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Top Mueller prosecutor: DOJ starting new investigation into James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Peter Strzok
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Leroy N. Soetoro
Feb 16, 2020, 4:36:46 PM2/16/20
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starting-new-investigation-into-james-comey-andrew-mccabe-and-peter-strzok
One of Robert Mueller's former top prosecutors said the outside prosecutor
picked to review the case against retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is a ruse
to investigate President Trump's perceived enemies.
Andrew Weissmann, a former Justice Department official who was known as
Mueller's "pit bull" during the Russia investigation, said the Justice
Department swapped out the "loser case" of Andrew McCabe, who escaped
criminal charges on Friday for allegedly lying to investigators about
authorizing media disclosures, for a fresh one targeting top former FBI
officials, including McCabe, led by Jeffrey Jensen, the U.S. attorney for
the Eastern District of Missouri.
"All they did was swapped out a loser case for starting an investigation
that is going to be of Comey, McCabe, Pete Strzok," Weissmann told MSNBC
host Chuck Todd.
All three officials were involved in the investigation into the Trump 2016
campaign's alleged ties to Russia, which Trump and his allies have called
a "witch hunt." Mueller, who took over the inquiry after FBI Director
James Comey was fired in May 2017, found no criminal conspiracy when the
investigation ended last year.
Attorney General William Barr picked Jensen, the top federal prosecutor in
St. Louis, to work alongside the Flynn case's lead prosecutor Brandon Van
Grack one month after the former Trump national security adviser filed to
withdraw his guilty plea in Mueller's investigation.
Weissmann, now an NBC News legal analyst, has defended the FBI while
raising concerns about Barr, who faced criticism this week after he
intervened in the case of Roger Stone, another Trump associate caught up
in Mueller's investigation. Barr is also under intense scrutiny for U.S.
Attorney John Durham's inquiry into the origins of the Russia
investigation, which critics claim is meant to discredit Mueller's work.
He said Jensen's appointment was "interesting" considering that the judge
presiding over the Flynn case rejected claims that Flynn was set up by the
FBI after seeing the facts about the underlying investigation. Flynn
pleaded guilty in 2017 for lying to investigators about his conversations
with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak regarding U.S. sanctions and a
United Nations Security Council vote.
"What I would love to know is what the factual predicate, given that Judge
Sullivan has found nothing there," Weissmann said.
--
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
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. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump has boosted the economy, reduced illegal immigration,
appointed dozens of judges and created jobs.
Sore loser and NAMBLA supporter Nancy Pelosi just pulled the "Obamacare
switcheroo" on "trumped up" impeachment charges.
starting-new-investigation-into-james-comey-andrew-mccabe-and-peter-strzok
One of Robert Mueller's former top prosecutors said the outside prosecutor
picked to review the case against retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is a ruse
to investigate President Trump's perceived enemies.
Andrew Weissmann, a former Justice Department official who was known as
Mueller's "pit bull" during the Russia investigation, said the Justice
Department swapped out the "loser case" of Andrew McCabe, who escaped
criminal charges on Friday for allegedly lying to investigators about
authorizing media disclosures, for a fresh one targeting top former FBI
officials, including McCabe, led by Jeffrey Jensen, the U.S. attorney for
the Eastern District of Missouri.
"All they did was swapped out a loser case for starting an investigation
that is going to be of Comey, McCabe, Pete Strzok," Weissmann told MSNBC
host Chuck Todd.
All three officials were involved in the investigation into the Trump 2016
campaign's alleged ties to Russia, which Trump and his allies have called
a "witch hunt." Mueller, who took over the inquiry after FBI Director
James Comey was fired in May 2017, found no criminal conspiracy when the
investigation ended last year.
Attorney General William Barr picked Jensen, the top federal prosecutor in
St. Louis, to work alongside the Flynn case's lead prosecutor Brandon Van
Grack one month after the former Trump national security adviser filed to
withdraw his guilty plea in Mueller's investigation.
Weissmann, now an NBC News legal analyst, has defended the FBI while
raising concerns about Barr, who faced criticism this week after he
intervened in the case of Roger Stone, another Trump associate caught up
in Mueller's investigation. Barr is also under intense scrutiny for U.S.
Attorney John Durham's inquiry into the origins of the Russia
investigation, which critics claim is meant to discredit Mueller's work.
He said Jensen's appointment was "interesting" considering that the judge
presiding over the Flynn case rejected claims that Flynn was set up by the
FBI after seeing the facts about the underlying investigation. Flynn
pleaded guilty in 2017 for lying to investigators about his conversations
with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak regarding U.S. sanctions and a
United Nations Security Council vote.
"What I would love to know is what the factual predicate, given that Judge
Sullivan has found nothing there," Weissmann said.
--
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
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. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump has boosted the economy, reduced illegal immigration,
appointed dozens of judges and created jobs.
Sore loser and NAMBLA supporter Nancy Pelosi just pulled the "Obamacare
switcheroo" on "trumped up" impeachment charges.
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