{"id":389248,"date":"2018-12-15T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-successful-disruption-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-12-15T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T09:00:07","slug":"a-successful-disruption-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-successful-disruption-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"A Successful Disruption &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-698111\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- amazon_content\/855a6894d421a939adb0bb09099045ec Cache -->\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix post-info\">\n<p class=\"authors\"> By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/author\/paul-gottfried\/?ptype=article\" title=\"Posts by Paul Gottfried\" rel=\"author\">Paul Gottfried<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"attribution\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\">American Thinker<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">December 15, 2018<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blog-content clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/muellers-investigation-is-missing-one-thing-a-crime\/\">devastating critique<\/a>\u00a0of Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation of Trump\u2019s alleged Russian collusion, Peter Van Buren explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe last\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/russia-investigation-fbi-what-mueller-has-and-what-hes-missing\/\">looked<\/a>\u00a0at what Mueller had publicly \u2014 and what he didn\u2019t have \u2014 some 10 months ago, and I remained skeptical that the Trump campaign had in any way colluded with Russia. It\u2019s worth another look now, but first let\u2019s give away the ending (spoiler alert!): there is still no real evidence of, well, much of anything significant about Russiagate. One thing that is clear is that the investigation seems to be ending. Mueller\u2019s office has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/mueller-trump-russia-investigation-michael-cohen-paul-manafort-flynn-roger-stone-tweet-a8666136.html\">reportedly<\/a>even told various defense lawyers that it is \u201ctying up loose ends.\u201d The moment to wrap things up is politically right as well: the Democrats will soon take control of the House; time to hand this all off to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"amazon-element-wrapper-custom align-right last-count\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-med-image\"><span class=\"amazon-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Encounters-Nixon-Marcuse-Friends-Teachers\/dp\/1933859997?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=1933859997\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41ZzIBnCXbL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"amazon-image amazon-image-medium\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-title\"><span class=\"appip-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Encounters-Nixon-Marcuse-Friends-Teachers\/dp\/1933859997?SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;tag=lrc18-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=2025&amp;creative=165953&amp;creativeASIN=1933859997\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Encounters: My Life wi&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-author\">Paul Gottfried<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-label label-lowest-used\">Best Price: <\/span>$18.03<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-label label-formatted-price\">Buy New <\/span>$14.99<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-disclaimer-new\"><span style=\"display:block;color:#888;font-size: .80em; padding: 0 0 3px 0;\">(as of 08:20 EST &#8211; <span style=\"cursor:pointer;\" title=\"Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date\/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on Amazon.com at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.\">Details<\/span>)<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-button\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aws\/cart\/add.html?AssociateTag=lrc18-20&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;ASIN.1=1933859997&amp;Quantity.1=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/wp-content\/mu-plugins\/amazon-ad-link-lr\/img\/buy-from-tan.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span>Van Buren underlines the obvious when he tells us that Mueller\u2019s expensive, eighteen-month long investigation turned up no evidence of the collusion in question. He also brings up all the embarrassing misadventures of Mueller as a past investigator, such as his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2017\/05\/21\/when_comey_and_mueller_bungled_the_anthrax_case_133953.html\">botched examination<\/a>\u00a0of the anthrax cases. Van Buren might have also mentioned Mueller\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/alan-dershowitz-mueller-political-zealot\/2018\/04\/08\/id\/853235\/\">disastrous use of criminal Whitey Bulger<\/a>\u00a0as a means of going after the Mafia in Massachusetts; and the inappropriate nature of his taking the job to investigate Trump right after Trump had turned down Mueller\u2019s request to become FBI Director.<\/p>\n<p>Although I fully concede Van Buren\u2019s points, that the investigation has proceeded too long and that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/12\/paul-gottfried\/a-successful-disruption\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Gottfried American Thinker December 15, 2018 In a\u00a0devastating critique\u00a0of Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation of Trump\u2019s alleged Russian collusion, Peter Van Buren explains: \u201cWe last\u00a0looked\u00a0at what Mueller had publicly \u2014 and what he didn\u2019t have \u2014 some 10 months ago, and I remained skeptical that the Trump campaign had in any way colluded with Russia. 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