Still rotting at the head

So here we go — bigly, again; yet more evidence that those smocking liars at Justice have been complicit with Trump in explaining the oranges of U.S.-Russia collusion. (Under the Bush II administration, it would have gone nucular.)

The Washington Post's top story Tuesday reveals that in response to Attorney General William Barr's godawful four-page abstract on "this Russia thing," the special counsel wrote a deeply disgruntled letter to the A.G., describing Barr's "principal conclusions" of the investigation as failing to "fully capture the context, nature, and substance' of Mueller’s work."

In other, briefer, more comprehensible words, Mueller called Barr just another Trumpian liar.

Continued Mueller: "There is now public confusion … [that] threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations." Two years of Mueller's honest work damaged if not destroyed by another of Trump's corrupt, dishonest appointees .

Notes the Post: "Justice Department officials said Tuesday they were taken aback by the tone of Mueller’s letter." Bullshit. Mind-reading isn't required to virtually know that Boy Scout Bob Mueller would somehow publicly suggest that Barr was battling Trump for the "Con Artist of the Year" award. (Sorry, Mr. Attorney General. You're battling the best of 'em.) 

It's reported that Mueller originally agreed with Barr that media coverage of the AG's s summary was biased against the summary. Here, we should recall the earlier-quoted passage: "Justice Department officials said Tuesday that they were taken aback by the tone of Mueller’s letter" (italics mine) — which suggests there was more than Mueller's quite unlikely unhappiness with the media, that Mueller's disquiet was, instead, almost certainly pointed toward Barr.

Also reported is that "A day after the letter was sent, Barr and Mueller spoke by phone for about 15 minutes…. In that call, Mueller said he was concerned that news coverage of the obstruction investigation was misguided and creating public misunderstandings about the office’s work" — again, "according to Justice Department officials." There is a congruity here that nevertheless doesn't square. Someone is lying. And I'd not put my money on Mueller.

Lies, lies, and more lies. If any Trump employee ever possessed even a dram of dignity, he or she has long since lost it. Simply being around that much corruption is bound to doom one's decency.

Comments

[AnneJ]

Barr actively sought out the corruption. He straight up wanted this.

[Whitewall]

Of course Barr’s letter didn’t “fully capture” the report, it was just a summary of the ultimate findings. Does Mueller need to be reminded that this report didn’t need to see the light of day, the statute only requires the special counsel turn a report over to the attorney general. The AG didn’t have to release it at all, Barr could have announced the report brought no charges on collusion/conspiracy and no charges on obstruction and be done with it. So why Mueller is concerned about the ‘full context’ suggests he has another motive that his report wasn’t playing as planned.

Keep shaking those empty boxes of impeachable toys. Some media won Pulitzers over "reporting" on this attempted coup. Face has to now be saved. The WH Correspondents gathering was a prime example of a troubled industry struggling to wash itself of their own dirt.

Counter investigations are beginning into the origins of this Collusion hoax. Certain people should be nervous.

[Max]

More piss-feeble excuses for this two-bit thug, crime boss and Russian traitor.

[Peter G]

Say, whatever happened to Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell? Sure Whitewall, Barr could have just said Mueller's report said whatever he wanted it to say. And hoped no one was ever going to question that. So why didn't he do that?

Wait a minute! That is exactly what Barr did, with very predictable consequences. So if it exonerates Trump then why bury it? Who needed it not to see the light of day?

[Max]

Recall in "Animal House" how the sheep went from bleating "Four legs good. Two legs bad," to, right on cue, "Four legs good. Two legs BETTER!"

[Max]

"Animal Farm" The former was more fun, though.

[Peter G]

Oddly something our friend said did remind me of Bluto's speech in Animal House.

[Max]

"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!? Hell no!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acSPCEHejGY