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Facing humiliation, Mueller backs away from prosecution of Russian entities.
Quote:The Mueller special counsel investigation purportedly was instigated to discover possible illicit Russian influence on the 2016 presidential election but now is backing away from the only indictments aimed at Russian entities, leaving only alleged process crimes (such as General Flynn's alleged false statement to the FBI) and alleged crimes that occurred long before the Trump candidacy (such as Paul Manafort's Ukrainian connection).

In a pair of court filings Friday, the special counsel added four assistant U.S. attorneys to the case against Russian entities and people accused of running an online influence operation targeting American voters.

People familiar with the staffing decision said the new prosecutors are not joining Mueller's team, but rather are being added to the case so that they could someday take responsibility for it when the special counsel ceases operation. The case those prosecutors are joining could drag on for years because the indictment charges a number of Russians who will probably never see the inside of a U.S. courtroom. Russia does not extradite its citizens.

What on Earth could cause a prosecutor to walk away from his central mission to focus instead on incidental and tangential matters? Barrett's use of the words "take responsibility" for the case is the answer. Though not a word of it appears in Barrett's article, the prosecution of the Russian entities has already turned into a farce, as Mueller is caught in a trap of his own making with the hasty indictments of entities he never expected to defend themselves.

Richard Pollock of the Daily Caller News Foundation reports:

Special Counsel Robert Mueller asked a federal judge Tuesday to reject the four-decade-old speedy trial law in the case against 13 Russians and three Russian companies and has asked for an indefinite delay to the Russian collusion trial.

It is the second time Mueller tried to delay the trial. Judge Dabney L. Friedrich, a Trump appointee, rejected the earlier request without comment and ordered the case to go forward.

The "complexity" of the case warrants excluding the speedy trial law and delaying the trial, Mueller argued in Tuesday's court filing.

A "district court can, on its own motion or at the request of a party, grant an excludable continuance if 'the ends of justice served by taking such action outweigh the best interest of the public and the defendant in a speedy trial,'" Mueller wrote.

Andrew McCarthy, who is a brilliant and distinguished attorney and ex-federal prosecutor, agrees with my less well informed opinion that it is too late to make the complexity excuse. He adds an important note about whose rights would be violated:

"Speedy trial rights belong to the defendant, and if the defendant pushes for a trial within the 70 days, the government has little cause to complain," McCarthy said. "If the case was too complex, the government had the option of holding off on seeking an indictment until it was ready to proceed to trial. When a prosecutor files an indictment, it is tantamount to saying, 'We are ready to go.'"

It is hard to see how this case will end up as anything but a humiliation in court and a gigantic public relations disaster for Mueller and his merry band of Democratic Party donors.

After ignoring this elephant in the bathtub, Barrett draws no conclusion about the embarrassment factor, but rather points in another direction:

The development suggests Mueller is contemplating the end of his work and farming out any potentially outstanding prosecutions to other parts of the Justice Department.

Have you ever heard of anyone "farming out" the central mission of a multi-million-dollar operation in order to focus on tangents? Even though the Trump-hating media will refuse to mention it, this move is a confession that Mueller is cutting his losses and leaving others to take the blame when the case collapses.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/201...ities.html

Poor Bueller. He's feeling like this guy.

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So Mueller had his bluff called, was unprepared and is dumping it off? Did I read that right.

Lmao. What a clown
06-23-2018 10:48 PM
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I'll wager this has been known behind the scenes in DC for some time now. Think it's a coincidence that the DEMS are going all in with the immigration issue before the midterm elections? Mueller has lost everything including his reputation. An absolute farce and waste of taxpayer dollars. This "investigation" is a gift that will keep on giving to the POTUS. What? Do you hear that? Someone flushed a toilet...
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RE: Facing humiliation, Mueller backs away from prosecution of Russian entities.
(06-23-2018 10:48 PM)shere khan Wrote:  So Mueller had his bluff called, was unprepared and is dumping it off? Did I read that right.

Lmao. What a clown

This past week Bueller asked a second time for a delay.

Quote:Special Counsel Robert Mueller asked a federal judge Tuesday to reject the four-decade-old speedy trial law in the case against 13 Russians and three Russian companies and has asked for an indefinite delay to the Russian collusion trial.

It is the second time Mueller tried to delay the trial. Judge Dabney L. Friedrich, a Trump appointee, rejected the earlier request without comment and ordered the case to go forward.

The "complexity" of the case warrants excluding the speedy trial law and delaying the trial, Mueller argued in Tuesday's court filing.

The four attorneys who were added aren't joining Team Bueller, they're being set up to take the fall when the case collapses.

Quote:The development suggests Mueller is contemplating the end of his work and farming out any potentially outstanding prosecutions to other parts of the Justice Department.

The IG's report on the Crossfire Witch Hunt Investigation may be the final nail in the coffin.
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RE: Facing humiliation, Mueller backs away from prosecution of Russian entities.
The indictments of the Russians and of the Russian-controlled corporations was announced on February 16. If — repeating, *IF*, because it hasn’t happened yet — the Special Counsel or his team shows up in court more than four months later and says they are dismissing the charges because the case — *their own case* — is too complicated, they will become an immediate laughingstock with everyone this side of MSNBC and “The View”. Humiliation is really too mild of a word to describe the fall-out, if that were to happen. So for now, I still doubt that it will happen.
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Word on the street is a documentary film is in the works. It's tentatively named "The Three Pendehos."

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McCabe needs to sue for royalties if he gets left out of that one.
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(06-23-2018 10:59 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  I'll wager this has been known behind the scenes in DC for some time now. Think it's a coincidence that the DEMS are going all in with the immigration issue before the midterm elections? Mueller has lost everything including his reputation. An absolute farce and waste of taxpayer dollars. This "investigation" is a gift that will keep on giving to the POTUS. What? Do you hear that? Someone flushed a toilet...

Good point.
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RE: Facing humiliation, Mueller backs away from prosecution of Russian entities.
(06-23-2018 11:11 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  The indictments of the Russians and of the Russian-controlled corporations was announced on February 16. If — repeating, *IF*, because it hasn’t happened yet — the Special Counsel or his team shows up in court more than four months later and says they are dismissing the charges because the case — *their own case* — is too complicated, they will become an immediate laughingstock with everyone this side of MSNBC and “The View”. Humiliation is really too mild of a word to describe the fall-out, if that were to happen. So for now, I still doubt that it will happen.

They certainly haven't asked that the charges be dismissed, but they've now twice argued in front of the presiding judge that the case is too complex to be tried immediately.

As Andrew McCarthy basically said, "dafuq you doin' indicting these guys if you're not ready to go to trial?"

Good question, no?
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Called it.
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RE: Facing humiliation, Mueller backs away from prosecution of Russian entities.
(06-23-2018 11:11 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  The indictments of the Russians and of the Russian-controlled corporations was announced on February 16. If — repeating, *IF*, because it hasn’t happened yet — the Special Counsel or his team shows up in court more than four months later and says they are dismissing the charges because the case — *their own case* — is too complicated, they will become an immediate laughingstock with everyone this side of MSNBC and “The View”. Humiliation is really too mild of a word to describe the fall-out, if that were to happen. So for now, I still doubt that it will happen.

Im sure MS-NoBodyC's will find a way to spin it as Mueller wanting to keep his powder dry for Trump. 03-lmfao
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Facing humiliation, Mueller backs away from prosecution of Russian entities.
(06-23-2018 10:59 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  I'll wager this has been known behind the scenes in DC for some time now. Think it's a coincidence that the DEMS are going all in with the immigration issue before the midterm elections? Mueller has lost everything including his reputation. An absolute farce and waste of taxpayer dollars. This "investigation" is a gift that will keep on giving to the POTUS. What? Do you hear that? Someone flushed a toilet...


Even more amazing,

I’ll wager this was known near precisely, by a bunch of desk jockeys hundreds of miles away, on these very boards, the day or week this utter farce was announced.

Yea, we got it. The fat, despicable, wholly corrupt Cank got that ample pantsuits asss beat. But this?!?

I hope Bueller joins the rest of the dirty dozen in club fed.

Subpoena funday should be entertaining as hell.
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This was a dog and pony show only done to show the public they were doing something. I still say it was to take pressure from the FBI's failure at Parkland.

Team Mueller thought it'd be a slam dunk, nobody would show up to court and that would feed the collusion monster and people get off his back. But what happened was someone called his bluff and he's scrambling because he has dick.

The fact he wants to hand if off shows that he can say, well they had all the evidence to convict nevermind the fact he's refused to turn over the evidence to the defendant and tried everything under the sun to prevent a trial.

If he can't pull off indicting Russian trolls, how's he going to prove collusion/obstruction?
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Facing humiliation, Mueller backs away from prosecution of Russian entities.
(06-23-2018 10:59 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  I'll wager this has been known behind the scenes in DC for some time now. Think it's a coincidence that the DEMS are going all in with the immigration issue before the midterm elections? Mueller has lost everything including his reputation. An absolute farce and waste of taxpayer dollars. This "investigation" is a gift that will keep on giving to the POTUS. What? Do you hear that? Someone flushed a toilet...


New term/phraseology:

Someone flushed a Mueller...

Calling that one for meself!
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(06-24-2018 12:06 AM)TechRocks Wrote:  They certainly haven't asked that the charges be dismissed, but they've now twice argued in front of the presiding judge that the case is too complex to be tried immediately.

And IMO they aren't going to dismiss the charges.

What they will do is string this thing along as long as they can until the judge finally says enough is enough and dismisses the case with prejudice. Then they can play the "The judge did it" defense.
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