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More to the point, if we know anything about Mueller, we think we know that he follows the rules—all of them. Even the ones that restrict him in ways he would prefer they not.
I don't think we can take this as a given. Mueller put Andrew 'suppress the exculpatory evidence' Weissmann on his team. He received the Trump transition emails from the GSA without authorization, which potentially violates attorney-client privilege and poisons the fruit under rulings set out like the discovery phase of convertino v us department. The article writer is judging Mueller based solely on his
reputation, the descriptions of Mueller given by politicians lauding them who had an interest in legitimizing him whether they actually believed it or not. But Mueller's actions since then have put far more doubt into the equation. He's a wildcard at this point. Maybe he is still the consummate professional they make him out to be, but maybe he's been biding his time to perform a partisan hack job. We can't know and we won't know until he removes the cloak.
But putting Weissmann on the team alone should negate any presumption of 'following the rules'. That's like a black politician saying he's hiring a lawyer with a reputation for unsensationalized apolitical dry facts of law, then that lawyer turns around and puts johnnie cochran on the case.
This post was edited by Goomshill on Jan 30 2018 11:23am