LA Times: Mueller's Record Has Lots of Flaws

[mucifer]

But at 73, Mueller's record also shows a man of fallible judgment who can be slow to alter his chosen course. At times, he has intimidated or provoked resentment among subordinates. And his tenacious yet linear approach to evaluating evidence led him to fumble the biggest U.S. terrorism investigation since 9/11.

Mueller led a team of four prosecutors in court when the second trial, with 11 defendants, began in October 1980. But after four months, the jury said it was deadlocked, and the judge declared a mistrial. Mueller decided not to ask for a retrial.

Richard B. Mazer, a defense lawyer at both trials, said the government was unable to prove the Hells Angels was a racketeering enterprise. Key prosecution witnesses, he said, seemed unreliable — especially those granted immunity to testify despite having committed violent crimes themselves.

"They made a mess of it," Mazer recalled. "It was an entirely snitch case. It depended entirely on the quality of snitches."

http://beta.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-mueller-record-20171122-story.html

Oy Vey! I hope this investigative piece from the LA Times doesn't prove to be what's coming for our country.

[spanone]

1. they will do their best to destroy Mueller the closer he gets to trump

[BoneyardDem]

17. "They" are here on DU too.

100's of articles extolling the meticulous, detailed and methodical nature of a Mueller investigation and one article that tries to turn those attributes on its head...and of course gets posted here.

[MFM008]

24. Yup

[Fred Sanders]

25. 37 years I would hazard a guess young Mueller was a tad less experienced than now?

The desperation as RW media coordinate an attack is obvious.

[Iliyah]

2. RWers have taken over the LA times

Stopped reading it, it's trash.

[LenaBaby61]

29. "RWers have taken over the LA times."

Yep ^^^

I had been subscribed to the Times for about 28 years. However, the last 5-6 years there started being more and more right-wingers taking up space there and spewing, so I ditched them.

[dalton99a]

3. There is no agenda behind this article

Not at all

[oasis]

4. Why didn't Rosenstein choose a prosecutor with a perfect record?

"Wrong Way" Mueller dropped the ball 40 years ago.

[Irish_Dem]

15. This is all they have on Mueller? One botched case 40 years ago?

We have all botched up things when we were younger.
That is how we learn to do a better job next time.

[oasis]

21. Mueller had overwhelming support across the board when

he was appointed Special Counsel. Any negative history wasn't worth putting forward at that time. This LA Times article is as weak as it is useless.

[Irish_Dem]

22. His record in Viet Nam told me all I needed to know about the man.

Uncanny sense of outsmarting his enemy.
Totally respect of his troops. Courage, nerves of steel, knows how to survive in
a hostile environment.

[MyOwnPeace]

5. Do you think............

it's possible that the "investigator" has learned a thing or two in the years since?

M A G A = Mueller Ain't Going Away

[Cracklin Charlie]

6. They seem concerned.

Hope it’s not contagious.

Edit: “concerned” in quotation marks that didn’t show up.

[Chasstev365]

7. Yeah? FUCK YOU, Sam Zell!

Billionaire class using the "media" to discredit Mueller!

[dalton99a]

8. +1

[Kaleva]

9. This is the 2nd time this article has been posted here in GD. Ya gotta wonder.

[Eliot Rosewater]

12. Nothing to wonder , for me. I know what is going on.

Same thing with Al Franken, who is a great Senator and guilty solely of taking a single, stupid photograph.

period

[yardwork]

16. It's obvious.

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. I am glad it was posted.

Important to know where the the opposition is coming from.
DU has a wide audience, and most people outside of Cal. are probably not aware of the leanings of state newspapers.

[dembotoz]

10. What might be similar is the complete lack of moral character

Of those investigated and charged

[Billb93]

11. LA Times

Part of Murdock's empire.

[Roland99]

13. Right wing attacks on Mueller himself. We all knew it was coming

Smell the desperation?

[Irish_Dem]

14. Mueller has probably been expecting it...... nt

[Cicada]

18. Prosecutors are often creeps, why not Mueller? Trump should worry.

I can easily believe Mueller has been over zealous, oppressive, cold blooded, flawed. Prosecutors have so much power it’s not hard for them to abuse it. What’s to stop abuse? Nothing, really. And Lord Acton had it right when he said power corrupts. But that just makes Mueller even scarier for Trump figures.

The big issue is whether witnesses forced to rat out superiors tell lies to make their proffered testimony more valuable, to make it more likely to lead to leniency. We have to watch out for that.

[gratuitous]

19. Yes, lots of flaws in that 1980 trial (!)

And Mueller's investigating a faultless man of sterling character, a man whose public record is one of unbroken service and regard for others before himself, who has surrounded himself with only the best, most knowledgeable staff.

LA Times: Give me a fucking break, here. What bullshit be this?

[still_one]

20. what a bullshit hit piece. That someone decides to impugn the capabilities of an on-going

investigation, by citing an unrelated case is garbage

[Sneederbunk]

26. Et tu LA Times?

[Tatiana]

27. Interesting.

Had to reach all the way back to 1980 for something to smear him with.

Thanks, but I'm going to stick by Mueller for the time being. He has assembled possibly one of the strongest prosecutorial teams in American history. If his decision-making was lacking in any way, he has very good counsel to keep things moving in the right direction.

[GallopingGhost]

28. Good.

Let them continue to dismiss Mueller. Won't do any good in the minds of thinking Americans, and they'll look all the more foolish when the take down happens.