WHATS THE FUCKING POINT?! EVEN FOX NEWS IS CALLING OUT THE MUELER BIAS AND NOTHING EVER HAPPENS! >bunch of peiple cover up Clinton crimes and lies to Congress Nothing >Trump team does or does not say ANYTHING in the mueller probe and is getting prison time left and right Shit is rigged
>Nearly every Trump campaign associate indicted in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling Russia probe has been charged with making false statements.
>But in a striking contrast, raising questions about a possible double standard, not a single person interviewed during the FBI’s Hillary Clinton email investigation was hit with false statement charges – even though investigators believed some witnesses were untruthful.
>“Somebody needs to be resolving how they exercise discretion, because a whole bunch of people are facing jail time, or flipping in one probe, and the agents openly discussed how other people in the Clinton probe could have been charged with the same offense,” former Justice Department senior official James Trusty told Fox News.
>Of the six Trump campaign associates charged in Mueller’s long investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, five have been charged with violating U.S.C. 1001 — making false statements to FBI agents.
>Those charged include: former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos; former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn; former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen; and former associates of Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort—Alex van der Zwaan and Rick Gates.
>But according to the report released in June by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email investigation, federal prosecutors and FBI agents told the independent watchdog that witnesses in the probe lied during interviews, but that agents and prosecutors did not pursue false statements charges.
>The report revealed one exchange in February 2016 between an agent and another FBI employee not assigned to the investigation. The employee asked the agent how an interview with an unnamed witness went.
>“Awesome. Lied his ass off. Went from never inside the scif [sensitive compartmented information facility] at res, to looked in when it was being constructed, to removed the trash twice, to troubleshot the secure fax with HRC [Hillary Rodham Clinton] a couple times, to everytime there was a secure fax with HRC. Ridic,” the agent wrote.
>The employee replied: “Wouldn’t it be funny if he was the only guy charged n[sic] this deal?”
>“I know. For 1001 [false statements]. Even if he said the truth and didn’t have a clearance when handling the secure fax—aint noone gonna do s—t,” the agent responded.
>Another message conversation related to charging witnesses included in the report between agents, and reviewed by the inspector general stated: “What we want to do and what we’re going to be allowed to do are two different things.”
>The report specifically referenced former Clinton technology aide PaulCombetta,who allegedly used the computer program “Bleachbit” to destroy thousands of Clinton’s email records, despite an order from Congress to preserve them.
>“With respect to Combetta, we found his actions in deleting Clinton’s emails in violation of a Congressional subpoena and preservation order and then lying about it to the FBI to be particularly serious,” the inspector general wrote, noting that they asked prosecutors why they “chose to grant him immunity instead of charging him with obstruction of justice…or making false statements.”
>The report revealed that the supervisory special agent, or SSA,in the Clinton case told the inspector general that “he believed Combetta should have been charged with false statements for lying multiple times” but also said that Combetta’s “later immunized testimony was truthful and that he was ‘fine’ with the immunity agreement.”
>But Horowitz wrote in the report that he received “mixed testimony” over the potential Combetta charges.
>Horowitz noted that agents on the FBI’s Midyear team, the bureau’s code word for the group of agents assigned to investigate Clinton’s use of a private email server and handling of classified information while secretary of state, decided that giving Combetta immunity was “the most expedient way” to obtain truthful information from him, and felt that prosecuting him would not “serve a federal interest.”
>According to Justice Department policy, government attorneys should recommend federal prosecution if they believe that the person’s conduct constitutes a federal offense, and that the evidence would be sufficient to obtain a conviction unless “the prosecution would serve no federal interest; the person is subject to effective prosecution in another jurisdiction; or there exists an adequate non-criminal alternative to prosecution.”
>“Saying it’s not a federal interest is pure fluff. It’s a circular argument,” Trusty,now white-collar criminal defense attorney with Ifrah Law,said.“We as the feds don’t have a federal interest? They were in the middle of a high-profile federal investigation.”
>Horowitz wrote that prosecutors believed immunity was the best option, noting that a truthful Combetta testimony about the deletion of Clinton’s emails was essential to the investigation.
>The inspector general ultimately found “no evidence that the conclusions by the prosecutors were affected by bias or other improper considerations.”
>But Trusty questioned the principle guiding how and when to pursue false statements charges, specifically in the context of the Mueller investigation.
>“Why is there a ‘federal interest’ in Papadopoulos and Flynn and everyone associated with the Russia investigation, but nobody in the Hillary probe?” Trusty asked. “It’s a very legitimate question at this point—why are they taking radically different approaches to the lower subjects in cases for one investigation versus another?”
>Flynn pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his communications with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Last week, Mueller filed a memorandum recommending a lenient sentence for him, with the possibility of no prison time, stating Flynn has offered “substantial” help to the special counsel about “several ongoing investigations,” signaling the former national security adviser’s level of cooperation throughout the probe.
>Meanwhile, Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty last year to making false statements and materially false omissions to federal investigators about his meeting with an overseas professor with connections to the Russian government, completed his 14-day prison sentence on Friday. He is also required to pay a fine of $9,500 and complete 200 hours of community service.
>Last month, Cohen, who pleaded guilty in August to multiple tax-related and business charges in a separate criminal investigation led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York, pleaded guilty to making false statements to Congress about the timeline of discussions about an abandoned deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Cohen’s plea agreement with the special counsel made clear that as part of the deal, Cohen would cooperate with Mueller’s team on “any and all matters” deemed relevant. Despite his cooperation, though, federal prosecutors on Friday stated that Cohen deserved a “substantial term of imprisonment,” and argued that Cohen’s efforts to cooperate with the special counsel were “overstated.”
>Van der Zwaan, who was an associate of Manafort, pleaded guilty to making false statements earlier this year and was sentenced in April to serve 30 days in prison. He was required to also pay a $20,000 fine.
>The special counsel’s office declined to comment on charging decisions.
>Trusty said that guilty pleas related to false statements “does not suggest a particularly successful investigation.”
>“It doesn’t suggest to me that they’re making a lot of headway on the substance of their investigation, which is Russian collusion,” Trusty said. “As an ex-prosecutor, false statements are a very distant second place.”
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Shit is fucking rigged and shills will ignore this thread. Fox actually did a really great and detailed article and you fucks are making twitter posts of e-celebs
As as Former Trump supporter, but seriously, I still am.
Brody Carter
what part of fucking Mueller works for Trump do you idiots not understand? There's no evidence. Trump is not being investigated for any crime. And yet this thing goes on for 2 years, and all they have are "false statements" and "internet trolls."
Trump owns Mueller.
Michael James
I cant believe this theory, read the article I posted and you will see Mueller is here to clean up the mess Obama and Hillary left. Dan Bongino talks about this flawlessly.
Mueller is a threat
Samuel Kelly
Gettin real tired of your shit, /leftypol/
Hudson Brooks
>WHATS THE FUCKING POINT?! I stopped reading there. The Clintons have dedicated their life to the US and the politics of the US to improve. Trump has spent his life taking advantage of Americans and helping Russians.
Elijah Hernandez
Yeah, it's an obvious sham. But he did condemn and let the DOJ put lethal injection on the table for an innocent guy fleeing a mob of anti-white communists in his car... so it's hard to care if he gets fucked too. The new NAFTA is shit, there is no major change in immigration, and right of center thought is still grounds to end the livelihood of anyone. Whatever base of support the guy had is near depleted so he better get his shit together and fast.
>Mueller is a threat >cleaning out the swamp It'll be over for the Dems soon
Gavin Ward
They are spreading like a disease, during the day this place sometimes looks loke r/politics
Liam Myers
i don't give a single fuck about any of this. the issue at hand is that we're two years in and prison reform is more likely than even a fifth of the funding for the wall.
Nicholas Jenkins
Ignore my comments and read the article. This shit is so stacked agaimst Trump it is unreal, fox did good on this article.
Christian Rivera
>The Clintons have dedicated their life to gaming the system and outright scamming, in addition to committing and covering up pedophilia and rape.
>But according to the report released in June by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email investigation, federal prosecutors and FBI agents told the independent watchdog that witnesses in the probe lied during interviews, but that agents and prosecutors did not pursue false statements charges DELET THIS
Carter Cox
Former shill here, we're fucked! Trump wins again.
Carter Rivera
No, that's not a serious question. If you were serious, you would've done the most cursory amount of research.
Luis Gomez
>Alex van der Zwaan what the fuck are windmill niggers doing in and around the halls of my government
Isaiah Green
Lol. Did you honestly think a solution other than violence has existed for decades now?
Be ready to kill and soon, or be resigned to the fate of white people: genocide.
The reason this investigation has gone on for 2 years is because every time they research something about Trump, they find crimes done by Democrats and RINO faggots. All of the "false statements" are things that they refuse to believe. Hillary Clinton is a billionaire elite and people that find dirt on her tend to fucking die. Mueller is walking a minefield and he's not willing to take actual risks.
Why did he lock up people then? He's been in bed with the deep state for a while now
Sebastian Fisher
I just want some backup. I’d join even a suicidal, small scale RWDS in a heartbeat. Waiting to kill my enemies is pretty much all I have to live for anymore. It’s just a matter of time.
Anthony Lee
And what are you going to do about it, faggot? Absolutely nothing. Deal with it.
Matthew Taylor
cool. i have a family.
Parker Gray
Because the whole point of the investigation is not to find any form of collusion between Trump and Russia, but to cover the tracks of the Clinton campaign
in Democratic countries, crimes are investigated not people, Mueller is investigating Trump, not crimes
the United States are lawless
kick the United States out of the Americas
Jack Bailey
Is it true? Do leftypol really spread disinformation here in an attempt to subvert us in the meme war in hopes they will one day get like 6k in universal basic income a year to spend on tendies and anime ? Cause that would be fucking pathetic desu family baka
Leo Allen
if you're distracted by this you don't have prying eyes. which would explain basically all right wing media being distracted by this.
Adrian Sanders
Fox News is trash and the Mueller probe is a political weapon against Trump and his administration. The Mueller probe exist to cast a shadow over the Trump administration and Trump is allowing it to continue.
Carson Garcia
6k in Pakistan goes a looooong way leaf.
Wyatt Jones
The salt mines on the right are operating at full capacity.
Tired of winning yet?
Charles Kelly
Be prepared for GOP probes against Dems going forward.
Josiah Rivera
>the most damning thing Mueller has found is a hush payment to a mistress which is not illegal and was deemed not a campaign contribution 20 years ago and has been precedent ever since
The real question is, when no crime was committed, why is Mueller divulging information that harms the executive's reputation and why is he allowed to scare people out of working for his cabinet? Mueller is committing treason in this way, weakening the United States to foreign and domestic enemies, directly hunting against the president and seething with rage to the point that he's airing out anything he can that might embarrass the president and then somehow acting like that merits his witch hunt. Mueller has done more to damage the United States than any enemy in the world, in the last two years. Since when and why does the deepstate get to attack presidents it doesn't like for the duration of their term?
