{"id":36368,"date":"2019-06-20T17:46:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T21:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36368"},"modified":"2019-06-24T09:05:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T13:05:45","slug":"pulling-back-the-curtain-on-over-the-top-investigation-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36368","title":{"rendered":"Pulling Back The Curtain On Over-The-Top Investigation Tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 6, Real Clear Investigations<\/a> posted an article by Paul Sperry about the tactics used by the people working with Robert Mueller in the Mueller Investigation. Now that the investigation is complete, some of the people who were investigated feel free to speak out about the extreme tactics used in dealing with witnesses and suspects in this investigation.<\/p>\n

The article first deals with general misbehavior by the Mueller team:<\/p>\n

Veteran journalist Art Moore was editing a story on the Trump-Russia probe last October when he heard a knock at the door. He saw a couple of men in suits on the front porch of his suburban Seattle home and thought they were Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses making the rounds. But they weren\u2019t missionaries there to convert him; they were FBI agents there to interrogate him, sent by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The G-men wanted to talk about WikiLeaks, specifically whether the Trump campaign had any connection to the hacktivist group\u2019s release of thousands of emails stolen from Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign during the 2016 election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Art Moore:\u00a0\u201cThey were clearly on a fishing expedition.\u201d<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The two FBI agents \u2013 cyber-crimes experts Jared Brown and Aleks Kobzanets, the latter of whom had a Russian accent \u2013 grilled Moore, an editor for the news site WND.com, for about 90 minutes. Among other things, they asked about former WND correspondent Jerome Corsi and whether he had any advance knowledge of WikiLeaks’ dumps of Clinton campaign emails. Corsi, who is friendly with the president, had used Trump confidante Roger Stone as a source during the campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThey were clearly on a fishing expedition,\u201d Moore said, recounting the incident to RealClearInvestigations publicly for the first time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThey seemed desperate to find something to hang onto the narrative\u201d of Russian collusion, he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article notes that the accounts of the people interviewed are similar:<\/p>\n

Their firsthand accounts pull back the curtain on the secret inner workings of the Mueller probe, revealing how the special counsel’s nearly two dozen prosecutors and 40 FBI agents used harshly aggressive tactics to pressure individuals to either cop to crimes or implicate others in felonies involving collusion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although they interacted with Mueller\u2019s team at different times and in different places, the witnesses and targets often echoed each other. Almost all decried what they called Mueller\u2019s \u201cscorched earth\u201d methods that affected their physical, mental and financial health. Most said they were forced to retain high-priced Washington lawyers to protect them from falling into “perjury traps” for alleged lying, which became the special counsel\u2019s charge of last resort. In the end, Mueller convicted four Trump associates for this so-called process crime, and investigated an additional five individuals for allegedly making false statements \u2013 including former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some subjects of investigation said Mueller\u2019s agents and prosecutors tried to pressure them into admitting things to give the appearance of collusion. They demanded to know if they had spoken to anyone with a \u201cRussian accent.\u201d They threatened to jail them “for life” and to drag their wives or girlfriends into the investigation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former special prosecutors say the tactics used by Mueller\u2019s team appear excessive.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article then goes on to tell the stories of people specifically targeted during the investigation. I strongly suggest that you follow the link above to read those stories. Investigations in America should not be handled this way.<\/p>\n

The article concludes with a statement by former Pentagon inspector general who worked on the Trump campaign, Joseph Schmitz:<\/p>\n

Schmitz said Mueller\u2019s investigation was a costly and terrible waste of time. Even federal law enforcement veterans say the probe was overkill.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c[He] put the country through two years of divisive trauma based on an investigation that he knew was baseless,\u201d former FBI agent and lawyer Mark Wauck said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Biasello said, he was one of 10 FBI agents selected to serve on Mueller\u2019s team to investigate and research the hijackers assigned to American Airlines Flight 77.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“In this case,\u201d he said, referring to the Trump-Russia probe, \u201che obviously was corrupted by his personal relationship with [former FBI Director James] Comey and politics. The glaring failure to produce a thread of a case against the president caused him and his office to resort to unethical investigative and prosecutorial methods.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ex-Trump campaign official Michael Caputo, who went public earlier, complaining he had to remortgage his house after having to hire expensive Washington lawyers, wants Mueller and his team investigated for \u201cprosecutorial abuses.\u201d \u201cRuining lives was blood sport for them,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moore (veteran journalist Art Moore) agreed: \u201cYou look at the lives ruined \u2014 Corsi, Michael Flynn and others. That alone is enough to warrant a special investigation.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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