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Robert Mueller, Former F.B.I. Director, Is Named Special Counsel for Russia Investigation

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  1. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    I don't think Pence is an ignorant buffoon so while he'd pursue conservative policies, he'd be no different from Bush in that respect.
     
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  2. Commodore

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    brutal summary from Catherine Herridge, these people are thick as thieves

     
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  3. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    If you dopes held Trump to the standard you want to hold these people he'd been impeached months ago.
     
    #1003 CometsWin, Dec 15, 2017
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    I too wish to live in an authoritarian state where the president cannot be held accountable. (Unless he's a Democrat of course)

    Who's with us?
     
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    It's not like he had a spotless track record outside of politics. If they held Trump then to the standard they want to hold these people, he'd never have even made it through the GOP primaries.
     
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    This just becomes more and more comical.

    What is the alleged improprieties here?

    Again, is Mueller investigating Trump too hard?
     
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    Word on the street is that Trump’s feefees got hurt.
     
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    So far the evidence that the investigation against Trump is biased is that some agents were fired by the head of the investigation for texts critical of Trump. The texts themselves aren't really evidence of bias in the investigation and they were still fired. So basically the evidence is zero.
     
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  9. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    Another conspiracy theory quashed. On to the next one Trumpanzees!

    FBI officials’ text message about Hillary Clinton said to be a cover story for romantic affair
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...dfb2e37492a_story.html?utm_term=.da9180ee432f

    Two senior FBI officials who texted each other about President Trump and Hillary Clinton relied on work phones to try to hide their romance from a spouse and made the bureau’s probe of Clinton’s private email server their cover story for being in such close contact, according to people familiar with the matter.

    The two officials, senior FBI lawyer Lisa Page and senior counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, are the subjects of an internal investigation that has roiled the FBI and emboldened its Republican critics who have accused the bureau of political bias. Had Page and Strzok used personal phones instead, people close to case say, it’s unlikely their text messages would have come to the FBI’s attention.

    The texts, a trove of which were released by the Justice Departmentthis week, have raised questions about the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe of whether any Trump associates coordinated with Russian officials to interfere with the presidential election. Page and Strzok, who have declined to comment, were involved in both.
     
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    You want to see Sessions texts right, the dude who had refuse himself?
     
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    #1012 London'sBurning, Dec 16, 2017
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    Is this office affair really the branch Republicans want to stand on to try and blow up the Mueller probe? What happened to Uranium One? What about the Clinton Foundation? What about the underground sex trafficking Pizza parlor?

    I can’t tell you how lazy the Republicans are these days with their faux scandals. How is it this hard to have a little more creativity at least?
     
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    For people who aren't guilty, they sure act guilty...



    And, of course, legal experts scoff...




    And political experts scoff...


     
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  16. Commodore

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    this is what's known as a modified limited hangout (cop to something, but not the real thing, in the hopes people will ignore the real thing)

    just a private affair you see, no need to dig any deeper, case closed

    the Washington Post dutifully takes dictation from the leakers at the FBI and reports it without any skepticism
     
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  17. B-Bob

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    Wow. Since you're in the top level editorial meetings, tell us: bagels or muffins? Business casual or slightly more formal?

    Or could it be you simply don't like some of what they find, confirm, and publish?
     
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    Mueller obtains "tens of thousands” of Trump transition emails

    Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained “many tens of thousands" of Trump transition emails, including emails of Jared Kushner, transition team sources tell Axios.




      • Trump officials discovered Mueller had the emails when his prosecutors used them as the basis for questions to witnesses, the sources said.
      • The emails include 12 accounts, one of which contains about 7,000 emails, the sources said.
      • The accounts include the team's political leadership and the foreign-policy team, the sources said.
    Why it matters: The transition emails are said to include sensitive exchanges on matters that include potential appointments, gossip about the views of particular senators involved in the confirmation process, speculation about vulnerabilities of Trump nominees, strategizing about press statements, and policy planning on everything from war to taxes.




      • “Mueller is using the emails to confirm things, and get new leads," a transition source told me.
    How it happened: The sources say Mueller obtained the emails from the General Services Administration, the government agency that hosted the transition email system, which had addresses ending in “ptt.gov," for Presidential Transition Team.

    Taking fight public: Charging "unlawful conduct," Kory Langhofer, counsel for the transition team, wrote in a letter to congressional committees Saturday that "career staff at the General Services Administration ... have unlawfully produced [transition team] private materials, including privileged communications, to the Special Counsel's Office."




      • The seven-page later, obtained by Axios, says: "We understand that the Special Counsel's Office has subsequently made extensive use of the materials it obtained from the GSA, including materials that are susceptible to privilege claims."
      • The letter says this was a violation of Fourth Amendment protectionsagainst unreasonable search and seizure.
      • "Additionally, certain portions of the [transition] materials the Special Counsel's Office obtained from the GSA, including materials that are susceptible to privilege claims, have been leaked to the press by unknown persons."
    The Special Counsel's office said: "We will decline to comment."

    The transition sources said they were surprised about the emails because they have been in touch with Mueller's team and have cooperated.

    The twist: The sources say that transition officials assumed that Mueller would come calling, and had sifted through the emails and separated the ones they considered privileged. But the sources said that was for naught, since Mueller has the complete cache from the dozen accounts.

    https://www.axios.com/scoop-mueller...witter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic
     
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    I laughed.
     
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