#Robert S. Mueller III

[contemplatingoutlander]

House Republicans censuring Adam Schiff says more about them than him

The Editorial Board of The Washington Post rightly calls out the House Republicans for weaponizing the House to punish one of Trump's enemies, after Trump threatened to primary the 20 Republicans who initially voted against censuring him.

Here are some excerpts from the editorial:

Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) became on Wednesday just the third member of Congress to be censured in the past 40 years. The party-line vote reflected worse on the House Republicans who pushed it through than it did on Mr. Schiff. The resolution accuses the former House Intelligence Committee chairman of falsely claiming that Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign colluded with the Russian government. Mr. Schiff responded that Paul Manafort, as chairman of Mr. Trump’s campaign, provided internal campaign polling data to a Russian intelligence operative amid widespread Kremlin efforts to assist Mr. Trump. Experts can debate whether that technically constitutes collusion. But this semantic question is hardly the basis for a censure motion. Contrary to what many Trump supporters claim, the investigation by Robert S. Mueller III never exonerated Mr. Trump. Indeed, the special counsel’s report laid out significant evidence of obstruction of justice. It’s indisputable that Russia interfered in the 2016 election on Mr. Trump’s behalf. [...] After 20 Republicans voted last week with Democrats to table the censure resolution, Mr. Trump wrote on social media that he’d support primary challengers against them. (Mr. Schiff had spearheaded Mr. Trump’s first impeachment and played a leading role on the select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.) When the resolution came up again Wednesday, this time without a threat to fine Mr. Schiff $16 million, most of those Republicans capitulated. In so doing, they weakened the power of congressional censure as an official rebuke reserved for egregious conduct — and, in the process, made themselves appear to be the wrongdoers. [color emphasis added]

[ravenkings]

When Donald J. Trump responded to his latest indictment by promising to appoint a special prosecutor if he’s re-elected to “go after” President Biden and his family, he signaled that a second Trump term would fully jettison the post-Watergate norm of Justice Department independence.

“I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden, and the entire Biden crime family,” Mr. Trump said at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., on Tuesday night after his arraignment earlier that day in Miami. “I will totally obliterate the Deep State.”

Mr. Trump’s message was that the Justice Department charged him only because he is Mr. Biden’s political opponent, so he would invert that supposed politicization. In reality, under Attorney General Merrick Garland, two Trump-appointed prosecutors are already investigating Mr. Biden’s handling of classified documents and the financial dealings of his son, Hunter.

But by suggesting the current prosecutors investigating the Bidens were not “real,” Mr. Trump appeared to be promising his supporters that he would appoint an ally who would bring charges against his political enemies regardless of the facts.

The naked politics infusing Mr. Trump’s headline-generating threat underscored something significant. In his first term, Mr. Trump gradually ramped up pressure on the Justice Department, eroding its traditional independence from White House political control. He is now unabashedly saying he will throw that effort into overdrive if he returns to power.

Mr. Trump’s promise fits into a larger movement on the right to gut the F.B.I., overhaul a Justice Department conservatives claim has been “weaponized” against them and abandon the norm — which many Republicans view as a facade — that the department should operate independently from the president.

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As the Republican Party has morphed in response to Mr. Trump’s influence, his attacks on federal law enforcement — which trace back to the early Russia investigation in 2017, the backlash to his firing of then-F.B.I. director James B. Comey Jr. and the appointment of Robert S. Mueller III as special counsel — have become enmeshed in the ideology of his supporters.

Mr. Trump’s top rival for the Republican nomination, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, also rejects the norm that the Justice Department should be independent.

“Republican presidents have accepted the canard that the D.O.J. and F.B.I. are — quote — ‘independent,’” Mr. DeSantis said in May on Fox News. “They are not independent agencies. They are part of the executive branch. They answer to the elected president of the United States.”

Several other Republican candidates acknowledged that Mr. Trump’s handling of classified documents — as outlined in the indictment prepared by the special counsel, Jack Smith, and his team — was a serious problem. But even these candidates — including Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, the former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, and former Vice President Mike Pence — have also accused the Justice Department of being overly politicized and meting out unequal justice.

The most powerful conservative think tanks are working on plans that would go far beyond “reforming” the F.B.I., even though its Senate-confirmed directors in the modern era have all been Republicans. They want to rip it up and start again.

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[sjerzgirl]

The truth about Russia, Trump and the 2016 election - By Glenn Kessler

There have been four major investigations into Russian intervention in the 2016 presidential election and the FBI’s handling of the subject — a 2019 report released by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, a 2019 Justice Department inspector general report, a bipartisan report by the Senate Intelligence Committee issued in 2020 by a GOP-controlled Senate, and now a 2023 report released by special counsel John Durham. All told, the reports add up to about 2,500 pages of dense prose and sometimes contradictory conclusions.

But broad themes can be deduced from a close reading of the evidence gathered in the lengthy documents, as well as indictments and testimony on related criminal cases. We took a long look and wrote a comprehensive report that explores four key takeaways:

*Russia tried to swing the 2016 election to Trump

*The FBI had reason to investigate a tip suggesting Trump campaign involvement

*The Trump campaign welcomed help from Russia

*The ‘Steele dossier’ proved to be a red herring

[nodynasty4us]

If the past is any guide, even with a full acquittal, Mr. Trump will be angry and vengeful, and will direct attacks against everyone he perceives to be responsible for the Manhattan district attorney’s prosecution. He will continue to level the attacks publicly, at rallies and on Truth Social, and privately encourage his House Republican allies to subpoena his Democratic enemies. The pattern is firmly established: After Mr. Trump escaped impeachment twice and survived a special counsel investigation led by Robert S. Mueller III into ties between his 2016 campaign and Russia, he immediately went into revenge mode — complaining about the injustices he was forced to endure and urging his allies to investigate the investigators.

Trump’s Post-Verdict Playbook in the New York Times

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Jersey

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[newstodayjournal]

New Trump Charges Highlight Long-Running Questions About Obstruction

When Robert S. Mueller III, the first special counsel to investigate Donald J. Trump, concluded his investigation into the ties between Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia, his report raised questions about whether Mr. Trump had obstructed his inquiry. Justice Department officials and legal experts were divided about whether there was enough evidence to show Mr. Trump broke the law, and his…

[americanmysticom]

"THEY [BARDA, DOD] ARE NOT IMPLEMENTING THOSE [CRITICAL] CONTROLS"

EUA History & Anthrax Vaccine | Colonel Thomas Rempfer, USAF (Retired) (TPC #1,280)

Tommy's Podcast

CAPTAIN THOMAS L. REMPFER TESTIMONY OF MARCH 1998 See footnote 83, Testimony of Capt. Thomas Rempfer, NSVAIR anthrax hearing (I), pp. 40–41. https://www.congress.gov/106/crpt/hrpt556/CRPT-106hrpt556.pdf Or... https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-106hhrg57559/html/CHRG-106hhrg57559.htm

"...We are not speaking out against a vaccine for public health issues. We take a lot of shots. We have always taken them. We are speaking out against vaccines against [used as] biological weapons."

"It is imperative to disobey unlawful orders"

Discussion surrounding DOD unlawful experimentation on military personnel, leading to the upholding of Constitutional law, informed consent;. Also, the highly unusual sequence of events during the Anthrax scare, and Oct 2001, who was holding the reins of power?

Robert S. Mueller, III, September 4, 2001- September 4, 2013, Donald H. Rumsfeld served as the 21st Secretary of Defense from January 2001 to December 2006. Before assuming this post, the former Navy pilot had also served as the 13th Secretary of Defense, White House Chief of Staff, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, U.S. Congressman and chief executive officer of two Fortune 500 companies [and Bilderberg participant]. Rumsfeld has served on the boards of pharmaceutical companies Gilead Sciences, Pfizer Inc., and Amylin Pharmaceuticals;. BARDA formed 2006;.

related;.

Bilderberg reconvenes in person after two-year pandemic gap | ... theguardian.com › world › 2022 › jun › 04 › bilderberg-reconvenes-in-person-after-two-year-pandemic-gap

June 8, 2022 - Bilderberg is back with a vengeance. After a pandemic gap of two years, the elite global summit is being rebooted in a security-drenched hotel in Washington DC, with a high-powered guest list that includes the heads of Nato, the CIA, GCHQ, the US national security council, two European prime ministers, a healthy sprinkle of tech billionaires, and Henry Kissinger.

Project Bioshield Act

BARDA grew from The Project Bioshield Act was an act passed by the United States Congress in 2004 calling for $5 billion for purchasing vaccines that would be used in the event of a bioterrorist attack.[1] This was a ten-year program to acquire medical countermeasures to biological, chemical, radiological, and nuclear agents for civilian use. A key element of the Act was to allow stockpiling and distribution of vaccines which had not been tested for safety or efficacy in humans, due to ethical concerns.

[malenipshadows]

+ The liberal group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed its opposition to the Justice Department's motion to stay a federal judge's order to release the document, which laid out the legal rationale for essentially clearing former pres-ident Tr*mp of wrongdoing in relation to the special counsel investigation. + The DOJ said this week it would be appealing the order from District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, though it apologized in response to her accusations that former Attorney General William Barr had been "disingenuous" and asked her to stay her decision while it filed an appeal. + In a brief filed on Friday (5-28-2021), CREW accused the DOJ of seeking to protect its "parochial interest in preventing embarrassing information from becoming public that would cast the agency and individual agency actors in a bad light." + "By contrast, continuing to deprive the public of critical information to evaluate the conduct of former Attorney General Barr and former pres-ident Tr*mp, who still plays an outsize role on the political stage and has yet to be held accountable for his many misdeeds in and since leaving office, would cause harm to Plaintiff and the public," the court filing reads. "Under any

analysis, the public interest in disclosure outweighs any interest DOJ has in continuing to keep this information secret." + The Justice Department revealed its intention to appeal Jackson's decision this week.  "In retrospect, the government acknowledges that its briefs could have been clearer, and it deeply regrets the confusion that caused," the DOJ said in a court filing Monday (5-24-2021). + The decision disappointed Tr*mp critics and Democrats in Congress who had called on the new administration not to block the document's release following Jackson's blistering decision earlier this month. + CREW filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in 2019, seeking to obtain a memo prepared for Barr, that is said to lay out the reasoning for the former attorney general's conclusion that the conduct described in the report from former special counsel Robert Mueller did not support obstruction of justice charges against Tr*mp. + Jackson had accused the DOJ of misrepresenting the Mueller report's conclusions to the public in 2019 during the brief period after it had been submitted to the department but before it had been released to Congress.  She also criticized the department's attorneys for misrepresenting the memo in a way that would support keeping it out of public view. special counsel 

[doncartwright1]

[sarcasticcynic]

“Officials in at least four countries have privately discussed ways they can manipulate Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, by taking advantage of his complex business arrangements, financial difficulties and lack of foreign policy experience ... Among those nations discussing ways to influence Kushner to their advantage were the United Arab Emirates, China, Israel and Mexico. ... Officials in the White House were concerned that Kushner was ‘naive and being tricked’ in conversations with foreign officials, some of whom said they wanted to deal only with Kushner directly and not more experienced personnel.”

But how could they hope to manipulate Kushner, you ask?

“Kushner came to his position with an unusually complex set of business holdings and a family company facing significant debt issues. ... Officials from the UAE identified Kushner as early as the spring of 2017 as particularly manipulable because of his family’s search for investors in their real estate company.”

But how could they hope to get away with influencing someone so close to the White House, you ask?

“H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s national security adviser, learned that Kushner had contacts with foreign officials that he did not coordinate through the National Security Council or officially report. ... Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has asked people about the protocols Kushner used when he set up conversations with foreign leaders.”

Oops.

[voxsart]

The Arched Tie.

Robert S. Mueller Triplesticks, Quantico, 2005.

[marcel334]

NOT soon enough.

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[trumpbites]

How Giuliani Might Take Down Trump – The New York Times The parallels between the Mafia and the Trump Organization are striking, and Giuliani perfected the template for prosecuting organized crime.