{"id":362212,"date":"2018-05-22T00:16:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T23:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mueller-probe-exposed-and-the-deep-state-is-flailing\/"},"modified":"2018-05-22T00:16:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T23:16:38","slug":"mueller-probe-exposed-and-the-deep-state-is-flailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mueller-probe-exposed-and-the-deep-state-is-flailing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mueller Probe Exposed \u2014 and the \u2018Deep State\u2019 Is Flailing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2018\/05\/21\/mark-penn-mueller-probe-deep-state-flailing\/\"><strong>Breitbart<\/strong><\/a><br \/>May 21, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Mark Penn \u2014 Hillary Clinton\u2019s chief strategist during her 2008 presidential campaign who has served the Clinton family since the mid-90s \u2014 lowers the boom on Robert Mueller, Rod Rosenstein, Christopher Steele, the Clinton Foundation, and the intelligence community\u2019s \u201cdeep state,\u201d laying out the absurdity and the danger of the Obama administration\u2019s abuse of surveillance and law enforcement against political enemies.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/judiciary\/388549-stopping-robert-mueller-to-protect-us-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">The Hill:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cdeep state\u201d is in a deep state of desperation. With little time left before the Justice Department inspector general\u2019s report becomes public, and with special counsel Robert Mueller having failed to bring down Donald Trump after a year of trying, they know a reckoning is coming.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, there is little doubt that the highest echelons of the FBI and the Justice Department broke their own rules to end the Hillary Clinton \u201cmatter,\u201d but we can expect the inspector general to document what was done or, more pointedly, not done. It is hard to see how a year-long investigation of this won\u2019t come down hard on former FBI Director James Comey and perhaps even former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who definitely wasn\u2019t playing mahjong in a secret \u201cno aides allowed\u201d meeting with former President Clinton on a Phoenix airport tarmac.<\/p>\n<p>With this report on the way and congressional investigators beginning to zero in on the lack of hard, verified evidence for starting the Trump probe, current and former intelligence and Justice Department officials are dumping everything they can think of to save their reputations.<\/p>\n<p>But it is backfiring. They started by telling the story of Alexander Downer, an Australian diplomat, as having remembered a bar conversation with George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign. But how did the FBI know they should talk to him? That\u2019s left out of their&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/clintonista-mark-penn-mueller-probe-exposed-and-the-deep-state-is-flailing.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BreitbartMay 21, 2018 Mark Penn \u2014 Hillary Clinton\u2019s chief strategist during her 2008 presidential campaign who has served the Clinton family since the mid-90s \u2014 lowers the boom on Robert Mueller, Rod Rosenstein, Christopher Steele, the Clinton Foundation, and the intelligence community\u2019s \u201cdeep state,\u201d laying out the absurdity and the danger of the Obama administration\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-362212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}