Quote:Pierce: Mueller Is Asking Questions. He Knows the Answers.
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Jeff Sessions and James Comey were both interviewed by the Special Counsel.
By Charles P. Pierce
Jan 23, 2018
Any morning when you wake up and discover that the sitting Attorney General of the United States has been questioned by a special prosecutor on the subject of the president*’s complicity with thugs, hoodlums, international brigands, and Russian ratfckers is a day begun well, at least for scurvy political blogging types.
From CNN:
The interview, a major development in Mueller's investigation, took place last Wednesday. A source familiar with the discussion said it was the first time Sessions was interviewed and he was not under subpoena. Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores confirmed the meeting, which was first reported by The New York Times.
She declined to say if the attorney general turned over any documents or communications to Mueller's office. The White House said it is cooperating with Mueller's investigation and press secretary Sarah Sanders said she didn't know if Sessions and Trump discussed the interview on Monday when Sessions was at the White House. White House special counsel Ty Cobb did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This story emerged at just about the same moment as the exclusive Axios report that Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III , at the urging of the president*, had been pressuring FBI director Christopher Wray to fire deputy director Andrew McCabe, only to have Wray discover his inner Eliot Richardson and tell both JeffBo and JeffBo’s boss to pound sand.
Trump and other Republicans have been hammering McCabe — who was selected by the White House as acting director after the Comey firing — for months on Twitter. On July 26, Trump tweeted: "Why didn't A.G. Sessions replace Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, a Comey friend who was in charge of Clinton investigation but got...big dollars ($700,000) for his wife's political run from Hillary Clinton and her representatives. Drain the Swamp!"
And, of course, all of this takes place in the context of a general conservative assault on the FBI that runs from the incomprehensible toolhood of Devin Nunes and his magic memo to Sean Hannity’s nightly manic episodes.
A good portion of the country already believes that James Comey was in the tank for Hillary Rodham Clinton, which she should find perpetually amusing.
This frenzied activity on all fronts indicates to the casual observer that Mueller’s people are asking their witnesses a lot of unsettling questions for which Mueller and his team already know the answers. The question remaining is how many people will believe those answers when they finally are revealed.
UPDATE (3 p.m.)—Michael Schmidt of The New York Times has updated his story about the Sessions interview with the news that James Comey was interviewed, too.
The interview with Mr. Comey focused on a series of memos he wrote about his interactions with Mr. Trump that unnerved Mr. Comey.
In one memo, Mr. Comey said that Mr. Trump had asked him to end the F.B.I.’s investigation into the former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn.
This does not sound good for JeffBo, either.
Pierce: Mueller Is Asking Questions. He Knows the
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