Leroy N. Soetoro
2019-03-30 20:38:02 UTC
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/the-mueller-report-should-be-rejected-and-
not-believed-its-fatally-flawed
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has finally presented his report to
Attorney General William Barr, after spending almost two years and tens of
millions of taxpayer dollars on the effort. But whatever the report
reveals, it is the product of a process and a special counsel team that
were both fatally flawed from the beginning.
As a result, the Mueller report should be rejected out of hand by every
American who cares at all about the concept of fundamental fairness that
our founders intended to be a primary guiding principle for our government
officials.
No matter whats in the report, Mueller has already ensured that a large
portion of the public will never have confidence in it.
MUELLER SUBMITS LONG-AWAITED RUSSIA PROBE REPORT TO JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
One expert after another has tried to predict what the report on Russias
interference in the 2016 presidential election and allegations that
Trump or his associates conspired with Russia to win the election will
say, and what the consequences will be.
Its a sure thing that no one will be fully satisfied with the report no
matter what it says.
Many Americans cheered when Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
appointed Special Counsel Mueller to investigate alleged collusion between
President Trumps campaign and Russia. The president has said many times
that there was no collusion.
For some opponents of President Trump, anything that might paralyze his
administration and stymie his ability to make policy was most welcome
even an investigation based on a lie.
For others, there was a genuine concern, fueled by the media, that there
might actually be something to investigate. They were all for getting to
the bottom of it even if they were never told exactly what it was.
On the other hand, many other Americans felt there was no justification
for appointing a special counsel, citing the dearth of evidence and the
existence of other options provided under Sec. 600.2 of the special
counsel regulations.
The Mueller report should be rejected by every American who cares about
the concept of fairness, because it is the product of a process and a
special counsel team that were both fatally flawed from the beginning.
Those who believe no special counsel was needed questioned whether the
criteria for the appointment had been met. They were puzzled by Muellers
choices for his team, and they were uncomfortable with being kept in the
dark about how broad a mandate Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein would
give Mueller.
From evidence made public before Mueller submitted his report, its clear
that the early concerns about the special counsel appointment, his team,
and his mission didnt even scratch the surface.
There are several core principles underlying the special counsel
regulations.
First, under Sec. 600.1, the appointment of a special counsel is only
triggered when a determination is made that a criminal investigation of a
person or matter is warranted, when the Justice Department has a conflict
of interest, and when the appointment would be in the public interest.
Second, under Sec. 600.3, the investigation must be conducted by a special
counsel team with a reputation for integrity and impartial decision-
making.
But under Mueller, the special counsel process and team utterly failed to
meet those fundamental principles.
The decision to appoint Mueller was corrupted by people with a clear
political bias and agenda, who hoped to accomplish through the Justice
Department and the special counsel process what they could not accomplish
through a fair election.
Top Justice Department officials who were directly involved in the
decision to appoint Mueller as special counsel hated President Trump with
all their hearts and souls, and were committed to acting on that hatred.
FBI Director James Comey, for instance, has admitted to leaking documents
for the specific purpose of getting a special counsel appointed who would
investigate the president.
Comey's deputy Andrew McCabe has reported in detail that Deputy
Attorney General Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller and crafted Muellers
mandate, concocted a bizarre plan to try to remove President Trump from
office.
Both Comey and McCabe have since been sharply criticized by the Justice
Department inspector general for their misconduct. And both have written
and heavily promoted books in which they viciously attack President Trump.
Criminal investigations against the two fired top FBI top officials are
pending.
In addition, we also now know that some of the same high-ranking officials
involved in Muellers appointment were aware that information underpinning
the rationale for that appointment was derived from an unreliable source.
These officials also knew that the source former British spy Christopher
Steele was funded by supporters of Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton. Yet they concealed these material facts from federal
judges in order to get permission to spy on American citizens.
The process of appointing Mueller as a special counsel was, therefore,
improper from its inception. Any report derived from that process will be
the fruit of a most poisonous tree.
The special counsel process can only work if the special counsels team is
composed entirely of lawyers who have earned a reputation for the highest
integrity and impartiality. Only then can the public have any confidence
in the results of their investigation.
An honest and unbiased approach was especially important for the Mueller
probe, since the public has not even been allowed to know the full
parameters of their investigation, which were established unilaterally by
Rosenstein.
Further, the special counsel regulations in Sec. 600.4 grant members of
the special counsels team extraordinary power, allowing them to
unilaterally charge or threaten to charge anyone they decide interfered
with or somehow obstructed their investigation perhaps just by failing
to give them the answers they wanted to hear.
For most people, of course, the threat of criminal indictment and all of
the associated financial, emotional, family, and career consequences can
be overwhelming. Even strong-willed people can be tempted to succumb to
the pressure and make up a story that will fit a biased prosecutors
agenda.
Considering both the serious nature of any investigation of the president
of the United States and the enormous power wielded by the special counsel
team, fair-minded Americans would expect each member of Muellers
handpicked team to meet the highest standards of integrity and
impartiality. This is required not only by the regulations, but more
importantly, by the fundamental American value of fairness.
Instead, for reasons known only to him, Mueller inexcusably decided to
pick lawyers who abysmally failed these criteria. By doing so, Mueller
absolutely guaranteed that any report issued by his team would never be
accepted by anyone other than the most adamant Trump haters and even
then, only to the extent that it maligns the president.
Mueller cannot possibly offer a satisfactory explanation for why he chose
to ignore the vast universe of honest, talented, and politically
uninvolved lawyers who would have granted his investigation credibility
and legitimacy, and instead assembled such a transparently biased team.
Especially in todays exceptionally polarized political climate, there can
be no justification for selecting lawyers with deep ties to the Democratic
Party to investigate a Republican president whose victory they considered
illegitimate at least not if Mueller cared at all about public
confidence in his teams work.
Americans who care to follow the facts simply cannot understand why
Mueller would pick someone like Andrew Weissmann as his top deputy.
Weissmann has developed a well-deserved reputation over the past three
decades for wrongfully securing convictions by withholding evidence,
misleading the courts, and otherwise perverting the justice system in some
of the worst ways possible.
Mueller was well aware of Weissmanns reputation when he picked him,
having chosen to work with Weissmann at the FBI years earlier, even after
Weissmann was singled out by a federal judge for his extraordinarily
unethical conduct in a previous case.
Mueller also chose Jeannie Rhee, a lawyer who actually represented Hillary
Clinton in the investigation of her email scandal. Again, Mueller knew
exactly what he was doing. The special counsel selected Rhee from his own
law firm. That choice is especially concerning now that we know the
Justice Department went out of its way to protect Clinton from criminal
prosecution related to her email scandal.
One can go right down the list of Muellers legal staff choices and fairly
ask what he possibly could have been thinking in selecting these people.
If he had any respect at all for the American people or any interest in
conducting an honest investigation rather than just providing a vehicle
for Hillary Clinton supporters to try to change the election results
Mueller would never have staffed his team with investigators whose primary
qualification was their deep-seated hatred of Donald Trump.
A nation conceived in liberty deserves far better than a special counsel
report tainted by political bias and prepared to fit a political agenda.
By definition, though, thats exactly what the Mueller report surely must
be.
--
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its
supporters can dispute that.
Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum
wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't
be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
not-believed-its-fatally-flawed
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has finally presented his report to
Attorney General William Barr, after spending almost two years and tens of
millions of taxpayer dollars on the effort. But whatever the report
reveals, it is the product of a process and a special counsel team that
were both fatally flawed from the beginning.
As a result, the Mueller report should be rejected out of hand by every
American who cares at all about the concept of fundamental fairness that
our founders intended to be a primary guiding principle for our government
officials.
No matter whats in the report, Mueller has already ensured that a large
portion of the public will never have confidence in it.
MUELLER SUBMITS LONG-AWAITED RUSSIA PROBE REPORT TO JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
One expert after another has tried to predict what the report on Russias
interference in the 2016 presidential election and allegations that
Trump or his associates conspired with Russia to win the election will
say, and what the consequences will be.
Its a sure thing that no one will be fully satisfied with the report no
matter what it says.
Many Americans cheered when Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
appointed Special Counsel Mueller to investigate alleged collusion between
President Trumps campaign and Russia. The president has said many times
that there was no collusion.
For some opponents of President Trump, anything that might paralyze his
administration and stymie his ability to make policy was most welcome
even an investigation based on a lie.
For others, there was a genuine concern, fueled by the media, that there
might actually be something to investigate. They were all for getting to
the bottom of it even if they were never told exactly what it was.
On the other hand, many other Americans felt there was no justification
for appointing a special counsel, citing the dearth of evidence and the
existence of other options provided under Sec. 600.2 of the special
counsel regulations.
The Mueller report should be rejected by every American who cares about
the concept of fairness, because it is the product of a process and a
special counsel team that were both fatally flawed from the beginning.
Those who believe no special counsel was needed questioned whether the
criteria for the appointment had been met. They were puzzled by Muellers
choices for his team, and they were uncomfortable with being kept in the
dark about how broad a mandate Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein would
give Mueller.
From evidence made public before Mueller submitted his report, its clear
that the early concerns about the special counsel appointment, his team,
and his mission didnt even scratch the surface.
There are several core principles underlying the special counsel
regulations.
First, under Sec. 600.1, the appointment of a special counsel is only
triggered when a determination is made that a criminal investigation of a
person or matter is warranted, when the Justice Department has a conflict
of interest, and when the appointment would be in the public interest.
Second, under Sec. 600.3, the investigation must be conducted by a special
counsel team with a reputation for integrity and impartial decision-
making.
But under Mueller, the special counsel process and team utterly failed to
meet those fundamental principles.
The decision to appoint Mueller was corrupted by people with a clear
political bias and agenda, who hoped to accomplish through the Justice
Department and the special counsel process what they could not accomplish
through a fair election.
Top Justice Department officials who were directly involved in the
decision to appoint Mueller as special counsel hated President Trump with
all their hearts and souls, and were committed to acting on that hatred.
FBI Director James Comey, for instance, has admitted to leaking documents
for the specific purpose of getting a special counsel appointed who would
investigate the president.
Comey's deputy Andrew McCabe has reported in detail that Deputy
Attorney General Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller and crafted Muellers
mandate, concocted a bizarre plan to try to remove President Trump from
office.
Both Comey and McCabe have since been sharply criticized by the Justice
Department inspector general for their misconduct. And both have written
and heavily promoted books in which they viciously attack President Trump.
Criminal investigations against the two fired top FBI top officials are
pending.
In addition, we also now know that some of the same high-ranking officials
involved in Muellers appointment were aware that information underpinning
the rationale for that appointment was derived from an unreliable source.
These officials also knew that the source former British spy Christopher
Steele was funded by supporters of Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton. Yet they concealed these material facts from federal
judges in order to get permission to spy on American citizens.
The process of appointing Mueller as a special counsel was, therefore,
improper from its inception. Any report derived from that process will be
the fruit of a most poisonous tree.
The special counsel process can only work if the special counsels team is
composed entirely of lawyers who have earned a reputation for the highest
integrity and impartiality. Only then can the public have any confidence
in the results of their investigation.
An honest and unbiased approach was especially important for the Mueller
probe, since the public has not even been allowed to know the full
parameters of their investigation, which were established unilaterally by
Rosenstein.
Further, the special counsel regulations in Sec. 600.4 grant members of
the special counsels team extraordinary power, allowing them to
unilaterally charge or threaten to charge anyone they decide interfered
with or somehow obstructed their investigation perhaps just by failing
to give them the answers they wanted to hear.
For most people, of course, the threat of criminal indictment and all of
the associated financial, emotional, family, and career consequences can
be overwhelming. Even strong-willed people can be tempted to succumb to
the pressure and make up a story that will fit a biased prosecutors
agenda.
Considering both the serious nature of any investigation of the president
of the United States and the enormous power wielded by the special counsel
team, fair-minded Americans would expect each member of Muellers
handpicked team to meet the highest standards of integrity and
impartiality. This is required not only by the regulations, but more
importantly, by the fundamental American value of fairness.
Instead, for reasons known only to him, Mueller inexcusably decided to
pick lawyers who abysmally failed these criteria. By doing so, Mueller
absolutely guaranteed that any report issued by his team would never be
accepted by anyone other than the most adamant Trump haters and even
then, only to the extent that it maligns the president.
Mueller cannot possibly offer a satisfactory explanation for why he chose
to ignore the vast universe of honest, talented, and politically
uninvolved lawyers who would have granted his investigation credibility
and legitimacy, and instead assembled such a transparently biased team.
Especially in todays exceptionally polarized political climate, there can
be no justification for selecting lawyers with deep ties to the Democratic
Party to investigate a Republican president whose victory they considered
illegitimate at least not if Mueller cared at all about public
confidence in his teams work.
Americans who care to follow the facts simply cannot understand why
Mueller would pick someone like Andrew Weissmann as his top deputy.
Weissmann has developed a well-deserved reputation over the past three
decades for wrongfully securing convictions by withholding evidence,
misleading the courts, and otherwise perverting the justice system in some
of the worst ways possible.
Mueller was well aware of Weissmanns reputation when he picked him,
having chosen to work with Weissmann at the FBI years earlier, even after
Weissmann was singled out by a federal judge for his extraordinarily
unethical conduct in a previous case.
Mueller also chose Jeannie Rhee, a lawyer who actually represented Hillary
Clinton in the investigation of her email scandal. Again, Mueller knew
exactly what he was doing. The special counsel selected Rhee from his own
law firm. That choice is especially concerning now that we know the
Justice Department went out of its way to protect Clinton from criminal
prosecution related to her email scandal.
One can go right down the list of Muellers legal staff choices and fairly
ask what he possibly could have been thinking in selecting these people.
If he had any respect at all for the American people or any interest in
conducting an honest investigation rather than just providing a vehicle
for Hillary Clinton supporters to try to change the election results
Mueller would never have staffed his team with investigators whose primary
qualification was their deep-seated hatred of Donald Trump.
A nation conceived in liberty deserves far better than a special counsel
report tainted by political bias and prepared to fit a political agenda.
By definition, though, thats exactly what the Mueller report surely must
be.
--
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its
supporters can dispute that.
Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum
wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't
be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.