Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to hide details of his talks with Putin
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Do we actually know if Mueller has that level of access, or is this just an assumption being made through multiple degrees of hearsay?
I don't mean this in an opposing tone, I'm just curious if we can actually pinpoint a source on it.
Every single time I see the "BUT OBAMA" I want to slap the taste out of their mouth. It's either that or "CROOKED HILLARY" and it can only work so many times before their attempt at a narrative is dried out.
Based on one of the other threads, a 2nd investigation was opened by the FBI previously which, if I'm not too terribly mistaken, Mueller is also involved in (I think it was mentioned he was now overseeing this counterintelligence investigation?). Due to an Executive Order passed by Obama before he left, since Mueller has a role in that FBI counterintelligence investigation, then yes, he would have access to that kind of information. I think @Big Dumb Patriot knows more about that though, or can actually provide sources.
That's pretty much the gist of it, yeah. Essentially, the firing of James Comey prompted the simultaneous launching of a criminal investigation into Donald Trump, and a counter-intelligence national security probe of Donald Trump and associates aimed at determining whether he was acting as a hostile agent of the Kremlin -- in addition to the pre-existing national security probe of the Kremlin's attacks on our election in 2016.
When Special Counsel Robert Mueller was hired, the criminal investigation and counter-intelligence probes merged under his leadership. In absorbing the ongoing probes into matters relating to our national security, he gained access to the intelligence they had recovered, and more importantly, all ongoing intelligence that not only they recovered, but that ALL American intelligence agencies gather, AND all intelligence gathered by allied nations engaged in intelligence-sharing with the US -- this all thanks to one of Obama signing a little-noticed executive order in his final days of office expanding and streamlining interdepartmental and international intelligence sharing procedures.
So, in effect, Mueller has direct, unfiltered access to every piece of intelligence in the Western world as it relates to his investigation -- from signal intelligence like intercepted phone calls, emails, text messages, etc, to human intelligence shared by informants and insiders.
This dude explains in more detail and with more accuracy:in the following thread:
https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1083931796419563520
This NY Times story changes everything we thought we knew about Mueller's investigation.
I wouldn't be surprised if russia was the reason he's been doing this shutdown shit
That's a lot of info inside the tweet. Thanks!
I went through that whole thread, and I guess my revised question is: How does Mueller, as a special counsel, get that kind of access to intel, without explicitly being under the FBI? I was under the impression that the special counsel, while under the DOJ, is isolated from the FBI. Is this the part where Rosenstein supposedly granted Mueller access to FBI resources behind Sessions back?
I really don't know how that is structured, personally, but the thread above speculatrs that it's possible Sessions's recusal was part of a deal. Basically, "stand aside and let us do what needs to be done, and we'll keep you out of our targets."
Makes sense. It just seemed odd because I wouldn't think a special counsel was entitled to that level of access by default. So there has to be some kind of deal making going on.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2019/01/14/lead-panel-2-intel-russia-bombshell-live-jake-tapper.cnn
White House learns NYT reveals Trump Tower meeting with Russian lawyer on Clinton dirt - Trump has coincidental G20 meeting with Putin - Trump confiscates translator's notes - Trump claims the meeting
was about adoptions, which is code for Magnitsky Act sanctions
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