Aides Say Mueller Is An Asshole And A Screwup

The Raw Story? I seriously would like to know where the fuck you guys get some of these sites.

I have to quit clicking on them, and now some of these hack sites are showing up on my Yahoo feed that never did before.
They search the web looking for bogus sites to tell them what they want to hear. . Not a real journalist in sight for any of them. Then they take their Infowars type sites and bring them here thinking they have a scoop. Real news is invisible to them which is why anytime a nondeplorable States a common fact they ask for a link because they never heard it before.
 
The Russian collusion conspiracy is one of the craziest smears the Dirty Democrats have ever come up with and the worst part about it is that the Press plays along with it.

Where are you posting from? Greenland?

1. No Evidence A Crime of 'Collusion' Ever Happened.
-- 'There is no such criminal act / law regarding 'Collusion'. .

2. No Evidence A Crime Involving Trump Happened.

3. No Evidence Trump Was Involved In the 'Non-Crime'

4. Evidence Exists Showing Conflict Of Interest Of Entire Special Counsel Team

5. Evidence Exists That Lead Special Counsel is an a$$hole, that Lead Counsel is a F*-up - having 'blown the biggest terrorist case since 9/11', and that Lead Counsel collaborated with then US AG Eric holder and then President Barak Obama to hide Russian crimes of bribery, extortion, intimidation, 'buying politicians (like Hillary), and yet hit the evidence until after the Uranium One deal went through.

6. The only indictments Mueller have are 2 tax evasion charges dating back to 2006 / 2009?! There is an additional 'indictment' of a Mueller / Obama-plant who was caught wearing a wire and who was shopping a book deal weeks before 'indicted'.

7. Having found ZERO crimes involving Trump and ZERO evidence against Trump, Mueller has abandoned his 'Russian Interference / Russian Collusion' tasking to investigate non-crimes in Israel and a documentary regarding an exiled Turkish Cleric ... none of which have anything to do with President Trump.

8. The media just reported Mueller has a history of being a f*-up as a prosecutor, and he was Comey's mentor ... which explains why Comey has been / is such a f*-up

9. The media is reporting that Mueller's Counsel is not leaking like a sieve...mostly about how he has nothing, is a f*-up, and how he has 'wandered off the reservation' in his witch hunt...

10. Mueller and his Counsel have undermined and sabotaged their own investigation from the very start, stacking the deck - making it look like a witch hunt from the start.


Mueller, his Counsel, and the DNC's entire witch hunt is now a PUBLIC joke...they are a laughing stock...and everyone knows it - but snowflakes refuse to admit it - THERE IS NOTHING THERE, THIS IS A WITCH HUNT, AND NOTHING MORE THAN 1 OR 2 'SCOOTED LIBBY' INDICTMENTS WILL HAPPEN.

This is what happened when a snowflakes like you listening too much of Hannity and Trump.

I know I asked you this before. Since you know a lot and up to date of the Mueller investigation.
Can you please provide us a proof————- That there are no collusions. Where is your evidence of no collusions?
 
The Russian collusion conspiracy is one of the craziest smears the Dirty Democrats have ever come up with and the worst part about it is that the Press plays along with it.

You missing something big Tronglo. It’s the republicans investigating republican. Republican assigned Mueller to investigate this dodo president.

Yabut

He’s a RINO!

He’s The Establishment!

He won’t allow President Trump to break any law he wants because ‘Murica!
 
So a career government employee who couldn't hack it in the real world, got it.
Still dwelling in the bottom of the barrel I see.

Bob Mueller is a graduate of Princeton University, Mueller served as a Marine Corps officer during the Vietnam War, receiving the Bronze Star Medalwith Combat "V" for heroism and the Purple Heart Medal. After graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1973, he worked at a private firm in San Francisco for three years until his appointment as an assistant U.S. Attorney in the same city. Prior to his appointment as FBI director, Mueller served as a United States Attorney, as assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division and as acting deputy attorney general.

He earned a reputation as a no-nonsense, straitlaced attorney and investigator.[3][4][5]Lauded for his non-partisan and non-political approach, he has been credited with transforming the FBI from an agency primarily focused on law enforcement into one of the world's top organizations handling counterespionage and counterterrorism.[6]

In May 2017, Mueller was appointed by the Justice Department as special counseloverseeing an ongoing investigation into alleged foreign electoral intervention by Russia in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

You obviously failed to read the thread, apparently the guy is a douchebag.
No the problem is you believe everything you read.

I don't believe a word of what you post. OH SNAP! You libs walk willingly into the buzz saw :laugh:
 
I think Russia achieved those goals when they called up people at the Trump campaign and Trump's people worked with them.
Democrats are still pushing Russia's 'Psy Ops Agenda / Mission' by continuing to divide the nation.

Russia already got it's money's worth when they paid snowflakes who organized and march for them, when they funded liberal groups who engaged in racial unrest and violence for them.

Are you still on the payroll?
 
The Russian collusion conspiracy is one of the craziest smears the Dirty Democrats have ever come up with and the worst part about it is that the Press plays along with it.

Where are you posting from? Greenland?

1. No Evidence A Crime of 'Collusion' Ever Happened.
-- 'There is no such criminal act / law regarding 'Collusion'. .

2. No Evidence A Crime Involving Trump Happened.

3. No Evidence Trump Was Involved In the 'Non-Crime'

4. Evidence Exists Showing Conflict Of Interest Of Entire Special Counsel Team

5. Evidence Exists That Lead Special Counsel is an a$$hole, that Lead Counsel is a F*-up - having 'blown the biggest terrorist case since 9/11', and that Lead Counsel collaborated with then US AG Eric holder and then President Barak Obama to hide Russian crimes of bribery, extortion, intimidation, 'buying politicians (like Hillary), and yet hit the evidence until after the Uranium One deal went through.

6. The only indictments Mueller have are 2 tax evasion charges dating back to 2006 / 2009?! There is an additional 'indictment' of a Mueller / Obama-plant who was caught wearing a wire and who was shopping a book deal weeks before 'indicted'.

7. Having found ZERO crimes involving Trump and ZERO evidence against Trump, Mueller has abandoned his 'Russian Interference / Russian Collusion' tasking to investigate non-crimes in Israel and a documentary regarding an exiled Turkish Cleric ... none of which have anything to do with President Trump.

8. The media just reported Mueller has a history of being a f*-up as a prosecutor, and he was Comey's mentor ... which explains why Comey has been / is such a f*-up

9. The media is reporting that Mueller's Counsel is not leaking like a sieve...mostly about how he has nothing, is a f*-up, and how he has 'wandered off the reservation' in his witch hunt...

10. Mueller and his Counsel have undermined and sabotaged their own investigation from the very start, stacking the deck - making it look like a witch hunt from the start.


Mueller, his Counsel, and the DNC's entire witch hunt is now a PUBLIC joke...they are a laughing stock...and everyone knows it - but snowflakes refuse to admit it - THERE IS NOTHING THERE, THIS IS A WITCH HUNT, AND NOTHING MORE THAN 1 OR 2 'SCOOTED LIBBY' INDICTMENTS WILL HAPPEN.

This is what happened when a snowflakes like you listening too much of Hannity and Trump.

I know I asked you this before. Since you know a lot and up to date of the Mueller investigation.
Can you please provide us a proof————- That there are no collusions. Where is your evidence of no collusions?


President Donald Trump appeared to echo Kremlin talking points Thursday morning when he tweeted that Congress was to blame for the US relationship with Russia being at an "all-time & very dangerous low."

"Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous low," he said. "You can thank Congress, the same people that can't even give us HCare!"

Lawmakers replied that Trump's ire would be better directed at Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"If only that outrage was directed at Putin, the murderous dictator who attacked our democracy. #ChecksAndBalances," GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger tweeted.

"Our relationship w/ Russia is at dangerous low," tweeted Republican Sen. John McCain. "You can thank Putin for attacking our democracy, invading neighbors & threatening our allies."

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, had a similar response: "Or you could thank Russian dictator Putin, who hacked US election, undermines Western alliances, invaded Ukraine & annexed Crimea."

Trump's tweet came a day after Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev used Twitter to denounce the veto-proof sanctions bill that Trump was essentially handcuffed into signing into law on Wednesday, appearing to challenge the president's ego by calling his administration weak while pinning the blame on Congress.
Is trump our president OR a Russian spy?
 
The Russian collusion conspiracy is one of the craziest smears the Dirty Democrats have ever come up with and the worst part about it is that the Press plays along with it.
The left is unwittingly helping Russia sew distrust of our political system by the people.

That's how dumb they are. Completely clueless to the fact they are helping Russia achieve its goals.
...only because the Trumpsters decided to show public support for Putin and Russia and their Cult master over their own country.... :whistle:
 
They search the web looking for bogus sites to tell them what they want to hear. . Not a real journalist in sight for any of them. Then they take their Infowars type sites and bring them here thinking they have a scoop. Real news is invisible to them which is why anytime a nondeplorable States a common fact they ask for a link because they never heard it before.

As often as you post meaningless drivel like this horseshit, how could you possibly have ever thought to choose a username like "Reasonable" ?

You related to Maxine Waters?
 
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Robert Mueller is the kind of person that can't admit when he screwed up, aides say. Robert Mueller can’t own up to his mistakes, aides say

November 26, 2017
Carlos Ballesteros

Robert Mueller, special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election, is a “gruff guy” who routinely undermined his subordinates and evaded responsibility as head of the FBI, according to several former aides and investigators who worked with Mueller interviewed by the Los Angeles Times.

In a lengthy profile published on Friday, the Times dredged up some of Mueller’s most difficult moments throughout his career as government prosecutor and as the sixth director of the FBI, a post he maintained from 2001 until 2013.

Those interviewed criticized Mueller’s handling of many high-profile cases stretching back to 1979, his temperament with government witnesses, and for directing his subordinates at the FBI to shield him from criticism.

One former aide went so far as to say that Mueller is “someone that can’t accept the fact that he screwed up.”


The Times profile begins by focusing on Mueller’s tenure at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where he was criticized for mishandling high-profile cases and for his treatment of government witnesses and subordinates.

The first of these cases took place in 1979, when Mueller, as head of the U.S. attorney’s special prosecutors unit, took over the case against 33 members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club charged with drug trafficking, murder, and bombings. The first trial, which sought to imprison 18 of the accused members, was unsuccessful, as the five convictions reached in the case were overturned on appeal.

Mueller then took over the case and lead a team of four prosecutors in the second trial with 11 eleven defendants. However, as reported by the Times, “after four months, the jury said it was deadlocked, and the judge declared a mistrial. Mueller decided not to ask for a retrial.”

Mueller then transferred to the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston where he oversaw cases against Panamanian president Manuel Noriega, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, and head of the Gambino crime family, John Gotti.

However, his success was marked by a disdain from some of his subordinates. As noted by the Times, Mueller sparked resentment “when he referred privately to reassigning career lawyers as ‘moving the furniture.’”

After a short stint in private practice, Mueller returned to public service as a homicide prosecutor in Washington, D.C. in 1995, where Mueller reportedly had a tough time forging relationships with victims, suspects, and government witnesses and was charged with being cold and unsympathetic.


"He was a gruff guy, and a lot of times, there wasn't much warmth or ability to really build a bond or connect with a victim-witness," one of Mueller’s fellow investigators told the Times. "There's times when you've got to bond with the suspect to get what you need. His personality wasn't necessarily the best for that."

Mueller was also criticized for his time as head of the FBI. He led the investigation into the deadly anthrax attacks in the years after 9/11 for nearly seven years, ultimately leading in the prosecution of the wrong suspect, who later successfully sued the government for $5.8 million.

After agents successfully traced back the anthrax to an Army microbiologist who committed suicide once he was informed of the impending charges, Mueller “was reluctant to publicly address the missteps” in the case.

"I think he was personally embarrassed," a former aide told the Times. "I would assess him as someone that can't accept the fact that he screwed up."

Later, as director of the FBI, Mueller instructed his staff to protect him from the agency’s oversight division, according to former colleagues interviewed by the Times.

Most notably, Mueller is charged with scrapping a highly-critical review of his Directorate of Intelligence, a unit that he had created at the FBI to investigate terrorism more effectively.

After an internal inspection reported that Mueller should “set [the unit] on fire and start from scratch,” his top aides decided to protect the director at all costs by hiding the report from the Justice Department’s inspector general.

“It was, ‘The director will get skewered. We've got to protect him, and we can't issue this,’” a former official told the Times. “Anywhere it said ‘inspection,’ they changed it to ‘review.’ And said this was a review, not an inspection, and therefore they didn't have to issue it to … the inspector general.”

Lastly, the Times article delves into Mueller’s unsuccessful attempt at negotiating with Russian officials to turn over Edward Snowden in 2013.

According to a former official, Mueller would call his Russian counterpart, Alexander Bortnikov, “starting at 3 a.m. in Washington” every day for at least a week, “begging to talk to the guy.” Bortnikov reportedly never answered the phone, and Snowden was granted asylum in Russia soon after.

WOW that is from the far left rawstory..

It is interesting to watch when the far left attacks their own..
 
So a career government employee who couldn't hack it in the real world, got it.
Still dwelling in the bottom of the barrel I see.

Bob Mueller is a graduate of Princeton University, Mueller served as a Marine Corps officer during the Vietnam War, receiving the Bronze Star Medalwith Combat "V" for heroism and the Purple Heart Medal. After graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1973, he worked at a private firm in San Francisco for three years until his appointment as an assistant U.S. Attorney in the same city. Prior to his appointment as FBI director, Mueller served as a United States Attorney, as assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division and as acting deputy attorney general.

He earned a reputation as a no-nonsense, straitlaced attorney and investigator.[3][4][5]Lauded for his non-partisan and non-political approach, he has been credited with transforming the FBI from an agency primarily focused on law enforcement into one of the world's top organizations handling counterespionage and counterterrorism.[6]

In May 2017, Mueller was appointed by the Justice Department as special counseloverseeing an ongoing investigation into alleged foreign electoral intervention by Russia in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

You obviously failed to read the thread, apparently the guy is a douchebag.
No the problem is you believe everything you read.

I don't believe a word of what you post. OH SNAP! You libs walk willingly into the buzz saw :laugh:
Of course you don’t believe anything I post.. You adhere to what trump told you: “ Don’t believe anything you hear until you hear it from me first. “
You need to study up a bit on the actions of every dictator since time began..
 
Robert-Mueller-Youtube-800x430.jpg


Robert Mueller is the kind of person that can't admit when he screwed up, aides say. Robert Mueller can’t own up to his mistakes, aides say

November 26, 2017
Carlos Ballesteros

Robert Mueller, special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election, is a “gruff guy” who routinely undermined his subordinates and evaded responsibility as head of the FBI, according to several former aides and investigators who worked with Mueller interviewed by the Los Angeles Times.

In a lengthy profile published on Friday, the Times dredged up some of Mueller’s most difficult moments throughout his career as government prosecutor and as the sixth director of the FBI, a post he maintained from 2001 until 2013.

Those interviewed criticized Mueller’s handling of many high-profile cases stretching back to 1979, his temperament with government witnesses, and for directing his subordinates at the FBI to shield him from criticism.

One former aide went so far as to say that Mueller is “someone that can’t accept the fact that he screwed up.”


The Times profile begins by focusing on Mueller’s tenure at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where he was criticized for mishandling high-profile cases and for his treatment of government witnesses and subordinates.

The first of these cases took place in 1979, when Mueller, as head of the U.S. attorney’s special prosecutors unit, took over the case against 33 members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club charged with drug trafficking, murder, and bombings. The first trial, which sought to imprison 18 of the accused members, was unsuccessful, as the five convictions reached in the case were overturned on appeal.

Mueller then took over the case and lead a team of four prosecutors in the second trial with 11 eleven defendants. However, as reported by the Times, “after four months, the jury said it was deadlocked, and the judge declared a mistrial. Mueller decided not to ask for a retrial.”

Mueller then transferred to the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston where he oversaw cases against Panamanian president Manuel Noriega, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, and head of the Gambino crime family, John Gotti.

However, his success was marked by a disdain from some of his subordinates. As noted by the Times, Mueller sparked resentment “when he referred privately to reassigning career lawyers as ‘moving the furniture.’”

After a short stint in private practice, Mueller returned to public service as a homicide prosecutor in Washington, D.C. in 1995, where Mueller reportedly had a tough time forging relationships with victims, suspects, and government witnesses and was charged with being cold and unsympathetic.


"He was a gruff guy, and a lot of times, there wasn't much warmth or ability to really build a bond or connect with a victim-witness," one of Mueller’s fellow investigators told the Times. "There's times when you've got to bond with the suspect to get what you need. His personality wasn't necessarily the best for that."

Mueller was also criticized for his time as head of the FBI. He led the investigation into the deadly anthrax attacks in the years after 9/11 for nearly seven years, ultimately leading in the prosecution of the wrong suspect, who later successfully sued the government for $5.8 million.

After agents successfully traced back the anthrax to an Army microbiologist who committed suicide once he was informed of the impending charges, Mueller “was reluctant to publicly address the missteps” in the case.

"I think he was personally embarrassed," a former aide told the Times. "I would assess him as someone that can't accept the fact that he screwed up."

Later, as director of the FBI, Mueller instructed his staff to protect him from the agency’s oversight division, according to former colleagues interviewed by the Times.

Most notably, Mueller is charged with scrapping a highly-critical review of his Directorate of Intelligence, a unit that he had created at the FBI to investigate terrorism more effectively.

After an internal inspection reported that Mueller should “set [the unit] on fire and start from scratch,” his top aides decided to protect the director at all costs by hiding the report from the Justice Department’s inspector general.

“It was, ‘The director will get skewered. We've got to protect him, and we can't issue this,’” a former official told the Times. “Anywhere it said ‘inspection,’ they changed it to ‘review.’ And said this was a review, not an inspection, and therefore they didn't have to issue it to … the inspector general.”

Lastly, the Times article delves into Mueller’s unsuccessful attempt at negotiating with Russian officials to turn over Edward Snowden in 2013.

According to a former official, Mueller would call his Russian counterpart, Alexander Bortnikov, “starting at 3 a.m. in Washington” every day for at least a week, “begging to talk to the guy.” Bortnikov reportedly never answered the phone, and Snowden was granted asylum in Russia soon after.

WOW that is from the far left rawstory..

It is interesting to watch when the far left attacks their own..
raw story is as left as David Duke.
 
They search the web looking for bogus sites to tell them what they want to hear. . Not a real journalist in sight for any of them. Then they take their Infowars type sites and bring them here thinking they have a scoop. Real news is invisible to them which is why anytime a nondeplorable States a common fact they ask for a link because they never heard it before.

As often as you post meaningless drivel like this horseshit, how could you possibly have ever thought to choose a username like "Reasonable" ?

You related to Maxine Waters?
Every word is true which is why it’s a shock to your system. You’re so used to being lied to that anyone telling you the truth is like castor oil to you.
 
Robert-Mueller-Youtube-800x430.jpg


Robert Mueller is the kind of person that can't admit when he screwed up, aides say. Robert Mueller can’t own up to his mistakes, aides say

November 26, 2017
Carlos Ballesteros

Robert Mueller, special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election, is a “gruff guy” who routinely undermined his subordinates and evaded responsibility as head of the FBI, according to several former aides and investigators who worked with Mueller interviewed by the Los Angeles Times.

In a lengthy profile published on Friday, the Times dredged up some of Mueller’s most difficult moments throughout his career as government prosecutor and as the sixth director of the FBI, a post he maintained from 2001 until 2013.

Those interviewed criticized Mueller’s handling of many high-profile cases stretching back to 1979, his temperament with government witnesses, and for directing his subordinates at the FBI to shield him from criticism.

One former aide went so far as to say that Mueller is “someone that can’t accept the fact that he screwed up.”


The Times profile begins by focusing on Mueller’s tenure at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where he was criticized for mishandling high-profile cases and for his treatment of government witnesses and subordinates.

The first of these cases took place in 1979, when Mueller, as head of the U.S. attorney’s special prosecutors unit, took over the case against 33 members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club charged with drug trafficking, murder, and bombings. The first trial, which sought to imprison 18 of the accused members, was unsuccessful, as the five convictions reached in the case were overturned on appeal.

Mueller then took over the case and lead a team of four prosecutors in the second trial with 11 eleven defendants. However, as reported by the Times, “after four months, the jury said it was deadlocked, and the judge declared a mistrial. Mueller decided not to ask for a retrial.”

Mueller then transferred to the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston where he oversaw cases against Panamanian president Manuel Noriega, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, and head of the Gambino crime family, John Gotti.

However, his success was marked by a disdain from some of his subordinates. As noted by the Times, Mueller sparked resentment “when he referred privately to reassigning career lawyers as ‘moving the furniture.’”

After a short stint in private practice, Mueller returned to public service as a homicide prosecutor in Washington, D.C. in 1995, where Mueller reportedly had a tough time forging relationships with victims, suspects, and government witnesses and was charged with being cold and unsympathetic.


"He was a gruff guy, and a lot of times, there wasn't much warmth or ability to really build a bond or connect with a victim-witness," one of Mueller’s fellow investigators told the Times. "There's times when you've got to bond with the suspect to get what you need. His personality wasn't necessarily the best for that."

Mueller was also criticized for his time as head of the FBI. He led the investigation into the deadly anthrax attacks in the years after 9/11 for nearly seven years, ultimately leading in the prosecution of the wrong suspect, who later successfully sued the government for $5.8 million.

After agents successfully traced back the anthrax to an Army microbiologist who committed suicide once he was informed of the impending charges, Mueller “was reluctant to publicly address the missteps” in the case.

"I think he was personally embarrassed," a former aide told the Times. "I would assess him as someone that can't accept the fact that he screwed up."

Later, as director of the FBI, Mueller instructed his staff to protect him from the agency’s oversight division, according to former colleagues interviewed by the Times.

Most notably, Mueller is charged with scrapping a highly-critical review of his Directorate of Intelligence, a unit that he had created at the FBI to investigate terrorism more effectively.

After an internal inspection reported that Mueller should “set [the unit] on fire and start from scratch,” his top aides decided to protect the director at all costs by hiding the report from the Justice Department’s inspector general.

“It was, ‘The director will get skewered. We've got to protect him, and we can't issue this,’” a former official told the Times. “Anywhere it said ‘inspection,’ they changed it to ‘review.’ And said this was a review, not an inspection, and therefore they didn't have to issue it to … the inspector general.”

Lastly, the Times article delves into Mueller’s unsuccessful attempt at negotiating with Russian officials to turn over Edward Snowden in 2013.

According to a former official, Mueller would call his Russian counterpart, Alexander Bortnikov, “starting at 3 a.m. in Washington” every day for at least a week, “begging to talk to the guy.” Bortnikov reportedly never answered the phone, and Snowden was granted asylum in Russia soon after.

WOW that is from the far left rawstory..

It is interesting to watch when the far left attacks their own..
raw story is as left as David Duke.

See they can not admit that raw story is far left!

That is very telling and shows how far to the left these drones really are!

The Raw Story describes itself as progressive, aka far left!
 
Mike Flynn is talking to Mueller so Orange Jesus’s devoted worshippers are doing their best to defend their God.

Bingo. They’re frightened out of their minds that Flynn will incriminate Trump.
 
Robert-Mueller-Youtube-800x430.jpg


Robert Mueller is the kind of person that can't admit when he screwed up, aides say. Robert Mueller can’t own up to his mistakes, aides say

November 26, 2017
Carlos Ballesteros

Robert Mueller, special counsel overseeing the investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election, is a “gruff guy” who routinely undermined his subordinates and evaded responsibility as head of the FBI, according to several former aides and investigators who worked with Mueller interviewed by the Los Angeles Times.

In a lengthy profile published on Friday, the Times dredged up some of Mueller’s most difficult moments throughout his career as government prosecutor and as the sixth director of the FBI, a post he maintained from 2001 until 2013.

Those interviewed criticized Mueller’s handling of many high-profile cases stretching back to 1979, his temperament with government witnesses, and for directing his subordinates at the FBI to shield him from criticism.

One former aide went so far as to say that Mueller is “someone that can’t accept the fact that he screwed up.”


The Times profile begins by focusing on Mueller’s tenure at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where he was criticized for mishandling high-profile cases and for his treatment of government witnesses and subordinates.

The first of these cases took place in 1979, when Mueller, as head of the U.S. attorney’s special prosecutors unit, took over the case against 33 members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club charged with drug trafficking, murder, and bombings. The first trial, which sought to imprison 18 of the accused members, was unsuccessful, as the five convictions reached in the case were overturned on appeal.

Mueller then took over the case and lead a team of four prosecutors in the second trial with 11 eleven defendants. However, as reported by the Times, “after four months, the jury said it was deadlocked, and the judge declared a mistrial. Mueller decided not to ask for a retrial.”

Mueller then transferred to the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston where he oversaw cases against Panamanian president Manuel Noriega, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, and head of the Gambino crime family, John Gotti.

However, his success was marked by a disdain from some of his subordinates. As noted by the Times, Mueller sparked resentment “when he referred privately to reassigning career lawyers as ‘moving the furniture.’”

After a short stint in private practice, Mueller returned to public service as a homicide prosecutor in Washington, D.C. in 1995, where Mueller reportedly had a tough time forging relationships with victims, suspects, and government witnesses and was charged with being cold and unsympathetic.


"He was a gruff guy, and a lot of times, there wasn't much warmth or ability to really build a bond or connect with a victim-witness," one of Mueller’s fellow investigators told the Times. "There's times when you've got to bond with the suspect to get what you need. His personality wasn't necessarily the best for that."

Mueller was also criticized for his time as head of the FBI. He led the investigation into the deadly anthrax attacks in the years after 9/11 for nearly seven years, ultimately leading in the prosecution of the wrong suspect, who later successfully sued the government for $5.8 million.

After agents successfully traced back the anthrax to an Army microbiologist who committed suicide once he was informed of the impending charges, Mueller “was reluctant to publicly address the missteps” in the case.

"I think he was personally embarrassed," a former aide told the Times. "I would assess him as someone that can't accept the fact that he screwed up."

Later, as director of the FBI, Mueller instructed his staff to protect him from the agency’s oversight division, according to former colleagues interviewed by the Times.

Most notably, Mueller is charged with scrapping a highly-critical review of his Directorate of Intelligence, a unit that he had created at the FBI to investigate terrorism more effectively.

After an internal inspection reported that Mueller should “set [the unit] on fire and start from scratch,” his top aides decided to protect the director at all costs by hiding the report from the Justice Department’s inspector general.

“It was, ‘The director will get skewered. We've got to protect him, and we can't issue this,’” a former official told the Times. “Anywhere it said ‘inspection,’ they changed it to ‘review.’ And said this was a review, not an inspection, and therefore they didn't have to issue it to … the inspector general.”

Lastly, the Times article delves into Mueller’s unsuccessful attempt at negotiating with Russian officials to turn over Edward Snowden in 2013.

According to a former official, Mueller would call his Russian counterpart, Alexander Bortnikov, “starting at 3 a.m. in Washington” every day for at least a week, “begging to talk to the guy.” Bortnikov reportedly never answered the phone, and Snowden was granted asylum in Russia soon after.

WOW that is from the far left rawstory..

It is interesting to watch when the far left attacks their own..
raw story is as left as David Duke.

See they can not admit that raw story is far left!

That is very telling and shows how far to the left these drones really are!

The Raw Story describes itself as progressive, aka far left!
I could care less which web site is publishing this bullshit. Look at his resume. Look at how he garners effusive praise by the people who have worked with him.
No one is going to tarnish this man’s reputation... but the right have been desperately trying to fearing the inevitable.
 

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