Seems to me I remember Mueller a war hero and Rosenstein are BOTH republicans and so is Comey Why isn't Sessions kissing trump butt Maybe he knows those charges are all TRUMPED up?
Funny how you do not remember....
...Mueller's record, how he withheld evidence and sent an innocent man he KNEW had committed no crimes to jail for years. Funny how you forget that when what he did was exposed and the man was finally released Mueller refused to admit he was wrong and defiantly declared, "The man COULD have been involved' when he knew damn-well he wasn't!
...Mueller was / is not only Comey's friend buy also his Mentor, which means there is no legal way in hell Mueller should have ever been allowed to be appointed as the Special Counsel due to the obvious Conflict of Interest involved.
...Mueller's connection to his Russian Oligarch friend who, now evidence suggests, may have been the source of the Russian-authored Trump Dossier. Had this connection been known (and I think Rosenstein was well aware of it) there is no way in hell, again, Mueller should have been allowed to be the Special Counsel.
...Mueller was the US AG under Obama in 2014 who, evidence shows, hid evidence of Russian crimes associated with the KGB Bank's attempt to acquire Uranium One until AFTER the deal went through. His own connection to and collaborating with Russians makes it impossible for him to be objective in leading an investigation of Americans colluding with Russians...yet explains so well why he has ignored so many connections between Democrats and the Russians.
...How Rosenstein was the one who authored the document justifying why Comey should be fired and how he was the one who advised Trump to do the firing. He immediately turned around (after the set-up was successfully complete) and suggested the President - who was within his legal right to fire Comey - had Obstructed Justice. This makes him Witness #1 in any Obstruction case, except, of course, in any case in which he is a co-conspirator...like this one. His own obvious Conflict of Interest should have forced him to recuse himself long ago.
Yup, funny how you seem to miss (or ignore) all of that....
Easy Fire Fire pants on fire
Reprinted with permission from MediaMatters.
Sean Hannity, the Fox News host and adviser to President Donald Trump who has turned his broadcast into a nightly attack on special counsel Robert Mueller, smeared the head of the Russia probe by referencing one of the darkest chapters in the FBI’s history
on four consecutive broadcasts last week. “During Mueller’s time as a federal prosecutor in Boston, four — four men wrongfully imprisoned for decades framed by an F.B.I. informant and notorious gangster, ****** Bulger, all while Mueller’s office looked the other way,” Hannity
said in one such report last Wednesday.
That’s nonsense, according to Nancy Gertner, the retired federal judge who
presided over the wrongful imprisonment trial of the four men and ordered the government to pay them and their families $101.7 million. As Gertner explains in a
Wednesday op-ed in
The New York Times, there is “no evidence” linking Mueller to the case — and in fact, the case didn’t even involve Bulger, the infamous head of Boston’s Winter Hill Gang.
The swift unraveling of Hannity’s latest shoddy effort to discredit Mueller points to Fox’s
inability or unwillingness to restrain its top-rated host as he barrels through journalistic ethics rules and ignores basic fact-checking standards.
The Bulger story has its roots in an apparently
coordinated right-wing effort that kicked off last month after Trump lashed out at Mueller
for the first time by name on Twitter. Those tweets, which
followed reports that the special counsel had issued a subpoena for Trump Organization records, triggered a series of reports from pro-Trump sources about Mueller’s record that
reportedly bore “the hallmarks of professional opposition research.”
In one such missive, headlined “Questions Still Surround Robert Mueller’s Boston Past,” Fox News contributor and
Hannity fixture Sara Carter
wrote on her personal website that the special counsel’s tenure as an assistant U.S. attorney and acting U.S. attorney in the 1980s “raised questions about his role in one of the FBI’s most controversial cases involving the FBI’s use of a confidential informant” — whom she identified as Bulger — “that led to the convictions of four innocent men, who were sentenced to death for murders they did not commit.”
The story heavily drew on criticism from David Schoen, a civil rights and defense attorney who had
previously linked Mueller to Bulger while appearing alongside Carter in a February
Hannity segment. Carter’s report quoted Schoen claiming Mueller had been “neck deep” in the case.
As Gertner explained in her
Times op-ed, there’s no reason to believe any of this is true:
Based on the voluminous evidence submitted in the trial, and having written a 105-page decision awarding them $101.8 million, I can say without equivocation that Mr. Mueller, who worked in the United States attorney’s office in Boston from 1982 to 1988, including a brief stint as the acting head of the office, had no involvement in that case. He was never even mentioned.
The case wasn’t about ****** Bulger but another mobster the F.B.I. was also protecting, the hit man Joseph Barboza, who lied when he testified that the four men had killed Edward Deegan, a low-level mobster, in 1965. Mr. Barboza was covering for the real killers, and the F.B.I. went along because of his importance as an informant.
[…]
Mr. Mueller is mentioned nowhere in my opinion; nor in the submissions of the plaintiffs’ lead trial counsel, Juliane Balliro; nor in “Black Mass,” the book about Mr. Bulger and the F.B.I. written by former reporters for The Boston Globe.
Carter, a former reporter for the Sinclair Broadcast Group website Circa,
regularly produces shoddy reports that appear to channel the talking points of Trump’s lawyers and Republican congressional investigators. But while she now writes only for her personal blog, she is a key player in the right wing’s anti-Mueller effort because she regularly appears on
Hannity and other pro-Trump Fox programs to discuss her stories.
In this case, Hannity
hosted Carter and Schoen to discuss her “brand new report” on March 20, the night after she
published it. Hannity termed Mueller’s purported connection to the wrongful imprisonment of the four men “one of the worst stains” on the special counsel’s record. He returned to the story on the
next two editions of his show.
Hannity did not mention the case again until last Monday, when he responded to the
FBI’s raid of Michael D. Cohen, Trump’s longtime personal lawyer (who, as would
later be revealed, had also done legal work for Hannity himself).
During his unhinged performance that night — promoted by the president on Twitter — Hannity
mapped out the “Mueller crime family,” which he said included Bulger. He trumpeted Mueller’s purported malfeasance in the case that night and during his next three broadcasts.
Meanwhile, other players in the pro-Trump media, including
radio host Rush Limbaugh and
Boston Heraldcolumnist and radio host Howie Carr, picked up the story. These conservative commentators, desperate to damage Mueller’s credibility in order to forestall his investigation and set the stage for his firing, don’t much care if these stories are true.
“When Mr. Hannity and others say Mr. Mueller was responsible for the continued imprisonment of those four men, they are simply wrong — unless they have information that I, Balliro, the House investigators and the ‘Black Mass’ authors did not and do not have,” Gertner concluded, referring to a book by
Boston Globe reporters about Bulger and the FBI. “If they do, they should produce it. If they don’t, they should stop this campaign to discredit Mr. Mueller.”
Hannity doesn’t have any additional information, but don’t count on him to stop running with the talking point now that it’s been debunked — or issuing a correction, as would happen at any other network. At Fox, there are
no rules for Hannity.