Trump['s Lawyers Requested (demanded) Mueller Statement on Buzzfeed News Retort
Was obvious day of.
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Counterintelligence is much more opaque and multi-agency-like.
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WORDING
That’s the ticket in this whole drama.
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probably both. I mean, if they reached out directly, can you imagine a scenario when they wouldn’t have contacted Whitaker?
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Mueller is not operating with an imperative to make anyone happy, his imperative is to finish his investigation, and to the extent that he is bringing criminal charges, protect Cohen. Period.
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Is there more info beyond what Buzzfeed reported? According to buzz, Rosenstein asked whether a statement would be made:
In the advanced stages of those talks, the deputy attorney general’s office called to inquire if the special counsel planned any kind of response, and was informed a statement was being prepared, the people said.
While that carries a connotation of possible pressure, the bare question is more innocuous.
Edit: oops, that snippet is from the Washington Post, not Buzzfeed.
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Y’all have been twisting yourselves into pretzel-shaped knots in an effort to attribute some “3-Dimensional Chess” level gambit by Mueller, but none of you have even considered that Mueller is not the good guy the hagiographic accolades have painted him to be.
Mueller hasn’t gone on record to “correct” the falsehoods and misinformation from FoxNews, Rudy Giuliani, or the Trump himself, but instead felt compelled to take on BuzzFeed? A report, by the way, that has, by and large, been proven to be true based on statements pulled from the court filings themselves. He didn’t need to do that. He could have left us writhing in uncertainty and speculation, as he has been for the last two years.
Reading all these takes about what Mueller’s “real intention” was and how he was trying to quell the outcry for impeachment (That’s not his job at all) or that he was trying to lure Trump into some false move (Yeah, how did that work out?) or that he was concerned that people were saying that the SCO was the source of the leaks and had to shut that down (What, now? Really? That HAD to be done?).
I can understand how, when we were at our most helpless under single party governance, Mueller felt like a tangible lifeline to justice. But, he really is not.
The only outcome the Carr statement achieved was to give the Conservative press oxygen. It amped up the Trump base who had been a bit subdued by the barrage of bad news. How did it ultimately serve the cause of justice?
Really, the only plausible explanations for the Carr statement are not good.
Several things have niggled at me about the SCO investigation:
- It has been done in secret, so we don’t know who, how, and what. There has been no daylight. We have been trying to piece together incomplete information from filings that are heavily redacted, projecting a sense of noble purpose onto the process in much the same way we might read tea leaves.
- He has gone after low-lying fruit like Cohen and Manafort who had already been excised from the Trump regime.
- He went after a host (gaggle, troop, herd?) of Russians who will likely not be tried, prosecuted, or called to account.
- His suggested sentencing for both Flynn and Cohen were absurd…
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Preet Bharara’s “Cafe Insider” podcast had an interesting discussion of the decision to make a statement, though it was recorded before this latest. It’s a subscription thing but there’s a 16-minute sample of the episode in the regular Stay Tuned podcast series.
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Was it his personal lawyers or was it White House Counsel? Just curious…
Perhaps its a sign that Mueller is readying his “final” report, and is willing to placate Whitaker/the White House to avoid friction at this critical juncture.
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This thread that includes G.Conway, M Wheeler, and J. Taub is very instructive. Think aiding and abetting rather than perjury. And it is possible that there are no recordings of Trump instructing Cohen to lie, as everything the special master went through was reviewed by Trump’s lawyers -that’s what Marcy Wheeler maintains.
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No. Next question.
SCO already made a statement…
“BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate.”
An anonymous source shared the same information with the Wall Street Journal,
So the first leak was followed by a second one about the first one…Hummm…
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It’s a target-rich environment. Plenty of stuff the special counsel has no mandate to investigate.
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Who knew? I wonder.
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So what’s really going on here, Trumpie?
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And that leaves out anyone associated with the Dotard.
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He does not give a shit. Trump is not POTUS but President of his base and his base was promised a wall and the hell with the rest of us.
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I thought much of his base didn’t care about the wall anymore. This is chaos created by the shutdown. What’s happening, or worse, not happening while all this is going on?
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Huh. Really? My first response on Friday was, “Did Mueller just pull a Comey?” …Why, yes. Yes, he did. He just Comey-ed all over the place.
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