Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Mueller Report next week?

Justice Department preparing for Mueller report as early as next week
Washington (CNN)Attorney General Bill Barr is preparing to announce as early as next week the completion of Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, with plans for Barr to submit to Congress soon after a summary of Mueller's confidential report, according to people familiar with the plans.
The preparations are the clearest indication yet that Mueller is nearly done with his almost two-year investigation. The precise timing of the announcement is subject to change.
Meanwhile more and more and more "experts" are suggesting that the actual Mueller report will be less of a bombshell and more of a political dud. Even Trump-hater James Clapper suggested as much recently. Make no mistake, many of these people (like Clapper) likely have sources pretty close to the operation. While they may not be given any confidential specifics, there is little doubt that they are being provided with "hints" as to the the more general feel of the investigations.

The fact that Mueller never subpoenaed the President (or at least not successfully) suggests that he would have a difficult time making any recommendations regarding "obstruction".  There is also little doubt that if Mueller found that the President was truly in bed with Putin and defrauded the Government by conspiring to alter the results of the investigation, that this would have been reported instantly.

Obviously, that's not the sort of information that Special Counsel is going to sit on. If there was a true, obvious, impeachable offense committed it would have been Mueller's obligation to let Congress know as soon as he found out. Why allow a President doomed to be impeached for treason remain in office for months or even years? There would be no legal (or ethical) reason for him to withhold this from Congress or the public for any amount of time.

Lastly, as pointed out in this CNN article, it's going to be difficult for the Mueller Report to provide political "dirt" on the President.
Under the special counsel regulations, Mueller must submit a "confidential" report to the attorney general at the conclusion of his work, but the rules don't require it to be shared with Congress, or by extension, the public. And, as Barr has made clear, the Justice Department generally guards against publicizing "derogatory" information about uncharged individuals.
So unless Trump is being "charged" with something, then according to DOJ rules, procedures, and regulations, they are not allowed to simply report "derogatory" information. I get that Politicians are seen slightly differently, but people have to keep in mind that Mueller is a criminal investigator investigating a counterintelligence situation. To the degree that law enforcement is not allowed to defame people they are not charging in criminal probes, they are required to be even more guarded in counterintelligence investigations (largely because of the broader ability to garner warrants to search and surveille someone).

So if the results of the probe are guarded and factual and involve very little political fodder, I strongly suspect that Democrats will attempt to blame Barr and ram full steam ahead with another investigation into the matter. Obviously Congressional investigations are all about political fodder.

The question will be how the Mueller report ultimately resonates with the public. If the public (or  enough of the public) is satisfied with the report, then that will largely overshadow the fact that Democrats in the House want to start a new investigation (the fifth one on the same subject).
 

60 comments:

Anonymous said...

When Do we Swear in President Pence?

James said...

https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2019/02/20/andrew-mccabe-i-think-it-s-possible-trump-is-a-russian-asset/?ncid=webmail

Compare this video of how McCabe talks and looks to almost any video of how Trump talks and looks.

Who is lying?

It's obvious.

David Harsanyi said...


‏@davidharsanyi

If Mueller comes back with nothing on "collusion," will we finally investigate how law enforcement was able launch an investigation into a sitting president using uncorroborated partisan oppo research, and how a pliant media went along with it for two years?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...
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Ned Ryun said...


‏@nedryun

You want evidence of our bifurcated legal system? Flyn, Cohen, Stone & Papadopolous all arrested for lying to fed investigators. McCabe? Well he can lie multiple times, under oath, to fed investigators & then have a Kickstarter campaign to fund legal defense and go on book tour.

Nikki Haley said...



‏@NikkiHaley

I finally watched the McCabe intv. Every American, regardless of party, should be concerned that a couple of people were able to start an investigation on a feeling, not evidence. Where were the checks and balances? These are the things that happen in other countries, not the US.

Michael Tracey said...


‏@mtracey

CNN has begun contemplating "Life without Mueller." I predict a prolonged period of agony followed by clinical depression

C.H. Truth said...

Well Rog..

Reading the tea leafs (which is to say the ambiguous statements by people close to the investigation) is that there is no "bombshells" coming out of this deal and that people should temper their expectations.

Evidence uncovered by Mueller that the President of the United States committed Obstruction would certainly fit the bill of being a bombshell and be entirely inconsistent with what people have been leaking out.

Oh, and by evidence I mean evidence that the President lied to authorities, actually tampered with witnesses, or destroyed some sort of evidence. Nobody (certainly not Mueller) will convince me that the President of the United States is not allowed to fire the Director of the FBI without being charged with a crime.

C.H. Truth said...

Compare this video of how McCabe talks

You mean the guy who was fired by the FBI for lying four times during an internal investigation (three times under oath) ??

You expect me to believe "that guy"??

Peter D'Abrosca said...


‏@pdabrosca

Interesting, if underreported tidbit:

Michael Bromwich, lawyer for Christine Blasey Ford, is also representing Andrew McCabe.

Julie Kelly said...


‏@julie_kelly2

Would be nice if a journo asked McCabe how Trump’s alleged request to drop Gen. Flynn investigation thwarted the Russia probe since that convo allegedly took place in Feb 2017 and FBI didn’t confirm Crossfire Hurricane until March. Trump didn’t know Flynn was under investigation.

those pesky facts

Matt Gaetz said...


‏@mattgaetz


McCabe on Trump as a Russian asset:

“It’s possible”

FBI Inspector General on McCabe as a liar:

“It’s certain”

Anonymous said...



I strongly suspect that Republicans will attempt to blame the results of the investigation...

you're such a fucking hack.

i'm willing to bet the GOP attempts to blame nothing and no one regardless of the findings. adam schitt on the other hand continues to run his mouth about having all this "evidence" that he never explains, is never questioned about, and never has to provide to anyone.

if i had to place a bet right now i would bet that your team is going to need a big excuse to keep this witch hunt rolling until 2020, and you might need to be placed on suicide watch when trump is charged with exactly NOTHING. team mueller's propensity for leaking like a fucking sieve means we'd know something by now.



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Anonymous said...

You mean the guy who was fired by the FBI for lying four times during an internal investigation (three times under oath) ??

You expect me to believe "that guy"??



the dumb fuck hasn't even been able to keep track of the fact that mccabe's story has changed since his appearance on '60 minutes.'

the guy needs the money from book sales so badly his story is whatever it needs to be at the moment.

mollie hemingway has already hung mccabe out to dry.


pederast -

say it with me...

mccabe was fired for LYING.

mccabe was fired for LYING.

mccabe was fired for LYING.

mccabe was fired for LYING.

mccabe was fired for LYING.

Anonymous said...




I strongly suspect that Republicans will attempt to blame the results of the investigation if objection of justice or conspiracy with the Russians, are in the report, the Republicans will blame political bias against Trump because he beat Clinton.


can someone please translate this opioid-soaked drivel?

i'm at a loss here.

anyone?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Trump should be fired for lying .

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...
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Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I strongly suspect that Republicans will attempt to blame the results of the investigation show objection of justice or conspiracy with the Russians, are in the report, the Republicans will blame political bias against Trump because he beat Clinton.

C.H. Truth said...

Old Roger....

Repeating himself again after twice deleting his own comment. Was that an accident Roger?

Certainly a solid sign that the dementia is kicking into high gear.

Anonymous said...




the "party of science" has a taken a position that is not satire:

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/02/19/pose-indya-moore-trans-penises-biologically-female/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Buffer&utm_campaign=PN

well, at least the left can drop the "party of science" mantle. these people are officially mentally ill.

you have aligned yourself with some real fucking wingnuts, alky.

Anonymous said...




Certainly a solid sign that the dementia is kicking into high gear.


he's on an opioid bender that the rest of us can only dream about.

Anonymous said...

The application of technology has now failed Alky four times on this thread alone.

It doesn't have a Alky to Opium to English feature.

Mollie said...


‏@MZHemingway

Yes, ABC News reported in March 2018 that McCabe personally ordered an investigation into whether Jeff Sessions -- I repeat, JEFF SESSIONS -- was a Russian agent. http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/22/mccabes-bogus-witch-hunt-of-jeff-sessions-confirms-worst-fears-about-fbi-doj-politicization/ … A completely out-of-control conspiracy theorist was at the top of the FBI.

Everywhere McCabe looks he sees another Russian.

And the left can see he's telling the truth.

Anonymous said...




hey how about the lawyer for that covington kid suing the bozos post for 250 MIL?

heh.

tough week for jeffy. dick pics go public, loses twat over it, 'democracy drowns in bullshit' plaything gets sued for more than it's worth.

i love it when a liberal stets off a grenade in his own lap.



Anonymous said...




McCabe personally ordered an investigation into whether Jeff Sessions -- I repeat, JEFF SESSIONS -- was a Russian agent.


ok, now i'm officially wondering just how much longer mccabe can stay out of prison.

shit just got real.

LOL.

Mollie said...

Mollie
‏@MZHemingway

New York Times hit on Trump yesterday said that a Clinton-tied Uranium One deal had been "debunked." Unclear what they mean. They broke the original story (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html …) and it has not been retracted. Yesterday's story was extremely sloppy, very weird.

James said...

CH: You expect me to believe "that guy"??
------------------
As long as he was lying for Trump, you seemed quite willing to believe him.

Anonymous said...




So let’s review…

During an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, President Trump said he knew firing Comey might prolong the Russia investigation because people might think the firing was an attempt to thwart the investigation.
The political news media — determined as ever to prove that they are in fact fake news and the enemy of a united American people — used that interview to fabricate a flagrantly dishonest narrative that “Trump admitted he fired Comey because of the Russia investigation.”
McCabe, then the acting director of the FBI, ignored the truth and chose instead to believe and help spread the media’s lie.
McCabe then used that lie as justification for launching the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation.
It’s not a small thing. And it’s right there for all to see.

The media created a fake news story that was then used by the FBI to justify an investigation into the President that has plagued his entire first two years in office. It’s gross collusion between Democrats, the media, and the intelligence community to meddle in our election by thwarting the will of the people and usurping the sitting US President.

And much of the juice behind the investigation was based on a lie that the anti-Trump, pro-swamp media told so much that, in the minds of many Americans, it became true.


https://lovebreedsaccountability.com/2019/02/20/bombshell-mccabe-admits-fbi-used-fake-news-to-justify-trump-russia-investigation/


h/t: mollie hemingway.


Anonymous said...



As long as he was lying for Trump, you seemed quite willing to believe him.


ok pederast, post an example of mccabe "lying for" trump.

just one.

anonymous said...

Trump yesterday said that a Clinton-tied Uranium

For Christs sake idiot Mollie.....LOCK HER UP AND TOSS THE KEY!!!!!! Debunked as bullshit....follow trumps money to the Kremlin and Germany if you you want to see criminal activity by the crime syndicate run out of the Oval Office.....LOLOLOLO

Anonymous said...



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It is absolutely *essential* that we believe Jussie Smollett.

If we don’t, other people who haven’t been attacked might not have the courage to come forward.

#IBelieveJussie

11:41 AM - 20 Feb 2019

https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/1098306788439588865

cowardly king obama said...


rrb said:
ok, now i'm officially wondering just how much longer mccabe can stay out of prison.

shit just got real.

LOL.


I'm beginning to think Roger is the most sane one left in the Democrat party.

Does # ME TOO refer to mental illness ? Must. "Unknown" makes a compelling case.


Isn't that scary? Oh, and I know all that FBI leadership was "republican", though their spouses and families sure were active on the other side. Strange, almost like undercover... and a group of them hung out together forever, real tight group there... Couldn't be ANOTHER HOAX..Nah Guess the swamp controlled the agency no matter what party was in charge though...

cowardly king obama said...

rrb said:

It is absolutely *essential* that we believe Jussie Smollett.


Its been reported that the FBI has recovered magazines with letters cut out that match the cut out letters on the envelope mailed to him a week earlier.

A real puzzler.

Must be someone real close to him.

Maybe Kamala can figure this one out.

Anonymous said...



Maybe Kamala can figure this one out.

i'm sure.

i hear she does her best work on her back with her ankles behind her ears.

Anonymous said...



not a joke -

snopes just fact-checked the babylon bee:

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/02/20/delete-yourselves-snopes-seriously-just-fact-checked-the-babylon-bees-post-on-jussie-smollett-and-cnn/


don't show this to denny. it's always hilarious when he puts up a snope "fact-check."

anonymous said...

snopes just fact-checked the babylon bee:

Don't tell Lil Jimmy the drop out, that I don't give a fuck about Jussie,.....just because you are a racist and want to drag others down to your level does not mean I want to play....Toss in the fact the Babylon Bee is a bigger joke then you rat hole....Great troll chickenshit asshole who is afraid to tell us what town he lives in.....And BTW.....who knows what was actually posted by snopes with all the fake news you tell us there is..... a link to twitchy is BS!!!!

Myballs said...

The deep state

Coney
McCabe
Rosenstein
Ohr
Brennan
Clapper
Strzok
Page
Yates
Weissman
Powers

That we know of so far. This makrs Watergate child's play.

Myballs said...

Curious that now that Barr in in as AG and Rosenstein is out, Mueller will wrap up his investigation.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

Commonsense said...

There will be a lot of partisan criticism over "improper contacts" but there will be no indictments or unindicted co-conspirator or anything a reasonable person would call an impeachable offense.

If that is the case then I don't see how the Democrats can continue pushing this narrative. All but the most rabid TDS infected partisan will want to end this and move on.

Myballs said...

So break dancing will be Olympic sport in 2024. But not wrestling? Wtf?

Following Trump's example, Netanyahu said...

Netanyahu Makes Deal with Racist Far-Right Party

“After two weeks of efforts, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu succeeded in forming a united ultra right-wing party that will run in the April 9 elections, paving the way for Jewish supremacists from the ‘Jewish Power’ party to make it into the next Knesset,” Axios reports.

“This is an unprecedented development in Israel’s history and is equivalent to a U.S. president cutting a political deal with David Duke, the former KKK leader. The prime minister and the ruling Likud Party are legitimizing a racist, xenophobic and homophobic fringe party in hopes of bolstering a right-wing bloc after the elections.”

C.H. Truth said...

Curious that now that Barr in in as AG and Rosenstein is out, Mueller will wrap up his investigation.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence.


Hmmmm....

Commonsense said...

It is absolutely *essential* that we believe Jussie Smollett.

Yes, because we haven't lynched enough white men in red hats lately.

Paul Sperry said...


‏@paulsperry_

The NYT forgets how in 1990s it reported rather approvingly of President Clinton launching attack campaign on the independent counsel's Whitewater investigation, even bragging how WH planned to "destroy Ken Starr." But now it suggests Trump fighting investigations is obstruction?

💐 Sophia 💐 said...


@Surfermom77

Obama and Soros engineered the largest refugee crisis since WWII with NO strategy to defeat ISIS

Then UN demanded that EU welcome them to rape and terrorize their citizens.

Now Europe is unrecognizable, they’re working to destroy what’s left of “Americans” wt open border invaders

Educating Liberals said...


@Education4Libs

Ocasio-Cortez has already committed multiple House ethics violations & cost her state over 25,000 jobs & $26 billion in tax revenues.

What a genius....

This is what happens when Democrat voters elect children to sit at the grownups' table.

Ken Jones ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ‏ said...


@sxdoc

Former FBI Lawyer James Baker Originally Believed Hillary Clinton mishandling of highly classified information was “alarming” and “appalling & She Should Be Charged Under Espionage Act—Sara A. Carter

https://saraacarter.com/former-fbi-lawyer-james-baker-originally-believed-hillary-clinton-should-be-charged/

Mark Meadows said...


‏@RepMarkMeadows

Stunning admission here. McCabe is basically acknowledging he + his team opened an investigation of @realDonaldTrump without real evidence. There was no secret intelligence or smoking gun. Just things he and his biased team thought were “suspicious.” Incredible abuse of power.

Anonymous said...


JamesFebruary 20, 2019 at 3:07 PM

CH: You expect me to believe "that guy"??
------------------
As long as he was lying for Trump, you seemed quite willing to believe him.
"

I see RRB called you out on this, I also see you failed to give one, then ran off.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

This is the result of two years of decisive action by the President against the free press and yes, Jews and Muslims are African Americans.

A U.S. Coast Guard officer has been arrested after federal investigators discovered a stockpile of illegal drugs and weapons in his home that they allege were part of a plot to commit acts of mass terrorism.

Prosecutors say Lt. Christopher Paul Hasson, who was arrested Friday, was intent on committing white-supremacist terror attacks. Though he was initially arrested on charges of illegal weapons and drug possession, a court filing says those charges are “the proverbial tip of the iceberg.”

“The defendant is a domestic terrorist, bent on committing acts dangerous to human life that are intended to affect government conduct,” the filing alleges.

While searching Hasson’s suburban Maryland home, investigators found a number of files on his computer suggesting that Hasson planned to target members of Congress and media figures in the hopes of creating a “white homeland.”

“Liberalist/globalist ideology is destroying traditional peoples esp white,” Hasson wrote in a draft email, according to court documents. “No way to counteract without violence. It should push for more crack down bringing more people to our side. Much blood will have to be spilled to get whitey off the couch.”

Hasson referred to his targets as “traitors,” and appears to have named figures such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas), MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Hillary Clinton’s former campaign chairman, John Podesta. He appeared to find inspiration in Russia for its antipathy toward American liberalism, and his browser history revealed searches including “what if trump illegally impeached” and “civil war if trump impeached,” according to the court filing.

“Looking to Russia with hopeful eyes or any land that despises the west’s liberalism. Excluding of course the muslim scum. Who rightfully despise the west’s liberal degeneracy,” Hasson wrote in a draft email according to the filings.

Hasson also was apparently inspired rrb style racists.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Hmmm...
It could be that Muller has been waiting until the Trump's appointee was sworn in. So when the report comes out with very damaging evidence against the President and his campaign collusion with the Russians, Trump won't be able to say that it's just a Witch Hunt because a Trump hater was in charge. Barr has a reputation for fairness and non partisan beliefs. Despite the memo he wrote about the power to subpoena the President, saying that they probably can't subpoena the President.

It might not be just a coincidence.

Hmmmmm..........................

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Politico

Anonymous said...

Roger Amick said...
Really don't want understand how people had a been and the oval office with the president and when he goes off on a tangent. There were shocked with his ability to believe what Putin said instead of what is intelligence people said to that to said to him.

I know you don't watch MSNBC but his a interview with isn't credible turn and can't believe what the president said and how he would completely disagree dismissed the and tell its just people that he believed Vladimir Putin.

This is not the 1st time we've heard that a people with it and tells us departments cannot believe how difficult is to talk to the man because he doesn't want to hear what they say. He believes what he wants to say to believe and nobody can change his mind because he says he knows everything about everything. He has no experience at Foreign Affairs. He doesn't seem to understand history. Is like an isolationist from the 1940s. They didn't want to stop the Russians they just want to pull out of Europe. We stopped World War 3 but the cold war. If we had listened to the isolationist we would all be dead.

February 19, 2019 at 9:38 PM

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The alky and opioids addict wrote a pretty good post.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😇


I'm clean and sober.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

reported rather approvingly ???

Got a link???

Anonymous said...

So your natural sober state is 100% Fucked Up.

Anonymous said...

rrbFebruary 20, 2019 at 3:09 PM



As long as he was lying for Trump, you seemed quite willing to believe him.


ok pederast, post an example of mccabe "lying for" trump.

just one"

James , ran off, again. He only has a flight and flight response.

Commonsense said...

I recall that Bush believed his intelligence people when they said that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

It's kind of refreshing that a president skeptical and does not blindly believe what his presented by is intelligence briefers. (especially from an intelligence community whose leadership is unremittingly hostile to the president).

Commonsense said...

This is fucking bonkers:

It could be that Muller has been waiting until the Trump's appointee was sworn in. So when the report comes out with very damaging evidence against the President and his campaign collusion with the Russians, Trump won't be able to say that it's just a Witch Hunt because a Trump hater was in charge.

Roger needs a tin hat.