Mueller and his team also used the footnotes as the place to include unsubstantiated gossip and speculation.
If Robert Mueller is going to defend his document, he will have to be prepared to defend the footnotes too.
Dozens of footnotes in the Mueller report make it clear that the special counsel placed absolute faith in former FBI Director James Comey.
James Comey: Dozens of footnotes in the Mueller report make clear the special counsel placed absolute faith in him.
Mueller clearly doesn't just use footnotes for citations, but also for speculation and explanation and even a little what-iffery.
In discussing whether Trump had ordered his White House counsel to fire Mueller, the report cites the same Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman article in the New York Times not just once or twice, but in four footnotes in a row.
Footnote 1024 on page 150 of the report's first volume simply reads: "Nader 1/22/18 302 at 3." It is a reference to the FBI's memo - known as a 302 - of its January 2018 interview with George Nader, identified in the Mueller report as "Advisor to the United Arab Emirates's Crown Prince." Nader had spoken with a Russian who was attending the 2016 World Chess Championship in New York and who had expressed an interest in meeting Trump.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/07/23/the_mueller_reports_footnotes_to_contradictory_119658.html
If Robert Mueller is going to defend his document, he will have to be prepared to defend the footnotes too.
Dozens of footnotes in the Mueller report make it clear that the special counsel placed absolute faith in former FBI Director James Comey.
James Comey: Dozens of footnotes in the Mueller report make clear the special counsel placed absolute faith in him.
Mueller clearly doesn't just use footnotes for citations, but also for speculation and explanation and even a little what-iffery.
In discussing whether Trump had ordered his White House counsel to fire Mueller, the report cites the same Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman article in the New York Times not just once or twice, but in four footnotes in a row.
Footnote 1024 on page 150 of the report's first volume simply reads: "Nader 1/22/18 302 at 3." It is a reference to the FBI's memo - known as a 302 - of its January 2018 interview with George Nader, identified in the Mueller report as "Advisor to the United Arab Emirates's Crown Prince." Nader had spoken with a Russian who was attending the 2016 World Chess Championship in New York and who had expressed an interest in meeting Trump.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/07/23/the_mueller_reports_footnotes_to_contradictory_119658.html
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