{"id":333992,"date":"2017-11-07T22:21:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T21:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=333992"},"modified":"2017-11-07T22:21:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T21:21:15","slug":"special-counsel-appointed-investigate-robert-mueller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/special-counsel-appointed-investigate-robert-mueller\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a Special Counsel Should Be Appointed to Investigate Robert Mueller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the finest investigative journalists have recently documented different parts of what constitutes, in its totality, a single consistent narrative portrayal of Robert Mueller, as being a person who can be understood only as either incredibly incompetent, or else profoundly corrupt (which latter they all seem to be agreeing that he actually is). This complete collective picture of Mueller, as being profoundly corrupt, will be presented here, with links to all of the journalists\u2019 articles, each of which, I have personally checked and verified its sources. Consequently, I accept as true, and here summarize, their collective account of Robert Mueller \u2014 the former FBI Director and current Special Counsel assigned to assemble a case for impeaching President Trump \u2014 as being a profoundly corrupt person:<\/span><\/p>\n

The basic presentation here will be that supplied by the anonymous owner of, and a writer for, a blog for which I also happen to write, Washingtonsblog, who headlined on November 1st, <\/b>“13 Shocking Facts About Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/a>. (That report was also posted on November 2nd at Zero Hedge<\/span><\/a>, which has a much larger audience.) It\u2019s the best report I\u2019ve ever seen regarding Mueller\u2019s consistent background of doing crucial cover-up work on behalf of America\u2019s aristocracy, and I urge anyone who has an open mind about Mr. Mueller to read the entirety of it, because I think that its sources, all of which are linked to and are highly credible, constitute a prima-facie case (that\u2019s at least comparable to an indictment), for Mueller\u2019s being profoundly corrupt. The report includes, among other features: Mueller’s assistance to the Fethulla Gulen CIA-linked global Islamic organization that Turkey claims organized the NATO-assisted failed 2016 coup-attempt<\/span><\/a>, for which Turkey has demanded and the U.S. Government still refuses, to extradite to Turkey Mr. Gulen; and, also, Mueller’s involvement in the BCCI scandal; and, also, his having urged Congress, on 11 February 2003, that Iraq was the biggest state-sponsor of terrorism and should be invaded (none of which was true, and he was in a top position to know that it wasn\u2019t); and, also, his having blocked FBI investigators who were hot on the trail of 9\/11 terrorists before 9\/11 occurred; and, also, his having blocked the post-9\/11 investigators from having access to crucial information they needed in order for them to get to the bottom of whom the financiers behind the 9\/11 attacks were.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, we\u2019ll be discussing Sibel Edmonds\u2019s, <\/b>“Targeting Michael Flynn & Shielding the Radical Cleric Gulen: Special Counsel Robert Mueller MUST Step Down\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And, finally, we\u2019ll be discussing Andrew Cockburn\u2019s article \u201cWill the 9\/11 case finally go to trial?\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Although the washingtonsblog article briefly mentioned and linked-to the two articles by Edmonds and by Cockburn, the present article will be focusing especially on, and will be quoting far more extensively from, those two articles; but, as was earlier mentioned, the main part of our presentation is what was provided in that washingtonsblog article<\/span><\/a>, which is thus the preliminary to this one, which is an extension of that article. <\/span><\/p>\n

To start with, here, regarding the testimony Mueller provided to Congress five weeks before we invaded Iraq, when he was being consulted by Congress as an expert on what had been learned from the tortures that the U.S. had authorized to be applied to 9\/11 suspects, here is from the key portion of his presentation to the Congress, on 11 February 2003<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Chairman, although the most serious terrorist threat is from non-state actors, we remain vigilant against the potential threat posed by state sponsors of terrorism. The seven countries designated as State Sponsors of Terrorism \u2014 Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Cuba, and North Korea \u2014 remain active in the US and continue to support terrorist groups that have targeted Americans.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Although Iran remains a significant concern for its continued financial and logistical support of terrorism, Iraq has moved to the top of my list. As we previously briefed this Committee, Iraq’s WMD program poses a clear threat to our national security, a threat that will certainly increase in the event of future military action against Iraq. Baghdad has the capability and, we presume, the will to use biological, chemical, or radiological weapons against US domestic targets in the event of a US invasion. We are also concerned about terrorist organizations with direct ties to Iraq. \u2026 Northern Iraq has emerged as an increasingly important operational base for al-Qaeda associates, and a US-Iraq war could prompt Baghdad to more directly engage al-Qaeda.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

As to whether he had simply been fooled by liars, Mueller had himself participated in the creation of the bad \u2018investigative\u2019 practices, which had helped to cause false testimony from suspects. As one official testified, \u201cMueller was even okay with the CIA conducting torture programs after his own agents warned against participation.\u201d So, Mueller was supportive of President George W. Bush\u2019s aim to coerce (by torturing) suspects to supply \u2018evidence\u2019 that Saddam Hussein had been behind the 9\/11 attacks; and, as the FBI chief, Mueller enforced such lie-generating practices even though he had been informed by the FBI\u2019s own experts that it would only produce \u2019testimony\u2019 so unreliable that it couldn\u2019t stand up in any court of law. Was his support of torture really due to Mueller not knowing this? How likely is it that he knew better than the FBI\u2019s own experts about such a matter? And, if he didn\u2019t \u2018know\u2019 better than the FBI\u2019s own expert interrogators \u2014 as subsequently became clear \u2014 then why did he take upon himself the demanding of his agents to participate in producing coerced \u2019testimony\u2019 that was too unreliable to stand up in court? Isn\u2019t he supposed to be a lawyer, and don\u2019t lawyers know that \u2019testimony\u2019 obtained under torture, or the threat of torture \u2014 or even under any type of coercion at all \u2014 is inadmissible in a court of law, in a democracy? Isn\u2019t this knowledge basic? Would Mueller have passed a U.S. citizenship test<\/span><\/a>, if he were applying, and if the examiner were to ask well-informed follow-up questions about the admissibility of coerced testimony<\/span><\/a>?<\/span><\/p>\n

This is just a small part of the evidence that\u2019s supplied in the washingtonsblog article, showing Mueller to be either incredibly incompetent, or else profoundly corrupt.<\/span><\/p>\n

The next article, then, to be mentioned and linked-to here will be the one by Sibel Edmonds, who had been fired by the FBI in March 2002 for trying to make public some of the things that Mueller had done in order to obstruct the FBI\u2019s investigators who were on the trail of some of the 9\/11 terrorists prior to the attacks, and also to obstruct the work of the 9\/11 Commission, and of the U.S. Congress\u2019s more reliable 858-page JOINT INQUIRY INTO INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES BEFORE AND AFTER THE TERRORIST ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001<\/i>. Famously,<\/i> \u201cthe missing 28 pages\u201d<\/span><\/a> from that congressional report were withheld from the public until 15 July 2016<\/span><\/a>. The very end of \u201cthe missing 28 pages\u201d is also the very bottom of the web-page about \u201cthe missing 28 pages\u201d<\/span><\/a>; it\u2019s the end of page 443 of the 858-page congressional report about 9\/11; and it says:<\/span><\/p>\n

In the October 9, 2002 closed hearing, Director Mueller acknowledged that he became aware of some of the facts regarding the Saudi issue only as a result of the investigative work of the Joint Inquiry Staff:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m saying the sequence of events here, I think the staff probed and, as a result of the probing, some facts came to light here and to me, frankly, that had not come to light before, and perhaps would not have come to light had the staff not probed. That\u2019s what I\u2019m telling you. So I\u2019m agreeing with you that the staff probing brought out facts that may not have come to this Committee.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Senator Dewine: \u201cBut what you\u2019re also saying though is that probing then brought facts to your attention.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Director Mueller: \u201cYes.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

In other words: though his field agents, whose work he had squelched, had been urgently trying to obtain from their superiors an authorization to launch an intensive investigation into the matters that \u201cthe missing 28 pages\u201d dealt with (which was the financing, and possible direction, of the 9\/11 attacks, by top officials of the Saudi Government)<\/span><\/a>, Mueller told Congress, on 9 October 2002, that because \u201cthe staff\u201d of the congressional investigation \u201cprobed\u201d into this FBI information, this information that his agents had actually tried so hard to get him to support and investigate further<\/span><\/a> \u201ccame to light \u2026 and perhaps would not have come to light had the [congressional] staff not probed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That passage can also be seen on page 35 of the original, here<\/span><\/a>. (This pdf of it is supplied here because that testimony from Mueller was so unbelievable, that intelligent readers here will be skeptical that he actually implied that Congress\u2019s staff had dug up new information which even Mueller\u2019s own FBI didn\u2019t know about \u2014 information that he himself had actually personally squelched.) Mueller was obviously perjuring himself to Congress there (his assertion was ludicrously false, especially because he was the person who had required this information to be hidden and squelched), and this would be one of the matters that a Special Prosecutor would need to be obtaining, from Mueller, testimony under cross-examination, to find what defense Mueller might have, against a perjury charge on that matter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here, then, is the very opening of the October 24th article by the former FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, <\/b>“Targeting Michael Flynn & Shielding the Radical Cleric Gulen: Special Counsel Robert Mueller MUST Step Down\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n

General Michael Flynn, Former National Security Advisor to President Trump, is being investigated by Special Counsel for accepting legitimate payments from Turkish companies for researching and exposing Wanted Terrorist and Radical Islamist Fethullah Gulen and his $25+ Billion criminal network in the United States.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller is Special Counsel in charge of the case. He is the same Robert Mueller who used his position as Director of the FBI to shield and cover up Gulen\u2019s criminal-terrorist network and operations, and take drastic measures to quash a whistleblower\u2019s Gulen-related reports. These previous connections and actions by Mr. Mueller create a direct conflict of interest with his current position as Special Counsel in Flynn\u2019s case, and require that he must immediately step down from the case.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

In May 2017 the Justice Department appointed Robert S. Mueller III, a former F.B.I. director, as special counsel to oversee the investigation into ties between President Trump\u2019s campaign and Russian officials.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Not long after being appointed Mr. Mueller began targeting former national security adviser Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn, expanded the investigation beyond the Russia-Gate probe, and began a furious pursuit of Mr. Flynn\u2019s Turkish connections and his vocal stand on the wanted radical Islamic Cleric Fethullah Gulen.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Mueller\u2019s inquiries went from Russia-connections to Flynn\u2019s outing of Gulen\u2019s twenty five-billion-dollar sleeper terror cell in the United States. Not finding any substantial evidence against Flynn within the Russia-Gate scope, the Special Counsel team switched gears and started a Turkey-Gate. During the past several months Mr. Mueller\u2019s prosecutors have used multiple grand juries to issue subpoenas for documents related to Mr. Flynn. All this despite President Trump\u2019s demand that:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Mueller should confine his investigation to the narrow issue of Russia\u2019s attempts to disrupt last year\u2019s presidential campaign, not conduct an expansive inquiry into the finances of Mr. Trump or his associates.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Mueller\u2019s prosecution team and F.B.I. agents have spent hours going over the details of Mr. Flynn\u2019s perfectly legitimate business dealings with a Turkish-American businessman who worked with Mr. Flynn\u2019s consulting business, the Flynn Intel Group. Why? Because the business arrangements included research for and exposure of the world\u2019s largest radical Islamist network, operating in the United States for over two decades- the Gulen Network.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The targeting of Mr. Flynn through consolidated Obama Whitehouse leaks and one-sided media attacks began six months prior to the Special Counsel appointment. It started with an editorial penned by Mr. Flynn on November 8, 2016, when he became the first public official to unabashedly expose the radical cleric long protected by multiple government agencies- the CIA, State Department and FBI, starting under President Bill Clinton\u2019s administration:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The primary bone of contention between the U.S. and Turkey is Fethullah G\u00fclen, a shady Islamic mullah residing in Pennsylvania whom former President Clinton once called his \u201cfriend\u201d in a well circulated video.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

G\u00fclen portrays himself as a moderate, but he is in fact a radical Islamist. He has publicly boasted about his \u201csoldiers\u201d waiting for his orders to do whatever he directs them to do. …<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

And, finally, excerpts will be presented here from the terrific 7-part article \u201cWill the 9\/11 case finally go to trial?\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/a> by Andrew Cockburn in the October 2017 Harper\u2019s<\/i> \u2014 an article that was mentioned only at one other mainsteam newsmedium, “Democracy Now\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and that I believe would have received far bigger coverage than it did<\/span><\/a>, if only it hadn\u2019t been so good, exposing so much that\u2019s forbidden to expose to a mass-audience in America (and so Harper\u2019s<\/i> itself was courageous to publish this).<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is just one passage<\/span><\/a> from it:<\/span><\/p>\n

The reason we know so much about the West Coast activities of the hijackers is largely because of Michael Jacobson, a burly former FBI lawyer and counterterrorism analyst who worked as an investigator for the Joint Inquiry. Reviewing files at FBI headquarters, he came across a stray reference to a bureau informant in San Diego who had known one of the hijackers. Intrigued, he decided to follow up in the San Diego field office. Bob Graham, the former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told me recently that Robert Mueller, then the FBI director (and now the special counsel investigating connections between Russia and the Trump campaign) made \u201cthe strongest objections\u201d to Jacobson and his colleagues visiting San Diego.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Graham and his team defied Mueller\u2019s efforts, and Jacobson flew west. There he discovered that his hunch was correct. The FBI files in California were replete with extraordinary and damning details, notably the hijackers\u2019 close relationship with Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi living in San Diego with a no-show job at a local company with connections to the Saudi Ministry of Defense and Aviation. The FBI had investigated his possible connections to Saudi intelligence. A couple of weeks after the two hijackers flew into Los Angeles from Malaysia, in February 2000, he had driven up to the city and met with Fahad al-Thumairy, a cleric employed by his country\u2019s Ministry of Islamic Affairs who worked out of the Saudi Consulate. Thumairy, reported to be an adherent of extreme Wahhabi ideology \u2014 he was later denied a U.S. visa on grounds of jihadi connections \u2014 was also an imam of the King Fahad mosque in Los Angeles County, which the hijackers had visited soon after their arrival.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

After meeting with Thumairy, Bayoumi had driven across town to a Middle Eastern restaurant where he \u201caccidentally\u201d encountered and introduced himself to Hazmi and Mihdhar. He invited them to move to San Diego, found them an apartment, paid their first month\u2019s rent, helped them open a bank account, and introduced them to members of the local Saudi community, including his close friend Osama Bassnan.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

During the time Bayoumi was catering to the hijackers\u2019 needs, his salary as a ghost employee of the aviation company got a 700 percent boost; it was cut when they left town. That was not his only source of extra funds: After Hazmi and Mihdhar arrived in San Diego, Bassnan\u2019s wife began signing over to Bayoumi\u2019s wife the checks she received from the wife of the Saudi ambassador in Washington. The total value reportedly came to nearly $150,000.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Jacobson also found evidence, noted but seemingly ignored by the bureau, that Hazmi had worked for a San Diego businessman who had himself been the subject of an FBI counterterrorism investigation. Even more amazingly, the two hijackers had been close with an FBI informant, Abdussattar Shaikh. Hazmi had actually lived in his house after Mihdhar left town. Shaikh failed to mention his young Saudi friends\u2019 last names in regular reports to his FBI case officer, or that they were taking flying lessons. Understandably, the investigators had a lot of questions for this man. Nevertheless, Mueller adamantly refused their demands to interview him, even when backed by a congressional subpoena, and removed Shaikh to an undisclosed location \u201cfor his own safety.\u201d <\/i>Today, Graham believes that Mueller was acting under orders from the White House.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Another intriguing document unearthed by the investigators in San Diego was a memo from July 2, 2002, discussing alleged financial connections between the September 11 hijackers, Saudi government officials, and members of the Saudi royal family. It stated that there was \u201cincontrovertible evidence that there is support for these terrorists within the Saudi Government.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Back in 2002, Graham himself was already coming to the conclusion that the 9\/11 attacks could not have been the work of a stand-alone terrorist cell. As he later wrote, \u201cI believed almost intuitively that the terrorists who pulled off this attack must have had an elaborate support network, abroad and in the U.S.A.,\u201d with expenses far exceeding the official estimate of $250,000. \u201cFor that reason,\u201d he continued, \u201cas well as because of the benefits that come with the confidentiality of diplomatic cover, this infrastructure of support was probably maintained, at least in part, by a nation-state.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

I asked Graham whether he believed that a careful search of the FBI files in Florida and elsewhere would yield similarly explosive disclosures. He told me that the inquiry would have doubtless discovered whom the hijackers were associating with in those places, and where that money came from. Fifteen years on, Graham still regretted not having pursued the possibility of revelatory FBI files in those other locations \u201caggressively.\u201d Instead, he lamented, the inquiry ended up \u201cwith San Diego being the microscope through which we\u2019ve been looking at this whole plot.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

And, here is another passage, this one<\/span><\/a> describing how a U.S. Congress that\u2019s usually owned by the Saud family via their and their friends\u2019 lobbying, came ultimately to vote to pass the \u201cJASTA\u201d or Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act<\/span><\/a>, even over President Obama\u2019s veto of it: <\/span><\/p>\n

There was one foreign state threatening to strike back at the United States if JASTA became law. Visiting Washington in March 2016, before Congress began voting on the measure, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir explicitly warned that his government might sell its portfolio of \u201c$750 billion\u201d in U.S. Treasury bonds, thereby crashing the market in government securities, should JASTA become law. (The figure was a wild exaggeration \u2014 U.S. Treasury figures showed that the real amount was $117 billion.)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Even with all the threats and warnings, the House passed the bill that September, whereupon Obama announced he would veto it, which he duly did. The battle resumed with greater intensity as both sides prepared another vote. \u201cPresident Obama, you can\u2019t hide! We\u2019ll get Congress to override,\u201d protesters chanted outside the White House.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Despite frantic efforts by the administration, and ranks of lobbyists for the Saudis, the Senate crushed Obama\u2019s veto, 97 to 1. It was the first and only time Obama suffered such an indignity. Reportedly, he was \u201cfurious.\u201d Meanwhile, bipartisan pressure to release the censored twenty-eight pages in Graham\u2019s original report had been building for some time, led by congressmen such as the Democrat Stephen Lynch and the Republican Walter Jones. Jones, once a fervent hawk, had turned sharply dovish, through guilt, as he told me, over voting for the Iraq war on the basis of \u201clies.\u201d (He writes a letter of condolence to the family of every single casualty of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.) Jones, Lynch, and others on both sides of the aisle held regular press conferences about the twenty-eight pages \u201cto keep a drumbeat going to give the 9\/11 families the complete truth.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

With the exception of that committed group, Owens was not impressed by what she found on Capitol Hill. Most of the senators and representatives she met didn\u2019t seem to care who was behind 9\/11. \u201cThey just didn\u2019t want to be seen as voting against the 9\/11 families. So they would vote yes for it, and then try to sabotage it behind the scenes. . . . Washington is an ugly place.\u201d Encouraging this assessment was her discovery that at the very moment they were voting almost unanimously for the bill, a significant number of senators from both parties were quietly circulating and signing a letter citing \u201cconcerns\u201d regarding JASTA\u2019s \u201cpotential unintended consequences\u201d to \u201cthe national security and foreign policy of the United States.\u201d In effect, they were suggesting that the law they had just been seen enthusiastically supporting be weakened.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

MY CONCLUSIONS<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, an honest Special Prosecutor would be able to get to the bottom of this, and perhaps my reading of the situation is overlooking some important facts, which are yet to be revealed; but, I think that, at the present stage, a reasonable hypothesis, as regards whom Mueller has consistently been protecting here, can be presented:<\/span><\/p>\n

President Bush was a buddy of the Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud, nicknamed \u201cBandar Bush.\u201d Former U.S. Senator Bob Graham “believes that Mueller was acting under orders from the White House.\u201d That \u201cWhite House\u201d was George W. Bush, a friend of the Sauds and especially of Prince Bandar. Everybody knows that Bush and Cheney protected the members of the Saud family who live in the United States, to allow them to escape unquestioned from the U.S. right after the 9\/11 attacks. Afterward, both Bush and Obama protected the Sauds to the fullest extent possible, and Obama even vetoed the bill allowing the lawsuit by the 9\/11 families against the Saudi Government (namely, against the family who own it) to go forward. Congress reluctantly but overwhelmingly overrode Obama\u2019s veto (because doing otherwise would have been seen as scandalous by the voters back home).<\/span><\/p>\n

Mueller\u2019s entire record is consistent with his being an agent for both the Bush and Saud families, and this would mean he\u2019s an agent of both the U.S. and Saudi aristocracies, a \u201cfox guarding the chicken coop\u201d before and after the 9\/11 invasion. He was selected to be the Special Prosecutor by the American Establishment in order to force U.S. President Donald Trump to do even more than he has thus far done in service to the Sauds. Previously, Trump had allowed, which even President Obama did not, a world-record all-time high $350 billion sale<\/span><\/a> during the next ten years to the Sauds, of U.S.-made weaponry. Though it\u2019s gigantic, the multi-trillionaire Sauds won\u2019t be paying for it only with their money but also with the money extracted from the Saudi public, whom they also own. For the Sauds, it\u2019s a long-held dream come true, to gain all this killing-power against Shiites, in Syria, Iran, Yemen, and elsewhere. And, Trump has come out strongly against the two countries whose governments the Sauds desperately want overthrown and replaced by Saudi vassal-states: Syria, and Iran. But what else can they extract from Trump? Perhaps Trump\u2019s more-direct support for the Sauds\u2019 recent blockade against Qatar (which had recently quit the Sauds\u2019 war against Shia). Perhaps also Trump\u2019s sending far more American soldiers and weapons into Syria to overthrow the Shiite Bashar al-Assad there. But, above all, the Sauds would be seeking from Trump maximum actions to weaken or deactivate JASTA so as to continue<\/i> the cover-up of who financed and organized the 9\/11 attacks<\/span><\/a>. And, what would be the pressure in order to achieve those<\/i> ends? Impeachment of the President, if Trump fails to come up with these ultimate payments to the Sauds. And, who would be the best person to apply that pressure? Robert Mueller. George W. Bush himself recently went public urging America to replace Trump by his Vice President Mike Pence via impeachment, which is the objective for which Bob Mueller was appointed. The Bush family and the Saud family want to replace Donald Trump by Mike Pence.<\/span><\/p>\n

If Mr. Mueller will succeed at this task, he\u2019ll have a terrific retirement \u2014 that\u2019s for sure.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 <\/span>They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of <\/span> <\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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