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| ‘Delegitimizing' Mueller? Don't Blame the Nunes Memo |
| 2018-02-07 |
| [National Review] The FBI and Justice Department hyped Trump‐Russia collusion. Rod Rosenstein can right that wrong. The most bitter dispute over the Nunes memo involves Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. This might seem odd since the memo, published last week by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee chaired by Devin Nunes (R. Calif.), does not address the Mueller investigation. Rather, it homes in on potential abuses of foreign-intelligence-collection authorities by Obama-era Justice Department and FBI officials, said to have occurred many months before Mueller was appointed. Nevertheless, it is simply a fact that many ardent supporters of President Trump claim the legitimacy of the Mueller investigation is destroyed by revelations in the Nunes memo ‐ particularly, the improper use of the unverified Steele dossier to obtain a FISA-court warrant to spy on Carter Page, who had been a Trump campaign adviser. The idea is that without the Steele dossier, there would be no Trump-Russia narrative, and thus no collusion investigation ‐ which is how Trump supporters perceive the Mueller probe. Naturally, this has prompted a vitriolic response. Trump critics see the Mueller investigation as the path to impeachment, and thus anathematize Chairman Nunes as a Trumpist hack bent on razing the FBI ‐ longtime bête noire of the Left, which, through the alchemy of Trump derangement, has suddenly become great a pillar of Our Values. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 ... right after the inarguation... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2018-02-07 23:57 |
| #8 Mueller's job was to distract from any Hillary investigation which Trump's AG might launch right after the investigation. The fact that Trump simply allowed Mueller to float out there like a fart in the wind while he doesn't find anything and _then_ later (now) start looking into Hillary and friends seems like it was planned... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2018-02-07 23:27 |
| #7 So maybe Mueller's job is not to run cover for the FBI and Zero but to bury Uranium One? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-02-07 23:07 |
| #6 I'm with you on NR...EXCEPT for Andy McCarty, VDH, and Rich Lowry is getting "acceptable" (possibly due to economics) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-02-07 20:02 |
| #5 Still not gonna give the NR coc***ckers the satisfaction of reading any of their shit. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-02-07 17:58 |
| #4 Sock Puppet, And when their gal didn't make it they doubled-down! If Mueller didn't place himself there (e.g. to protect his arse in the coming Uranium One sh*t storm) then he has got to be sweating. Hey Mueller, guess for whom the bell tolls now. |
| Posted by: E. Clainter9830 2018-02-07 17:51 |
| #3 The problem with these Democrap denizens in the FBI and DoJ is that they like all liberals, think they are smarter than anyone else and their schemes so well planned that nothing could possibly go wrong. Except maybe you didn't get your guy into the White House to paper over all of this and now the bill is coming due. That's their blind spot, they are so arrogant they don't see the flaws in their plans. I guess we should all be glad they didn't have a worst case scenario developed on their scheme. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-02-07 16:19 |
| #2 That's a lot of words to say "This whole thing gives Notional Review a queasy tummy!" |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-02-07 16:06 |
| #1 A key advantage of the shadow state is that, well, they are in the shadows. Trump's genius is to so irritate these shady folk that they leap out of the shadows of their own volition to do battle. What maroons. |
| Posted by: E. Clainter9830 2018-02-07 15:38 |