Thursday, March 28, 2019

Was Mueller's Investigation a Cover Up?

Pardon me if I don't join in the chorus of praise for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigatory efforts.

Just because Mueller and his team of Hillary Clinton sycophants reached the right conclusions does not mean that they conducted a righteous investigation.

In his order appointing the Special Counsel, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein directed Mueller to "Conduct the investigation confirmed by then-FBI Director James B. Comey in testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on March 20, 2017, including: any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; and any matters that arise or may arise directly from the investigation." Rosenstein's order also provided that "[i]f the Special Counsel believes it necessary and appropriate, the Special Counsel is authorized to prosecute federal crimes arising from the investigation of these matters.

Comey had testified about the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign launched by the FBI in July 2016.

Did the investigation delve into the FBI and Department of Justice's use of the dossier to obtain FISA warrants to intercept the communications of Trump campaign associate Carter Page? Did they investigate those who drafted, verified, and submitted the misleading and false-by-omission FISA applications?

Did they investigate or question former FBI Special Agent and Team Mueller staffer Peter Strzok, former FBI lawyer and Team Mueller staffer Lisa Page, former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, or other government officials to determine if they or anyone else participated in an effort to spy on the Trump campaign or to overthrow the Trump presidency?

In his letter, Attorney General William Barr wrote that the Special Counsel's Office "Employed 19 lawyers who were assisted by approximately 40 FBI agents, intelligence analysts, forensic accountants, and other professional staff. The Special Counsel issued more than 2,800 subpoenas, executed nearly 500 search warrants, obtained more than 230 orders for communications records, issued almost 50 orders authorizing the use of pen registers, made 13 requests to foreign governments for evidence, and interviewed approximately 500 witnesses." All of this lasted 675 days and cost tens of millions of dollars.


https://spectator.org/was-muellers-investigation-a-cover-up/

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