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2018-07-16 Home Front: Politix

Carl Bernstein: Recent indictments show Mueller probe is 'not a witch hunt'

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-16 07:28|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Several others have said it is not a witch hunt. However, I'd bet that in the eyes of much of the American public, they view the investigation as a contrived, bogus witch hunt since the biggest witch has been largely ignored. The bogus investigation has been used to deflect, try to paint POTUS in a corner, and cover-up wrong-doing from the previous administration.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-07-16 07:52|| 2018-07-16 07:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Prediction: Mueller probe will end soon and the indictments will immediately become democratic campaign talking points.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-16 07:58|| 2018-07-16 07:58|| Front Page Top

#3 What I find baffling in this Computer Age and expecting minimal degrees of BASIC Russian tradecraft in the spying business: How in the world could you be positive that these Russians did it and some random 'Ham Sandwich' didn't?
Mueller, show so spine: Indict Vladimir Putin!

Posted by magpie 2018-07-16 09:28|| 2018-07-16 09:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Ok FBI, go get them!

Posted by Skidmark 2018-07-16 09:34|| 2018-07-16 09:34|| Front Page Top

#5 I can’t conceive a way reasonably competent Russian electronic intelligence agents could leave a trail that would identify themselves. But it is easy for them to do so intentionally- and it would make sense too. Quit bono?

Posted by Glenmore 2018-07-16 10:20|| 2018-07-16 10:20|| Front Page Top

#6 #5 I can’t conceive a way reasonably competent Russian electronic intelligence agents could leave a trail that would identify themselves.

I think the Russians are pretty competent when it comes to cyberspooking--little in the way of a trail left behind unless they want to.

I'd like to know about why the FBI showed so little curiosity about HRCs 30,000 missing emails, Weiner's computer, the DNC server and the flow of info out of her server to foreign entities.

As someone said, Hilda did what she did with her server because she was either incompetent and stupid or deliberate. I'd vote for deliberate. She was brazen and didn't think she would get caught. So far she has been correct.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-07-16 10:56|| 2018-07-16 10:56|| Front Page Top

#7 "However, I'd bet that in the eyes of much of the American public, they view the investigation as a contrived, bogus witch hunt"

I'd bet that when the subject of Mueller comes up the eyes of much of the American public glaze over.

Posted by james 2018-07-16 11:15|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2018-07-16 11:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Bernstein -- almost five decades of being used as a Deep State Mouthpiece!

Posted by Rob Crawford 2018-07-16 17:02|| 2018-07-16 17:02|| Front Page Top

#9 What a cop out political POV from Bernstein. This has so obviously been a witch hunt. Their problem is that Trump isn't the witch no matter how hard they tried to find him to be. Its pure PR BS to "indict" these Russians-they will never come to trial. But it makes news and is an empty gesture to get those in the American public who don't understand the rules to think - wow, "if there are indictments, they must be on to something". Assuming these 12 were "Russian spies" , they were simply doing what spies do. And, since it happened on Obama's watch, the blame should be there but not with our twisted media types.

Posted by warthogswife 2018-07-16 19:30|| 2018-07-16 19:30|| Front Page Top

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