE MOB COMPETITORS<\/span><\/h2>\n
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T<\/span>he Boston Globe noted Robert Mueller\u2019s connection with the Whitey Bulger case in an <\/span>article entitled, \u201cO<\/span>ne <\/span>Lingering Question for FBI Director Robert Mueller.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
The Globe <\/span><\/span><\/em>said this:<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201c[Mike] Albano [former Parole Board Member who was threatened by <\/span>two F.B.I. agents for considering parole for the men imprisoned for a <\/span>crime they did not commit] was appalled that, later that same year, <\/span>Mueller was appointed FBI director, because it was Mueller, first as an <\/span>assistant US attorney then as the acting U.S. attorney in Boston, who <\/span>wrote letters to the parole and pardons board throughout the 1980s <\/span>opposing clemency for the four men framed by FBI lies. Of course, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Mueller was also in that position while Whitey Bulger was helping the <\/span>FBI cart off his criminal competitors even as he buried bodies in <\/span>shallow graves along the Neponset\u2026\u201d Source<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Mueller was the head of the Criminal Division as Assistant U.S. Attorney, then as Acting <\/span>U.S. Attorney. I could not find any explanation online by Mueller as to why he insisted <\/span>on keeping the defendants in prison that FBI agents\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u2014\u00a0<\/span>in the pocket of Whitey Bulger\u00a0<\/span>\u2014<\/span>had framed for a murder they did not commit. Make no mistake: these were not <\/span>honorable people he had incarcerated. <\/span><\/div>\n
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But it was part of a pattern that eventually <\/span>became quite clear that Mueller was more concerned with convicting and putting people <\/span>in jail he disliked, even if they were innocent of the charges, than he was with ferreting <\/span>out the truth.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I found no explanation as to why he did not bear any responsibility for the $100 million\u00a0<\/span>paid to the defendants who were framed by FBI agents under his control. The Boston\u00a0<\/em><\/span>Globe<\/em> said, \u201cThanks to the FBI\u2019s corruption, taxpayers got stuck with the $100 million bill <\/span>for compensating the framed men, two of whom, Greco and Tameleo, died in prison.\u201d Source<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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The New York Times explained the relationship\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>this way: \u201cIn the 1980’s, while [FBI Agent] <\/span>Mr. Connolly was working with Whitey Bulger, Mr. Mueller was assistant United States\u00a0<\/span><\/span>attorney in Boston in charge of the criminal division and for a period was the acting <\/span>United States attorney here, presiding o<\/span>ver Mr. Connolly and Mr. Bulger as a \u2019top–<\/span>echelon informant.’ Officials of the Massachusetts state police and the Boston Police <\/span>Department had long wondered why their investigations of Mr. Bulger were always\u00a0<\/span>compromised before they could gather evidence against him, and they suspected that\u00a0<\/span>the FBI was protecting him.\u201d Source<\/a><\/p>\n

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If Mr. Mueller had no knowledge that the FBI agents he used were engaged in criminal <\/span>activity, then he certainly was so incredibly blind that he should never be allowed back <\/span>into any type of criminal case supervision. He certainly helped continue to contribute to <\/span>the damages of the framed individuals by working so hard to prevent them from being <\/span>paroled out of prison even as their charges were on their way to being completely <\/span>thrown out. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Notice also evidence of a pattern throughout this article: the leaking of information to <\/span>disparage Mueller\u2019s targets. In the Whitey Bulger case, the leaks were to organized <\/span>crime, the Mob.<\/span><\/div>\n
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One of the basic tenets of our Democratic Republic is that we never imprison people for\u00a0<\/span>being <\/span><\/span>\u201c<\/span><\/span>bad<\/span>\u201d\u00a0<\/span>people. Anyone imprisoned has to have committed a specific crime for\u00a0<\/span>which they are found guilty. Not in Mueller\u2019s world. He has the reverse list of Santa Claus; <\/span>and, if you are on his list, you get punished even if you are framed. He never apologizes <\/span>when the truth is learned, no matter how wrong or potentially criminal or malicious the <\/span>prosecution was. In his book, you deserve what you get even if you did not commit the <\/span>crime for which he helped put you away. <\/span><\/div>\n
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This is one example, but as Al Pacino once famously said<\/span>, \u201cI\u2019m just getting warmed up!\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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CONGRESSMAN CURT WELDON DEFEATED BY MUELLER\u2019S FBI<\/span><\/h2>\n
D<\/span>uring my first term in Congress, 2005-2006, Congressman Curt Weldon delivered <\/span>some powerful and relentless allegations about the FBI having prior knowledge that 9-<\/span>11 was coming. He alleged loudly and vociferously that there was documentary evidence <\/span><\/span>to show that 9-11 could have been prevented and thousands of lives saved if the FBI had\u00a0<\/span>done their job. My recollection is that he may have even accused them of intentionally <\/span>turning their heads. He held up documents at times while making these claims in <\/span>speeches on the floor of the House of Representatives.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I was surprised that FBI Director Mueller seemed to take those allegations without the\u00a0<\/span>major response that appeared to be appropriate, at least to me. It seemed he should\u00a0<\/span>either admit the FBI made significant mistakes or refute the allegations. Little did I know <\/span>Mueller\u2019s FBI was preparing a response, but it certainly was not the kind of response <\/span>that I would have expected if an honorable man had been running that once hallowed <\/span>institution.<\/span><\/div>\n
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You can read two of <\/span>Congressman Weldon\u2019s speeches on the House floor\u00a0<\/span>that are linked\u00a0<\/span>below. After reading the excerpts I have provided, you may get a window into the mind\u00a0<\/span>of the FBI Director or someone under Mueller\u2019s control at the FBI. The FBI literally\u00a0<\/span>destroyed Congressman Weldon’s public service life which foreclosed his ability to use <\/span>a national platform to expose what he believed were major problems in the FBI fostered <\/span>under the Clinton administration. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Here is but one such excerpt of a speech wherein he spoke of the failure of the FBI\u00a0<\/span>leadership, then under the direction of the Clinton administration as it ultimately came\u00a0<\/span>within Mueller\u2019s control right be<\/span>fore 9-11. They failed to even accept from the military\u00a0<\/span>any information on the very terrorists who would later go on to commit the atrocities of\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>9-11, much less act upon it. They gleaned this information through development of a <\/span>surveillance technology in a project called Able Danger.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Mr. Speaker, back in 1999 when I was Chair of the Defense Research <\/span>Subcommittee, the Army was doing cutting-edge work on a new type <\/span>of technology to allow us to understand and predict emerging <\/span>transnational terrorist threats. That technology was being done at <\/span>several locations but was being led by our Special Forces Command. <\/span>The work that they were doing was unprecedented. And because of <\/span>what I saw there, I supported the development of a national capability <\/span>of a collaborative center that the CIA would just not accept.<\/span><\/div>\n
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In fact, in November 4 of 1999, two years before 9-11, in a meeting in <\/span>my office with the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Deputy Director of <\/span>the CIA, Deputy Director of the FBI, we presented a nine-page proposal <\/span>to create a national collaborative center. When we finished the brief, <\/span>the CIA said we did not need that capability, and so before 9-11 we did <\/span>not have it.<\/span><\/div>\n
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When President Bush came in after a year of research, he announced\u00a0<\/span>the formation of the Terrorism Threat Integration Center, exactly what <\/span>I had proposed in 1999. Today it is known as the NCTC, the National <\/span>Counterterrorism Center. But, Mr. Speaker, what troubles me is not <\/span>the fact that we did not take those steps.<\/span><\/div>\n
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What troubles me is that I now have learned in the last four months <\/span>that one of the tasks that was being done in 1999 and 2000 was a top-<\/span>secret program organized at the request of the Chairman of the Joint <\/span>Chiefs of Staff, carried out by the general in charge of our Special <\/span>Forces Command, a very elite unit focusing on information regarding <\/span>al Qaeda.<\/span><\/div>\n
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It was a military language effort to allow us to identify the key cells of <\/span>al Qaeda around the world and to give the military the capability to <\/span>plan actions against those cells, so they could not attack us as they did<\/span>in 1993 at the Trade Center, at the Khobar Towers, the U.S.S. Cole <\/span>attack, and the African embassy bombings.<\/span><\/div>\n
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What I did not know, Mr. Speaker, up until June of this year, was that <\/span>that secret program called Able Danger actually identified the <\/span>Brooklyn cell of al Qaeda in January and February of 2000, over one <\/span>year before 9-11 ever happened. In addition, I learned that not only <\/span>did we identify the Brooklyn cell of al Qaeda, but we identified <\/span>Mohamed Atta as one of the members of that Brooklyn cell along with <\/span>three other terrorists who were the leadership of the 9-11 attack.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I have also learned, Mr. Speaker, that in September of 2000, again, <\/span>over one year before 9-11, that Able Danger team attempted <\/span>on three <\/strong><\/span>separate occasions <\/span><\/strong>to provide information to the FBI about the <\/span>Brooklyn cell of al Qaeda, and on three separate occasions they were <\/span>denied by lawyers in the previous administration to transfer that <\/span>information.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Mr. Speake<\/span>r, this past Sunday on \u201cMeet the Press,” Louis Freeh, FBI <\/span>Director at the time, was interviewed by Tim Russert. The first <\/span>question to Louis Freeh was in regard to the FBI’s ability to ferret out <\/span>the terrorists. Louis Freeh’s response, which can be obtained by\u00a0<\/span>anyone in this country as a part of the official record, was, \u2018Well, Tim, <\/span>we are now finding out that a top-secret program of the military called <\/span>Able Danger actually identified the Brooklyn cell of al Qaeda and <\/span>Mohammed Atta over a year before 9-<\/span>11.\u2019<\/div>\n
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And what Louis Freeh said, Mr. Speaker, is that that kind of actionable <\/span>data could have allowed us to prevent the hijackings that occurred on <\/span>September 11.<\/span><\/div>\n
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So now we know, Mr. Speaker, that military intelligence officers <\/span>working in a program authorized by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs <\/span>of Staff, the general in charge of Special Forces Command, identified <\/span>Mohammed Atta and three terrorists a year before 9-11,\u00a0<\/span>tried to <\/span>transfer that information to the FBI were denied<\/span><\/strong>; and the FBI Director <\/span>has now said publicly if he would have had that information, the FBI <\/span>could have used it to perhaps prevent the hijackings that struck the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the plane that landed in <\/span>Pennsylvania and perhaps saved 3,000 lives and changed the course <\/span>of world history. (Emphasis added) Source<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Curt Weldon gave speech after speech, recounting what he saw and what he knew,\u00a0<\/span>recounting the FBI and the Clinton administration failures in information sharing that led <\/span>to 9-11. Source<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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\"quoteCongressman Weldon tried to hold those accountable in the FBI and CIA that he felt <\/span>mishandled actionable intelligence which <\/span>he said could have thwarted the 9-11 <\/span>terrorists if only top officials at the FBI and <\/span>others had allowed our rank-and-file law <\/span>enforcement and military to engage in such <\/span>a battle. He recounted many examples of <\/span>how they failed to do so. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Understand, I am not a 9-11 denier, nor a big conspiracy advocate. I am simply relaying <\/span>things for which Congressman Weldon lambasted people at the top of the FBI and other <\/span>places. Source<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In 2006, the Robert Mueller-led FBI took horrendously unjust actions to derail Curt\u00a0<\/span>Weldon\u2019s re<\/span><\/span>-election bid just weeks before the vote\u00a0<\/span>\u2014n<\/span>actions that were later described <\/span>as a \u201chit job\u201d in <\/span><\/span>this <\/span>WND\u00a0<\/span>article:<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cEach of Weldon\u2019s 10 previous re<\/span>-elections had been by sizable <\/span>margins. Polls showed he was up by 5-7 points [in the fall of 2006]. <\/span>Three weeks prior to the election, however, a national story ran <\/span>about Weldon <\/span>based upon anonymous sources\u00a0<\/span>that an <\/span>investigation was underway against him and his daughter, <\/span>alleging illegal activities involving his congressional work.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Weldon had received no prior notification of any such <\/span>investigation and was dumbfounded that such a story would run <\/span>especially since he regularly briefed the FBI and intelligence <\/span>agencies on his work.<\/span><\/div>\n
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A week after the news story broke, alleging a need to act quickly <\/span>because of the leak, FBI agents from Washington raided the home <\/span>of Weldon\u2019s daughter at 7 a.m. on a Monday morning\u2026 <\/span>Local TV <\/span>and print media had all been alerted to the raid in advance\u00a0<\/span>and <\/span>were already in position to cover the story. Within hours, <\/span>Democratic protesters were waving \u201cCaught Red<\/span>–<\/span>Handed\u201d signs <\/span>outside Weldon\u2019s district office in Upper Darby.<\/span><\/div>\n
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In the ensuing two weeks, local and national media ran multiple <\/span>stories implying that Weldon too must have been under <\/span>investigation. Given the coverage, Weldon lost the election\u2026<\/span><\/div>\n
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To this day, incredibly, no one in authority has talked to Weldon <\/span>or his daughter about the raid or the investigation. <\/span>There was no <\/span>follow up, no questions, no grand jury interrogation, nothing.<\/span><\/div>\n
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One year after the raid the local FBI office called Weldon\u2019s <\/span>daughter to have her come get the property that had been <\/span>removed from her home. <\/span>That was it\u2026The raid ruined the career <\/span>of Weldon and his daughter.\u201d (Emphasis added) Source<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Though the WND article blamed the Clintons and Sandy Berger for orchestrating the FBI\u00a0<\/span>\u201chit job,\u201d we can\u2019t lose sight of the fact that the head of the FBI at the time was Robert <\/span>Mueller. Please understand what former FBI officials have told me: the FBI would NEVER\u00a0<\/span>go after a member of Congress, House or Senate, without the full disclosure to and <\/span>blessing of the FBI Director. Even if the idea on how to silence Curt Weldon did not come <\/span>from Director Mueller himself, it surely had his blessing and encouragement, though <\/span>and, at best, his silence and inaction.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The early morning raid by Mueller\u2019s FBI with all the media outside, obviously alerted by <\/span>the FBI, had achieved its goal of colluding to abuse the federal justice system to silence\u00a0<\/span>Curt Weldon by ending his political career. Mueller\u2019s F<\/span>BI worked it like a charm. <\/span><\/div>\n
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If the <\/span>Clintons and Berger manipulated Weldon\u2019s reelection to assure his defeat, they did it <\/span>with the artful aid of Mueller, all while George W. Bush was President. Is any of this <\/span>sounding familiar? <\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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People say those kinds of thi<\/span>ngs just don\u2019t happen in America. They certainly seemed to\u00a0<\/span>when Mueller was in charge of the FBI and they certainly seem to while he is Special\u00a0<\/span>Counsel, as well.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\"MuellerIt appears clear that President <\/span>Obama and his myrmidons knew of <\/span>Mueller\u2019s reputation, that he could <\/span>be used to take out their political <\/span>opponents should such extra-legal <\/span>actions become politically <\/span>necessary. <\/span>To the great dismay of the many good, decent and straight arrow FBI agents, Obama <\/span>begged Mueller to stay on for two more years than the 10 years the law allowed. <\/span>Obama then asked Congress to approve Mueller\u2019s waiver allowing him to stay on two <\/span>extra years.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Perhaps the leaders in Congress did not realize what they were doing in approving it. I <\/span>did. It was a major mistake, and I said so at the time. This is also why I objected\u00a0<\/span>strenuously the moment I heard Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed his <\/span>old friend Bob Mueller to be Special Counsel to go after President Trump.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I was one of the few who were NOT surprised when Mueller started selecting his\u00a0<\/span>assistants in the Special Counsel\u2019s office who had reputations for being bullies, for\u00a0<\/span>indicting people who were not guilty of the charges, for forcing people toward\u00a0<\/span>bankruptcy b<\/span><\/span>y running up their attorney\u2019s fees <\/span>(<\/span>while the bullies in the Special Counsel\u2019s <\/span>office enjoy an apparently endless government budget), or by threatening innocent <\/span>family members with prosecution so the Special Counsel\u2019s victim would agree to <\/span>pleading guilty to anything to prevent the Kafka-esque prosecutors from doing more\u00a0<\/span>harm to their families. <\/span>The pattern is there. Are you seeing it?<\/span><\/div>\n
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MUELLER\u2019S ILLEGAL RAID ON CONGRESSIONAL OFFICES<\/span><\/h2>\n
T<\/span>here is a doctrine in our experiment in self-government mandating that all parts of the <\/span>government must have oversight to prevent power from corrupting and absolute power <\/span>from corrupting absolutely. The Congress and Senate are accountable to the voters as is <\/span>the President. All the massive bloated bureaucracy is supposed to be accountable to the <\/span>Congress.<\/span><\/div>\n
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A good example would be complaints against the Department of Justice or, specifically,\u00a0the FBI. If constituents or whistleblowers within those entities have complaints, a\u00a0Congressman\u2019s office is a good place to contact. Our conversations or information from\u00a0constituents or whistleblowers are normally privileged from review by anyone within\u00a0the Executive Branch. It must be so. If the FBI could raid our offices anytime an FBI agent\u00a0were to complain to us, no FBI agent could ever afford to come forward, no matter how\u00a0egregious the conduct they are wanting to disclose. Whistle blowing FBI Agents have to\u00a0know they are protected. They always have known that in the past.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As I learned from talking with attorneys who had helped the House previously with this <\/span>issue, if the FBI or another law enforcement entity needed to search something on the <\/span>House side of the Capitol or House office buildings, they contacted the House Counsel, <\/span>whether with a warrant or request. The House Counsel with approval of the Speaker, <\/span>would go through the Congress Members documents, computers, flash drives, or\u00a0<\/span>anything that might have any bearing on what was being sought as part of the <\/span>investigation. They would honestly determine what was relevant and what was not, and <\/span>what was both irrelevant and privileged from Executive Branch review.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Normally, if there were a dispute or question, it could be presented to a federal judge <\/span>for a private in-chamber review to determine if it were privileged or relevant. If the DOJ <\/span>or FBI were to get a warrant and gather all computers or documents in a Congressman\u2019s <\/span>office without the recovered items being screened to insure they are not privileged from <\/span>DOJ seizure, the DOJ would be risking that an entire case might be thrown out because <\/span>of things improperly recovered and \u201cfruit of the poisonous tree,\u201d preventing the use of <\/span>even things that were not privileged.<\/span><\/div>\n
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However, FBI Director Mueller seemed determined to throw over 200 years of\u00a0<\/span>Constitutional restraints to the wind so he could let Congress know he was the\u00a0<\/span>unstoppable government bully who could potentially waltz into our offices whenever he <\/span>wished. In the case of Congressman William Jefferson, Democrat of Louisiana, Mueller <\/span><\/span>was willing to risk a reversal of a slam dunk criminal case just to send a message to the <\/span>rest of Congress: you don\u2019t mess with the Zohan, if the Zohan is Bob Mueller.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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That Congressman Jefferson was guilty of something did not surprise most observers <\/span>when, amidst swirling allegations, $90,000 in cold hard cash was found in his freezer. As <\/span>we understood it, the FBI had a witness who was wired and basically got Jefferson on <\/span>tape taking money. They had mountains of indisputable evidence to prove their case. <\/span>They had gotten an entirely appropriate warrant to search his home and had even more <\/span>mountains of evidence to nail the lid on his coffin, figuratively speaking.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I read the Application for Warrant and the accompanying Affidavit for Warrant to raid Jefferson\u2019s\u00a0office, as I did so many times as a felony judge. I could not believe they would risk such a high-profile case just to try to intimidate Members of Congress. In the opinion of this former prosecutor, felony judge and Appellate Court Chief Justice, they could have gotten a conviction based on what they had already spelled out in the very lengthy affidavit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The official attorneys representing the House, knowing my background, allowed me to\u00a0<\/span>sit in on the extremely heated discussions between attorneys for the House, DOJ\u00a0<\/span>attorneys, and, to my recollection, an attorney from the Bush White House, after\u00a0<\/span>Jefferson\u2019s office was raided. The FBI had gathered up virtually every kind of record, <\/span>computerized or otherwise, and carted them off. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I was not aware of the times that the <\/span><\/span><\/span>DOJ and House attorneys, with the Speaker\u2019s permission, had cooperated over the <\/span>years. No Congressman is above the law nor is any above having search warrants issued <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>against them which is why Jefferson\u2019s home was searched without protest. Howeve<\/span>r, <\/span>when the material is in a Congressional office, there is a critical and centuries\u2019 old <\/span>balance of power that must be preserved.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The Mueller FBI spokespeople along with the DOJ choir assured everyone that\u00a0<\/span>everything was fine. They were going to have some <\/span>of the DOJ\u2019s attorneys review all the\u00a0<\/span>material and give back anything that was privileged and unlawful for the DOJ to see.\u00a0<\/span>Then they would make sure none of the DOJ attorneys who participated in the review\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>of materials (that were privileged from the DOJ\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0viewing) would be allowed to be\u00a0<\/span>prosecutors in Jefferson\u2019s case.<\/span><\/div>\n
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If you find that kind of thinking terribly flawed and <\/span>constitutionally appalling, you would be in agreement with the former Speakers of the <\/span>House, the Vice President at the time, and ultimately, the final decisions of our federal <\/span>appellate court system. They found the search to be illegal and inappropriate. <\/span>Fortunately for the DOJ, they did not throw the entire case out.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Mueller’s Five Year Up-Or-Out Policy<\/span><\/h2>\n
I<\/span>n federal law enforcement, it takes a new federal agent or supervisor about five years <\/span>or so after arriving at a newly assigned office to gain the trust and respect of local law <\/span>officers. That trust and respect is absolutely critical to doing the best job possible. Yet <\/span>new FBI Director Robert Mueller came up with a new personnel policy that would rid <\/span>the FBI of thousands of years of its most invaluable experience. <\/span><\/div>\n
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In a nutshell, after an FBI employee was in any type of supervisory position for five years, <\/span>he or she had to either come to Washington to sit at a desk or get out of the FBI. In the <\/span>myriad of FBI offices around the country, most agents love what they do in actively <\/span>enforcing the law. They have families involved in the community; their kids enjoy their <\/span>schools; and they do not want to move to the high cost of living in Washington, DC, and <\/span>especially not to an inside desk job.<\/span><\/div>\n
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What occurred around the country was that agents in charge of their local offices got <\/span>out of the FBI and did something more lucrative. Though they really wanted to stay in, <\/span>they were not allowed to do so if they were not moving to DC. Agents told me that it <\/span>was not unusual for the Special Agent in Charge of a field office to have well over 20 <\/span>years of experience before the policy change. Under Mueller\u2019s policy that changed to <\/span>new Special Agents in Charge having five to ten years of experience when they took over.<\/span><\/div>\n
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If the FBI Director wanted nothing but \u201cyes\u201d men <\/span>and women around the country <\/span>working for him, this was a great policy. Newer agents are more likely to unquestioningly <\/span>salute the FBI Mecca in Washington, and the Director, and never boldly offer a <\/span>suggestion to fix a bad idea and Mueller had plenty of them. Whether it was wasting <\/span>millions of dollars on a software boondoggle or questionable personnel preferences, <\/span>agents tell me Mueller did not want to hear from more experienced people voicing their <\/span>concerns about his ideas or policies.<\/span><\/div>\n
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An NPR report December 13, 2007, entitled, <\/span>\u201c<\/span>FBI’S ‘Five-And-Out’ Transfer Policy Draws <\/span>Criticism<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u00a0dealt with the Mueller controversial policy:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201c<\/span>From the beginning of this year (2007) until the end of September <\/span>(2007), 576 agents found themselves in the five-and-out pool. Less <\/span>than half of them <\/span><\/span>\u2014<\/span><\/span>\u00a0just 286 <\/span>\u2014<\/span>\u00a0opted to go to headquarters; 150 <\/span>decided to take a pay cut and a lesser job to stay put; 135 retired; and <\/span>five resigned outright.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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In the period of nine months accounted for in this report, the FBI ran off a massive <\/span>amount of absolutely priceless law enforcement experience vested in 140 invaluable <\/span>agents. For the vast part, those are the agents who have seen the mistakes, learned <\/span>lessons, could advise newer agents on unseen pitfalls of investigations and pursuit of <\/span>justice. So many of these had at least 20-30 years of experience or more. The lessons <\/span>learned by such seasoned agents were lost as the agents carried it with them when they <\/span>left.<\/span><\/div>\n
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In the 2007 NPR report, the FBI Agents Association indicated that the Five-Year-Up-or-<\/span>Out program hobbles field offices and takes relationships forged there for granted. In <\/span>other words, it was a terrible idea.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The incalculable experience loss damages the FBI by eliminating those in the field in a <\/span>position to write to or meet with the FBI Director to advise him against some of the <\/span>mounting judgment errors on his part which were listed in the NPR article. But this was <\/span>not the only damage done. <\/span>If an FBI Director has inappropriate personal vengeance in mind or holds an <\/span>inappropriate prejudice such as those that infamously motivated Director J. Edgar <\/span>Hoover, then the older, wiser, experienced agents were not around with the confidence <\/span>to question or guide the Director away from potential misjudgment.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I also cannot help <\/span>but wonder if Mueller had not run off the more experienced agents, would they have <\/span>been able to advise against and stop the kind of abuses and corruption being unearthed <\/span>right now that occurred during the Obama administration.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Rather than admit that his Five Year Up or Out Policy was a mistake, Mueller eventually <\/span>changed the policy to a Seven Year Up or Out Program.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I once pointed out to him at a hearing that if he had applied the Five Year Up-or-Out <\/span>Policy to literally everyone in a supervisory position, he himself would have had to leave <\/span>the FBI by September of 2006. He did not seem to be amused.<\/span><\/div>\n
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One other problem remained that will be discussed in more detail later in this article. Before Mueller became Director, FBI agents were trained to identify certain Muslims who had radicalized and become dangerous. Mueller purged and even eliminated training that would have helped identify radical Islamic killers. By running off the more experienced agents who had better training on radical Islam before Mueller, \u201cblinded us of the ability to identify our enemy,\u201d as I was told by some of them, Mueller put victims in harm\u2019s way in cities like Boston, San Diego and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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NATIONAL SECURITY LETTER ABUSES<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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National Security Letters (NSL) are a tool that allows the DOJ to bypass the formality of <\/span>subpoenas, applications for warrants with affidavits in support, and instead simply send <\/span>a letter to an individual, business or any entity they so choose to demand that records <\/span>or documents of any kind must be produced and provided to the sender. The letter also <\/span>informs the recipient that if the recipient reveals to anyone that the letter was received <\/span>or what it requires to be produced, then the recipient has committed a federal felony <\/span>and will be prosecuted. It is a rather dramatic event to receive such a letter and realize <\/span>that this simple letter could have such profound power and consequences.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Committee in the House of Representatives that has oversight jurisdiction over the <\/span>DOJ is the Judiciary Committee of which I am a member. We have grilled DOJ personnel <\/span>in the past over the potential for NSL abuse, but both the House and Senate Committees <\/span>were reassured that there were no known abuses of this extra-constitutional power.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Unfortunately, the day came when we learned that there had been an extraordinary\u00a0<\/span>number of abuses. <\/span>Apparently, some of Mueller\u2019s FBI agents had just been sending out\u00a0<\/span>demands for records or documents without any probable cause as the Fourth <\/span>Amendment requires. Some agents were on outright fishing expeditions just to find out <\/span>what different people were doing. We were told that there may have even been\u00a0<\/span>thousands of NSL\u2019s sent out to get documents without following either the\u00a0<\/span>Constitutional requirements or the DOJ\u2019s own policy requirements.<\/span><\/div>\n
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When the Inspector <\/span>General\u2019s report revealed such absolutely outrageous conduct by <\/span>FBI agents, some of us in Congress were absolutely livid.<\/span><\/div>\n
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An NBC News report on March 9, 2007, had this headline and sub-<\/span>headline: \u201cJustice\u00a0<\/span>Department: FBI acted illegally on data; Audit finds agency misused Patriot Act to obtain <\/span>information on citizens.\u201d Source<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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The report went on to say, \u201cFBI Director Robert Mueller said he was to blame for not\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>putting more safeguards into place. <\/span>\u2018I am to be held accountable,\u2019 Mueller said. He told <\/span>reporters he would <\/span>correct the problems and did not plan to resign. \u2018The inspector\u00a0<\/span>general went and did the audit that I should have put in place many years ago,\u2019 Mueller <\/span>said.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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Some of us Republicans wanted to completely eliminate such an extraordinary power\u00a0<\/span>that was so widely abused. Nonetheless, I could not help but wonder that if Mueller had\u00a0<\/span>not run off thousands of years of experience though his \u201cFive Year Up\u00a0-or-<\/span>Out Policy,\u201d <\/span>perhaps young, inexperienced agents would not have been so tempted to vastly abuse <\/span>the power of the NSL. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales lost his job over the <\/span>widespread, pervasive abuses under Mueller\u2019s supervision. In retrospect, Mueller\u00a0<\/span>probably should have been gone first. It was his people, his lack of oversight, his\u00a0<\/span>atmosphere that encouraged it, and his FBI that did virtually nothing to hold people\u00a0<\/span>accountable.<\/span><\/div>\n
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With Mueller as his mentor and confidant, is it any surprise that we\u2019re now finding James <\/span>Comey\u2019s FBI found additional ways to monitor Americans and plot with Demo<\/span>crat <\/span>loyalists in an attempt to oust a duly-elected President?<\/span><\/div>\n
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THE WITCH HUNT AGAINST REPUBLICAN SENATOR TED STEVENS AND HIS TRAGIC DEATH<\/h2>\n
T<\/span>ed Stevens had served in the U.S. Senate since 1968 and was indicted in 2008 by the <\/span>U.S. Justice Department. One would think before the U.S. government would seek to <\/span>destroy a sitting U.S. Senator, there would be no question whatsoever of his guilt. One <\/span>would be completely wrong in thinking so when the FBI Director is Robert Mueller.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cAccording to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who had worked <\/span>closely with the senator since his days as President Ronald Reagan\u2019s <\/span>national security adviser, the senator was \u2018a trusted individual … <\/span>someone whose word you could rely on. I never heard in all of those <\/span>years a single dissenting voice with respect to his integrity, with <\/span>respect to his forthrightness, and with respect to the fact that when <\/span>you shook hands with Ted Stevens, or made a deal with Ted Stevens, <\/span>it was going to be a deal that benefited the nation in the long run, one <\/span>that he would stick with.\u2019\u201d Source<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Such a glowing reputation certainly did not inhibit Mueller\u2019s FBI from putting Stevens in\u00a0<\/span>its cross-hairs, pushing to get an indictment that came 100 days before his election, and <\/span>engaging in third world dictator-type tactics to help an innocent man lose his election, <\/span>after which he lost his life.<\/span><\/div>\n
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As reported by NPR, after the conviction and all truth came rolling out of the framing\u00a0<\/span>and conviction of Senator Stevens, the new Attorney General Eric Holder, had no choice.\u00a0<\/span>He \u201cabandoned the Stevens case in April 2009 after uncovering new and \u2018disturbing\u2019 <\/span>details about the prosecution\u2026\u201d Source<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Unfortunately for Ted Stevens, his conviction came only eight days before his election, <\/span>which tipped the scales on a close election.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Does this sound familiar yet? <\/span>The allegation was that Senator Stevens had not paid full price for improvements to his <\/span>Alaska cabin. As <\/span><\/span>Roll Call<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>reported, he had actually overpaid for the improvements by <\/span>over twenty percent. <\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cBut relying on false records and fueled by testimony from a richly rewarded <\/span>\u2018cooperating\u2019 witness\u2026 government prosecutors convinced jurors to find him guilty just <\/span>eight days before the general election which he lost by less than 2 percent of the vote.\u201d Source<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

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After a report substantiated massive improprieties by the FBI and DOJ in the <\/span>investigation and prosecution of Senator Stevens, the result was ultimately a complete <\/span>dismissal of the conviction.<\/span><\/div>\n
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At the time there was no direct evidence that Director Mueller was aware of the tactics <\/span>of concealing exculpatory evidence that would have exonerated Stevens, and the <\/span>creation of evidence that convicted him in 2008. Nearly four years later, in 2012, <\/span>the <\/span>Alaska Dispatch News<\/em><\/span>\u00a0concluded:<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cBottom line: Kepner (the lead FBI investigator accused of wrongdoing <\/span>by Agent Joy) is still working for the FBI and is still investigating cases, <\/span>including criminal probes. Joy, the whistleblower (who was the FBI <\/span>agent who di<\/span>sclosed the FBI\u2019s vast wrongdoing, especially of Kepner), <\/span>has left the agency.\u201d Source<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

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Director Mueller either did control or could have controlled what happened to the lead\u00a0<\/span>FBI agent that destroyed a well-respected U.S. Senator. That U.S. Senator was not only <\/span>completely innocent of the manufactured case against him, he was an honest and\u00a0<\/span>honorable man. Under Director Mueller\u2019s overriding supervision, the wrongdoer who <\/span>helped manufacture the case stayed on and the whistleblower was punished. Obviously, <\/span>the FBI Director wanted his FBI agents to understand that honesty would be punished if <\/span>it revealed wrongdoing within Mueller\u2019s organization.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Further, not only was evidentiary proof of Senator Stevens\u2019 innocence concealed from\u00a0<\/span>the Senator\u2019s defense attorneys by the FBI, there was also\u00a0<\/span>a witness that provided\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>compelling testimony that Stevens\u2019 had done everything appropriately. That witness,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>however, was who agents sent back to Alaska by FBI Agents, unbeknownst to the\u00a0<\/span>Senator\u2019s defense attorneys.<\/span><\/div>\n
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This key exonerating testimony was plac<\/span>ed out of reach for Senator Stevens\u2019 defense.\u00a0<\/span>Someone should have gone to jail for this illegality within the nation\u2019s top law\u00a0<\/span>enforcement agency. Instead, Senator Stevens lost his seat, and surprise, surprise,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Mueller\u2019s FBI helped another elected Republic<\/span>an bite the dust. Unfortunately, I am not <\/span>speaking figuratively.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In August of 2010, former Senator Stevens boarded his doomed plane. But for the\u00a0<\/span>heinous, twisted and corrupt investigation by the FBI, and inappropriate prosecution by <\/span>the DOJ, he would have <\/span>still been a sitting U.S. Senator. Don\u2019t forget, one vote in the\u00a0<\/span>Senate was critical to ObamaCare becoming law also. If Senator Stevens was still there, <\/span>it would not have become law.<\/span><\/div>\n
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In the following month after Senator Stevens\u2019 untimely death, in Septemb<\/span>er of 2010, a <\/span>young DOJ lawyer, Nicholas Marsh who had been involved in the Stevens case, <\/span>committed suicide at his home as the investigation into the fraudulently created case <\/span>continued. The report expressed, <\/span>“no conclusion as to his (Marsh\u2019s) conduct,” gi<\/span>ven his <\/span>untimely death. Robert Luskin, an attorney for Marsh, said, “he tried to do the right <\/span>thing.” Source<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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If you wonder what happened to the valuable FBI agent who was an upstanding\u00a0<\/span>whistleblower with a conscience, you should know that in Mueller\u2019s FBI, Special Agent\u00a0<\/span>Joy was terribly mistreated. Orders came down from on high that he was not to\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>participate in any criminal investigation again, which is the FBI management\u2019s way of\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>forcing an agent out of the FBI. On the other hand, the FBI agent who was said to have <\/span>manufactured evidence against Senator Stevens while hiding evidence of his innocence <\/span>was treated wonderfully and continued to work important criminal cases for Director <\/span>Mueller. <\/span><\/div>\n
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DEATH OF DR. STEVEN HATFILL’S REPUTATION AND PRODUCTIVE LIFE<\/h2>\n
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Here is how Mollie Hemingway of <\/span>The Federalist<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>described this combination <\/span>Mueller\/Comey debacle:<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cThe FBI absolutely bungled its investigation into the Anthrax attacker <\/span>who struck after the 9-11 terrorist attacks. Carl Cannon goes through <\/span>this story well, and it\u2019s worth reading for how <\/span>it involves both Comey <\/span>and his dear \u2018friend\u2019 and current special counsel Robert Mueller. The <\/span>FBI tried <\/span><\/span>\u2014<\/span><\/span>\u00a0in the media <\/span>\u2014<\/span>\u00a0its case against Hatfill. Their actual case <\/span>ended up being thrown out by the courts:<\/span><\/div>\n
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Comey and Mueller badly bungled the biggest case they ever handled. <\/span>They botched the investigation of the 2001 anthrax letter attacks that <\/span>took five lives and infected 17 other people, shut down the U.S. Capitol <\/span>and Washington\u2019s mail system, solidified the Bush administration\u2019s <\/span>antipathy for Iraq, and eventually, when the facts finally came out, <\/span>made the FBI look feckless, incompetent, and easily manipulated by <\/span>outside political pressure.<\/span><\/div>\n
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In truth, Hatfill was an implausible suspect from the outset. He was a <\/span>virologist who never handled anthrax, which is a bacterium. (Ivins, by <\/span>contrast, shared ownership of anthrax patents, was diagnosed as <\/span>having paranoid personality disorder, and had a habit of stalking and <\/span>threatening people with anonymous letters <\/span>\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0including the woman <\/span>who provided the long-ignored tip to the FBI). So what evidence did <\/span>the FBI have against Hatfill? There was none, so the agency did a Hail <\/span>Mary, importing two bloodhounds from California whose handlers <\/span>claimed could sniff the scent of the killer on the anthrax-tainted <\/span>letters. These dogs were shown to Hatfill, who promptly petted them. <\/span>When the dogs responded favorably, their handlers told the FBI that <\/span>t<\/span>hey\u2019d \u201calerted\u201d on Hatfill and that he must be the killer. Source<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Unfortunately, both Mueller and Comey were absolutely and totally convinced of the\u00a0<\/span>innocent man\u2019s guilt. They ruined his life, his relationship with friends, neighbors and <\/span>potential employers. <\/span>And from Carl Cannon, <\/span>Real Clear Politics<\/span><\/em>: <\/span><\/div>\n
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You\u2019d think that any good FBI agent would have kicked these quacks <\/span>in the fanny and found their dogs a good home. Or at least checked <\/span>news accounts of criminal cases in California where these same dogs <\/span>had been used against de<\/span>fendants who\u2019d been convicted <\/span>— and later <\/span>exonerated. As Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times <\/span>investigative reporter David Willman detailed in his authoritative <\/span>book on the case, a California judge who\u2019d tossed out a murder <\/span>conviction based on these s<\/span>ketchy canines called the prosecution\u2019s <\/span>dog handler \u201cas biased as any witness that this court has ever seen.\u201d <\/span><\/div>\n
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Instead, Mueller, who micromanaged the anthrax case and fell in <\/span>love with the dubious dog evidence, and personally assured <\/span>Ashcroft and presumably George W. Bush that in Steven Hatfill, the <\/span>bureau had its man\u2026<\/span><\/div>\n
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Mueller didn\u2019t exactly distinguish himself with contrition, either. In <\/span>2008, after Ivins committed suicide as he was about to be <\/span>apprehended for his crimes, and the Justice Department had <\/span>formally exonerated Hatfill<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u2013<\/span>and <\/span>paid him $5.82 million in a legal <\/span>settlement ($2.82+150,000\/yr. for 20 yrs) <\/span>\u00a0\u2013<\/span>Mueller could not be <\/span>bothered to walk across the street to attend the press conference <\/span>announcing the case\u2019s resolution. When reporters did ask him about <\/span>it, Mueller was graceless. <\/span><\/span>\u201cI do not apologize for any aspect of the <\/span>investigation,\u201d he said, adding\u00a0<\/span>that it would be erroneous \u201cto say <\/span>there were mistakes.\u201d Source<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Mueller and Comey\u2019s next target in the Anthrax case was Dr. Bruce Ivins. As the FBI was\u00a0<\/span>closing in and preparing to give him the ultimate Hatfill treatment, Dr. Ivins took his own <\/span>life. Though Mueller and Comey were every bit as convinced that Dr. Ivins was the\u00a0<\/span>Anthrax culprit as they were that Dr. Hatfill was, there are lingering questions about\u00a0<\/span>whether or not there was a case beyond a reasonable doubt. Since Dr. Ivins is deceased\u00a0<\/span>and had some mental issues, we are expected to simply accept that he was definitely <\/span>the Anthrax killer and drop the whole matter.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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That’s a difficult ask after taxpayer money <\/span>paid off Mueller\u2019s previous vi<\/span>ctim. Mueller had relentlessly dogged Dr. Hatfill using life-<\/span>destroying, Orwellian tactics. Either Mueller was wrong when he said it would be a <\/span>mistake, <\/span>\u201cto say there were mistakes,\u201d in the railroading of Hatfill or Mueller did <\/span>intentionally and knowingly persecute an innocent man.<\/span><\/div>\n
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In 2003, during yet another fabricated and politically-charged FBI investigation, this one\u00a0<\/span>“searching” for the leak of CIA agent Valery Plame’s identity to the media. Robert\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Mue<\/span>ller\u2019s very dear close friend James Comey was at the time serving as the Deputy\u00a0Attorney General. Comey convinced then Attorney General John Ashcroft that he should <\/span>recuse himself from the Plame investigation. At the time, Ashcroft was in the hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n

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After Deputy A.G. Comey was successful in securing Ashcroft’s recusal, Comey then got <\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>choose the Special Counsel. He then looked about for someone who was\u00a0<\/span>completely\u00a0<\/span>independent of any relationships that might affect his independence and settled upon his own child\u2019s godfather and named Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate the source of the\u00a0leak. So much for the independence of the Special Counsel. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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The entire episode was further revealed as a fraud when it was later made public that\u00a0<\/span>Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald, FBI Director Mueller, and Deputy Attorney Comey had\u00a0<\/span>very early on learned that the source of Plame\u2019s identity leak came from Richard\u00a0<\/span>Armitage. But neither Comey nor Mueller nor Fitzgerald wanted Armitage\u2019s scalp. Oh\u00a0<\/span>no. These so-called apolitical, fair-minded pursuers of their own brand of justice were <\/span>after a bigger name in the Bush administration like Vice President Dick Cheney or Karl <\/span>Rove. Yet they knew from the beginning that these two men were not guilty of anything.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Nonetheless<\/span>, Fitzgerald, Mueller and Comey pursued Cheney\u2019s chief of staff, Scooter\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Libby, as a path to ensnare the Vice President. According to multiple reports, Fitzgerald\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>had twice offered to drop all charges against Libby if he would \u2018deliver\u2019 Cheney to him. <\/span>There was nothing to deliver.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Is any of this sounding familiar? Could it be that these same tactics have been used\u00a0<\/span>against an innocent Gen. Mike Flynn? Could it be that Flynn only agreed to plead guilty <\/span>to prevent any family members from being unjustly prosecuted and to also prevent\u00a0<\/span>going completely broke from attorneys\u2019 fees? That\u2019s the apparent Mueller\u00a0<\/span>-Comey-<\/span>Special Counsel distinctive modus-operandi. <\/span>Libby would not lie about Cheney, so he was prosecuted for obstruction of justice, <\/span>perjury, making a false statement. This\u00a0<\/span>Spectator<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>report in 2015 sums up this particularly <\/span>egregious element of the railroading: <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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It is relating to this part of the story that an extraordinary new piece <\/span>of information has come to light. After her spell in prison, and with <\/span>her job on the line, Miller was eventually worn down to agree to <\/span>hand over some redacted portions of notes of her few conversations <\/span><\/span>with Libby. Several years on, she could no longer recall where she\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>had first heard of Plame\u2019s CIA identity, but her notes includ<\/span>ed a <\/span>reference to Wilson alongside which the journalist had added in\u00a0<\/span><\/span>brackets \u2018wife works in Bureau?\u2019 After Fitzgerald went throughthese notes it was put to Miller that this showed that the CIA identity <\/span>of Plame had been raised by Libby during the noted meeting. At\u00a0<\/span>Libby\u2019s trial Miller was the only reporter to state that Libby had\u00a0discussed Plame. His conviction and his sentencing to 30 months in <\/span>prison and a $250,000 fine, rested on this piece of evidence.<\/span><\/div>\n
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But Miller has just published her memoirs. One detail in particular\u00a0stands out. Since the Libby trial, Miller has read Plame\u2019s own <\/span>memoir and there discovered that Plame had worked at a State <\/span>Department bureau as cover for her real CIA role. The discovery, in <\/span>Miller\u2019s words, \u2018left her cold\u2019. The idea that the \u2018Bureau\u2019 in her\u00a0<\/span>notebook meant <\/span>\u2018CIA\u2019 had been planted in her head by Fitzgerald.<\/span><\/div>\n
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It was a strange word to use for the CIA. Reading Plame\u2019s memoir, <\/span>Miller realized <\/span>that \u2018Bureau\u2019 was in brackets because it related to <\/span>her working at State Department. (Emphasis added) Source<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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What that means is that Scooter Libby had not lied as she originally thought and testified. <\/span>He was innocent of everything including the contrived offense. For his honesty and <\/span>innocence, Scooter Libby spent time behind bars, and still has a federal felony conviction <\/span>he carries like an albatross. <\/span><\/div>\n
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The real culprit of the allegation for which the Special Counsel was appointed, and <\/span>massive amounts of tax payer dollars expended was Richard Armitage. A similar <\/span>technique was used against Martha Stewart. After all,\u00a0<\/span>Mueller\u2019s FBI developed both\u00a0cases. If the desired crime to be prosecuted was never committed, then talk to someone <\/span>you want to convict until you find something that others are willing to say was not true. <\/span>Then you can convict them of lying\u00a0<\/span>to the FBI. Martha Stewart found out about Mueller\u2019s\u00a0FBI the hard way. Unfortunately, Mueller has left a wake of innocent people whom he <\/span>has crowned with criminal records.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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History does seem to repeat itself when it is recording the same people using the same tactics. Can anyone who has ever actually looked at Robert Mueller\u2019s history honestly say that Mueller deserves a sterling reputation in law enforcement? One part of his reputation he does apparently deserve is the reputation for being James Comey\u2019s mentor.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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MUELLER’S ‘COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP’ WITH DOJ ALLEGED CO-CONSPIRATORS OF TERRORISM<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n