Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Special Counsel Mueller Has Assembled His Legal Team



Washington Times: Mueller’s all-star legal team in Russia probe signals direction of investigation

As a federal prosecutor in the 1990s, Andrew Weissmann persuaded mobsters to break the Mafia code and testify against their brothers in crime, winning a conviction against Genovese family boss Vincent “the Chin” Gigante.

Later, as he headed the Justice Department’s Enron task force, his ability to persuade key witnesses to testify about what they saw on the inside helped secure a series of convictions.

Now Mr. Weissmann is part of the all-star team that former FBI Director Robert Mueller has put together as the special counsel pursuing a look into Russian meddling in the November presidential election and suspected collusion with Trump campaign figures — a case legal analysts say is brimming with the potential for cooperators.

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WNU Editor: If all the speculation and punditry of the past week is any indication .... the focus of the Special Counsel will be to prove the claims that Russia meddled in last year's Presidential election .... and that President Trump obstructed the investigation. The tool that they will be using is to pressure/persuade key witnesses to testify on what they saw .... and to try and make a case based on the evidence that they may get from that testimony. Well .... they better get people talking, because after months of non-stop coverage I have yet to see any tangible evidence that proves that Trump officials colluded with Russia to swing the election .... let alone hacked the vote.
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5 comments:

  1. UnknownJuly 5, 2017 at 3:43 AM

    Because there is no evidence. Trump joked around the idea during the campaign but that's not a crime. What is a crime is the cover up of the Clinton email scandal. Which is connected to this investigation. I hope he goes deep down that road as shocking as it will be to the Dems. They brought it on themselves. Even Obama is implicated I think.

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  2. Jay FarquharsonJuly 5, 2017 at 5:47 PM

    “I don’t know – it’s hard for me to see any U.S. ties to Russia…
    except for:

    the Flynn thing,

    and the Manafort thing

    and the Tillerson thing

    and the Sessions thing

    and the Kushner thing

    and the Carter Page thing

    and the Roger Stone thing

    and the Felix Sater thing

    and the Boris Ephsteyn thing

    and the Rosneft thing

    and the Gazprom thing

    and the Sergey Gorkov banker thing

    and the Azerbajain thing

    and the “I love Putin” thing

    and the Donald Trump, Jr. thing

    and the Sergey Kislyak thing

    and the Russian Affiliated Interests thing

    and the Russian Business Interests thing

    and the Emoluments Clause thing

    and the Alex Schnaider thing

    and the hack of the DNC thing

    and the Guccifer 2.0 thing

    and the Mike Pence “I don’t know anything” thing

    and the Russians mysteriously dying thing

    and Trump’s public request to Russia to hack Hillary’s email thing

    and the Trump house sale for $100 million at the bottom of the housing bust to the Russian fertilizer king thing

    and the Russian fertilizer king’s plane showing up in Concord, NC during Trump rally campaign thing

    and the Nunes sudden flight to the White House in the night thing

    and the Nunes personal investments in the Russian winery thing

    and the Cyprus bank thing

    and Trump not releasing his tax returns thing

    and the Republican Party’s rejection of an amendment to require Trump to show his taxes thing

    and the election hacking thing

    and the GOP platform change on the Ukraine thing

    and the Steele Dossier thing

    and the Leninist Bannon thing

    and Sally Yates prevented from testifying thing

    and the intelligence community’s investigative reports thing

    and Trump’s reassurance that the Russian connection is all “fake news” thing …

    and Spicer’s Russian Dressing “nothing’s wrong” thing …

    and the Chaffetz thing,....

    and Session's non-recusal from the Russian thing after promising to recuse himself after lying to Congress about the Russian's thing,

    and the Yate's firing,

    and the Comey firing,

    and the Bharara firing,

    and the Larov/Kislyak/Trump meeting,

    and the Russian Photographer thing,

    and the Indicted Stone for the Russian Thing talking to Trump about firing Comey thing,

    and Trump's Spokeswoman, Saunder's saying the Comey Firing was about shutting down the Russia/Trump Investigations thing,

    and Lying Spice in the bushes with the candlestick,

    and the Trump Lawyer's "No Russians" letter by the Russian Law Firm of the Year,

    and the Comey/Trump/Tapes threat,

    and the Larov/Russia trolling the US thing,

    and Trump's Dirty Fucking Hippie "Peace in the Ukraine" Flower Power tweet after meeting Larov thing,

    and the Guelen kidnapping and rendition thing,

    and the Cohen/Artimenko/Sater Ukraine deal thing,

    and the Eric Trump/Golf Courses/Russian Backers thing,

    and the "Comey told me three times" thing,

    and the 180 current and former Attorney General's letter calling for a special prosecutor,

    and the Dutch TV ( Zembla) Investigative documentary, "The Dubious Friends of Donald Trump: Part 1, The Russians",

    and Deutsche Bank executive William S. Broeksmit's "suicide",

    and the sudden settlement of the Prevezon LLC money laundering case, in the wake of Attorney General Preet Bharara's firing by Trump,

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  3. Jay FarquharsonJuly 5, 2017 at 5:48 PM

    and the "thinking" then publicly saying that "Loyalty Oaths" to Hair Furour by Government Bureaucrats in violation of the Constitution is "normal" thing,

    and Trump sharing classified intel with the Russian's during their meeting that was not cleared to be shared with the Russians,

    and the War Zone Blood Diamonds thing,

    and the Putin asked and Trump "couldn't say no" Kislyak thing,

    and the Manifort tax free, $3.5 million dollar open term "loan" from the Russian Mob connected Bank of Cyprus Numbered Account,

    and the Comey Meeting Memo noting that Trump tried to shut down the Flynn Investigation the day after Flynn was fired.

    and the last minute Trump Toronto VEB/Schnaider bankruptcy bail out, while Putin was Chairman of the VEB Board.

    and "the Family"/McCarthy/Ryan tape leak discussing who's on Putin's payroll,

    and the SGM/Williams/IRI/Pence Political Consulting thing,

    and the Flynn/Turkey cancellation of the US Militaries' anti-ISIS plan

    and Flynn's lawyer rejecting the Senate subpena,

    and Flynn taking the 5th,

    and the Dana Rohabatcher thing,

    and the Coates/Rogers thing,

    and the Flynn/Svetlana Lokhova/GRU thing,

    and the "they said I said Israel thing, but I never said it was Israel, but it was Israel," thing,

    and the Russian disinfo op against the FBI faking a AG Lynch email,

    and Trump lawyering up,

    and Trump's lawyer Kazowitz also being Putin's Sberbank's lawyer,

    and Session's non-disclosure of contacts with the Russians on his #86 NSC form,

    and the reports of the FSB discussions on how to best leverage Flynn and Manifort,

    and the Trump Administration's ramping up and full staffing of the Trump/Russia "war room" to push back against the Investigations,
    while 445 Federal Appointee's havn't even been nominated by the Trump Administration, and remain vacant, (80%),

    and Nevins/Stone/Mast/Florida GOP/Guccifer2.0/Russian collusion in Florida using the hacked and stolen DNC data sets.

    and Pence being scared that Comey and McCabe also took notes of the conversations where he tried to get them to drop Trump/Russia

    and Manifort's post resignation collusion with Prebius and other Team Trump members to get the FBI investigation quashed,

    and the Kushner/Kisliak/Flynn meeting to set up secret, secure communications between Team Trump and the Kremlin using the Russians secure diplomatic channels,

    and that the same meeting set up the Blackwater Prince's secret meeting in the Seychelles,

    and the Senate subpoena-ing the Trump Campaign for all records and documents from 2015 forward thing

    and Kushner's own Observer newspaper reporting that not only did the NSA's Rogers tell Trump that there was collusion between Team Trump and the Russians, but the NSA has the SIGINT.

    and Deripaska offering to testify to the Senate Committee only in exchange for full immunity from all crimes, past and present. ( It was declined),

    and Kushner's concealment of his meetings with Venesheconombank on his underwater 666 5th Ave project and it's balloon payments.

    and the intercepted communications that suggested to US intelligence that Russians believed "they had the ability to influence the administration through the derogatory information."

    and the Senate Investigation now targeting Michel Cohen, Little Big Boy's personal lawyer,

    any Flynn now complying with the Senate Subpena's after being threatened by the Senate with contempt charges if he did not comply.

    and May 31, 2017, A) Sean Spicer: "Our job, we are focused on the President’s agenda and going forward all questions on these matters will be referred to outside counsel, Mark Kasowitz."

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  4. Jay FarquharsonJuly 5, 2017 at 5:48 PM

    and the FBI now investigating the Campaign meeting at the Mayflower hotel between Kislyak, Sessions, Kushner and Trump.

    and Team Trump attempts to immediately lift the Russian Sanctions only to be stopped by the Republican House and Senate,

    and Meuller and the FBI are taking over a criminal Manifort Corruption investigation that predates Trump/Russia.

    and Trump asking both Coate's and Pompeo to tell Comey to shut down the Trump/Russia investigation.

    and Comey demanded that Session's stop Trumps attempts to interfere in the Investigation,

    and Comey's Testimony of Trumps attempts to Subvert Justice,

    and Trump's nomination of Chris Wray as FBI Director who was not only Christie's Bridgegate/ Missing Cell Phone lawyer, but part of Russian Oil Company Rosneft's law team.

    and Eric Trump confirming in an interview, that yes, Comey was right, Trump did indeed tell Comey to stop the Trump/Russia investigations.

    and Trump's Lawyer, Kasowitz's admission to friends, that he convinced Trump to fire AG Pareet Bahara, because his investigation into Russian Mob money laundering, was going to "take Trump down".

    and the 39 State Russian attempts to hack US Election systems, so severe Obama used the hotline to Russia,

    and Mueller is now directly investigating Trump for Obstruction of Justice,

    and Richard Burt, a paid Lobbiest for the Russians, stating that he was present a two working dinners with Kisylak and Sessions, that Session's has not disclosed,

    and the Republican Senate making sure Russian Sanctions passed with a veto proof majority because they don't trust Trump on Russia,

    and VP Pence lawyering up,

    and Cohen, Trumps lawyer, has now lawyered up,

    and the White House Special Counsel has ordered the Trump Transition Team to preserve all documents and emails.

    and the House Committee's subpoenaing the Trump Campaigns IT guy, Pascale,

    and Session's has lawyered up,

    and Trump's FBI nominee has "scrubbed" his resume of Russian ties,

    and the FBI is now investigating Bijan Kian, Gen. Flynn's partner,

    and Trump asked the NSC for "deliverables" that he can give to Putin at the G20 Meeting,

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    The list just keeps getting longer, day by day, week by week,

    LMFAO.com/SethAbramson/status/867172280350146561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fyastreblyansky.blogspot.com%2F2017%2F05%2Frequired-reading.html

    Nope, nothing to see here,

    all "perfectly normal",

    The list just keeps getting longer, day by day, week by week,

    LMFAO

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  5. UnknownJuly 5, 2017 at 9:22 PM

    Mueller will look good in orange.

    You can have a special counsel investigate a special counsel.

    Trump can shut down Mueller and still have a special counsel investigating Mueller.

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