Quote (IceMage @ Dec 5 2017 09:16am)
If Mueller didn't have the mandate to investigate matters outside of strictly collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, he wouldn't have the leverage to flip people. Rosenstein is the one who gave Mueller such a broad mandate, you should be blaming him for this.
All kidding aside, if it turns out Mueller is looking into Trump's finances for reasons outside of the investigation into collusion, I think that's a problem.
Lol... so dramatic. It's not surprising that people inside the FBI and intelligence community don't like Trump... he has insulted them multiple times, as a candidate, as president-elect, and as president. It's clear to most rational people that he's a complete buffoon. I don't agree with your characterization of the FBI though. Everyone pre-Trump thought Mueller was a man with great integrity, everyone who has worked with him confirms this. Trump supporters were going to question the integrity of whoever got appointed as special counsel.
This is requires faith in the establishment. Haven't we seen enough to question the inner workings of the FBI and whether its been politically compromised yet?
If the FBI was aloof from partisan intrigue, Michael Flynn would never have gotten fired in the first place. This whole thing started when the FBI was intercepting his communications via FISA rubber stamp and those of other Trump officials like Manafort both prior to and after the election, then they got unmasked under inexplicable circumstances (susan rice now denies she was involved with the requests filled out in her name), and then publicly leaked. The entire purpose of the masking and warrants in the first place was supposed to be to insulate these counterintelligence operations from political intrigue, yet Flynn was fired because partisans within the FBI leaked the contents of top secret wiretapped conversations. And that's just one of many dirty operations, are we supposed to believe those buttery emails were treated with professionalism and due diligence? Comey's twelve'o'clock politicking made the political interference explicit, and god knows he oversaw leaksville after that and was himself leaking.
If the FBI was broken under comey, can we pretend that it just happened overnight and wasn't like that under Mueller before him?
If an FBI can act like its the Hoover era and run itself as a political wing with its own objectives and backroom alliances, we can't give Mueller the presumption of integrity. He might be honest, he might not. We can only read the signs.
And if the signs are that Mueller is setting up a fishing expedition into Trump's history of tax evasion and money laundering, things are going to get real dirty real quick
This post was edited by Goomshill on Dec 5 2017 09:47am