Author: Freedom Watch
Newsmax TV April 5, 2018
Why nobody knows what’s going on inside the Mueller investigation By Zachary Fryer-Biggs Vox April 5, 2018 Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team of lawyers won their first conviction, sending Alex van der Zwaan to jail on Tuesday. They are methodically working their way through their investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, with 19 indictments and five pleas thus far. Everyone wants to know whom the investigation will target next. But the people who actually know, Mueller and his team of at least 17 people, have done something remarkable for Washington in the Trump era…
Mueller’s Russia probe shows it pays to cooperate AP News April 5, 2018 WASHINGTON (AP) — George Papadopoulos, taken by surprise by FBI agents at an airport last summer, now tweets smiling beach selfies with a Mykonos hashtag. Rick Gates, for weeks on home confinement with electronic monitoring, gets rapid approval for a family vacation and shaves down his potential prison time. Michael Flynn, once the target of a grand jury investigation, flies cross-country to stump for a California congressional candidate and books a speaking event in New York. The message is unmistakable: It pays to cooperate with…
Judge Andrew Napolitano: What Is Robert Mueller looking for? By Andrew Napolitano Fox News April 5, 2018 Robert Mueller is the special counsel appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in May 2017 to probe the nature and extent of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. The investigation began in October 2016 under President Barack Obama when the FBI took seriously the boast of Carter Page, one of candidate Donald Trump’s foreign policy advisers, that he had worked for the Kremlin. The FBI also had transcripts of telephone conversations and copies of emails and text messages of…
By Larry Klayman Newsmax April 5, 2018 On July 29, 1994, I founded Judicial Watch to police judges, after 17 years of toiling in the legal profession, having spent a few years as an associate with a prestigious Miami, Florida, litigation law firm, moving after that to the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice as a trial attorney serving on the team which broke up AT&T and creating competition in the telecommunications industry, and then as a senior lawyer with an international trade law firm. In 1983, I left to start my own legal practice in Washington,…
Exclusive: Mueller’s team questioning Russian oligarchs By Kara Scannell and Shimon Prokupecz CNN April 4, 2018 Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has taken the unusual step of questioning Russian oligarchs who traveled into the US, stopping at least one and searching his electronic devices when his private jet landed at a New York area airport, according to multiple sources familiar with the inquiry. A second Russian oligarch was stopped during a recent trip to the US, although it is not clear if he was searched, according to a person briefed on the matter. Continue Reading…..
Stone, on day he sent Assange dinner email, also said ‘devastating’ WikiLeaks were forthcoming By Andrew Kaczynski and Gloria Borger CNN April 4, 2018 Roger Stone appeared on the InfoWars radio show the same day he sent an email claiming he dined with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — and he predicted “devastating” upcoming disclosures about the Clinton Foundation. Stone’s comments in his August 4, 2016, appearance are the earliest known time he claimed to know of forthcoming WikiLeaks documents. A CNN KFile timeline shows that on August 10, 2016, Stone claimed to have “actually communicated with Julian Assange.”…
The Rosenstein Memo | National Review By Andrew C. McCarthy National Review April 4, 2018 Eight months ago, in August 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein secretly gave Special Counsel Robert Mueller specific guidance as to the crimes Mueller is authorized to investigate. The guidance came about ten weeks after Mueller’s May 17 appointment. This guidance purports to describe the grounds for criminal investigations, marking the limits of the special counsel’s jurisdiction. As readers may recall, these columns have been critical of the deputy attorney general for failing to provide such guidance. Instead, I’ve contended, Rosenstein assigned Mueller…
Harvard/Harris Poll: Americans United on Second Special Counsel Newsmax April 4, 2018 More than two-thirds of voters would like to see Attorney General Jeff Sessions appoint a second special counsel to investigate abuse allegations at the FBI and Department of Justice, according to a new poll. The Harvard CAP/Harris Poll, provided to The Hill ahead of its online posting, found 67 percent of voters support a second special counsel. Continue Reading…..
Mueller told Trump’s attorneys the president remains under investigation but is not currently a criminal target By Carol D. Leonnig, Robert Costa chicagotribune.com April 3, 2018 Special Counsel Robert Mueller III informed President Donald Trump’s attorneys last month that he is continuing to investigate the president but does not consider him a criminal target at this point, according to three people familiar with the discussions. In private negotiations in early March about a possible presidential interview, Mueller described Trump as a subject of his investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. Prosecutors view someone as a subject…