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riversedge

(70,242 posts)
Thu Apr 19, 2018, 02:16 PM Apr 2018

Hannity blaming Mueller for one of the FBIs worst scandals-But Fed Judge says he was NOT involved

This could end up being as bad as pizzagate


Smearing Robert Mueller

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/opinion/robert-mueller-smearing-complicit.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

Sean Hannity and others are blaming the special counsel for one of the F.B.I.’s worst scandals. But there is no evidence to back up their charges.

Robert Mueller was a United States attorney in 1996.CreditDennis Cook/Associated Press

By Nancy Gertner

Ms. Gertner is a retired federal judge.

April 18, 2018

Was Robert Mueller, the special counsel, complicit in one of the worst scandals in the F.B.I.’s history — the decades-long wrongful imprisonment of four men for a murder they didn’t commit?

This question, which has been raised before, is being addressed again — this time by some of President Trump’s most ardent supporters on the right, especially Fox News’s Sean Hannity but also Rush Limbaugh and others. My friend Alan Dershowitz, the retired Harvard Law School professor, has also weighed in.

In an April 8 interview with John Catsimatidis on his New York radio show, Mr. Dershowitz asserted that Mr. Mueller was “the guy who kept four innocent people in prison for many years in order to protect the cover of Whitey Bulger as an F.B.I. informer.” Mr. Mueller, he said, was “right at the center of it.” Mr. Bulger was a notorious crime boss in Boston, the head of the Winter Hill Gang, and also a secret source for the F.B.I.

There is no evidence that the assertion is true. I was the federal judge who presided over a successful lawsuit brought against the government by two of those men and the families of the other two, who had died in prison. Based on the voluminous evidence submitted in the trial, and having written a 105-page decision awarding them $101.8 million, I can say without equivocation that Mr. Mueller, who worked in the United States attorney’s office in Boston from 1982 to 1988, including a brief stint as the acting head of the office, had no involvement in that case. He was never even mentioned..
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Hannity blaming Mueller for one of the FBIs worst scandals-But Fed Judge says he was NOT involved (Original Post) riversedge Apr 2018 OP
The first rule of holes Abu Pepe Apr 2018 #1
Mueller should sue exboyfil Apr 2018 #2
Abso-freaking-lutely nolabear Apr 2018 #5
The source of this is an Asshole named Kevin Cullen but his day in the barrel has arrived! populistdriven Apr 2018 #13
There is always the presumption that Hannity is a liar. Sneederbunk Apr 2018 #3
Other Crimes Commited by Comey: Ccarmona Apr 2018 #4
These fake journalists have to be stopped malaise Apr 2018 #6
We need to find a way zipplewrath Apr 2018 #9
Hanntty is not a journalist. He just exposed his iffy credentials by not finding and talking to notdarkyet Apr 2018 #12
If hannity says it is true, it cant be...CANT be Eliot Rosewater Apr 2018 #7
My understanding of that case is that there was one high level rogue Blue_true Apr 2018 #8
Sean's Vanity DFW Apr 2018 #10
Why are you raining facts and truth on little Sean Hannity's parade? marble falls Apr 2018 #11
Hannity is afraid of loosing the tit he hangs on. slater71 Apr 2018 #14
 

Ccarmona

(1,180 posts)
4. Other Crimes Commited by Comey:
Thu Apr 19, 2018, 02:30 PM
Apr 2018

Hindenburg
Titanic
SF Earthquake of 1906
Manson Family Murders
OJ
St Valentines Day Massacre
Lincoln’s Assassination

I could list more, but there’s enough here to “lock him up.”

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
9. We need to find a way
Thu Apr 19, 2018, 03:20 PM
Apr 2018

Libel laws need to be modified so that we can address the willful stupidity and laziness, if not down right deceitful intent of people purporting to be "journalists". I don't claim to know how, be it needs to be done, but it does.

notdarkyet

(2,226 posts)
12. Hanntty is not a journalist. He just exposed his iffy credentials by not finding and talking to
Thu Apr 19, 2018, 05:23 PM
Apr 2018

Sources to back up his news.

God, sitting listening to the announcement on msnbc that Giuliani is joining trumps legal team. He’s talking like he’s going to make dems and reps sing kumbya together and leave trump alone. He’s such a magical person, he can do this.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
8. My understanding of that case is that there was one high level rogue
Thu Apr 19, 2018, 03:03 PM
Apr 2018

agent who lied to higher ups about Bulger, and even doctored evidence. That person was not Mueller.

slater71

(1,153 posts)
14. Hannity is afraid of loosing the tit he hangs on.
Fri Apr 20, 2018, 01:38 PM
Apr 2018

This guy can`t stand to be not important. So he got himself attached to Trump. Now he is important. Fox won`t stop him as long as the money coming in from Hannity outweighs the money that he costs them in lawsuits. Look at O`Reilly. Comey needs to file a lawsuit against Hannity and Fox. The are already fighting one about Hannity running his mouth about the staffer who was shot in DC. Just sayin.

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