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Home Front: Politix
From A Legal Perspective, Mueller's Investigation is Dead. Here's Why
2017-12-08
[Daily Caller] Like a headless turkey running around in circles, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s anti-Trump investigation is dead, even if he does not yet realize it. While his investigation stumbles onward, with life support provided by the biased media, from a legal perspective the viability of any criminal case that Mueller could possibly bring has been effectively gutted thanks to the news (suppressed for months by Mueller’s team) that the FBI’s "key agent" in both the Russia investigation and the Clinton email probe was an ardent Hillary supporter with an anti-Trump bias.

Under federal law, a prosecutor is required "to disclose exculpatory and impeachment information to criminal defendants and to seek a just result in every case." Specifically, pursuant to Giglio v. United States, prosecutors are obligated to provide defendants with impeachment evidence, which includes, according to the DOJ’s guidelines, evidence of a witness’s biases, "[a]nimosity toward defendant," or "[a]nimosity toward a group of which the defendant is a member or with which the defendant is affiliated."

As a result, in any prosecution brought by Mueller against a Republican target, defense counsel would be entitled under the Constitution to all evidence in the government’s possession relevant to exploring the apparent biases of FBI agent Peter Strzok and his animosity toward Trump and the Republican Party. This, in and of itself, could be a case-killer because it is very unlikely that Mueller or the DOJ would want defense counsel poring through all the records and documents, emails, and texts in the DOJ’s and Strzok’s possession revealing the agent’s biases since this could fatally undermine any other cases or investigations the agent has worked on‐such as the FBI’s decision to recommend charging General Flynn with lying to federal agents even though Hillary Clinton’s besties, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, were given a free pass despite apparently doing the same thing.
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Posted by:Besoeker

#4  Skankcat Mueller dropping feces over the "legal system".
Posted by: newc   2017-12-08 13:18  

#3  Why does Mueller's team keep protecting that worthless former candidate and corrupt scumbag. The Clinton Foundation has effectively been shut down hasn't it? Hasn't the money dried up (or are they still living on the pilfered $12Bil from Haiti)? She's not going to be president.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-12-08 10:20  

#2  Since when "legal" matters to these people?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-12-08 04:11  

#1  it is very unlikely that Mueller or the DOJ would want defense counsel poring through all the records and documents, emails, and texts

Or (as the onion continues to be peeled) examining electronic monitoring... or discovering how electronic monitoring was authorized.

I doubt FBI's Peter Strzok or his recently discovered accomplice, associate attorney general Bruce Ohr were involved in too many other cases. I suspect their (and possibly many others) primary area of interest was the Trump Campaign.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-12-08 04:08  

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