Clever, have some cheese.
Andrew McCabe to retire
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newfie
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what they're doing. Don't cry as the whole crooked dem house comes tumbling down.
floridays
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http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/08/robert-mueller-botching-investigations-since-anthrax-attacks/
Imagine that, look what shows up on drudge today. I wasn't even aware this was in the Federalist last month. Go figure.
Sportello
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Who is the money behind 'The Federalist'?
Drudge? That's a source these days?
Desperation has a peculiar, but recognizable odor.
Nice dance, though.
When you pay attention to Manafort’s actions for Russia in Ukraine, who he owed money to, and the fact that he inserted himself into a major political campaign—FREE OF CHARGE—yeah, it’s a bit concerning.
Yeah. It was posted earlier today.
Any reason why none of this came to light when Mueller was first appointed?
Y’all got a good ol’ fashioned smear campaign up and runnin’. Nothing wrong with that. Let’s just call it what it is.
It will be fine
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Manafort was involved with Ukraine up until just before he joined the Trump campaign. There is no ten year gap, @newfie is just making that up. He thinks it's normal for someone to be a campaign chairman pro-bono when they happen to be massively in debt to Russian oligarchs.
floridays
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http://archive.boston.com/bostonglo...011/06/15/revisiting_mueller_and_the_anthrax_
I can post more, however I don't believe it is worth wasting my time on you.
Notice the date, and notice the source. You will be a very depressed and distraught person when all of this runs it's course. Be patient, your nightmare is conjoining. Time is not your friend. McCabe's time ran out, only two days before retirement.
Mueller and the other conspirators time is ticking also. If I was Mueller and wanted to save my hide, I would inform Rosenstein of "new" information developed through the "investigation" and have Hillary's and the DNC, involvement in working with Steele and the Russians, to defraud Trump, and take down a duly elected President, added to the scope of the special prosecutor.
In time there will be a special counsel appointed to investigate all things Mueller. Be patient, it is becoming unavoidable, unless your pitbull changes course.
I'm not sure if Mueller is a target. He was the guy appointed special prosecutor and he's going about his job. Someone had to do it. Don't see yet anything he's done has been damaging to Trump. There's certainly a need for another special prosecutor to look into the FBI's handling of the Clinton email scandal, the FISA warrants and spying on the Trump campaign. All of this needs to be investigated, resolved, and put behind us.
Sportello
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Your link is a 404, and you have some strange conspiracy theories.
floridays
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DriveInDriѵeOut
Inordinately Right
floridays
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Mueller's FBI
This is from the Washington Post
Politics
Justice Dept. takes on itself in probe of 2001 anthrax attacks
Correction: An earlier version of this article failed to mention that a joint report by McClatchy newspapers, PBS’s “Frontline” and ProPublica first disclosed the court documents in the Florida anthrax death case. This version includes that information.
By Jerry Markon January 27, 2012
Since it began a decade ago, the federal government’s massive investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks has been plagued by missteps and complications.
Investigators initially focused on the wrong man, then had to pay him a nearly $6 million settlement. In 2008, they accused another man, Bruce E. Ivins, who killed himself before he could go to trial.
Now, in the latest twist, the government has argued against itself.
In documents deep in the files of a recently settled Florida lawsuit, Justice Department civil attorneys contradicted their own department’s conclusion that Ivins was unquestionably the anthrax killer. The lawyers said the type of anthrax in Ivins’s lab was “radically different” from the deadly anthrax. They cited several witnesses who said Ivins was innocent, and they suggested that a private laboratory in Ohio could have been involved in the attacks.
The spectacle of one arm of the Justice Department publicly questioning another could undermine one of the most high-profile investigations in years, according to critics and independent experts who reviewed the court filings.
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floridays
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From the New York Times
Once again, this is a fruit of Mueller's FBI, an investigation he headed.
Scientist Is Paid Millions by U.S. in Anthrax Suit
By SCOTT SHANE and ERIC LICHTBLAUJUNE 28, 2008
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- Steven J. Hatfill, a former Army biodefense researcher intensively investigated as a “person of interest” in the deadly anthrax letters of 2001.
The settlement, consisting of $2.825 million in cash and an annuity paying Dr. Hatfill $150,000 a year for 20 years, brings to an end a five-year legal battle that had recently threatened a reporter with large fines for declining to name sources she said she did not recall.
Dr. Hatfill, who worked at the Army’s laboratory at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md., in the late 1990s, was the subject of a flood of news media coverage beginning in mid-2002, after television cameras showed Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in biohazard suits searching his apartment near the Army base. He was later named a “person of interest” in the case by then Attorney General John Ashcroft, speaking on national television.
In a news conference in August 2002, Dr. Hatfill tearfully denied that he had anything to do with the anthrax letters and said irresponsible news media coverage based on government leaks had destroyed his reputation.
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MAKAVELI
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Post reported.From the New York Times
Once again, this is a fruit of Mueller's FBI, an investigation he headed.
Scientist Is Paid Millions by U.S. in Anthrax Suit
By SCOTT SHANE and ERIC LICHTBLAUJUNE 28, 2008
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- Steven J. Hatfill, a former Army biodefense researcher intensively investigated as a “person of interest” in the deadly anthrax letters of 2001.
The settlement, consisting of $2.825 million in cash and an annuity paying Dr. Hatfill $150,000 a year for 20 years, brings to an end a five-year legal battle that had recently threatened a reporter with large fines for declining to name sources she said she did not recall.
Dr. Hatfill, who worked at the Army’s laboratory at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md., in the late 1990s, was the subject of a flood of news media coverage beginning in mid-2002, after television cameras showed Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in biohazard suits searching his apartment near the Army base. He was later named a “person of interest” in the case by then Attorney General John Ashcroft, speaking on national television.
In a news conference in August 2002, Dr. Hatfill tearfully denied that he had anything to do with the anthrax letters and said irresponsible news media coverage based on government leaks had destroyed his reputation.
Dr. Hatfill’s lawsuit, filed in 2003, accused friend.B.I. agents and Justice Department officials involved in the criminal investigation of the anthrax mailings of leaking information about him to the news media in violation of the Privacy Act. In order to prove their case, his lawyers took depositions from key friend.B.I. investigators, senior officials and a number of reporters who had covered the investigation.
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Mark Grannis, a lawyer for Dr. Hatfill, said his client was pleased with the settlement.
“The good news is that we still live in a country where a guy who’s been horribly abused can go to a judge and say ‘I need your help,’ and maybe it takes a while, but he gets justice,” Mr. Grannis said.
The settlement, Mr. Grannis said, “means that Steven Hatfill is finally an ex-person of interest.”
In a written statement, Mr. Grannis and Dr. Hatfill’s other lawyers said, “We can only hope that the individuals and institutions involved are sufficiently chastened by this episode to deter similar destruction of private citizens in the future — and that we will all read anonymously sourced news reports with a great deal more skepticism.”
The lawyers will take their fee out of the settlement, which will pay out $5.8 million over 20 years. The $4.6 million figure is the cost of the annuity to the government.
The settlement called new attention to the fact that nearly seven years after the toxic letters were mailed, killing five people and sickening at least 17 others, the case has not been solved.
A Justice Department spokesman, Brian Roehrkasse, said in a statement that the government admitted no liability but decided settlement was “in the best interest of the United States.”
“The government remains resolute in its investigation into the anthrax attacks, which killed five individuals and sickened others after lethal anthrax powder was sent through the United States mail,” Mr. Roehrkasse said.
An friend.B.I. spokesman, Jason Pack, said the anthrax investigation “is one of the largest and most complex investigations ever conducted by law enforcement” and is currently being pursued by more than 20 agents of the friend.B.I. and the Postal Inspection Service.
“Solving this case is a top priority for the friend.B.I. and for the family members of the victims who were killed,” Mr. Pack said.
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Steven J. Hatfill has denied having anything to do with the anthrax letters of 2001. He is shown arriving at a court in 2003. CreditMark Wilson/Getty Images
But Representative Rush Holt, a New Jersey Democrat whose district was the site of a postal box believed to have been used in the attacks, said he would press Robert S. Mueller III, director of the friend.B.I., for more answers about the status of the case.
“As today’s settlement announcement confirms, this case was botched from the very beginning,” Mr. Holt said. “The friend.B.I. did a poor job of collecting evidence, and then inappropriately focused on one individual as a suspect for too long, developing an erroneous theory of the case that has led to this very expensive dead end.”
Dr. Hatfill subpoenaed Washington journalists to try to learn which federal officials had spoken to the news media about the case against him in possible violation of federal privacy laws.
Toni Locy, a former legal affairs reporter for USA Today who wrote several articles about the case, was held in contempt of court, facing fines of up to $5,000 a day from Judge Reggie Walton over her refusal to name her sources, and her case is pending before an appeals court. Ms. Locy said Friday that she was relieved by the developments but that it was too soon to celebrate.
“I hope this means that this ordeal is over and that I can get on with my life,” said Ms. Locy, who will begin teaching legal reporting at Washington and Lee University in the fall.
She said Dr. Hatfill’s lawyers said they no longer needed her testimony, though she had not been told whether the contempt order against her had been lifted.
The outcome differed significantly from the settlement of a similar case involving Wen Ho Lee, a former nuclear scientist once suspected of espionage. In that case, five news organizations joined the government’s settlement, agreeing to pay a total of $750,000 to prevent their reporters from having to testify about their sources.
Ms. Locy said that a federal mediator had tried to get Gannett, which owns USA Today, to negotiate some type of settlement with Dr. Hatfill’s lawyers, but that it had refused
She called the result an important affirmation of journalists’ ability to use confidential sources in gathering material on important news stories. “I protected my sources, and that’s important,” she said.
Dr. Hatfill also sued The New York Times and the columnist Nicholas D. Kristof, saying that columns Mr. Kristof wrote about the case had libeled him by suggesting that he might be the anthrax mailer. That lawsuit was dismissed last year, but Dr. Hatfill has appealed the dismissal.
The former Army scientist also sued Vanity Fair and the author of an article about the case in the magazine, Donald Foster, as well as Reader’s Digest, which published a condensed version. That case was settled last year on confidential terms.
Dr. Hatfill, 54, grew up in Illinois but studied medicine in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. After returning to the United States in the early 1990s, he worked at the National Institutes of Health and the United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick. In applying for those jobs, he claimed to have had a Ph.D. from a South African university that his lawyers later admitted he had not earned.
He did training on bioterrorism for the friend.B.I., Central Intelligence Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency and trained to be a bioweapons inspector for the United Nations, though he never began the job.
After Dr. Hatfill came under suspicion in the anthrax case in 2002, an friend.B.I. surveillance team began following him everywhere, and a small motorcade sometimes trailed his car around Washington.
In May 2003, an friend.B.I. surveillance car ran over Dr. Hatfill’s foot in Georgetown as he approached the car to take the driver’s picture. He was given a ticket for “walking to create a hazard” and was fined $5.
David Stout contributed reporting from Washington.
floridays
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Nice, disregard the truth.
floridays
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Revisiting Mueller and the anthrax case
that is the reason I copied the article, the link brought up an article I previously linked. The link is not attached to to the copy and paste. You have no regard for the truth, I can understand why you wouldn't want it here by technicality. It's how you roll.
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floridays
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No, but when archived links don't take you to the correct story, I'll take my chances disseminating the truth. Credit was given, my assumption is it was printed to be read, then and now, for research or other reasons. I'm sorry you guys don't like the content.
