A year ago, James Comey arranged to have his friend Robert Mueller named a special counsel under a counterespionage provision that did not allow a criminal case to be made.
Andy McCarthy, a former US Attorney with counter terror credentials, says Mueller is wrong and should quit.
Andrew McCarthy has laid out a strong case explaining that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of the alleged Russia-Trump election collusion has devolved into an obstruction (read impeachment) investigation.
McCarthy, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, points out that the commentariat is misinforming the public, and themselves about how prosecutors build cases. As McCarthy puts it, “they reason that Mueller is methodically constructing a major case on Trump by accepting minor guilty pleas from Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos for making false statements, and by indicting Paul Manafort and an associate on charges that have nothing to do with Trump or the 2016 election.” McCarthy tells us straight out that’s not the way it works
The political left, as in that WaPo article thinks other wise.
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia to influence the 2016 election turns a year old on Thursday. In 365 days, Mueller’s team has charged 19 people, as well as three companies, and secured five guilty pleas. He is showing no signs of slowing down.
The milestone might not mean much to Mueller, but it has important public significance.
In fact, the Mueller indictments are mostly bogus, and of individuals very unlikely to be ever within his reach.
The three companies, are Russian and one did not exist at the time of the alleged offenses.
There is no allegation in the indictment that any American was a knowing participant in the alleged unlawful activity. There is no allegation in the indictment that the charged conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 election.
More newspaper clippings. Except one company pleaded not guilty and demanded discovery of what Mueller based his case on.
Oh Oh. Mueller quickly tried for delay but the judge ordered him to comply with the defense motion.
Judges in Virginia and Washington have the special counsel reeling.
Well sure, we filed an indictment. And yeah, we took a victory lap in the big bells-n-whistles Main Justice press conference. But that doesn’t mean we, like, intended to have a trial . . .
That seems to be the Justice Department’s position on its mid-February publicity stunt, the indictment of 13 Russians and three Russian businesses for interfering in the 2016 election.
It looks more and more like the farce it is.