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If Mueller was as close with Trump as he is with Comey
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What we really need is someone that the ruler can trust, someone that has his interest @ heart & we gotta keep firing ppl till we get one...
I'm sure this is what you folks voted for, isn't it???
He'll fire Mueller and find a way to name unethical Marc Kasowitz as SP.
Sorry, the "best friends" thing doesn't meet the legal test.
http://www.snopes.com/comey-mueller-besties/
GazzaQueen
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WHAT'S FALSE
Comey's attorney says they are not "best friends", and government ethics experts say the relationship doesn't rise to the level of an illegal conflict in relation to the investigation in any case.
Comey's attorney and unnamed "ethics experts" say it doesn't matter. According to a website.
No wonder you people can't win an election to save your lives.
ya. it does..Snopes is ridicuosly partisan with it's claims "well they are not best friends".
Nobody said they are, but they are more then just co-workers..
Comey DOES have a stake in the game ( unlike the Snopes assertion) it's clear Comey has a YUGE interest
in his public persona perception.
Lastly we are talking about a SpecialProsecutor with unbounded power.
If nothing else even the appearance of impropriety is to be avoided
WHAT'S FALSE
Comey's attorney says they are not "best friends", and government ethics experts say the relationship doesn't rise to the level of an illegal conflict in relation to the investigation in any case.
ORIGIN
On 12 June 2017, Breitbart.com published a story reporting that former Assistant FBI Director James Kallstrom had told them that fired Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey is “best friends” with Robert Mueller, a former Bureau director who has been appointed special counsel to lead an investigation into alleged collusion between Russia and the campaign of President Donald Trump. Further, he reportedly told them, that relationship presents a conflict of interest which is hampering the Russia probe:
Bob Mueller and Jim Comey are the best of friends and have been for over two decades. How do you appoint a special counsel who is a longtime friend? It’s a massive conflict of interest.
Breitbart also cited a piece written by journalist Garrett Graff in Politico magazine, in which Graff describes the pair’s working relationship:
While Mueller technically reported to Comey as deputy attorney general, Comey, two decades his junior, treated Mueller as a close friend and almost mentor. The men had known each other for years as each rose into the small, elite fraternity of prosecutors at the top of the Justice Department
As to Kallstrom’s comment, it should be clarified: Comey didn’t appoint Mueller — he had been fired by the time Mueller was brought on board by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
We spoke to Comey’s attorney, who said the extent of the friendship between the two men has been exaggerated. We also consulted experts about whether a past friendship could present a perception of a current conflict. As the term “perception” implies, the answer to that question is subjective.
David Kelley, Comey’s attorney, said the idea that Comey is “best friends” with Mueller is an overstatement. He said the two have a genial relationship as former colleagues — both men have long legal careers that involve overlapping time spent working within the Department of Justice. Their history is even well-documented by the news media. But Kelley pointed out they are not close personal friends:
Jim and Bob are friends in the sense that co-workers are friends. They don’t really have a personal relationship. Jim has never been to Bob’s house and Bob has never been to Jim’s house. … They’ve had lunch together once, dinner together twice, once with their spouses and once after Jim became FBI director so Bob could give him a run-down on what to look out for. [Bob] is not a mentor. He’s friendly, as colleagues are.
http://www.snopes.com/comey-mueller-besties/
Comey's attorney says they are not "best friends", and government ethics experts say the relationship doesn't rise to the level of an illegal conflict in relation to the investigation in any case.
ORIGIN
On 12 June 2017, Breitbart.com published a story reporting that former Assistant FBI Director James Kallstrom had told them that fired Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey is “best friends” with Robert Mueller, a former Bureau director who has been appointed special counsel to lead an investigation into alleged collusion between Russia and the campaign of President Donald Trump. Further, he reportedly told them, that relationship presents a conflict of interest which is hampering the Russia probe:
Bob Mueller and Jim Comey are the best of friends and have been for over two decades. How do you appoint a special counsel who is a longtime friend? It’s a massive conflict of interest.
Breitbart also cited a piece written by journalist Garrett Graff in Politico magazine, in which Graff describes the pair’s working relationship:
While Mueller technically reported to Comey as deputy attorney general, Comey, two decades his junior, treated Mueller as a close friend and almost mentor. The men had known each other for years as each rose into the small, elite fraternity of prosecutors at the top of the Justice Department
As to Kallstrom’s comment, it should be clarified: Comey didn’t appoint Mueller — he had been fired by the time Mueller was brought on board by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
We spoke to Comey’s attorney, who said the extent of the friendship between the two men has been exaggerated. We also consulted experts about whether a past friendship could present a perception of a current conflict. As the term “perception” implies, the answer to that question is subjective.
David Kelley, Comey’s attorney, said the idea that Comey is “best friends” with Mueller is an overstatement. He said the two have a genial relationship as former colleagues — both men have long legal careers that involve overlapping time spent working within the Department of Justice. Their history is even well-documented by the news media. But Kelley pointed out they are not close personal friends:
Jim and Bob are friends in the sense that co-workers are friends. They don’t really have a personal relationship. Jim has never been to Bob’s house and Bob has never been to Jim’s house. … They’ve had lunch together once, dinner together twice, once with their spouses and once after Jim became FBI director so Bob could give him a run-down on what to look out for. [Bob] is not a mentor. He’s friendly, as colleagues are.
http://www.snopes.com/comey-mueller-besties/
I'll take the word of legal and ethics experts over Breitbart.
"Friendship or no, a pre-existing relationship doesn’t mean that Mueller’s role in the investigation rises to the level of a legal conflict of interest that would require recusal, said Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist for the accountability and transparency lobbying organization Public Citizen:
Conflict of interest means there’s some financial or pecuniary benefit that could come one’s way [as a result of an investigation]. For example, If I had worked at a business and business has something at stake, that’s a conflict. But just people being friends and knowing each other, that’s not a conflict."
GazzaQueen
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Comey's attorney and unnamed "ethics experts" say it doesn't matter. According to a website.
No wonder those people can't win an election to save their lives.
Who's the unnamed Breitbart expert that decided there's a conflict of interest?
No wonder you chumps can't offer an indisputable defense of trump to save your lives.
Btw, there are no unnamed ethics experts in the article, which you obviously didn't read.
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GazzaQueen
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No one has to defend the POTUS. He won. You lost. Get over it already sheesh.
Maybe the POTUS will appoint his son in law as SP to investigate Mueller's investigation. It's OK because they're not best friends.
"No one" has to defend the POTUS, is that the new talking point? Greater legal minds than yours see it differently.
Maybe Y O U should offer to defend him of all the allegations.
Btw, it has nothing to do with winning or losing even though you are all working tirelessly to make it seem that way.
GazzaQueen
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"No one" has to defend the POTUS, is that the new talking point? Greater legal minds than yours see it differently.
Maybe Y O U should offer to defend him of all the allegations.
Btw, it has nothing to do with winning or losing even though you are all working tirelessly to make it seem that way.
He won. You lost. I see you're having lots of trouble getting over it. You're not alone, dear.
This from a moron who believes the constant drum beat of "The RUSSIANS!" isn't horseshit.
Go back to your bong dumbass and stop polluting the forum with your puerile stupidity.
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What we really need is someone that the ruler can trust, someone that has his interest @ heart & we gotta keep firing ppl till we get one...
I'm sure this is what you folks voted for, isn't it???
Do you think "folks" think liberal mockery of their voting choices and election process is what they want?
Dunce.
Still clueless eh? No surprise there.
GazzaQueen
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Comey's meeting with Lynch regarding election influencing is a matter of investigation.
^Too stupid to comprehend irony.
lol
You fucking morons can't deal with reality. That's why you fucking idiots have to concoct your "if/would" worlds. Guess what, cockbite? "If/would" has never happened. But, keep flailing in your make believe universe, bitch. It's amusing.