Let's Get It On Robert Mueller is ready to rum

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Let's Get It On

Robert Mueller is ready to rumble.

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The administration's toes just lost contact with the bottom of the pool.

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LOL!


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By Charles P. Pierce
May 17, 2017

This administration is the worst thing to happen to D.C. cocktail hours since Prohibition. The end of business is no longer the end of business. It's like being a volunteer fireman in hell. The best news is that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein took a good look at the dents in his reputation and appointed Robert Mueller, a former director of the FBI, to be a special counsel to oversee the DOJ in its investigation not only Russian meddling in the 2016 election, but also into "related matters." Which means, well, everything.

If you want to know more about Mueller, then consult Dr. Google on the subject of "Stellar Wind." That was the Bush Administration's extra-constitutional surveillance follies. Mueller (along with James Comey, the Zelig of federal law enforcement) threatened to resign if the administration and its lawyers didn't find a way to make Stellar Wind conform to constitutional norms.

It's important to remember that Mueller, at the time, was trying to find a way to rehabilitate the Bureau's image after the intelligence community failed altogether on 9/11, but even Mueller found what the Bush NSA was doing was a long step over the line.

In short, if you were looking for someone with Washington street cred and a history of not being intimidated by people like presidents, even semi-competent ones, Mueller is as good as it gets. The administration's toes just lost contact with the bottom of the pool.

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