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April 4, 2019
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If there were awards awarded for excellence in journalism Kim Strassel would deserve a couple of them.
Scott Adams has a funny comic strip, too...
Mueller has no team. They were disbanded. They came up empty. Nothing in their hands but their dicks.
These particular "unhappy anonymous sources" within the Special Counsel's Office strike me as especially dubious since any of the lawyers on Mueller's staff who would come out & say publicly that the report was whitewashed by Barr would instantly be proclaimed as The Bravest Hero In The History Of The Republic.
Not buying it.
The NYT lives, sleeps and bathes in ridiculous bullshit. Memo to NY: Anonymous sources expressing Leftwing bullshit opinions is not news!
The Mueller prosecutors had 1 job - to prosecute Trump or his campaign members for Russian collusion crimes. They chose NOT to prosecute. End of Story, and please shut the fuck up.
This a bombshell! We've reached the tipping point. The walls are closing in. Its the beginning of the end.
Some say... that was how the NYT put it in the headline this morning. Which some said what exactly?
I still love "Go Nadler!"
I owe the esteemed member of the Commentariat who devined this several beers - it has given me much laughter and happiness.
Given the compostion of the investigative team I don't doubt that the actual report is rife with vague implications of vague things, hints and portents, inferences at possibly nefarious connections. Perhaps there's some veiled assessments of the president's character. How it was totally not-cool and super not presidential that he totally kept calling this super legit investigation a "witch hunt" all the time on the Twitters and stuff. But despite all that not enough to use the phrase "obstruction of justice" to directly describe any of it.
All this will amount to few slim handholds that the Dems will be able to cling too perhaps for the next year and a half. Enough to present some cover for continuing to investigate and launching many more new investigations, subpeanas and the like in the vanishingly futile hope to depress the presidents voters enough to get one of these hot new socialists in.
More chest-beating until the report is actually released. But polls show the President's tactic did not garner support for belief in his exoneration.
Hat tip to the first commenter, Ben Jammin:
1) Anti-Trump Newspaper creates a story w/ anonymous government officials, who have intel about anonymous Mueller Team members, w/o providing any specific details
2) Other media references story that was created by initial newspaper
Every time.
mccullough said...
Mueller has no team. They were disbanded. They came up empty. Nothing in their hands but their dicks.
Some pussies too.
Though the positional relationship between the organ and the hand is reversed in that situation.
Gohmert destroys Nadler and democrats at hearing.
The second special prosecutor is going to have way more indictments than the first one.
Ridiculous bullshit is a noxious first-order forcing of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Social Warming and Climate Change. Can't we coexist with the witches, warlocks, and unplanned babies?
Along similar lines:
https://www.google.com/amp/nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2019/04/how-manhattan-da-cy-vance-spent-usd250k-on-travel-and-food.html
The composition of Mueller's team was ALL DEMOCRATS, even one that worked for the Clinton Foundation. If you think they didn't work their asses off to get something, ANYTHING, they could nail Trump on you're goofy. They couldn't find anything and NOW we're supposed to believe that was Mueller standing up for Trump by not recommending charges for obstruction?
The WaPo and NYT think we are really stupid!
Cyrus Vance, aside from expensive tastes with taxpayer money, is the son of the man who got us into Vietnam,
Vance first supported the Vietnam War but by the late 1960s changed his views and resigned from office, advising the president to pull out of South Vietnam. Vance served as a deputy to W. Averell Harriman during the Paris Peace Accords, which stalled due to the involvement of presidential candidate Richard Nixon.[1] Vance called the failed peace talks "one of the great tragedies in history"
The Wiki snipe at Nixon is, of course, bullshit. Then he resigned again at Carter over the hostage situation.
Accident prone I would say,.
The Mueller investigation is the most expensive oppo research project in history. Completely started , supported, and continued by partisans to diminish a President of the opposing party. We all paid for it so the Dems can mine it for morsels collected by their friends in the government whether true or fabricated. That seems wrong, doesn't it?
I think the media is making up "anonymous" quotes out of thin air to cool the mark.
They really screwed Democrat turnout during the presidential election. They had Hillary at 90% to win, which made the Dem base complacent. Worse, a lot of Democrats were arrogant about it and really showed their ass in public. But before they could assign blame for who duped them, that same MSM said oh look over there! Russia Collusion Shiney! We DID call the election correctly, Trump cheated and stole it!.
And to their relief, the rabid feral base ran off after Mueller like a pack of baying hounds on a fox hunt. "Which way did he go? Which way did he go?"
Yes, Democrats like Inga and NeverTrumpers like Chuck fell for the Bugs Bunny Gambit FOR THREE YEARS. LOL.
But Mueller has stopped and revealed there is no fox. And the mutts are growing frustrated and angry. Like James Hodgkinson angry. Grrrr. Did Mueller lose the scent? Growl. Growl. Was there ever a fox? Grrrr. And who was that masked wabbit back at the creek? Did our own media play us TWICE?! Ahrooooo!
But the MSM can hear the pack howling, can see them getting dangerously restless. It's one thing to stir up a mob, how do you disperse them before they turn on you? So they say Look over HERE! An
anonymous rider (who doesn't look ANYTHING like that masked wabbit, pinkie swears) said he and Mueller saw the fox go THAT WAY !
And the Democrats and NeverTrumpers go running off AGAIN. For another tgree years I guess. Anything is possible with these idiots.
So swing by Fen's Emporium! We'll be handing out free popcorn for the duration.
Comment to the NYT Story seemingly by a true believer who smells a rat but hopes his olfactory nerve isn't working correctly:
"So we have a story that some unnamed members of Mueller’s team told unnamed associates that Barr hasn’t accurately reported Mueller’s findings. This according to unnamed others.
So the NYT never directly spoke to the members of Mueller’s team. Nor did they talk to the associates of the Mueller team members. The NYT talked to unnamed others familiar with simmering frustrations. Sure the story is sketchy but it is what I want to believe so it has to be true."
But more likely than not, just a well-written spoof meant to cause cognitive dissonance in the minds of the true believers.
"In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort (psychological stress) experienced by a person who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values. This discomfort is triggered by a situation in which a person’s belief clashes with new evidence perceived by the person. When confronted with facts that contradict beliefs, ideals, and values, people will try to find a way to resolve the contradiction to reduce their discomfort.[1][2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
"Crazy Comey the Leaker" leaked to his friend, who leaked to the public. That's one method that FBI Directors use to leak to the public.
Another method was to appoint authorized leakers. For example, Comey appointed Andrew McCabe to serve as an authorized leaker.
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These methods began long before Comey. The methods were used also by Robert "The FBI Whitewasher" Mueller, when he himself was the FBI Director.
For example, when FBI Director Mueller suspected that the anthrax poisoner was Steven Hatfill, Mueller told one of his authorized leakers to inform NYT reporter Nicholas Kristof that Hatfill was the culprit for sure. This leak was intended to cause professional and personal problems for Hatfill and to panic Hatfill into incriminating himself.
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When Mueller became the Special Counsel, one of his first actions was to appoint the authorized leakers on his staff.
However, in the current situation, Mueller himself might be leaking to his own friends, just like Comey did.
Bob Boyd said: This a bombshell! We've reached the tipping point. The walls are closing in. Its the beginning of the end.
Haha. Am SO not tired of winning!
Strip away the ridiculous fake bullshit, and beneath you will find the serious, real bullshit.
Madame chenault just reminded thieu what's its like under the bus, Vance as secretary of the army had handled the Cuba operation after the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam was just an extension of that think of 5420 as mongoose in a pho sauce.
Read Ferguson's volume 1 of the Kissinger volume to see how they've got the story wrong.
I heard that Robert "The FBI Whitewasher" Mueller found that when Jeff Sessions still was a US Senator, he met several times with Russia's ambassador to the USA. Mueller included that finding in his report.
However, William Barr did not mention that finding in his summary.
Of course it was harriman, was he our Michael foot who pushed the diem coup that ended up here.
As a result you had big Minh and the merrygoround of colonel that ended with same fellow in 1975, one might allusions with Allawi jafari and Maliki but I dont think ae are going back to allawi.
Ironic since Carter campaigned against the Vietnam legacy yet he put Vance his assistant califano (in a different capacity) even blow torch comer the founder of phoenix/cords
Would not be surprised if Vance was holding Bundy’s hand in the Tonkin Bay “attack”.
The sequence of events:
* "Crazy Comey the Leaker" and Robert "The FBI Whitewasher" Mueller have been close professional associates and personal friends for many years. Mueller is a mentor to Comey.
* President Trump fires Comey, based on a written recommendation from Rod Rosenstein.
* Comey leaks about the firing situation to a personal friend, Benjamin Wittes, so that Wittes will leak Comey's complaints to the public, so that Comey's friend and mentor Mueller will be appointed as a Special Counsel to investigate Trump.
* As Comey intended, Rosenstein appoints Comey's friend and mentor Mueller to be the Special Counsel.
* During a Congressional hearing that was televised nationally, Comey declares that he leaked to his friend Wittes in order to cause the appointment of his other friend Mueller to Special Counsel.
* Rosenstein instructs Mueller to investigate anything and everything about Trump and Trump's relatives, supporters and associates. There are no budget limitations or deadlines.
* Mueller hires a gang of Trump-hating lawyers to investigate Trump and all of Trump's relatives, supporters and associates.
* Mueller and his gang indict some such supporters and associates, but never indict Mueller's own friend Comey -- a notorious, self-proclaimed leaker.
* Mueller and his gang cannot find any evidence against Trump.
* After their report is completed, Mueller and his gang leak to their own friends that their investigation found a lot of evidence incriminating Trump. They leak to their friends just like Comey had leaked to his own friend Wittes. They leak in order to cause trouble to Trump and to his relatives, supporters and associates.
These are our country's norms.
Interesting detail Johnson's last navy secretary was David Ignatius father and publisher of the post.
Said leak was actually an illegal leak, evening wittes and co misrepresented the context.
"Given the compostion of the investigative team I don't doubt that the actual report is rife with vague implications of vague things, hints and portents, inferences at possibly nefarious connections."
Yes, but were there any emanations, preferably from a penumbra? Without emanations, they got nuttin'.
Blogger narciso said...
Of course it was harriman, was he our Michael foot who pushed the diem coup that ended up here.
Ya think ? I always thought it was Lodge, who Kennedy sent over there to attach him to the tar baby that was Vietnam as he expected Lodge to be the 1964 GOP nominee.
McNamara ran the war, such as it was, and Diem wanted to try Lansdale's methods in the Philippines. Couldn't have that.
Its possible but he ran foggy far east section and was promoted to representing the entire delegation, it was the daisy chain than began with Pham that created the urgency.
"More chest-beating until the report is actually released."
Funny how neither Mueller nor Rosenstein have uttered even a suggestion that Barr's summary is materially inaccurate.
"But polls show the President's tactic* did not garner support for belief in his exoneration."
Leaving aside the accuracy of polling and motivations of the pollsters, the populace had already made up its mind on collusion yes or no. True believers gotta believe. The only difference is that Trump's true believers now have more evidence for their beliefs than the otbers.
* - What tactic was that?
I think the swamp had to have some rebuttal to the response of: "If what Barr is summarizing isn't correct why would Mueller and his minions keep quiet and not speak up to set the record straight?" It took a week of damage like that so, they sprang into action with "some say" "while other contend" and "sources close to my butthole" and the other mystery hobgoblins to try and keep "obstruction" alive and kicking until the democrats hearing circus can get rolling. After the Mueller report is finally released and we see once again we were lied to, the media will go back and pretend they didn't try to circulate this horseshit.
Adding to my comment at 3:22 PM
* Mueller's main investigative focus is whether President Trump violated a law by firing -- at Rosenstein's recommendation -- Mueller's friend Comey.
These are our country's norms.
Question for the lawyers here:
Last week i saw some senator say, about Schiff, that it's illegal for him to leak true info about what goes on behind closed doors in the intelligence committee.
However, he said, if Schiff comes out and leaks a bunch of lies about what went on he has broken no laws.
Sounds right to me but ianal.
It would probably be illegal fo mueller's team to leak true, secret, information about evidence, grand jury and so on. If it I s not illegal for them to "leak" false info, perhaps we should just believe the opposite of whatever they say.
John Henry
there are times when adam's Dogbert persona isn't cynical enough, mueller may or may not retract, as he did with the prague story, innuendo is his game when he isn't about deliberate lawfare, as we saw with the Enron taskforce, Weissman, wray (yes that one) freidrich et al,
getting back to Vietnam, the fellow who was forced out of the Saigon station, john Richardson, because he opposed the diem coup, he had served as station chief in manila, so he knew what he was talking about,
I mentioned victor Marchetti's the rope dancer, a roman a clef, about a fellow much like himself, who decides to spy for first the avh and later the kgb, the source of his discontent was Vietnam, circa 1968,
the awan family hack, didn't get any traction, much like the otepka matter you referred to:
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/03/fbi-fisa-motion-trump-russia/
If only people were as circumspect of these "people say" as they wanted Trump to be of wind cancer.
You can read between the lines. Mueller and his team were prepared to go after Trump for obstruction due to his public condemnation of the investigation and its members. Trump was unsparing in his criticism of the entire process. Indeed, they were clearly trying to provoke Trump to fire Mueller and his team for almost two years. However, three things happened to make this plan fail- (1) Trump never took the bait and let Mueller and his team hang themselves; (2) Mueller and his team never could find a single shred of evidence that the Russian Collusion story wasn't a complete fabrication of GPS Fusion, the Clinton Campaign, the DNC, and shit-for-brains media; (3) Andrew McCabe dirtied Ron Rosenstein up so badly that Rosenstein himself couldn't approve the obstruction charges. Sessions getting fired and Barr confirmed was just the final insult.
And the four page Barr Report is not bullshit? When Barr was Pappy Bush's AG, he recommended that George H.W. Bush pardon convicted and charged high-level members of the Reagan administration that came about as the result of Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh's work. In a single stroke, Mr. Bush swept away one conviction, three guilty pleas and two pending cases, virtually decapitating what was left of Mr. Walsh's efforts related to Iran-Contra. The pardon of Caspar Weinberger, whose trial would have given the prosecutor a last chance to explore the role of Mr. Bush's actions as Vice President in the conspiracy to cover-up Iran-Contra. Had the trial continued a review of Bush's personal diary would have occurred.
"And the four page Barr Report is not bullshit?"
-- Don't mischaracterize it. It is a summary of the Mueller report that openly says that more will be released if possible, but due to the material, unverifiable nature of some of the claims, and the fact grand juries and FISA were involved, not all of it may be.
so real crimes that compromise personal liberty and top govt databases, get no attention, till the isi uses that info against us,
If Mueller didn't investigate into who stole Samantha Power's credentials to illegally unmask people and gain access to classified material, then this was not about intelligence failures.
without samatha power leaking to sally yates, we don't have the pretext of the logan act, the story that she told farrow doesn't make sense either, black cube specialized in breaking sanctions, not enforcing them
https://babalublog.com/2019/04/04/paredon-paredon-venezuelas-socialist-dictatorship-demands-cuban-style-firing-squad-for-legitimate-president/
Gadfly compares Barr's summary -- which has his name on it, and which will compared to the original Mueller doc, whenever it is released, with rumours from unnamed second degree sources printed by a newspaper that has abandoned journalistic standards because they interfered with its mission to hate Donald J. Trump.
This is actually the typical style of argument used by most liberals & democrats today. They decide a thing is true because it suits their ideology, and then they will accept and repeat the shabbiest, most bizarre things as evidence that their ideologically determined decision is somehow reasonable and evidence-driven.
I’ll excuse on the basis of ignorance and incompetence the media folks for printing this BS. Cong. Schiff and Cong. Nadler on the other hand are lawyers. They know the GJ testimony is supposed to be secret. Their demands for full disclosure are straw men.
That's spelled liar, Glenn, he prosecuted a very stupid bureau agent who fell into a honey trap and that is his claim to fame.
My God; the irony of Scott Adams pontificating about “ridiculous bullshit” in the context of Trump.
There's an old quote that is often attributed to Aristotle. "We are what we repeatedly do." It is our habits which define and most accurately display our true character.
Well, a whole bunch of people are indulging in willful blindness and stupidity so they can attack Donald Trump for any and everything under the sun. I think a lot of them kind of knew what they're doing when they started and think they'll be able to just stop whenever Trump is gone. But they just spent two years believing and repeating BS stories about Trump and the Mueller investigation without, in many cases, paying any attention at all to the actual truth. And less than TWO MONTHS ago, they all looked like complete idiots because of it.
Now, you'd think that having been so badly burned so recently, they'd be hesitant to get burned again. But the habit of being stupid is much harder to break than they expected.
Mike
It's the coyote looking at the roadrunner, hanging over a cliff and raising a question.
Here is the thing these prosecutors can be dangerous the Soviets took the opportunity of Watergate to launch an assault on Israel, Kissinger retaliated with the airlift which provoked the oil embargo.
On a slightly different note:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-africa-47819952
wind cancer
It's an interesting hypothesis: rotary turbine forced auditory-induced stress exploited by opportunistic diseases a la AIDS.
Back to reality:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1110046/south-china-sea-latest-news-Philippines-tension-Chinese-militia-vessels-invasion
The hack-media-left made a colossal investment in total bullshit to appease their crazed base.
The world having failed to end as predicted, the cult blamed itself for misunderstanding the oracle, and redoubled its efforts at proselytizing. h/t @vermeullarmine
The noose has leaked out of the bombshell; the walls are opening out. The media may not be able to quit saying "Mueller-Russia-collusion" but how's their audience holding up? I hear Maddow has lost 50% of her audience and MSNBC's entire news audience for all shows is the same size as one Fox show, Tucker Carlson. So the rest of the country is slinking away from the issue, "what, me, I never really believed, so how about them Bucks?" People know they've been played and don't like it. And they haven't been in agony, by the way, they've been fascinated by the spectacle and now they aren't.
Chuck said...
My God; the irony of Scott Adams pontificating about “ridiculous bullshit” in the context of Trump.
I recently made a comment exploring the idea that scientific theories are made or broken based on their ability to predict outcomes repeatedly. You might consider how many outcomes Scott Adams has predicted correctly compared to the respectable #NeverTrumpers you side with, and then consider if maybe it's your theories that are left wanting.
Anyway, I'm sure the reports of anonymous unhappy Mueller team members are nothing at all like all the other thinly-sourced "bombshells" we have endured over the past two years. This time, we definitely should sit up and take notice.
"Blogger Hunter said...
Anyway, I'm sure the reports of anonymous unhappy Mueller team members are nothing at all like all the other thinly-sourced "bombshells" we have endured over the past two years. "
Fact: My high school newspaper had higher sourcing standards than today's NY Times.
It's not as though the NY Times has earned the right to ignore the rules. They want to ignore the rules because Orange Man Bad.
"You might consider how many outcomes Scott Adams has predicted correctly compared to the respectable #NeverTrumpers you side with, and then consider if maybe it's your theories that are left wanting."
Asking Chuck to do some introspection is like asking the family dog to do calculus.
When Barr was Pappy Bush's AG, he recommended that George H.W. Bush pardon convicted and charged high-level members of the Reagan administration that came about as the result of Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh's work. In a single stroke, Mr. Bush swept away one conviction, three guilty pleas and two pending cases, virtually decapitating what was left of Mr. Walsh's efforts related to Iran-Contra. The pardon of Caspar Weinberger, whose trial would have given the prosecutor a last chance to explore the role of Mr. Bush's actions as Vice President in the conspiracy to cover-up Iran-Contra. Had the trial continued a review of Bush's personal diary would have occurred.
Good for Barr.
What? Are we back to pretending you guys believe in the Rule of Law? Seems like just yesterday your people were suspending Due Process to destroy a Supreme Court nominee.
gadfly said...
And the four page Barr Report is not bullshit? When Barr was Pappy Bush's AG
Thanks gaddie. I have long been wondering if you are a leftist or just a NeverTrumper. Now we know.
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