'A Bit Of A Mystery': Why Is Mueller Keeping His Distance From Pence?

[DonViejo]

By Allegra Kirkland | February 9, 2018 6:00 am

Speculation about when and under what terms President Donald Trump might be interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller has dominated the headlines ever since the two parties began talks in December. But what about Vice President Mike Pence?

Pence was absent from many of the key incidents Mueller is reportedly investigating as part of his sprawling probe into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. But he was intimately involved with several, including the firing of former FBI director James Comey, and the subsequent efforts to settle on a rationale for that firing, which appear to be at the center of the Mueller investigation.

So it’s puzzling that Mueller appears to have made no attempt to talk to the administration’s second-highest-ranking official. Pence’s lawyer met with Mueller last year to offer Pence’s full cooperation.

“It’s a bit of a mystery to me that Pence’s name hasn’t really surfaced at all,” Michael Zeldin, a former federal prosecutor who worked closely with Mueller in the Justice Department’s criminal division, told TPM. “There are things that Pence seems to be relevant to. So I’m surprised.”

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[AJT]

1. Pence was in charge of the transition. It makes no sense that he hasn't been interviewed.

Perhaps Mr Mueller already has all he needs against Pence.

[rainin]

2. Let's hope he has been cooperating secretly for a long time.

OTOH, if he is left standing when this is all over, it will be a disgrace.

[dchill]

3. My gut tells me that there's a file.

[global1]

4. Don't You Know Pence Was To Be Trump's Replacement....

in the grand plan. It's all been pre-programmed by the Repugs. They just need to get a few more thing out of their useful idiot Trump - before they dump on him and drum him out of the corps or is it coup?

[CrispyQ]

5. Once they compromise the rest of our electoral process & they no longer need Trump's base to win,

they will dump Trump & put in Pence. Tillerson's comment (in a Fox news interview) on Russian meddling was pathetic.

Tillerson said, “I don't know that I would say we are better prepared, because the Russians will adapt as well."

“The point is, if it's their intention to interfere, they are going to find ways to do that," he told Fox News. "We can take steps, but this is something that, once they decide they are going to do it, it's very difficult to pre-empt it.

I guess the exceptional USA can no longer build a better mousetrap.

His lack of motivation to secure our electoral process is stunning.