James Comey speaks alongside Robert Mueller at the White House in 2013. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters
John Solomon, The Hill: Mueller may have a conflict — and it leads directly to a Russian oligarch
Special counsel Robert Mueller has withstood relentless political attacks, many distorting his record of distinguished government service.
But there’s one episode even Mueller’s former law enforcement comrades — and independent ethicists — acknowledge raises legitimate legal issues and a possible conflict of interest in his overseeing the Russia election probe.
In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI, the bureau asked Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to spend millions of his own dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007.
Yes, that’s the same Deripaska who has surfaced in Mueller’s current investigation and who was recently sanctioned by the Trump administration.
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WNU Editor: One more conflict of interest to pile onto the other conflict of interests. As I said before. Robert Mueller worked with (and knows) James Comey extremely well .... but he is investigating his firing by President Trump and trying to ascertain if this is "obstruction of justice". If that is not a conflict of interest, I do not know what is.
Update: This case is putting pressure on the Mueller Counsel to produce evidence that they seem to have trouble producing .... Russian company attacks Mueller indictment as baseless. (AP) More here .... The Russians Try to Call Mueller’s Bluff, File Request to View Secret Grand Jury Info (Law and Crime).
Update #2: This is embarrassing .... Mueller Indicted A Russian Company That Didn't Even Exist, Court Transcripts Say (Zero Hedge), and if true it makes you wonder that the Mueller Commission and the Justice Department are doing.
Update #3: I have just been told that the Mueller Counsel is now one year old. One year?!?!?
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