What's Muellers real complaint?

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Mueller complained that Barr’s letter did not capture ‘context’ of Trump probe

A day after Mueller sent his letter to Barr, the two men spoke by phone for about 15 minutes, according to law enforcement officials.

In that call, Mueller said he was concerned that media coverage of the obstruction investigation was misguided and creating public misunderstandings about the office’s work, according to Justice Department officials. Mueller did not express similar concerns about the public discussion of the investigation of Russia’s election interference, the officials said. Barr has testified previously he did not know whether Mueller supported his conclusion on obstruction.

Boobie is concerned. The MSM doesn't understand all the great work he did over 2+ years -- leading to charges and convictions of people not involved in collusion or obstruction. We are still waiting for all those Russians indicted to come here for trial. Except for that pesky one, Concord Management and Consulting LLC, that have sued to get the disclosure rights of the accused that led to their indictment. That will not happen, National Security and process and methods, don't y'a know. Civil Rights? For Russians, accused of crimes in the good ole USA? Give me a break.

Never lie or get confused after being asked the same question again and again by the FBI because they will f you if you f up.. Never speak to them without a knowledged federal lawyer (looking at you Mike Flynn) and at least 2 witnesses that are taking detailed notes and recording the interview. 'Hey, can I ask you a question?" No.

Did Mueller disagree with Barr's assessment? No.

Here comes Rachel and Lawrence and Morning Joe and Matthews and Lemon and Cuomo...et al. Will they site this statement from Mueller? Nah. Not on narrative. Who believes these talking-head peoples?

We are truly f'd.

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The report continues the myth that Russia hacked the DNC. Mission accomplished. Seems like he would be happy with the report today as his report to congress a decade or so ago. (30 sec)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTDO-kuOGTQ]

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@Lookout

This is a distraction of some kind ... something to forestall the backfire that's coming their way.

I read the story in the NYT last night, where it was clearly a plant with an array of anonymous sources. The story is also deliberately confusing, with sloppy pronouns sand skewed timelines.

Even the NYT readers are mocking the story. But the Dems are rabid and angry and grasping at every last straw.

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The next bombshell report to drop from the Justice Department likely will earn none of the breathless fanfare and media coverage that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report received, but it could be far more incriminating.

In the next several weeks, Inspector General Michael Horowitz is expected to issue his summation of the potential abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by top officials in the Obama Administration and holdovers in the early Trump Administration who were overseeing the investigation of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

And the perpetrators of the so-called FISAgate scandal now are scrambling for cover as the bad news looms.

Horowitz announced last March that his office would examine the Justice Department’s conduct “in applications filed with the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) relating to a certain U.S. person.” That U.S. person is Trump campaign associate Carter Page. In October 2016, just two weeks before the presidential election, the Justice Department submitted an application to the FISC seeking authorization to wiretap Page. The court filing accused Page, a Naval Academy graduate and unpaid campaign advisor, of being an agent of Russia.

The application cited the infamous Steele dossier—unsubstantiated political propaganda that had been funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee—as its primary source of evidence. But the specific political origin of the dossier intentionally was omitted in the court filing. (Robert Mueller similarly tap danced around the role of Fusion GPS, the political consulting firm that hired Christopher Steele to create the dossier. Mueller never mentioned the name “Fusion GPS” in the 448-page document, referring to it only vaguely as “the firm that produced the Steele reporting.”)

Former FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates signed the original FISA application. It was renewed three times; subsequent signers included former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. If there’s one document that represents the malevolence, chicanery and arrogance of the original Trump-Russia collusion fraudsters, it’s the Page FISA application.

But—to borrow a favorite term of the collusion truthers—the “walls are closing in” on the FISA abusers.

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No one can predict what Inspector General Michael Horowitz will allow himself to "see." In a government like ours, the rulers are not elected and are accustomed to hiding behind classified documents. On the other hand, if he doesn't see the right thing, I wouldn't be surprised if President Trump de-classifies the entire stack, and passes them out like cigars.

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The trumped up charges of russiagate based on a fake dossier financed mainly by the DNC is worthy of investigation and exposure. But what I would prefer is looking at the Clinton Foundation criminality. (As well as Trump's profiteering.) But no chance...that curtain will NOT be pulled open.

It all continues to prop up the myth that Russia hacked the DNC and our election.

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@Lookout

The hallway of justice that leads to an investigation of the Clinton Foundation has been bricked over. In no small part because the Uranium deal is among the potential crimes most easily be accessed for prosecution. In solving the Russia Hoax corruption with its FISA abuse and government sabotage — the cooperation and discoveries of Robert Mueller is most helpful. However, Mueller played a supporting role in putting the Russian Uranium deal together, a referral he would find inconvenient.

(As an aside, all of Mueller's cases seem to end this way — a confusing bowl of spaghetti that cannot be untangled, including, at times, false convictions and overlooked crimes. There are constant manufactured distractions, and the object of the investigation is often more obscure in the end. In the Russia Hoax, both Barr and Mueller happen to be completely outside the attempt to overthrow an US election and sabotage a President. Amazingly, they happen to be clean, and are free to act. Rod Rosenstein, on the other hand, had to get out as quickly as he could.}

I'm less interested in Trump profiteering than I am in War profiteering. In either case, I'm pretty sure the smoking gun is not a tax return. It's an entire culture. Here, I'm picking my battles based on their levels of human suffering.

I don't know if people are reminding one another of the metadata of an impeachment of Trump.
1. Trump has committed several impeachable crimes, especially war crimes, for which we have all the evidence. All that's needed is the will of Congress and a measure of moral courage.
2. There are plenty of weak-tea charges that can be levied at the President right now to launch an impeachment proceeding. Again, confidence and courage are required.
3. Neither the Russia Hoax case, nor the opinions of the Attorney General about whether or not a crime took place can stop Congress from impeaching the President for any reason they wish to. All they have to do is Do It.

So far, nothing but noise.

Really, the only time I am willing to waste on Hillary, is to pursue war crimes charges related to Libya and Syria.

What drives me to pursue the Russia Hoax is the ongoing degrading of the intelligence of the American people, and the hardships that saddles them with. It is pure evil that I get to see up close every day. The monsters doing this are upon us.

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...but we no longer recognize international law.
first we deny the court visas to come to UN headquarters in NY
https://apnews.com/a5e0748b9b7443e683c6a0f4e0c7d509

Then the UN drops the war crime case...
https://truthout.org/video/international-criminal-court-drops-probe-into...

My oh my...

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@Lookout

As long as they are housed in that white elephant on the East River, they are totally vulnerable to US bullying and arm-twisting. If they pulled out and set up somewhere else, for instance Switzerland, they might actually be able to function.

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

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@TheOtherMaven

...and a UN nuclear inspector I know is based in Vienna so seems like they could move....and in fact should move!

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Of course, he praises Mueller, and goes along with the Russian interference, but he mentions the warrants (iirc), and reads the love birds' texts aloud. (just over 14 minutes total)
[video:https://youtu.be/Jp-Rrk1UHp0]

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There were so many crossover people and agencies involved with trying to setup Trump in order to pin Russia Collusion on him starting with the U.K. Intelligence agencies, then the FBI, Obama's justice department, Fusion GPS, Hillary's staff and the DNC funding Steele to write his bogus dossier with help from Hillary's BFF Bluementhal, congress members like McCain and people from the press....I'm sure I missed some.

But with Nellie being married to Bruce and both of them being neck deep in this. Then there's the two star crossed lovers Page and Strzok texting each other... I don't see how the IG report can't say that the whole investigation into Trump was rotten from the beginning and tainted.

Nellie Ohr's 'Hi Honey' emails to DOJ about Russia collusion should alarm us all

First came the text messages between FBI lovebirds Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, which gave us a painful glimpse at potential political bias inside America’s most famous crime-fighting bureau.

Now, a series of “Hi Honey” emails from Nellie Ohr to her high-ranking federal prosecutor husband and his colleagues raise the prospect that Hillary Clinton-funded opposition research was being funneled into the Justice Department during the 2016 election through a back-door marital channel. It's a tale that raises questions of both conflict of interest and possible false testimony.

Ohr has admitted to Congress that, during the 2016 presidential election, she worked for Fusion GPS — the firm hired by Democratic nominee Clinton and the Democratic National Committee to perform political opposition research — on a project specifically trying to connect Donald Trump and his campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, to Russian organized crime.

Now, 339 pages of emails from her private account to Department of Justice (DOJ) email accounts, have been released under a Freedom of Information Act request by the conservative legal group Judicial Watch. And they are raising concerns among Republicans in Congress, who filed a criminal referral with the Justice Department on Wednesday night.

They clearly show that Ohr sent reams of open-source intelligence to her husband, Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, and on some occasions to at least three DOJ prosecutors: Lisa Holtyn, Ivana Nizich and Joseph Wheatley.

The contents tracked corruption developments in Russia and Ukraine, including intelligence affecting Russian figures she told Congress she had tried to connect to Trump or Manafort.

“Hi Honey, if you ever get a moment you might find the penultimate article interesting — especially the summary in the final paragraph,” Nellie Ohr emailed her husband on July 6, 2016, in one typical communication. The article and paragraph she flagged suggested that Trump was a Putin stooge: “If Putin wanted to concoct the ideal candidate to service his purposes, his laboratory creation would look like Donald Trump.” Nellie Ohr bolded that key sentence for apparent emphasis.
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House GOP investigators who reviewed Nellie Ohr’s emails believe that their timing may be essential to understanding how the false Russian narrative — special counsel Robert Mueller's report did not establish there was Trump-Putin collusion — may have gotten such credence inside DOJ and intelligence circles despite its overtly political origins.

Ohr got her information from an article that some one wrote. No evidence of wrongdoing crossed her desk, no, she just saw something and thought that it would be a great thing to stick on Trump.

It's not just that Trump colluded with Vlad was false, it's that everything about Russia Gate was also false. Mueller never proved that Russia interfered with the election. He didn't even try to do that. If he had then he would have interviewed the gang mentioned above as well as Julian Assange and the VIPS members who spoke with Pompeo on how Russia did not hack the DNC computers. Mueller would have also shown the evidence from the NSA, but then that could have been made up with help from the CIAs vault 7 files.

Why didn't Mueller ask his BFF Comey why he killed the deal with Assange coming here to shine light on Russia Gate? Hmmm?

Finally Mueller's evidence of Russian interference is this statement:

The FBI believes that Russia interfered with the election. That's it. Just a belief, but no evidence of it happening.

I'll say again that I'm proud of the coverage on the false Russia Russia Russia psyops and that many of us never bought into it!

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It was renewed three times; subsequent signers included former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. If there’s one document that represents the malevolence, chicanery and arrogance of the original Trump-Russia collusion fraudsters, it’s the Page FISA application.

It wasn't just democrats that were involved in trying to set Trump up for Collusion. There were and still are many republicans going along with the false story of Russia getting Trump elected. Republicans are saying that Russia is going to do it again next election when every damn member of congress knows full well that it never happened. How much of this is Trump playing along with? And why? Sanctions. Military budget increase? Hostilities?

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@snoopydawg

Rosenstein has maintained communication with White House staff and Lawyers. He was smoothing things along. And Trump couldn't fire another investigator — even if no colluding with Russia was committed. For one thing, LE investigations do not end if the lead investigator gets fired or quits. All adults know the world doesn't work like that. New investigators immediately pop into place to replace the missing investigator. Firing an investigator for any reason does not obstruct an investigation. Destroying evidence and lying to investigators does obstruct. When no crime was committed, obstruction in general stops making much of sense, unless you are a strict conformist.

Rosenstein has a lot of other problems, conflicts, and baggage. He, Bruce Orr, and Andy McCabe — the three of them — have serious wife problems and should not have been working this case.

Nellie Ohr may take a fall and go under the bus. Instead of supervising these people, James Comey became a co-conspirator. Of course, the worst failures of all were Clapper and Brennan.

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Congress — the Democrats — went into the Barr hearing today convinced that Robert Mueller was angry and disappointed about the way Barr had presented Mueller's Final Report. Congress is angry that Barr did not disclose to Congress, last week, that Mueller disagreed with Barr's presentation of the Final Report.

But that's 100 percent wrong. (And, here's where it feels like Barr and Mueller set this trap for Congress.)

Barr says he was not aware that Mueller had any problem with any of his representations of the Final Report. So, there was nothing for him to disclose.

Instead, Mueller was disappointed with the way that the media was distorting and misrepresenting Mueller's Final Report.

::: THUDD! :::

Congress apparently read the Mueller's letter without comprehending what it actually said.

In his opening statement, Barr told Congress that he had spoken to Mueller and that the special counsel said press reporting on the letter that the special counsel had written to Barr complaining about certain aspects of Barr's summary was inaccurate.

BARR SAYS MUELLER SAID PRESS REPORTING ON LETTER WAS INACCURATE

BARR SAYS MUELLER DIDN'T SAY DOJ MISREPRESENTED HIS REPORT

Barr added that he was 'surprised' when Mueller didn't rule on obstruction, though he also told said that Comey's firing didn't amount to obstruction of justice: Comey's refusal to tell public what he was telling the president warranted firing.

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