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no to nuclear Iran, no to two-state solution, no to bi-national state
@ Adam Dalgliesh:
Yes Adam his discomfort-very real- but it was obviously because he had not read the report supposed to be his ., and also, because if he’d done what the Democrats were slavering to hear, he would have been guilty of criminal conspiracy to unseat a sitting President, and likely a lot more. I’m not familiar with US Law, but I’d say that this would have been the least of the charges against him. ,
In prolonging the farce for over 2 years, and delving into ridiculous matters re Trump, as well as wandering very far afield from his narrowly defined mandate, he showed, sufficiently for me anyway, and many, many more, all the experienced experienced political commentators, that he was trying his best to find an indictable offence with which to charge the President.
I still believe that your “explanation” is exculpatory. Sorry….!!
@ Edgar G.: I’m not trying to exculpate him, Edgar. But you cannot deny that he looked very uncomfortable at the hearing, he obviously was there against his will, and he was for the most part uncooperative with the Democratic witch-hunters. They didn’t hide their disappointment.
He is a bureaucrat who is sensitive to where the power is. With Sessions and Rosenstein in charge, plus a wide variety of “deep state” holdovers in the Department of Justice and the FBI who hated Trump, he was happy to participate in the witch hunt. He was with the people who then held power. But Trump finally succeeded in having some of these people fired, and others resigned. Now the power in the Department of Justice is with Trump and Barr. So Mueller, ever the opportunist, has changed course to avoid offending the new people in charge. He is not an ideologue, but a compliant tool of whoever happens to be in power.
@ Adam Dalgliesh:
ADAM- If is it “all true” as you agree, then he KNEW that there was nothing there almost from the beginning, That didn’t prevent him from destroying by picayune entrapment, General Flynn, and had Manafort, a sick man of about 75 confined to solitary confinement for months, and dragged out many times to be forced to “confess” that the President had done this or that…He didn’t succeed, so vindictively charged Manafort with a multitude of petty crimes….
He-or Wiseman- had a SWAT attack conducted in the middle of the night against Roger Stone, smashing down doors and with heavy weaponry took this completely harmless old man, frightened his family to distraction, and MORE….
So what he himself did, was to prolong the witch hunt, and in doing so committed the very crimes which he was supposed to have been pursuing the President about. 16 of the 19 prosecutors he hired were involved in some way or other with the Clintons,according to what I saw and heard on Youtube today.
To me you sound almost exculpatory….I hope I’m wrong.
@ Edgar G.: All true, Edgar. But Mueller also knows that things have changed at the Department of Justice now that Barr is Atorney General and his former “protectors” at the Dept. of Justice Sessions and the former deputy Attorney General, (what’s his name? Rosenstein?) are no longer in office. It was obvious he didn’t want to offend his new boss by continuing on the impeachment trail. He also seems to sense that the American people have tired of the witch-hunt, and if he continued to participate in it, the public would see him as a villain. His hope of retiring into comfortable obscurity would be over. He therefore decided he would not cooperate with the Democrats any more. He is mainly an opportunistic bureaucrat who likes to be on the winning side of political wars, not an ideologue.
@ Adam Dalgliesh:
ADAM- His actions in pursuing people and potential crimes which had nothing at all to do with his narrowly defined and specific mandate shows BEYOND QUESTION, that he was NOT impartial. It was “Watergate” multiplied by 100, and I remember that THAT was a travesty and ignored the hostile and frenetic situations on the streets and Campuses. . ….(the usual Democrat tactics and strategy)
I find it hard to believe that you actually wrote that post…. I listened to the whole thing, and nothing was more clear than that Muller was as ignorant of what was in that report as I was, even more, because long ago I could see that obviously Trump was being victimized.. I saw that bit about Wiseman, and elsewhere he was also mentioned as the author. I saw his picture too, a narrow face, looked like a weasel with Paget’s disease of the nose……
Also Muller dragged the investigation out for at least twice as long as it should have taken. This past year he did not add any new “findings” to his monstrous witch hunt.
And why were almost all the investigators he hired, known Trump haters., many or all were associated with the Democratic Party.
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@ Bear Klein: Fox news claim that the actual director and the author of the report was somone named Weisman. My take on the hearings was not that Mueller was senile, but that he genuinely did not want to be an impeachment advocate. He didn’t seem eager to be seen as a partisan Republican, and wanted to retain his image as a nonpartisan civil servant. Perhaps what he believes his Justice Department colleagues and friends expect of him. So he politely declined to play the Republicans game.
@ Ted Belman:He appeared to be 98 going on 119 but actually he was born August 7, 1944 which makes 76 in a few days I believe.
Did not look like he could have actually been much than a figure head for the investigation and someone else must have been running it.