By James Howard Kunstler
Information Clearing House
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Just how dead is the RussiaGate story — and how brain-dead are
the House Democratic Committee chairmen, Nadler (Judiciary
Committee) and Schiff (Intelligence Committee) to haul
RussiaGate’s front-man, Robert Mueller back into the spotlight
where the next thing to roll over and die will be Mr. Mueller’s
evanescent reputation?
The entrapment operation that was the Special Counsel’s covert
mission has turned out to be Mr. Mueller own personal booby-trap,
prompting the question: is it possible that he’s just not very bright?
Though Mr. Mueller’s final report asserted that the Russian
government interfered in “a sweeping and systemic fashion” to
influence the 2016 election, the 450-page great tome contains
zero evidence to support that claim, and the discrepancy was
actually noticed by Federal Judge Dabney Friedrich who is
presiding over the case against the alleged Russian Facebook
trolls that was one of the two tent-poles in the RussiaGate
fantasy.
The case is now blowing up in Robert Mueller’s face.
In early 2018, Mr. Mueller sold a DC grand jury on producing
indictments against a Russian outfit called the Internet Research
Agency and its parent company Concord Management, owned by
Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin for the so-called election
meddling.
The indictment was celebrated as a huge coup at the time by the
likes of CNN and The New York Times, styled as a silver bullet in
the heart of the Trump presidency.
But the indicted parties were all in Russia, and could not be
extradited, and there was zero expectation that any actual trial
would ever take place — leaving Mueller & Co. off-the-hook for
proving their allegations.
To the great surprise of Mr. Mueller and his “team,” Mr. Prigozhin
hired some American lawyers to defend his company in court.
Smooth move.
It automatically triggered the discovery process, by which the
accused is entitled to see the evidence that prosecutors hold.
It turned out that Mr. Mueller’s team had no evidence that the
Russian government was involved with the Facebook pranks.
This annoyed Judge Friedrich, who ordered Mr. Mueller and his
lawyers to desist making public statements about Concord and
IRA’s alleged “sweeping and systemic” collusion with Russia,
and threatened legal sanctions if they did.
Judge Friedrich’s rulings were unsealed in early July, after Messers
Nadler and Schiff had already scheduled Mr. Mueller’s testimony
before their committees.
And now they’re stuck with him.
The only purpose of his appearance was to repeat and reinforce the
narrative that the Russian government interfered in the election,
which he is now forbidden to do, at least in connection to the
Concord and IRA’s activities.
But the other tentpole of the two-year-plus inquisition has also
collapsed: the allegation that Russian intel hacked the DNC servers.
It’s now a matter of public record that the DNC servers were never
examined by federal officials.
They were purportedly scrutinized by a DNC contractor called
CrowdStrike, co-founded by Russian Dimitri Alperovitch, an
adversary of Vladimir Putin, active in US-based anti-Putin lobbying
and PR. CrowdStrike’s “draft” report on their review of the server
was laughably incomplete, and the Mueller team’s lawyers took no
steps to validate it.
It would be interesting to hear Robert Mueller’s explanation for
how come US computer forensic experts were never dispatched
to take possession of the DNC servers.
Surely a ranking member on either House committee would have
to ask him that, along with many other embarrassing questions
about the stupendously sloppy and disingenuous work of the
Special Counsel’s team.
It was only one glaring omission among many.
The whole affair now takes on tragic contours of Shakespearean
dimensions.
The Attorney General, Mr. Barr, is said to be an “old friend”
of Mr. Mueller.
They clashed pretty publicly after the release of Mr. Mueller’s
long-awaited final report.
Mr. Barr must at least be dismayed by the bad faith and deliberate
deceit in his old friend’s final report, and he really has to do
something about it.
The entire Mueller episode smacks of prosecutorial misconduct.
In retrospect, it can only be explained as a desperate act
undertaken by foolishly overconfident political activists.
If Mr. Mueller thought he was being enlisted to play an historically
heroic role to help get rid of an elected president detested by the
Establishment, then he made the blunder of a lifetime.
It was not the first blunder of his long career, but it was the final
and fatal one.
It is not out of the question that Mr. Mueller himself may eventually
be the one indicted and convicted of real crimes against the people
of the United States.
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