Mueller Taps More Prosecutors to Help With Growing Trump Probe

[DrLove]

This one's gonna leave a mark

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is tapping additional Justice Department resources for help with new legal battles as his year-old investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 election continues to expand.

As Mueller pursues his probe, he’s making more use of career prosecutors from the offices of U.S. attorneys and from Justice Department headquarters, as well as FBI agents -- a sign that he may be laying the groundwork to hand off parts of his investigation eventually, several current and former U.S. officials said.

Investigators in New York; Alexandria, Virginia; Pittsburgh and elsewhere have been tapped to supplement the work of Mueller’s team, the officials said. Mueller has already handed off one major investigation -- into Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen -- to the Southern District of New York.​

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[Pete7469]

I wonder how many will get fired and lose their secret clearance credentials.

You do realize that more FBI agents have been punished than anyone Mueller has persecuted so far right?

Fucking imbecile....


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[Indeependent]

This one's gonna leave a mark

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is tapping additional Justice Department resources for help with new legal battles as his year-old investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 election continues to expand.

As Mueller pursues his probe, he’s making more use of career prosecutors from the offices of U.S. attorneys and from Justice Department headquarters, as well as FBI agents -- a sign that he may be laying the groundwork to hand off parts of his investigation eventually, several current and former U.S. officials said.

Investigators in New York; Alexandria, Virginia; Pittsburgh and elsewhere have been tapped to supplement the work of Mueller’s team, the officials said. Mueller has already handed off one major investigation -- into Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen -- to the Southern District of New York.​

Terms of Service Violation

You didn’t read past the headline.
Why am I not surprised, you nitwit?

 

[centerleftFL]

This one's gonna leave a mark

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is tapping additional Justice Department resources for help with new legal battles as his year-old investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 election continues to expand.

As Mueller pursues his probe, he’s making more use of career prosecutors from the offices of U.S. attorneys and from Justice Department headquarters, as well as FBI agents -- a sign that he may be laying the groundwork to hand off parts of his investigation eventually, several current and former U.S. officials said.

Investigators in New York; Alexandria, Virginia; Pittsburgh and elsewhere have been tapped to supplement the work of Mueller’s team, the officials said. Mueller has already handed off one major investigation -- into Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen -- to the Southern District of New York.​

Terms of Service Violation

I would have put a different title up. MUELLER finishing up OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE investigation, drilling down into COLLUSION.

Collusion is TRAITOROUS. Obstruction of justice is after the fact.

Mueller Poised to Zero In on Trump-Russia Collusion Allegations
By
Chris Strohm - Bloomberg
and
Shannon Pettypiece
June 26, 2018, 4:00 AM EDT

• 
  Special counsel to focus once he resolves obstruction inquiry
• 
  The meetings with Russians stretched as far back as 2015

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is preparing to accelerate his probe into possible collusion between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russians who sought to interfere in the 2016 election, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

Mueller and his team of prosecutors and investigators have an eye toward producing conclusions -- and possible indictments -- related to collusion by fall, said the person, who asked not to be identified. He’ll be able to turn his full attention to the issue as he resolves other questions, including deciding soon whether to find that Trump sought to obstruct justice.

Robert Mueller

Photographer: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
Mueller’s office declined to comment on his plans.

Suspicious contacts between at least 13 people associated with Trump’s presidential campaign and Russians have fueled the debate over collusion.

Some of those encounters have been known for months: the Russian ambassador whose conversations forced Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation and led Michael Flynn to plead guilty to lying to the FBI. (The Justice Department says Sessions’s recusal was based strictly on his role in the Trump campaign.) The Russians who wangled a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower in July 2016 after dangling the promise of political dirt on Democrat Hillary Clinton.

 

[Indeependent]

This one's gonna leave a mark

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is tapping additional Justice Department resources for help with new legal battles as his year-old investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 election continues to expand.

As Mueller pursues his probe, he’s making more use of career prosecutors from the offices of U.S. attorneys and from Justice Department headquarters, as well as FBI agents -- a sign that he may be laying the groundwork to hand off parts of his investigation eventually, several current and former U.S. officials said.

Investigators in New York; Alexandria, Virginia; Pittsburgh and elsewhere have been tapped to supplement the work of Mueller’s team, the officials said. Mueller has already handed off one major investigation -- into Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen -- to the Southern District of New York.​

Terms of Service Violation

I would have put a different title up. MUELLER finishing up OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE investigation, drilling down into COLLUSION.

Collusion is TRAITOROUS. Obstruction of justice is after the fact.

Mueller Poised to Zero In on Trump-Russia Collusion Allegations
By
Chris Strohm - Bloomberg
and
Shannon Pettypiece
June 26, 2018, 4:00 AM EDT

• 
  Special counsel to focus once he resolves obstruction inquiry
• 
  The meetings with Russians stretched as far back as 2015

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is preparing to accelerate his probe into possible collusion between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russians who sought to interfere in the 2016 election, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

Mueller and his team of prosecutors and investigators have an eye toward producing conclusions -- and possible indictments -- related to collusion by fall, said the person, who asked not to be identified. He’ll be able to turn his full attention to the issue as he resolves other questions, including deciding soon whether to find that Trump sought to obstruct justice.

Robert Mueller

Photographer: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
Mueller’s office declined to comment on his plans.

Suspicious contacts between at least 13 people associated with Trump’s presidential campaign and Russians have fueled the debate over collusion.

Some of those encounters have been known for months: the Russian ambassador whose conversations forced Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation and led Michael Flynn to plead guilty to lying to the FBI. (The Justice Department says Sessions’s recusal was based strictly on his role in the Trump campaign.) The Russians who wangled a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower in July 2016 after dangling the promise of political dirt on Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Collusion is not a crime; but that’s only been mentioned about 1,000,000 times in the last 12 months or so.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

All those lawyers fired for bias have to be replaced.

 

[DrLove]

Collusion is not a crime; but that’s only been mentioned about 1,000,000 times in the last 12 months or so.

Only braindead Trump sycophants are not aware that we get it - collusion isn't a crime. That's why you mention it so frequently - Just like the Dotard himself.
Correct - Collusion is not a crime. But conspiring with a hostile foreign government to influence a US election IS.

 

[night_son]

I wonder to which Constitution Marine Corps private, lieutenant and captain Robert Mueller swore support and defense, and which enemies he is now protecting it from?

Robert Mueller’s military career, detailed in documents, was brief but remarkable

 

[MisterBeale]

Actually, now that another SCOTUS justice has retired, there is something Trump can do to help Manafort limit the scope of this investigation. Manafort can take Mueller to court, appeal it all the way to the SCOTUS, and have Mueller's mandate slapped down and the investigation limited or dissolved. This article even has the reader start to draw these conclusions, it is getting bogged down.

Most of the judges that will vote for Trump's POV are from the Federalist Society, they will be friendly to the fact that Mueller has overstepped his mandate by charging folks with things that have absolutely nothing to do with Russia.

"Trump administration
The Federalist Society has been influential in the Trump administration, hand-selecting Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and recruiting a slate of conservative judges to fill vacancies throughout the federal judiciary.[23][24] The society helped to assemble the list of 21 people from which Donald Trump said he would choose a nominee to replace Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. Nine of the 21 individuals spoke at the society's annual convention in late November 2016, while nearly all of the others were in attendance.[25][26] Federalist Society members have generally chosen not to criticize President Donald Trump; Politico described the Federalist Society membership as "elite, conservative lawyers who have generally chosen to give Trump a pass on his breaches of long-cherished legal norms and traditions in exchange for the gift of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch."[24] Federalist Society executive vice president Leonard Leo said "What President Trump has done with judicial selection and appointments is probably at the very center of his legacy, and may well be his greatest accomplishments thus far."[27]

In May 2018, the Federalist Society hosted a phone call entitled "examining the legality of the Mueller Investigation", where one of the featured speakers has argued that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election is unconstitutional.[24]"
Federalist Society - Wikipedia

Mueller’s Investigation Crosses the Legal Line
It’s unconstitutional under Morrison v. Olson—the decision, not the dissent.
Mueller’s Investigation Crosses the Legal Line

"Mr. Mueller’s investigation has crossed a constitutional line, for reasons the U.S. Supreme Court made clear in the 1988 case Morrison v. Olson. That case is best known for Justice Antonin Scalia’s powerful lone dissent arguing that the post-Watergate independent counsel statute was unconstitutional.

But Chief Justice William Rehnquist’s opinion for the court, while upholding the statute, set forth limits that the Mueller investigation has exceeded.

At issue is the Constitution’s Appointments Clause, which provides that “principal officers” must be appointed by the president with the Senate’s consent.

Rehnquist wrote that independent counsel Alexia Morrison qualified as an “inferior officer,” not subject to the appointment process, because her office was “limited in jurisdiction” to “certain federal officials suspected of certain serious federal crimes.”

Mr. Mueller, in contrast, is investigating a large number of people and has already charged defendants with many different kinds of crimes, including—as in Mr. Manafort’s case—ones unrelated to any collaboration between the Trump campaign and Russia. That’s too much power for an inferior officer to have.

Only a principal officer, such as a U.S. attorney, can behave the way Mr. Mueller is behaving. Mr. Mueller is much more powerful today than any of the 96 U.S. attorneys. He is behaving like a principal officer.

Rehnquist’s majority opinion has never been overturned. n Edmund v. U.S. and in Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Oversight Board, the justices said that an officer cannot be inferior unless he has a boss—as Mr. Mueller does in Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed him. But that’s not a sufficient condition.

As a principal officer, Mr. Rosenstein could legally have brought all the indictments Mr. Mueller has. But he may not delegate that authority to Mr. Mueller, any more than President Trump could delegate his veto power to Mr. Rosenstein."

 

[MisterBeale]

Collusion is not a crime; but that’s only been mentioned about 1,000,000 times in the last 12 months or so.

Only braindead Trump sycophants are not aware that we get it - collusion isn't a crime. That's why you mention it so frequently - Just like the Dotard himself.
Correct - Collusion is not a crime. But conspiring with a hostile foreign government to influence a US election IS.

You need solid evidence of a conspiracy, of which, there isn't even circumstantial evidence.

Give it up.

 

[MisterBeale]

In fact, there is more circumstantial evidence that 9/11 was an inside job than there is for conspiracy between the Trump administration and the Russians. . .

Fact.

 

[DrLove]

Collusion is not a crime; but that’s only been mentioned about 1,000,000 times in the last 12 months or so.

Only braindead Trump sycophants are not aware that we get it - collusion isn't a crime. That's why you mention it so frequently - Just like the Dotard himself.
Correct - Collusion is not a crime. But conspiring with a hostile foreign government to influence a US election IS.

You need solid evidence of a conspiracy, of which, there isn't even circumstantial evidence.

Give it up.

You don't know what Mueller has and neither do I.
Patience my boy, PATIENCE

 

[DrLove]

In fact, there is more circumstantial evidence that 9/11 was an inside job than there is for conspiracy between the Trump administration and the Russians. . .

Fact.

LoL - Right 22 separate meetings between Trump campaign and Russians .. and they ALL lied about it.
Innocent people act like it

 

[Indeependent]

Collusion is not a crime; but that’s only been mentioned about 1,000,000 times in the last 12 months or so.

Only braindead Trump sycophants are not aware that we get it - collusion isn't a crime. That's why you mention it so frequently - Just like the Dotard himself.
Correct - Collusion is not a crime. But conspiring with a hostile foreign government to influence a US election IS.

Are you retarded?
When your fellow mentally disturbed centerofbullshit posts it’s a crime you didn’t say a fucking thing.
You’re a psycho.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

 

[DrLove]

Collusion is not a crime; but that’s only been mentioned about 1,000,000 times in the last 12 months or so.

Only braindead Trump sycophants are not aware that we get it - collusion isn't a crime. That's why you mention it so frequently - Just like the Dotard himself.
Correct - Collusion is not a crime. But conspiring with a hostile foreign government to influence a US election IS.

Are you retarded?
When your fellow mentally disturbed centerofbullshit posts it’s a crime you didn’t say a fucking thing.
You’re a psycho.

Inderp - Never anything of value to add ... EVER

 

[Indeependent]

Collusion is not a crime; but that’s only been mentioned about 1,000,000 times in the last 12 months or so.

Only braindead Trump sycophants are not aware that we get it - collusion isn't a crime. That's why you mention it so frequently - Just like the Dotard himself.
Correct - Collusion is not a crime. But conspiring with a hostile foreign government to influence a US election IS.

Are you retarded?
When your fellow mentally disturbed centerofbullshit posts it’s a crime you didn’t say a fucking thing.
You’re a psycho.

Inderp - Never anything of value to add ... EVER

You can’t cover up facts with your ad hominems.
You’re just a mentally disturbed pos.

 

[toobfreak]

Collusion is not a crime; but that’s only been mentioned about 1,000,000 times in the last 12 months or so.

Only braindead Trump sycophants are not aware that we get it - collusion isn't a crime. That's why you mention it so frequently - Just like the Dotard himself.
Correct - Collusion is not a crime. But conspiring with a hostile foreign government to influence a US election IS.

So why then isn't Hillary in jail for paying the Ukrainians to help her build that fake Steele Dossier to hurt Trump? You see, what makes collusion illegal is when money changes hands. BTW, the only reason why Mueller is hiring more attorneys is because he's getting ready to leave the investigation himself.

MONEY SPENT SO FAR? About 17 million dollars, all in the pockets of fat lawyers.
Criminal indictments against Russians? Zero.
Criminal indictments against Trump or anyone in his campaign for conspiring with Russia to throw the election? Zero.
Likelihood any of this will prove or change a damned thing? You guessed it, Bub.

 

[Indeependent]

Collusion is not a crime; but that’s only been mentioned about 1,000,000 times in the last 12 months or so.

Only braindead Trump sycophants are not aware that we get it - collusion isn't a crime. That's why you mention it so frequently - Just like the Dotard himself.
Correct - Collusion is not a crime. But conspiring with a hostile foreign government to influence a US election IS.

So why then isn't Hillary in jail for paying the Ukrainians to help her build that fake Steele Dossier to hurt Trump? You see, what makes collusion illegal is when money changes hands. BTW, the only reason why Mueller is hiring more attorneys is because he's getting ready to leave the investigation himself.

MONEY SPENT SO FAR? About 17 million dollars, all in the pockets of fat lawyers.
Criminal indictments against Russians? Zero.
Criminal indictments against Trump or anyone in his campaign for conspiring with Russia to throw the election? Zero.
Likelihood any of this will prove or change a damned thing? You guessed it, Bub.

You actually read the article!
You’re not a very good Liberal like DrLove.

 

[DrLove]

Collusion is not a crime; but that’s only been mentioned about 1,000,000 times in the last 12 months or so.

Only braindead Trump sycophants are not aware that we get it - collusion isn't a crime. That's why you mention it so frequently - Just like the Dotard himself.
Correct - Collusion is not a crime. But conspiring with a hostile foreign government to influence a US election IS.

So why then isn't Hillary in jail for paying the Ukrainians to help her build that fake Steele Dossier to hurt Trump? You see, what makes collusion illegal is when money changes hands. BTW, the only reason why Mueller is hiring more attorneys is because he's getting ready to leave the investigation himself.

MONEY SPENT SO FAR? About 17 million dollars, all in the pockets of fat lawyers.
Criminal indictments against Russians? Zero.
Criminal indictments against Trump or anyone in his campaign for conspiring with Russia to throw the election? Zero.
Likelihood any of this will prove or change a damned thing? You guessed it, Bub.

Bob's witch hunt sure is rounding up a shit-ton of witches!