Friday, June 14, 2019

Scorched earth tactics: Robert Mueller's targets speak out against his ‘witch hunt' probe

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.

Their firsthand accounts pull back the curtain on the secret inner workings of the Mueller probe, revealing how the special counsel's nearly two dozen prosecutors and 40 FBI agents used harshly aggressive tactics to pressure individuals to either cop to crimes or implicate others in felonies involving collusion.

These 10 witnesses find it beyond ironic that some partisans are now faulting Mueller for not doing enough to find incriminating evidence against Trump and his associates - "He blew it!" liberal HBO political talk show host Bill Maher said.

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.

The 10 witnesses swept up in the inquiry say those facts and figures, as well as the final determination that there was no conspiracy or collusion with the Russians, do not begin to account for the human toll of the Mueller probe.

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.

"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://thenationalsentinel.com/2019/06/14/scorched-earth-tactics-robert-muellers-targets-speak-out-against-his-witch-hunt-probe/

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