Adam Carter — "Mueller Report - Expensive Estimations And Elusive Evidence"

On April 18, 2019, a redacted version of Robert Mueller's report on "RussiaGate" related activities was released to the public.

This article focuses on Volume I Part III titled "Russian Hacking & Dumping Operations" and provides details of the errors made, critical omissions, lack of conclusive evidence and reliance on assumptions and speculation.

We will also look at problems relating to attribution methods used, countervailing evidence that has clearly been disregarded and other problems that are likely to have affected the quality of the investigation and the report....

Sic Semper Tyrannis
"Mueller Report - Expensive Estimations And Elusive Evidence"
Adam Carter

See also at SST

Glaring Omissions and Misrepresentations in Mueller's Report

Larry C. Johnson

Craig Murray — The Real Muellergate Scandal

Craig Murray alleges that Robert Mueller did not conduct an actual investigation. It was fixed from the start by Mueller's priors.

Craig Murray Blog
The Real Muellergate Scandal
Craig Murray, formerly British ambassador to Uzbekistan and Rector of the University of Dundee

Jonathan Turley — The Steele Dossier and the perils of political insurance policies

This is legal in the US? If not, where was the line crossed? Even if legal, it appears that a line was crossed when participants lied to investigators and the press about it. There are also questions raised about politicization of the US intelligence services, perhaps assisted by British intelligence.

Even if is legal, it proves that HRC was preparing to do exactly what she was accusing DJT of planning to do–contest the result if he lost.

There is a very bad smell about this. In fact, it is beginning to stink.

The Democrats had better get out in front on this or the party apparatus will be even further discredited.

The Hill
The Steele Dossier and the perils of political insurance policies

Jonathan Turley | Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University

Masha Gessen — The Fundamental Uncertainty of Mueller’s Russia Indictments

Even Russian ex-pat Putin-phobe Masha Gessen gets the Mueller indictments essentially right.

First politicized intelligence, then politicized justice.

The New Yorker
The Fundamental Uncertainty of Mueller’s Russia Indictments

Masha Gessen, staff writer


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Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda

The Guradian (March 17, 2011)

Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media

Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain

Philip Giraldi — Flynn Case Highlights Deep Political Corruption of US Security Services

Former CIA official Philip Giraldi argues that the US intelligence services have come politicized. While he focuses in this post on Robert Mueller and the FBI, the actions of former FBI director James Comey, Former CIA director James Brennan, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper are open to similar scrutiny.

Strategic Culture Foundation
Flynn Case Highlights Deep Political Corruption of US Security Services

Philip Giraldi | Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a founding member of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, and an 18-year CIA veteran

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What is arguably most disturbing about this case is that then-National Security Adviser Flynn was pushed into a perjury trap by Obama administration holdovers at the Justice Department who concocted an unorthodox legal rationale for subjecting Flynn to an FBI interrogation four days after he took office, testing Flynn’s recollection of the conversations while the FBI agents had transcripts of the calls intercepted by the National Security Agency.

In other words, the Justice Department wasn’t seeking information about what Flynn said to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak – the intelligence agencies already had that information. Instead, Flynn was being quizzed on his precise recollection of the conversations and nailed for lying when his recollections deviated from the transcripts.

For Americans who worry about how the pervasive surveillance powers of the U.S. government could be put to use criminalizing otherwise constitutionally protected speech and political associations, Flynn’s prosecution represents a troubling precedent....

Consortium News
The Scalp-Taking of Gen. Flynn
Robert Parry

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While the question of politicization remains open, the politics is clear.

CBS News
CBS News poll: Americans split on Russia investigation

Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus, Kabir Khanna and Anthony Salvanto

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Zero Hedge
An Angry Senator Grassley Lashes Out At FBI, DOJ In Fiery Senate Floor Speech

Tyler Durden

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Reuters
FBI Director Wray defends bureau in wake of Republican criticism
Sarah N. Lynch

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Paul Craig Roberts
Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Says Mueller Should Resign as Special Prosecutor

Madeleine Sheehan Perkins — A grand jury investigation is underway in the Trump-Russia probe — here's how they work

Backgrounder.

Business Insider
A grand jury investigation is underway in the Trump-Russia probe — here's how they work
Madeleine Sheehan Perkins

A Baseless Justification for War in Syria — Dennis J. Bernstein interviews Francis Boyle

U.S. government officials, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., claim the current U.S. authority to mount military operations in Iraq and Syria is legally based on the Authorization for the Use of Military Force [AUMF] declaration to go after Al Qaeda and related terror groups after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. But how does that cover the recent U.S. attacks on Syrian government forces that have been battling both Al Qaeda and its spinoff, Islamic State?

Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law, asserts that the recent U.S. shoot-down of a Syrian government jet inside Syria on June 18 was not only illegal under international law but amounts to an impeachable act by President Trump.

In an interview with Flashpoints’ Dennis J. Bernstein, Professor Boyle said, “What the U.S. government is getting away with here is incredible.” Boyle also talked to Bernstein about the questionable Russia-gate investigation and the darker history behind Special Prosecutor Robert Swan Mueller III, the former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Dennis Bernstein: Will Syria’s hot war and the recent U.S. bombings there lead us into a hot war with Russia? Well, the generals are saying this shoot-down in Syria is legal. You want to jump into this?

Francis Boyle: You know Dunford doesn’t have a law degree that I’m aware of. But, of course, still the Pentagon is going to try to justify whatever war crimes it can. They always do.

Clearly the U.S. invasion, which we have done, and now repeated military attacks against Syria constitutes a Nuremberg crime against peace, and in violation of the Nuremberg charter, judgment and principles, and, of course, a violation of the United Nations’ charter. [It is] an act of aggression as defined by, oh even the new element of the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court that is not yet in force. But it has a definition based upon the 1974 definition of aggression which the World Court found to be customary international law in the very famous Nicaraguan case when it applied it against Nicaragua....

Quite an interview. Professor Boyle unloads.

Consortium News
A Baseless Justification for War in Syria

Dennis J. Bernstein interviews Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law

Coleen Rowley — Russia-gate’s Mythical ‘Heroes’

The mainstream U.S. media sells the mythical integrity of fired FBI Director Comey and special Russia-gate prosecutor Mueller, but the truth is they have long histories as pliable political operatives, writes ex-FBI official Coleen Rowley.

More rot at the top. When loyalty trumps honesty and professionalism.

Consortium News
Russia-gate’s Mythical ‘Heroes’
Coleen Rowley, retired FBI special agent and division legal counsel whose May 2002 memo to then-FBI Director Robert Mueller exposed some of the FBI’s pre-9/11 failures, was named one of TIME magazine’s “Persons of the Year” in 2002. Her 2003 letter to Robert Mueller in opposition to launching the Iraq War is archived in full text on the NYT and her 2013 op-ed entitled “Questions for the FBI Nominee” was published on the day of James Comey’s confirmation hearing.