Did George Papadopoulos wear a wire for Mueller?

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Did George Papadopoulos wear a wire for Mueller?

Allahpundit Posted at 3:31 pm on October 30, 2017

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I noted in the Papadopoulos post this morning that his plea deal says he’s cooperating with Mueller’s investigation. Brad Heath of USA Today made a nifty catch, though, about the possible extent of that cooperation.

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According to the plea agreement, Papadopoulos was arrested on July 27 and signed his deal with the feds on October 5, although not until this morning was that publicly known. The court had sealed the files related to the case. How come? This bit, from a motion Heath noticed in the now unsealed case’s file, may explain it:

Heath didn’t say which filing that passage comes from but logically it’s probably from Mueller’s motion to seal. The key phrase is “proactive cooperator.” Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale asked someone who would know what that phrase might mean:

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Jeryl Bier dug around in old court cases looking for the term and came up with this:

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So that’s why Mueller wanted to keep Papadopoulos’s arrest a secret. Papadopoulos may have been secretly working for the feds for the past three months, since his arrest, to gather evidence on suspects in related Russiagate matters in hopes of leniency. He was a perfect guy to try to recruit for that — young, in over his head, outside the Trump inner circle and therefore owing little loyalty to the administration. Mueller may have scared him senseless with threats of a long prison sentence for lying to the FBI and the promise of much reduced charges if he played ball. Possibly he enlisted Papadopoulos to reach out to some of the major players in Russiagate and get them on record confessing to … what, exactly? The problem with using Papadopoulos is that presumably he wasn’t a big enough cheese to make a guy like Manafort comfortable with discussing campaign secrets with him in the course of a “normal” conversation between them. He was a low-level guy.

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[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. Remember that closed door hearing Mueller had with the judge?

I bet you anything it had to do with at least something like this, if not this itself.

[BigmanPigman]

2. I am sure that the fake prez and his family and pals

are trying to remember their conversations over the past 3 months. Happy Birthday Ivanka!!!! I guess she is thinking how to bake a cake with a file in it for her husband's next birthday (and her dad and brother too).

[Corvo Bianco]

4. Next on CNN: Does Jared have the upper body strength to tunnel his way out of prison?

[BigmanPigman]

5. Serial killer Ted Bundy went on a diet and escaped his cell

through a vent or air duct. Tim Robbins spent 20 years digging a tunnel in the Shawshank Redemption. I do not think Jared has the strength, guts or the brains to conceive let alone carry out a successful escape. I picture lots and lots of tears flooding his cell.

[Corvo Bianco]

3. Proactive cooperation is a very pretty expression.

I just learned it today.