PoliticalChic
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Hannity is garbage like Trump 2 pieces of crap in the same bowland that is simply NOT TRUE, and a right wing creation and lie you happened to believe, without actually researching it...The Mule allowed men he knew were innocent to rot and die in prison, in order to protect his stoolies....He's as low of a scumbag as you can get.Those conflicts are pretty weak.
As a card-carrying member of the Great RIght-Wing Conspiracy, I find very little to complain about with Mueller. The letter creating the position was more broad than it should have been, but with those marching orders he did was he was told to do. He is certainly to be commended for keeping their work confidential for that long period of time - something that every other relevant deliberative body over the past three years has failed to do.
I dare say it would be difficult to find a dozen qualified lawyers in Washington who do not think Trump is a total dick, so complaints about the political inclinations of the staff lawyers are also a bit strained.
And truly, how can you complain about his work product? The people he indicted were clearly guilty of crimes, and those for whom he could not establish a Prima Facia case were let off without indictment. Congress may use some of his work product to try to embarrass Trump and his posse, but you can't lay that on Mueller.
Mueller is not "disreputable" by any rational measure. Indeed, you look like the mirror image of those attacking Barr right now.
Mueller, Hannity claims, was linked to legendary organized crime figure James “Whitey” Bulger. But is that true? The Boston Globe did some fact-checking, and this is what they found.
1- First, regarding Hannity’s claims about Robert Mueller’s connection to Whitey Bulger: Mueller’s office wasn’t even involved. Mueller served in the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston from 1982 to 1988, but it was the FBI and the New England Organized Crime Strike Force (prosecuting attorneys who worked independently of the U.S. attorney’s office and reported directly to the Department of Justice) that were responsible for the Bulger scandal. The FBI and the Strike Force used Bulger to help them uncover Mafia crimes, all the while not doing a thing about the crimes Bulger himself had committed. Long story short: Mueller could not have been involved with Bulger because he wasn’t even involved with the FBI or the Strike Force.
2- Let’s move on to another of Hannity’s claims. He alleges that because of Robert Mueller, four men were framed by an FBI informant and wrongfully imprisoned for many years. Two of those men even died in prison.
Was Mueller involved with that? Let’s start with the basics: the informant who framed the men was not Bulger. In fact, it was Joseph “The Animal” Barboza, and the trial against Joseph Salvati, Peter J. Limone, Louis Greco, and Henry Tamelo took place in 1968. Mueller was born in 1944. When the trial took place, Mueller was busy serving in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. Mueller didn’t even graduate from law school until 1973, so he could hardly have been involved in the Salvati trial.
What is true about Hannity’s claim is that the FBI was found to have had corrupt relationships with Bulger and his sidekick, Stephen Flemmi. This information started to become public knowledge in 1988, and an investigation into the FBI’s “mishandling” of informants as far back as the 1960s began at that time. Again, Mueller had nothing to do with the FBI or Bulger.
Did Mueller look the other way when he knew Salvati and his colleagues had been wrongfully convicted? The Globe found that according to the attorneys for the men, the former federal judge who oversaw the wrongful imprisonment trial, and the court records from that trial, there was nothing that linked Mueller to the case.
3- Hannity also claimed that Robert Mueller was one of the prosecutors who wrote letters to the Massachusetts Parole Board opposing the release of Salvati and his colleagues. Again, former federal judge Nancy Gertner, who oversaw the Salvati trial, and Juliane Balliro, Limone’s attorney, examined the parole board records for the four men. They found no letters from Mueller in the files, and his signature “never appeared on anything I ever saw or can recall,” Balliro told the Globe.
READ THE REST HERE:
Fact-checking Claims about Robert Mueller’s FBI Past - Civics Nation
Put on your thinking cap, eddie.....I'd live to see your response to post #138