Thursday, June 6, 2019

'Scorched Earth': Mueller's Targets Speak Out

Now that Mueller has ended his probe finding no election collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, 10 witnesses and targets of his sprawling, $35 million investigation agreed to speak with RealClearInvestigations because they are no longer in legal jeopardy.

Casting an even wider net, Mueller also issued 230 orders for communications records and almost 50 orders authorizing use of "Pen registers" - devices that record dialed numbers - to collect phone records on individuals, most of whom turned out to be innocent.

Mueller's office took his iPhone and two Apple computers - along with all his passwords - and mapped out every email, text message and tweet he had sent in 2016.

In a $300 million lawsuit filed earlier this year against Mueller and the Justice Department, which oversaw Mueller's office, Corsi alleged that Mueller's team subjected him to warrantless surveillance, illegally leaked details about grand jury and other secret proceedings to reporters, and threatened to sabotage his "Business and contractual relationships" unless he perjured himself in the Russia "Collusion" probe.

"Mueller had been doing everything in his power to try to threaten and coerce Corsi into testifying falsely, through both illegal surveillance and defamation, in order to take down President Trump and have him removed from office," the complaint states, adding that Mueller and his staff "Severely damaged" Corsi's reputation, while interfering with the publication and distribution of his book, "Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller's 'Witch Hunt.'".

It isn't out of the question that top Mueller lieutenant Weissmann, with ethics complaints in his past, rode herd on the Corsi interrogations, said journalist Margot Cleveland, a former federal law clerk and Notre Dame instructor who in The Federalist has presented new evidence of his alleged prosecutorial misconduct.

"The charges are lying and obstruction, so they dress out like this was a Waco assault? C'mon," retired FBI special agent Michael Biasello said, adding that Mueller clearly was trying to intimidate Stone.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/05/30/scorched_earth_lives_upturned_muellers_targets_speak_out.html

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