Wall Street Journal calls for Mueller to resign

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The confirmation this week that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid an opposition-research firm for a “dossier” on Donald Trump is bombshell news. More bombshells are to come. The Journal’s editorial argues that the FBI’s role in such controversies now needs to be investigated. Mueller served as FBI Director between 2001 and 2013, so he led the FBI at the same time the Uranium One deal was being debated and approved.

The FBI has become an arm of the radical left. A massive purge is required if we are to have any hope of saving it.

Not only should Mueller resign, that whole leftist manufactured investigation should be shut down.

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WSJ Editorial Board Calls on Robert Mueller to Resign from Russia Probe

By Adam Shaw, Wall Street Journal, October 27, 2017 (thanks to Van):

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board called Thursday for FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller to step down from his role in investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election, saying that he lacks the “critical distance” to analyze recent revelations about the FBI’s role in the saga.

“It is no slur against Mr. Mueller’s integrity to say that he lacks the critical distance to conduct a credible probe of the bureau he ran for a dozen years,” the Journal’s editorial board wrote. “He could best serve the country by resigning to prevent further political turmoil over that conflict of interest.”

The board was writing in response to recent reports that suggest the FBI uncovered evidence of the Russian bribery and money laundering in the U.S. ahead of a 2010 decision by the Obama administration to greenlight the partial sale of the Canadian firm Uranium One to Russian energy giant Rosatom. The deal transferred control of 20 percent of U.S. uranium stocks to the Russians.

Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer broke the Uranium One scandal in his book Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich. He reported that Clinton’s State Department, along with other federal agencies, approved the transfer of 20 percent of all U.S. uranium to Russia and that nine foreign investors in the deal gave $145 million to the Clinton Foundation.

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 But the controversy re-emerged last week after the Hill reported that the FBI uncovered “substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering” to expand Russia’s nuclear footprint in the U.S. as early as 2009, but the Justice Department did not inform Congress and the public, and did not act on the information until 2014, after the sale was completed.

The FBI also reportedly found evidence that Russian officials routed “millions of dollars” to the U.S. to be funneled into the Clinton Foundation — at a time when Hillary Clinton was serving as secretary of state and served on the government body that approved the deal.

Additionally, the Washington Post reported this week that the Democratic National Committee and Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign funded Fusion GPS as it put together the so-called “Trump dossier,” a dossier of mostly uncorroborated accusations against Trump, many of which the Journal notes are based largely on Kremlin-connected sources. This raises the possibility that Democrats funded a Moscow-pushed misinformation campaign against Trump.

Both sets of revelations turn the Democrat-pushed accusations that Trump colluded with the Russians on their heads and raise questions about the Clinton campaign, DNC, and Obama administration’s dealings with the Russians instead.

The Journal’s editorial argues that the FBI’s role in such controversies now needs to be investigated. Mueller served as FBI Director between 2001 and 2013, so he led the FBI at the same time the Uranium One deal was being debated and approved.

On the question of the dossier, the Journal argues:

The more troubling question is whether the FBI played a role, even if inadvertently, in assisting a Russian disinformation campaign. We know the agency possessed the dossier in 2016, and according to media reports it debated paying Mr. Steele to continue his work in the runup to the election. This occurred while former FBI Director James Comey was ramping up his probe into supposed ties between the Trump campaign and Russians.

Arguing that congressional investigators now need to focus on the FBI’s role, the Journal’s board argues that it now puts Mueller’s stewardship of the investigation into question:

All of this also raises questions about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The Fusion news means the FBI’s role in Russia’s election interference must now be investigated—even as the FBI and Justice insist that Mr. Mueller’s probe prevents them from cooperating with Congressional investigators.

It is in this context that the Journal argues that Mueller, as a former FBI director and someone who has worked closely with Comey for years, should resign or else cause turmoil related to his conflict of interest.

“The American public deserves a full accounting of the scope and nature of Russian meddling in American democracy, and that means following the trail of the Steele dossier as much as it does the meetings of Trump campaign officials,” the Journal’s board argues.

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Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago

Dems/RINO are pathological crooks and liars like Abbas the Palestinian jihadi.

Recently Trump got conned by Al-taqiya from Abbas but once he learnt the truth, boy was he furious as hell http://bit.ly/2rOmfyJ

He does not mince words unlike previous spineless Presidents.

famouswolf
famouswolf
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

I’d bet he wasn’t ‘conned’ at all, but was giving Abbas one last chance…to hang himself.

Michael Buley
Michael Buley
6 years ago
Reply to  famouswolf

President Trump is brilliant, and for all those who say he is this and that and a buffoon and so on … he is brilliant. This is a man who knows how to call people’s bluff. and when they show who they really are, he doesn’t forget. He has a very full plate, and is surrounded by enemies.

famouswolf
famouswolf
6 years ago
Reply to  Michael Buley

He is amazing. Practically all the media, the left, a hefty chunk of our own government, the ‘shadow government’, the Clintons, Obama, the Chinese and Russians and Norks (snicker) and Iran and American Chamber of Commerce (not to mention all the idiots who believe the above idiots)…and he still comes out on top time after time.
I’m beginning, honestly, to wonder if the world has ever seen his like. He has my support, blood, guts and spirit.
Pretty sure he’s on track to become our greatest President. Which would be appropriate, because I think we are going through the most dangerous time in our history.

sodacrackers2
sodacrackers2
6 years ago
Reply to  famouswolf

Pray for his safety!

mztore
mztore
6 years ago
Reply to  famouswolf

I have to give a smile every time I hear “Trump didn’t miss it – he said this months ago” and similar words every time they (msm/and the others I won’t bother nor take the time to name) have to hear it.

Michael Buley
Michael Buley
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

And THAT is refreshing all by itself. A man as President. A real man.

TDD
TD
6 years ago
Reply to  Michael Buley

2017 through 2018 should be a YEAR OF REVENGE against the Democrats for wasting the American people’s time.

(At least the Republicans gave Obama a SMOOTH TRANSITION of power when he became president). Trump didn’t even have that.

TDD
TD
6 years ago
Reply to  TD

give them hell at the poll and in the courts, and where-ever else!

Tilt
Tilt
6 years ago
Reply to  TD

“…for wasting the American people’s time” ??

The democ-Rats are guilty of far more then that!!

Democrats are guilty of Treason with a Capital T as they aid and abet the imperial, Islamo Nazi tyranny of Iran.

They have deliberately sabotaged the US army with major, wide and deep budget cuts.

They are cynically / instrumentally (Saul Alinsky’s play book…) are sowing wide spread division, racial tensions and social unrest.

They are subverting Trump’s administration with the help of the MSM, hold out bureaucracy (a.k.a the “Deep State”), controlling the ‘Culture’ (Entertainment / television / Art establishments), Academia, big business, NGO’s / think tanks

In many ways, Democrats / “progressives”, are a far more dangerous enemy of the free world (the “West”) then 1.6 billion primitive / savage / Anti Christian / Antisemitic / blood thirsty (to varying degrees) Muslims, will ever be…

sodacrackers2
sodacrackers2
6 years ago
Reply to  Tilt

They work together, evil seeks evil.

mztore
mztore
6 years ago
Reply to  Michael Buley

yuuup, a real man with faults and all….in other words he is human, not like what the other “political” idiots try to make folks think “they” are.

Dennis
Dennis
6 years ago

Touché! It is gratifying for any media outlet to finally recognize that even the slightest possibility of impropriety is grounds for removal of any person from any position that could even remotely affect his or her ability, and Muller is clearly one of those who should not be controlling any topic so impinged. If the liberal media would finally face the realities that exist and become more middle of the road as it deals with political issues, maybe we can turn this country around to some sense of normalcy. Right now the world, especially our enemies, is laughing at us as it observes our schism in politics, and we shouldn’t allow them to become confident that this country is not to be reckoned with.

Michael Buley
Michael Buley
6 years ago

my gosh, maybe there actually IS justice!

if so, only because President Trump became President Trump. God bless him and keep him safe.

TDD
TD
6 years ago
Reply to  Michael Buley

“God bless him and keep him safe..”
I second that!
and the country and our allies too.

santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago
Reply to  Michael Buley

Justice will truly have been fulfilled, when Hillary gets her cell in Leavenworth

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

But of course, there is a new band wagon going down the street, the wall street journal, like every other lame stream media toilet is clamming to get on. Most surprising as this is quite remarkable, the slime of democrat’s are developing pseudopods, slithering along on the well established trail of hillary slime.

mztore
mztore
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

How quickly they turn on their friends…..have to laugh at them even more for their stupidity….what took them so long?

VTSD
VTS
6 years ago
Reply to  mztore

WashPost “broke” the story and WJ is writing about it only because the swamp wants some control over it, as a preventive measure. Never give them any benefit of the doubt.

mztore
mztore
6 years ago
Reply to  VTS

Isn’t it just a CYA story? Trying not to lose the rest of their readers.

Jackie Puppet
Jackie Puppet
6 years ago

A little late to the party, aintcha WSJ?

Some of us knew about this stuff months ago.

I notice there’s still no mention from the WSJ about Hildebeest directing Mueller to PERSONALLY bring a sample of the uranium to Russia.

mztore
mztore
6 years ago
Reply to  Jackie Puppet

I’ve heard that also. but like everything “they” proclaim, one should not consider their written word as being truth.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

In the beginning, the special counsel probe was nothing more than a commiecrat effort to overturn the election of 2016 but has now morphed into a case of Mueller investigating himself and his cronies. That includes his staff members who are, to a man, fellow Dems and Clinton donors.

What did they expect to learn? Mueller was Director of the FBI when it missed the signals on Ft. Hood and the Boston Marathon bombing. And his successor Comey was the Director when the slaughters at Orlando and San Bernardino were overlooked.

pdxnag
pdxnag
6 years ago

Are the Clinton’s treasonous exploits worse than letting the Muslim Brotherhood continue to run the entire national security apparatus in the United States? Or importing any Muslim “community”?

It all just looks so hopeless.

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
6 years ago

Mueller, its not my fault, Hillary held a gun to my cats head

~CNN Breaking News

Ichabod Crain
Ichabod Crain
6 years ago

When is Trump going to say something about this?

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