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“Strip out the middlemen,” the Wall Street Journal’s editors argue this morning, “and it appears that Democrats paid for Russians to compile wild allegations about a US presidential candidate.” The editorial demands a “full investigation” into the FBI’s activities during the previous presidential cycle, saying that collusion may have taken place — only in a completely different direction than previously thought. And that puts the special counsel in an impossible position...
...this impacts on the supposed independence of special counsel Robert Mueller. Even aside from the Uranium One issue that took place while Mueller ran the FBI, the dossier case will directly reflect on James Comey, his friend and protege. And unlike the initial conception of the collusion probe, in which the FBI was presumed to be merely a collector of evidence, it now appears that the agency he led will have to get scrutinized as well — which, the WSJ concludes, makes Mueller’s position untenable:
'Mr. Mueller is a former FBI director, and for years he worked closely with Mr. Comey. It is no slur against Mr. Mueller’s integrity to say that he lacks the critical distance to conduct a credible probe of the bureau he ran for a dozen years. He could best serve the country by resigning to prevent further political turmoil over that conflict of interest.' "
The editors are correct that the exposure of the funding of the dossier changes the entire context of the probe. There is a small but non-zero chance that the FBI picked up this thread as a result of direct contact with Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the DNC, or its contractors, and if so it happened on Comey’s watch. That would at least raise the suspicion of political corruption at the nation’s top law-enforcement and domestic counterintelligence agency. At some point, the special counsel will have to probe those possibilities, and can that be done in a credible manner by a man who commanded the same people just a few years ago?
It will also mean probing Team Hillary and the DNC, who have suddenly contracted a case of laryngitis..."
WSJ to Mueller after dossier exposé: Resign - Hot Air
Considering the revelation of Hillary's connection to the dossier, the fact that she and the DNC paid $9 Million for a false report filled with Russian-generated propaganda from a foreign agent through a Russia-linked firm that just pleaded the 5th when called to testify before Congress and the fact that Hillary accepted over $100 million dollars from the Lead Russian in charge of the Russian Uranium One deal, that leaves several of Mueller's Special Counsel team members, like the former Clinton Foundation Lawyer, being exposed as having Conflicts of Interest that should result in them having to recuse themselves from any further investigations as well.
...this impacts on the supposed independence of special counsel Robert Mueller. Even aside from the Uranium One issue that took place while Mueller ran the FBI, the dossier case will directly reflect on James Comey, his friend and protege. And unlike the initial conception of the collusion probe, in which the FBI was presumed to be merely a collector of evidence, it now appears that the agency he led will have to get scrutinized as well — which, the WSJ concludes, makes Mueller’s position untenable:
'Mr. Mueller is a former FBI director, and for years he worked closely with Mr. Comey. It is no slur against Mr. Mueller’s integrity to say that he lacks the critical distance to conduct a credible probe of the bureau he ran for a dozen years. He could best serve the country by resigning to prevent further political turmoil over that conflict of interest.' "
The editors are correct that the exposure of the funding of the dossier changes the entire context of the probe. There is a small but non-zero chance that the FBI picked up this thread as a result of direct contact with Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the DNC, or its contractors, and if so it happened on Comey’s watch. That would at least raise the suspicion of political corruption at the nation’s top law-enforcement and domestic counterintelligence agency. At some point, the special counsel will have to probe those possibilities, and can that be done in a credible manner by a man who commanded the same people just a few years ago?
It will also mean probing Team Hillary and the DNC, who have suddenly contracted a case of laryngitis..."
WSJ to Mueller after dossier exposé: Resign - Hot Air
Considering the revelation of Hillary's connection to the dossier, the fact that she and the DNC paid $9 Million for a false report filled with Russian-generated propaganda from a foreign agent through a Russia-linked firm that just pleaded the 5th when called to testify before Congress and the fact that Hillary accepted over $100 million dollars from the Lead Russian in charge of the Russian Uranium One deal, that leaves several of Mueller's Special Counsel team members, like the former Clinton Foundation Lawyer, being exposed as having Conflicts of Interest that should result in them having to recuse themselves from any further investigations as well.
