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First Charges Filed in Mueller Investigation

Is it true they are building a Trump wing at Sing Sing in case Trump pardons everyone on their federal charges?
 
ConnorEl said:
Pubs and Trump made for each other. Truth exists in some extremely self-referential paradigm, a mythology almost completely divorced from reality.
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The problem is they have the power to make that alternative reality happen.
 
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-mueller-record-20171122-story.html

But at 73, Mueller has a record that shows a man of fallible judgment who can be slow to alter his chosen course. At times, he has intimidated or provoked resentment among subordinates. And his tenacious yet linear approach to evaluating evidence led him to fumble the biggest U.S. terrorism investigation since 9/11.
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“He doesn’t invite disagreement,” said a former prosecutor who served under Mueller. “He’s an order-giver.”
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“I think he was personally embarrassed,” said one. “I would assess him as someone that can’t accept the fact that he screwed up.”
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Haha I knew Sailor or Moonz would post that article.

So Mueller is a man who:

-who has made mistakes (and even gets embarrassed by them)
-has previously pissed off subordinates
-manages by giving orders instead of collaboration

Got it. So even in attempts to smear the guy (if that was even the objective of the article...it's actually well researched) the author paints the picture of a very common style of leadership in the workplace.
 
"“He doesn’t invite disagreement,” said a former prosecutor who served under Mueller. “He’s an order-giver.”

Context of that:

"Mueller responded by transferring to the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston. He prosecuted financial fraud, terrorism and public corruption cases for six years, and served as acting U.S. attorney from 1986 to 1987.

One case — involving a Soviet-bloc spy — gave Mueller an early window into U.S.-Russia intrigues.

At the direction of the Justice Department’s internal security division, Mueller negotiated a plea agreement with an East German physicist named Alfred Zehe. In February 1985, Zehe admitted in court that he had conspired to deliver U.S. defense information to East German intelligence authorities.

Under the agreement, Zehe was sentenced only to the time he had served in jail after his arrest at a scientific conference in Boston. In turn, he became a bargaining chip for a major spy swap.

“We ultimately got 25 of our people out, including their families,” in a trade for Zehe and several other Soviet-bloc spies, recalled a U.S. official involved with the negotiations.

The successful June 1985 exchange helped pave the way, the official said, for a more significant exchange between Washington and Moscow.

In February 1986, officials again faced off for a trade on the so-called Bridge of Spies between East and West Germany. Among those escorted to freedom was Natan Sharansky, the celebrated Russian human rights activist who had served nine years in Soviet prisons.

As the Cold War ended, Mueller moved to “main Justice” in Washington. He easily won his first Senate confirmation after President George H.W. Bush appointed him assistant U.S. attorney general, responsible for the criminal division.

Mueller oversaw investigations of Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega, the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, among other high-profile cases. But his tendency to command, rather than inspire, came into sharp relief.

“He doesn’t invite disagreement,” said a former prosecutor who served under Mueller. “He’s an order-giver.”

He could be harsh on subordinates — sparking resentment when he referred privately to reassigning career lawyers as “moving the furniture.”

What a terrible guy! He traded one Soviet spy for Sharansky and 24 others, but was mean to some people. Oh the horrors!

He was mean when he got Noriega! How horrible!

et.,etc. etc.
 
sailor, if given a choice, would you rather work under Mueller or Trump?
 
I love my personal freedom too much to want to work under anyone.

It would probably depend on the job and the money. If I loved the job, perhaps Mueller. If I just wanted as much money as possible as quickly as possible, perhaps Trump. But it is really rather difficult to say because I don't think the press has given us a very good picture of what it would be like to work under either man, and personally I certainly don't know either.
 
Michael Flynn's lawyer meets with members of special counsel's team, raising specter of plea deal

The lawyer for President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn met Monday morning with members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team, the latest indication that both sides are discussing a possible plea deal, ABC News has learned.

President Trump’s legal team confirmed late last week that Flynn’s attorney Robert Kelner alerted them that he could no longer engage in privileged discussions about defense strategy in the case, a sign Flynn is preparing to negotiate with prosecutors over a deal that could include Flynn’s testimony against the President or senior White House officials.
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sailordeac said:
I love my personal freedom too much to want to work under anyone.

It would probably depend on the job and the money. If I loved the job, perhaps Mueller. If I just wanted as much money as possible as quickly as possible, perhaps Trump. But it is really rather difficult to say because I don't think the press has given us a very good picture of what it would be like to work under either man, and personally I certainly don't know either.
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I thought you were a teacher...Or have told us lies?
 
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