Cliff Kincaid
Special counsel Mueller will get his man
By Cliff Kincaid
One of the big problems with the media is that journalists publish so many things that aren't true, especially when they are writing about people in positions of power whom they want to pursue their liberal agendas.
Consider this statement from a Politico article by Garrett M. Graff about the special counsel investigating Russia-gate: "Robert Mueller might just be America's straightest arrow – a respected, nonpartisan and fiercely apolitical public servant whose only lifetime motivation has been the search for justice."
This so-called straight arrow blew the biggest terrorism investigation in the history of the United States – the post-9/11 anthrax mailings which killed five people, and spread terror and panic in the populace.
We knew al-Qaeda carried out the actual 9/11 terrorist attacks. That was an easy one to solve. Al-Qaeda had declared war on the United States and had been broadcasting their intentions to hit the U.S. In a major intelligence failure, our CIA, FBI, and other agencies failed to stop the deaths of almost 3,000 people.
But then-FBI director Mueller was also in charge of solving the post-9/11 anthrax attacks. He ignored the abundant evidence of an al-Qaeda role in those, too, because the FBI had picked up the anthrax mailer and let him go. He went on to bring down Flight 587 with a shoe bomb. All of this was just too embarrassing for Mueller to admit. A deliberate cover-up was engineered.
What's more, FBI director Mueller purged government materials of information that identified the nature of the Islamic terrorist enemy. Judicial Watch has explained how this "disturbing" turn of events occurred. They document that training materials deemed "offensive" to Muslims were purged following secret meetings between Mueller and various Islamic organizations. What's more, Judicial Watch indicates that Mueller thus became an agent of a broader Islamist "influence operation" aimed at "our government and Constitution."
So Mueller failed to officially recognize the role of al Qaeda in the post-9/11 anthrax attacks, and then blinded the bureau from recognizing more evidence of Islamic terrorist operations on American soil.
And this is the guy who will get to the bottom of Russia-gate?
Among other things, Mueller fingered an innocent man for the anthrax mailings, and was sued by an FBI agent who led the inquiry. His investigation wasted years on a wild goose chase. Analyst Kenneth J. Dillon says Mueller's mishandling of the investigation led to the suicide of scientist Bruce Ivins, who was conveniently blamed for the mailings.
"My research on the 2001 anthrax mailings case suggests that Mueller was responsible for the suicide of the alleged but wrongly accused mailer, Bruce Ivins, as well as for the subsequent cover-up. Mueller appears to have lied to a Senate committee about Ivins and destroyed key alibi evidence for him," Dillon told Accuracy in Media (AIM).
There is no evidence that Ivins actually mailed the letters, and former FBI agent Richard Lambert says the FBI has "a wealth of exculpatory evidence" regarding Ivins. That evidence has conveniently turned up missing for independent investigators like Dillon who are seeking it through Freedom of Information requests. The FBI, he says, has been sitting for more than a year on one request for 16 pages from the official investigation on Ivins.
If we had a functioning democratic system and an honest press, we would have pressure on the FBI to investigate former director Mueller. Instead, Mueller is now in charge of investigating the President of the United States! This is how the "deep state" works.
Appropriately enough, the Politico article is accompanied by a photo of Mueller and his sidekick, former FBI director James Comey. That photo captures the truth about a relationship that makes Mueller's task as special counsel a supreme conflict of interest that should disqualify him from the task. But Washington insiders remain quiet about the conflict because they want to see Trump go. They know Mueller is a company man who will protect Comey and savage Trump.
Those who say there is no evidence of a crime in Russia-gate miss the whole point. Mueller will produce evidence of a crime out of nothing if he has to. Former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn's dealings with a Russian TV channel, though conducted out in the open for everyone to see through a speaker's bureau, could become the basis of some flimsy "obstruction of justice" charges against Trump, his former boss who fired him.
It's the old familiar "what did he know and when did he know it" routine that can trip up anyone, even a president.
Trump fired Comey for incompetence and frustration over his Russia-gate investigation that goes on and on, with no end in sight. Trump wanted to see it over and the facts to come out. He wanted the intelligence community to verify that evidence of "collusion" was not to be found after many months of fruitless investigation.
Both Democrats and Republicans realized that Comey was not up to the job. But now Democrats (and some Republicans) are gleeful. They know Mueller will protect Comey and get Trump.
Journalists are quiet about Mueller's atrocious record on Islamic terrorism because they want his special counsel office of ambitious liberal attorneys to leak to them as the inquiry goes forward. Republicans on Capitol Hill are quiet because they know the FBI can destroy them through leaks.
At least under J. Edgar Hoover we had an FBI that investigated America's enemies. Mueller's job is to damage and destroy a President elected by the people. His job is to protect his friend, former FBI director Comey, who used a spurious document, the "Trump Dossier," to conduct an inquiry that has turned up nothing. A former British agent compiled the dossier but the fingerprints of the Russians are all over it.
This document, which guided the FBI investigation, is the ultimate in meddling in America's elections and democratic system, and the media pretend not to recognize it. Instead, the media repeatedly tell us that the Russians wanted to defeat Hillary.
As we said in a previous column, America's elected government is hanging in the balance, and the media are cheering on this spectacle. What should the American people conclude if a "special counsel," with seemingly unlimited resources and power, brings down a President elected by those people?
They should not be blamed for losing faith in the system. They are losing faith now as Washington pursues a phony scandal while the Islamic terrorists strike and kill young innocent teenagers in the heart of the West.
Remember that Americans losing faith in the system was supposed to be one of Russia's objectives. Ironically, the Russia-gate investigation is designed to do just that. We have a government that can't investigate itself.
It looks like the plan is to drag out the Mueller probe for a couple of years, so that the Democratic Party can take back the House of Representatives in 2018 and initiate impeachment proceedings against Trump. The Senate won't convict, but Trump could be forced to step down.
None of this had to happen if America had maintained a free and independent press, willing to subject the FBI to the scrutiny they apply so recklessly and anonymously to Trump.
It is strangely appropriate that FBI apologist Garrett M. Graff wrote a book praising Mueller. He quotes Comey as saying about him, "His gift is that he's decisive without being impulsive. He'll sit, listen, ask questions and make a decision. I didn't realize at the time how rare that is in Washington."
Comey was described by Graff as having worked for "years" alongside Mueller. Yet Mueller is the straight shooter who will get to the bottom of the mess that Comey found himself in and which necessitated his firing?
How can any objective observer conclude anything other than that Trump is right when he says he is the target of a witch hunt?
It's a dishonest press, and it's going to get worse.
So while the special counsel pursues the chimera known as Russia-gate, the Islamic terrorists who killed innocent young girls in Britain now have their sights set on the United States.
Trump's initiatives to protect the American people from such attacks are tied up in the liberal courts.
But Mueller will get his man!
© Cliff Kincaid
May 24, 2017
One of the big problems with the media is that journalists publish so many things that aren't true, especially when they are writing about people in positions of power whom they want to pursue their liberal agendas.
Consider this statement from a Politico article by Garrett M. Graff about the special counsel investigating Russia-gate: "Robert Mueller might just be America's straightest arrow – a respected, nonpartisan and fiercely apolitical public servant whose only lifetime motivation has been the search for justice."
This so-called straight arrow blew the biggest terrorism investigation in the history of the United States – the post-9/11 anthrax mailings which killed five people, and spread terror and panic in the populace.
We knew al-Qaeda carried out the actual 9/11 terrorist attacks. That was an easy one to solve. Al-Qaeda had declared war on the United States and had been broadcasting their intentions to hit the U.S. In a major intelligence failure, our CIA, FBI, and other agencies failed to stop the deaths of almost 3,000 people.
But then-FBI director Mueller was also in charge of solving the post-9/11 anthrax attacks. He ignored the abundant evidence of an al-Qaeda role in those, too, because the FBI had picked up the anthrax mailer and let him go. He went on to bring down Flight 587 with a shoe bomb. All of this was just too embarrassing for Mueller to admit. A deliberate cover-up was engineered.
What's more, FBI director Mueller purged government materials of information that identified the nature of the Islamic terrorist enemy. Judicial Watch has explained how this "disturbing" turn of events occurred. They document that training materials deemed "offensive" to Muslims were purged following secret meetings between Mueller and various Islamic organizations. What's more, Judicial Watch indicates that Mueller thus became an agent of a broader Islamist "influence operation" aimed at "our government and Constitution."
So Mueller failed to officially recognize the role of al Qaeda in the post-9/11 anthrax attacks, and then blinded the bureau from recognizing more evidence of Islamic terrorist operations on American soil.
And this is the guy who will get to the bottom of Russia-gate?
Among other things, Mueller fingered an innocent man for the anthrax mailings, and was sued by an FBI agent who led the inquiry. His investigation wasted years on a wild goose chase. Analyst Kenneth J. Dillon says Mueller's mishandling of the investigation led to the suicide of scientist Bruce Ivins, who was conveniently blamed for the mailings.
"My research on the 2001 anthrax mailings case suggests that Mueller was responsible for the suicide of the alleged but wrongly accused mailer, Bruce Ivins, as well as for the subsequent cover-up. Mueller appears to have lied to a Senate committee about Ivins and destroyed key alibi evidence for him," Dillon told Accuracy in Media (AIM).
There is no evidence that Ivins actually mailed the letters, and former FBI agent Richard Lambert says the FBI has "a wealth of exculpatory evidence" regarding Ivins. That evidence has conveniently turned up missing for independent investigators like Dillon who are seeking it through Freedom of Information requests. The FBI, he says, has been sitting for more than a year on one request for 16 pages from the official investigation on Ivins.
If we had a functioning democratic system and an honest press, we would have pressure on the FBI to investigate former director Mueller. Instead, Mueller is now in charge of investigating the President of the United States! This is how the "deep state" works.
Appropriately enough, the Politico article is accompanied by a photo of Mueller and his sidekick, former FBI director James Comey. That photo captures the truth about a relationship that makes Mueller's task as special counsel a supreme conflict of interest that should disqualify him from the task. But Washington insiders remain quiet about the conflict because they want to see Trump go. They know Mueller is a company man who will protect Comey and savage Trump.
Those who say there is no evidence of a crime in Russia-gate miss the whole point. Mueller will produce evidence of a crime out of nothing if he has to. Former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn's dealings with a Russian TV channel, though conducted out in the open for everyone to see through a speaker's bureau, could become the basis of some flimsy "obstruction of justice" charges against Trump, his former boss who fired him.
It's the old familiar "what did he know and when did he know it" routine that can trip up anyone, even a president.
Trump fired Comey for incompetence and frustration over his Russia-gate investigation that goes on and on, with no end in sight. Trump wanted to see it over and the facts to come out. He wanted the intelligence community to verify that evidence of "collusion" was not to be found after many months of fruitless investigation.
Both Democrats and Republicans realized that Comey was not up to the job. But now Democrats (and some Republicans) are gleeful. They know Mueller will protect Comey and get Trump.
Journalists are quiet about Mueller's atrocious record on Islamic terrorism because they want his special counsel office of ambitious liberal attorneys to leak to them as the inquiry goes forward. Republicans on Capitol Hill are quiet because they know the FBI can destroy them through leaks.
At least under J. Edgar Hoover we had an FBI that investigated America's enemies. Mueller's job is to damage and destroy a President elected by the people. His job is to protect his friend, former FBI director Comey, who used a spurious document, the "Trump Dossier," to conduct an inquiry that has turned up nothing. A former British agent compiled the dossier but the fingerprints of the Russians are all over it.
This document, which guided the FBI investigation, is the ultimate in meddling in America's elections and democratic system, and the media pretend not to recognize it. Instead, the media repeatedly tell us that the Russians wanted to defeat Hillary.
As we said in a previous column, America's elected government is hanging in the balance, and the media are cheering on this spectacle. What should the American people conclude if a "special counsel," with seemingly unlimited resources and power, brings down a President elected by those people?
They should not be blamed for losing faith in the system. They are losing faith now as Washington pursues a phony scandal while the Islamic terrorists strike and kill young innocent teenagers in the heart of the West.
Remember that Americans losing faith in the system was supposed to be one of Russia's objectives. Ironically, the Russia-gate investigation is designed to do just that. We have a government that can't investigate itself.
It looks like the plan is to drag out the Mueller probe for a couple of years, so that the Democratic Party can take back the House of Representatives in 2018 and initiate impeachment proceedings against Trump. The Senate won't convict, but Trump could be forced to step down.
None of this had to happen if America had maintained a free and independent press, willing to subject the FBI to the scrutiny they apply so recklessly and anonymously to Trump.
It is strangely appropriate that FBI apologist Garrett M. Graff wrote a book praising Mueller. He quotes Comey as saying about him, "His gift is that he's decisive without being impulsive. He'll sit, listen, ask questions and make a decision. I didn't realize at the time how rare that is in Washington."
Comey was described by Graff as having worked for "years" alongside Mueller. Yet Mueller is the straight shooter who will get to the bottom of the mess that Comey found himself in and which necessitated his firing?
How can any objective observer conclude anything other than that Trump is right when he says he is the target of a witch hunt?
It's a dishonest press, and it's going to get worse.
So while the special counsel pursues the chimera known as Russia-gate, the Islamic terrorists who killed innocent young girls in Britain now have their sights set on the United States.
Trump's initiatives to protect the American people from such attacks are tied up in the liberal courts.
But Mueller will get his man!
© Cliff Kincaid
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