“He just did his job. For Mueller, it’s always about the work, and never about him.”
That's what Sally Yates, the acting top official of the Justice Department, during an all too brief period when you might call it that without a sense of sarcasm, said about Robert Mueller today. She said it in praise or the head of the Mueller Investigation, just the latest layer in the banana split of sweetness heaped on him.
I have respect for Sally Yates but, as I said yesterday, I have a lot less for the lawyers in and around the Department of Justice with each passing day, with each passing day as Mueller is going in to work to adjust the report he wrote so William Barr can release and, we now know, spin what Mueller concluded about his investigation into criminality in the Trump campaign and regime by people close to Trump and Trump himself.
With all due respect to Sally Yates, though, "always about the work" is not nearly enough when it comes to these issues. What is needed is the protection of democracy from a fascist strong man of obvious amorality and depravity and if "about the work" doesn't do that then what Robert Mueller was a part of will have furthered the goal of Trump and Mitch McConnell, Jim Jordan, Lindsay Graham, you could name a list of those trying to impose a one, Republican-fascist party rule on the United States through corrupting the elections process, rigging the anti-democratic features embedded into the Constitution and, most of all, stacking the courts with their fellow Republican-fascists.
Sally Yates, today, called Robert Mueller the “the inverse of the man he would ultimately come to investigate,” even as he's participating in William Barr's obvious manipulation of his report, participating in covering up what the House Democrats see of it and, probably of more importance, the supporting evidence of what Mueller and his team wrote. If he didn't know it before, he knows today that Barr and Rosenstein are going to further spin what is released, knowing that Barr's Department of "Justice" has been keeping the Trump regime informed of what the Report says even as he stiffs the Congress and the American People.
In such a circumstance, what she also says about Mueller, that he is, “Distinctly apolitical, he confounds those who can’t comprehend a person driven by his all too uncommon values: honor, integrity, humility, service,” I'll believe it when I see the full Report.
I can't remember which lawyer it was who I heard say something the other night, something I'd thought but hadn't heard anyone else say, How could Mueller have declared his work finish without getting a number of figures before a grand jury to answer questions or even to give a deposition, Donald Trump sr. the major one of those. Other information that has been coming out leads me to think he left major issues in this untouched, we may or may not know if that's the case. If that's true and he doesn't address that deficiency of his report, I don't trust him. If he leaves that as a dead letter as his report is peddled as a complete exoneration of Trump, as Barr is spinning it and as I have every expectation that Rosenstein will bare himself as the kind of Republican of repute who will do that for Trump, Robert Mueller's golden reputation is just more PR spin. I remember being told similar things about James Comey. The one person I didn't hear it about from top flight lawyers was Andrew McCabe and of all of them, he's the one who has come out least damaged in my thinking, so far. He's the one who lost the most, too.
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