Saturday, July 11, 2020

Robert Mueller Speaks Out About His Investigations And Stone Prosecution


Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller writes an op/ ed in the Washington Post, defending the work of his office and the prosecution of Roger Stone against the ongoing lies and slurs of Putin puppet Donald "Impeached Forever" Trump.  Here are a few snippets:
The work of the special counsel’s office — its report, indictments, guilty pleas and convictions — should speak for itself. But I feel compelled to respond both to broad claims that our investigation was illegitimate and our motives were improper, and to specific claims that Roger Stone was a victim of our office. The Russia investigation was of paramount importance. Stone was prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes. He remains a convicted felon, and rightly so. [snip]
Russian efforts to interfere in our political system, and the essential question of whether those efforts involved the Trump campaign, required investigation. In that investigation, it was critical for us (and, before us, the FBI) to obtain full and accurate information. Likewise, it was critical for Congress to obtain accurate information from its witnesses. When a subject lies to investigators, it strikes at the core of the government’s efforts to find the truth and hold wrongdoers accountable. It may ultimately impede those efforts.
We made every decision in Stone’s case, as in all our cases, based solely on the facts and the law and in accordance with the rule of law. The women and men who conducted these investigations and prosecutions acted with the highest integrity. Claims to the contrary are false.
Mueller's op/ ed fills in the rest of the story for the record.  It's important that we not let the firehose of lies coming from the orange shitgibbon and his many hacks and enablers become the narrative.

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