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In reply to the discussion: Re: Comey and Mueller [View all]Hekate
(90,633 posts)16. Well, well. Between your OP and Rachel's thing on the lawyer joining Mueller, I am quite cheered...
Last edited Wed Jun 7, 2017, 03:31 AM - Edit history (1)
However, just a word of caution to our more excitable and impatient DUers: her leadup covering said lawyer's career included his working more than a decade to bring down two major Mafia dons. It took a long time to amass all the info and make sure it was so solid it could not fail.
To which I can only add: it's a damn good thing there weren't any impressionable young analysts (ahem) in his office who figured the public needed to know all the evidence collected 5 years before he was able to bring down the second crime boss. Because then the guy would have gotten away with his crimes after all.
Just sayin'
Edited to add: the lawyer's name is Weissmann
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I have absolutely no doubt that Comey would have done the exact same thing had Clinton
StevieM
Jun 2017
#20
"The generals" are an interesting proposition. McMasters has apparently been sucked in ...
Hekate
Jun 2017
#29