I have believed from the start, and still believe, that Mueller is a black hat. The MO that he and his pitbull, Weissman, had introduced into the DOJ was to reinterpret the law (similar to 9th Circuit judges) so that its scope was broadened and could be weaponized against US citizens to serve a political agenda. Mueller et al were attempting to broaden the Obstruction law into a catch-all net that could be turned against anyone for doing/saying pretty much anything - a total perversion of the law. Mueller had to be seen to be operating within the law otherwise his report wouldn't have had a legal basis. The only way this could be achieved was by stretching the law into a catch-all net, the implications of which effectively turned the US into a police (or lawyer-run) state. Mueller had to get Congress to legitimize this interpretation of Obstruction of Justice otherwise he could have been accused of bias if he had made a finding of Obstruction on this "stretched" interpretation. So he handed the Dems a road-map as to how this could be achieved. Only Barr came along and stamped on this by taking the decision himself re Obstruction instead of allowing Mueller's open-ended report (as far as Obstruction went) to get to Congress first. Barr outfoxed Mueller - he knew what he was trying to do so took the decision re Obstruction himself (that Mueller wanted Congress to take) and published the verdict in his summary letter pending release of the full report. Which is why Mueller, and the Dems, were so peed off by Barr's letter revealing the verdicts. If Congresss had got in first, before the Obstruction issue was decided, as the law-making branch of government, they could have authorised the novel interpretation of Obstruction and we'd now all be living in a Police State where none of us were safe from allegations of Obstruction of Justice for trying to defend ourselves from accusations of a non-existent crime.
>You have most of it right. But Barr sent a letter a few months before laying out the obstruction charge.
Yeah, you're right - I left that bit out and it was a key element.
>All that being said, I think Mueller flipped and chose to play ball with the good guys… cuz muh U1 and “saving his ass” and all. Otherwise, he’d be gone.
I'm not so sure.
Q2512 could be interpreted differently.
Mueller will face charges re: U1
He's working to save himself.
Q doesn't say who Mueller is working FOR only that he's working to save himself. - i.e. he's working to save himself by extending investigation (that's now been prevented) or through his novel interpretation of Obstruction of Justice (also prevented) or any other means, fair or foul, to save his rotten hide.
It doesn't necessarily mean he's working for White Hats to save himself. My guess is he's working for himself to save himself. He's as dirty as they come - a Prosecutor who has set himself above the law for a good few decades.
Not a memer myself but greatly appreciate their skills so not sure if there is a meme focus at the moment. If not, may I suggest a meme war that ridicules the Dems' MO of smearing anyone who doesn't subscribe to their agenda? Dems have recently seen off two of DJT's nominations for the Fed and they're in the process of smearing Barr. Their methodology needs to be exposed for what it is in such a way that normies cannot fail to understand so that they stop believing that there might be a basis for such smears and wake up to the fact that smearing is just a political tool to bring down anyone whose policies they disagree with or, more likely, which threaten to expose their own corruption and/or paucity of ideas. They and their smears need to be made a laughing stock.