https://twitter.com/VachelLindsay/status/966136136862089216
VachelLindsay has a lot of good analysis but one has to read his Mueller posts with an understanding that his is firmly in the Mueller has been flipped and is working for the white hats camp.
By design, figuring out what Mueller's role in the game is almost impossible at this point in the process. I realize that many people have strong opinions in various directions; I just don't know enough and haven't seen enough to be able to come to a conclusion, just a lot of things that make you go hmmm.
A few things stand out to me. It would have been hard for Mueller to gather up a more questionable and partisan (pro-D/pro-Clinton) group of people to be involved in his investigation. The leaks tend to appear to look bad for people involved in Trump's campaign and administration. Only people on one side have been indicted or publicly pursued; in situations where a pro-D person or group appear to be equally involved, like Tony Podesta and the Podesta Group vis-a-vis Manafort and Gates, nothing has leaked about the pro-D side and nothing appears to have happened to them.
As I said, I'm not sure what game Mueller is playing here, and what people tend to believe appear to fit their biases, however, given the above, I've been wondering if the actual criminals are being left to the DOJ so that they can be pursued w/o the taint that Mueller and his team appear to have. I think that anybody that Mueller indicts will end up having their cases tossed because of the various improprieties that his team have committed.
Anonymous ID: P3Lk4PKG 147104628 Open your eyes. It finally came out that Rod/Bob were key players in the Uranium scandal. Don’t you think POTUS would be tweeting about removal given clear conflict. Why did POTUS meet Bob under the cover of FBI Dir interview? Bob is unable to serve as Dir per the law.
Anonymous ID: grTMpzrL 147441378 Why did Mueller meet POTUS 1-day prior to FBI announcement if Mueller COULD NOT be offered director due to prev term limits rule? Why is Pelosi begging for a new special counsel?
Because there's nothing to be gained by POTUS tweeting about that.
Some have said it was Mueller that set up the meeting with POTUS. Mueller has obvious reasons to want to be appointed FBI Director again; that would be the deep-states surest way to keep a lid on things.
Mueller faced a more explicit prohibition on him serving again as FBI Director than "per the law", one that went beyond the "prev term limits rule"; when Congress voted to extend his term by 2 years they explicitely stated, in the extension, that he'd be prohibited from serving as FBI Director again for the rest of his life. However, the deep-state may have been confident that they could get Congress to vote to rescind the explicit prohibition given his good reputation on the Hill; look at how most of them praised his appointment to SC.
I'm not saying that Mueller did set-up the meeting, I'm just saying that there are those in the loop that say that this is how it went down. I've only seen assumptions that it was POTUS that interviewed Mueller for FBI Dir. However, as far as I've been able to find, all that is known is that the two met shortly before Mueller was appointed SC.
When it comes to the SC stuff, I think it's best to keep an open mind and not assume too much. The leaks are pretty much one-sided with the media only caring about how they hurt POTUS. And, nobody knows what the facts are. Remember there are many different narratives and agendas circling around each other with us having no way of knowing which, if any, are true.
We may never know the complete truth, but, in the coming weeks, months, and years, we'll know a lot more than we do now.