After getting dissed by Barr, will Mueller man up? (Maureen Dowd)

[dukkha]

Sorry, James Comey. You’re wrong again.

Donald Trump does not eat “your soul in small bites,” as you wrote in a Times Op-Ed.
He devours the entire thing in one big gulp.

The transformation of William Barr from respected establishment lawyer to evil genius outplaying and undermining his old friend Robert Mueller is a Grand Guignol spectacle.

Comey also got tangled up on the issue of fairness, with disastrous results. Afraid that he would be blamed if it was discovered that the F.B.I. had been secretly investigating the woman expected to be the next president, the then-F. B.I. chief violated his own agency’s norms to announce that he was reopening the inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s emails on the cusp of the election.

But he did not tell the public that the F.B.I. was also looking into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. As The Times has now revealed, the F.B.I. was worried enough to set up a honey trap, sending a comely government investigator posing as a research assistant to draw out George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign adviser, in a London bar.

President Obama got similarly wrapped around the axle when he stayed mum on his administration’s investigation into Russia’s sabotage. Obama choked after the diabolical Mitch McConnell warned the White House that, if it went through with a plan to publicly shame Moscow, he would regard that as a partisan act.

And finally, we have the unfortunate Robert Mueller, who took a tortuous route to decide not to decide on obstruction of justice. Like Comey, Mueller believed in his own purity so much that he was blinded to his naïveté.

Barr helped the White House by outmaneuvering the mute special counsel in shaping the narrative about “my baby,’’ as the attorney general called Mueller’s report.
Barr ground his wingtip into Mueller’s throat on Wednesday during his Senate testimony.
He spoke of Mueller dismissively, like an errant errand boy who threw a silly snit after failing to complete the task he was given.

Mueller’s trust in Barr led him to miss the moment when Trump gobbled up the attorney general’s soul like a midnight snack — in one bite.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/o...gtype=Homepage

[Darth Omar]

Sorry, James Comey. You’re wrong again.

Donald Trump does not eat “your soul in small bites,” as you wrote in a Times Op-Ed.
He devours the entire thing in one big gulp.

The transformation of William Barr from respected establishment lawyer to evil genius outplaying and undermining his old friend Robert Mueller is a Grand Guignol spectacle.

Comey also got tangled up on the issue of fairness, with disastrous results. Afraid that he would be blamed if it was discovered that the F.B.I. had been secretly investigating the woman expected to be the next president, the then-F. B.I. chief violated his own agency’s norms to announce that he was reopening the inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s emails on the cusp of the election.

But he did not tell the public that the F.B.I. was also looking into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. As The Times has now revealed, the F.B.I. was worried enough to set up a honey trap, sending a comely government investigator posing as a research assistant to draw out George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign adviser, in a London bar.

President Obama got similarly wrapped around the axle when he stayed mum on his administration’s investigation into Russia’s sabotage. Obama choked after the diabolical Mitch McConnell warned the White House that, if it went through with a plan to publicly shame Moscow, he would regard that as a partisan act.

And finally, we have the unfortunate Robert Mueller, who took a tortuous route to decide not to decide on obstruction of justice. Like Comey, Mueller believed in his own purity so much that he was blinded to his naïveté.

Barr helped the White House by outmaneuvering the mute special counsel in shaping the narrative about “my baby,’’ as the attorney general called Mueller’s report.
Barr ground his wingtip into Mueller’s throat on Wednesday during his Senate testimony.
He spoke of Mueller dismissively, like an errant errand boy who threw a silly snit after failing to complete the task he was given.

Mueller’s trust in Barr led him to miss the moment when Trump gobbled up the attorney general’s soul like a midnight snack — in one bite.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/o...gtype=Homepage

Now that’s a screed lol.

A ‘tortuous route to punting on obstruction’—well put, Maureen-Dowd. That’s the kernel of truth in her screed.

Funny, no mention of the facts that would contradict an obstruction charge. It’s easy for Dowd to play Monday morning QB on it. More telling though, is not a single word about how the pre-Mullet phase of the investigation was being run out of the 7th Floor—and that no one seems to know if anyone higher up on the chain of command was aware that a presidential campaign was being spied on.

As Barr so aptly put it ‘that’s kind of a big deal’. A much bigger deal than tortuously arrived at non-exonerations.

Much bigger deal.

[canceled.2021.2]

What did Obama know and when did he know it?

[Darth Omar]

What did Obama know and when did he know it?

Was it Susan Rice that wrote the email about ‘things being done by the book’—to herself, in the last days of the Obama reign?

[Getin the ring]

Democrats better come up with distraction, that's all this latest push to harass Barr is.

Look over here, don't pay attention to the FISA talk, hey HEY, over here

[canceled.2021.2]

Was it Susan Rice that wrote the email about ‘things being done by the book’—to herself, in the last days of the Obama reign?

It was

[Darth Omar]

It was

And that email will be cited as ‘evidence’ that everything was kosher lol.

[Stretch]

Was it Susan Rice that wrote the email about ‘things being done by the book’—to herself, in the last days of the Obama reign?

Yes. But, what book? Rules For Radicals?

[Stretch]

And that email will be cited as ‘evidence’ that everything was kosher lol.

And, it's evidence that Bama was involved. Suuuweeeeeet!

[reagansghost]

hmmmm, wonder if any of these red necks or Russian trolls have ever dissed Putin?

anyone seen this happen, even once?

[Darth Omar]

hmmmm, wonder if any of these red necks or Russian trolls have ever dissed Putin?

anyone seen this happen, even once?

Would it matter if we did lol?

[dukkha]

Now that’s a screed lol.

A ‘tortuous route to punting on obstruction’—well put, Maureen-Dowd. That’s the kernel of truth in her screed.

it's more then a kernal, it's how Mueller ran his investigation

I like this one too: lol


Barr ground his wingtip into Mueller’s throat on Wednesday during his Senate testimony.
He spoke of Mueller dismissively, like an errant errand boy who threw a silly snit after failing to complete the task he was given.

[Darth Omar]

it's more then a kernal, it's how Mueller ran his investigation

I like this one too: lol


Barr ground his wingtip into Mueller’s throat on Wednesday during his Senate testimony.
He spoke of Mueller dismissively, like an errant errand boy who threw a silly snit after failing to complete the task he was given.

I was using the metaphor ‘punting on obstruction’ before Dowd lol.

Lefties still insist that Mullet *was forced to* by DOJ regulations. Which is a joke since Mullet and his crew have been running roughshod over regulations since the whole thing started

[dukkha]

I was using the metaphor ‘punting on obstruction’ before Dowd lol.

Lefties still insist that Mullet *was forced to* by DOJ regulations. Which is a joke since Mullet and his crew have been running roughshod over regulations since the whole thing started

your writing is good. entertaining and on point.