Nadler says Mueller will not testify next week

[Tactical Peek]

Source: The Hill

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y) said Friday that special counsel Robert Mueller will not be testifying before his panel next week.

Nadler told reporters that the committee is still negotiating over his testimony with the Justice Department and Mueller but expects him to appear.

“He will come at some point. If it’s necessary, we will subpoena him,” Nadler said.



Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/443128-nadler-says-mueller-will-not-be-testifying-next-week

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Mueller needs to be rid of the DOJ employee thingie first.

Then have him testify as a private citizen.

[FBaggins]

6. They're going to ask him about his kids or his last vacation destination?

Not being a DOJ employee doesn't mean that he's free to give the committee what it wants.

[Progressive Jones]

37. He won't have any restraints related to DOJ employment upon him

if he resigns, then testifies.

[FBaggins]

40. That has been frequently posted... but is entirely wrong.

Leaving DOJ provides him with few additional options. He can’t bring an unredacted copy of the report. He can’t discuss ongoing prosecutions. He certainly can’t discuss grand jury information or counterintelligence/classified matters.

He could still be useful. He might say something like Comey’s personal belief that someone other than a president would be indicted. But “won’t have any restraints” is simply incorrect.

[2naSalit]

2. Perhaps they are waiting until

He's not on the DoJ payroll anymore, which should be about one more week, maybe two.

[Mike Nelson]

3. He should resign and...

… testify next week.

[jalan48]

5. You'd think so, especially if he is upset about the way Barr handled his report.

[rockfordfile]

43. Why would he be upset?

[jalan48]

44. If Barr didn't truthfully portray his findings.

[Nuggets]

4. Hmmm

Where is that person who gave me a belittling lecture on what tentative means when I said
“Mueller just left himself a way out of testifying”?

Trump is just buying time! Meanwhile we all hear more and more what a straight arrow and honorable patriotic man Mueller is over and over and over and over again on DU.

[watoos]

8. If I made up a list of American patriots,

Bob Mueller would be in the top tier. Mueller may have a reason to stay employed by justice, maybe he has more work to do? Don't forget, Mueller had a mole in his investigation, Rod Rosenstein.

We don't need to bash Mueller, that's the Republican's #1 game plan right now, because when he testifies all they will have left to do is throw mud at him. I would hope that we would leave the bashing of Mueller to Republicans.

[Nuggets]

11. Rod Rosenstein hand picked Mueller

There’s no reason to believe Mueller is any better than Rosenstein, or Comey, or McCabe, or Barr. Not one.

How do you know the Republican game plan isn’t to get Dems to talk about what straight arrow he is?

That’s what they did with Comey
We still see people here praising him and declaring him honorable, yet he went against protocol to berate Hillary’s supposed “extreme carelessness”,

Dems cheered his honesty anyway because he found nothing to be indict her for.

then Comey wrote a letter to “reopen the case” then lied about how long it takes to cross check the emails found on Weiner’s phone. None of that is straight arrow or honorable.

Dems see his corruption. And Republicans bludgeon us with the straight arrow bit.

Then somehow Coney instantly becomes a straight arrow again.

It’s Ludicrous.

[Qutzupalotl]

15. Of course Mueller is better than Barr.

If he weren't, the Republicans would be happy to let him testify to Congress like they were with Barr.

Mueller laid out a strong case for impeachment. Barr let Bush Sr. off the hook and spun the hell out of the Mueller report, hoping no one would read it.

Night and day as far as I'm concerned.

[Chakaconcarne]

20. No shit... he didn't have to write any of the things he did in the report...

He could have made Barr's life easy.... but he didn't.

It's way too early and premature to be hammering on Mueller...

[True Blue American]

16. Anyone hear Hickenlooper on his plan

To make the AG non political? Good idea.

[former9thward]

35. How could it be non-political?

Someone has to appoint the person.

[Perseus]

18. I am with you and I said it as well

I would not be surprised anymore if the "straight shooter" shoots at the people now, Rosenstein did, and we all though he was also a "Straight Shooter".

This is unbelievable, this is scary now. We are heading to a total chaos, those who said "It Can't Happen Here" will be rudely awaken to find out they were wrong.

Damn, this is so wrong...and I hate to say it but, Democrats do not seem to be doing anything besides the blah, blah, blah.

[Nuggets]

25. What can they do?

Trump and the GOP leadership disregard laws every day. If we follow all the rules and they do whatever they want without consequences, how do people think that will end?
They seem to be seeking a violent end that they can watch from their tvs. Watch their angered biker gangs and militias rush into Democratic strong holds or whatever to take control.

What should we do if 2020 ends the with the same cheating or he refuses to leave?


We need to quit depending on any Republican to do the right thing. We crossed that bridge long ago.

[Progressive Jones]

38. He might refused to leave, but he'll be physically removed, one way or another. nt

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

31. your opinion, about Mueller, flies in the face of facts.

It suggests Mueller didn't do his best or was bought off or some such thing. The R's are masters at playing politics with EVERYTHING. The D's not so much. The R's, even though Mueller is one of theirs, are different from him. He isn't an elected Senator or Rep. They will manipulate him too to get what they want. It appears you are convinced he is corrupt along with Comey. I disagree.

[Nuggets]

32. Actually your opinion flies in the face

of all of the facts I posted on the previous 2 comments on this thread.
You, however, nor anyone else has not listed one fact that shows what an honorable man he supposedly is — your opinions based on ?
Feelings? Wishes?

Plus the continuing odd use of the watergate narrative.

Leon Jaworski, prepared a report with his findings, known as the "road map," to assist Congress with possible impeachment proceedings to remove Nixon from office.

So since we’re using past examples :
the stonewalling worked for Reagan and Republicans . Given all the time in the world to shred documents and refuse to turn them over. How’d that work out?

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

33. you have my response confused with someone elses.

I didn't mention Watergate. My opinion on Mueller's honor? Going, voluntarily to Vietnam and seeing action, could be one thing that tells me the kind of man he is.

[Nuggets]

34. No

I’m just pointing at more facts. Too many here keep pointing to water gate as proof this all going to end with trump in handcuffs.?

I pointed to how the news helped Republicans.



As to you evidence Mueller is honorable because he went to Vietnam
“Mueller is one of theirs, are different from him. He isn't an elected Senator or Rep. They will manipulate him too to get what they want.”


I remind you: Oliver North decorated Vietnam War hero.
General Flynn also a decorated War Veteran.

They are “honorable” too according to your premise.

Perhaps better metrics are needed?

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

39. hmmmmmmm

I understand your position, still don't think it has merit. Mueller was not a career military man either. What did you expect from his investigation? He can't wave a magic wand and make Trump go away. Also, did you notice Barr's role in all this?

[Nuggets]

41. Who cares if he's a career military man?

Moving the goalposts doesn’t change all the facts I’ve posted.
As everyone will, think what you want , as will I and
I will continue to point out the naïveté of that opinion until their is actual evidence otherwise.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

42. Well you seem to have all the answers

to questions no one is asking...........

[kacekwl]

7. I'm so tired of this.

Apparently everyone can do whatever the fuck they want.

[Nuggets]

26. Not everyone

Just Republicans

[yaesu]

10. bummer nt

[samnsara]

12. dammit

[LiberalLovinLug]

13. Of course not

AND NO PASSION OR ANGER.
watching the video its like a family court lawyer droning on in a kind of defeatist sounding monotone on some minor procedure. He reminds me more of Gil Gunderson of the Simpsons than the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee dealing with a corrupt rouge President.

"Uh...I certainly hope we hear from Mueller...ah...oh...yes...eventually we will hear from Mueller...because we will...uh.subpoena him if we have to... um...."

[Perseus]

19. Yes, "if we have to"...well Nadler, guess what? YOU HAVE TO! NOW!

This is so frustrating!

Not many of you have lived through similar situations, and to me, the picture is a rerun...I hope I am 100% wrong, but things are going to get very ugly very soon if Democrats don't get their balls out of the jar where they stored them.

[LiberalLovinLug]

22. +1000

[BigmanPigman]

14. Two days ago Nadler said Mueller can testify regardless of DOJ

employment. I want to know why Mueller isn't volunteering to testify and why he is making Nadler subpoena him. Is this part of the legal game playing and dragging it out in the courts?

[monmouth4]

17. I think Mueller is going to retire and is securing his pension benefits, etc. before doing any

appearances. Remember the poor guy who was fired and lost his pension? Mueller will have none of that, to be sure.

[Chakaconcarne]

21. I reckon Rosenstein faced the same fate at some point....

He was being threatened by Trump, they had meeting and then all was good... remember that?

[Cattledog]

27. Mueller retired from the FBI in 2013.

He only came back to be special counsel.

[Nuggets]

29. That "poor guy" McCabe

who purposely held onto Weiner’s mobile phone emails until the 11th hour when Comey supposedly reopened the case against Hillary?


On Sept. 26, 2016, as part of a sex crimes investigation, an FBI agent in New York found hundreds of thousands of emails on a laptop belonging to former Rep. Anthony Weiner, who was married at the time to Huma Abedin, a top Clinton aide. Two days later, the head of the New York FBI office told dozens of FBI executives, including Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, that the laptop had 140,000 emails possibly relevant to the Clinton investigation.

The next day, on Sept. 29, the New York office told several members of the FBI’s Clinton investigation team that the emails included BlackBerry messages.

That was a red flag, because although the FBI had closed the Clinton investigation in July 2016, it had never found old messages from her BlackBerry account, which theoretically, was the most likely place to contain evidence of criminal intent.

The laptop was on a list of topics discussed by McCabe and other FBI officials on Oct. 3 and 4. And then … nothing happened.
“After October 4, we found no evidence that anyone associated with the [Clinton] investigation, including the entire leadership team at FBI Headquarters, took any action on the Weiner laptop issue until the week of October 24,” says the report.

Headquarters followed up only after being prompted on Oct. 21 by the New York office. Not until Oct. 27 did FBI officials brief FBI Director James Comey about the laptop.


By then, the bureau’s technical experts thought there was too little time before the election to go through the emails and determine whether any were incriminating. So Comey sent a letter to Congress disclosing what he could: that “the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation.” Clinton sank in the polls.

More than a week later, just two days before the election, the FBI announced that it had searched the emails enough to know that they wouldn’t change its decision not to recommend her prosecution. But the damage was done.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/fbi-ignored-anthony-weiners-laptop-and-it-may-have-cost-hillary-clinton-the-election.html

[former9thward]

36. Mueller is 74.

He has been working for the federal government since 1976 -- 43 years. He qualified for a full federal pension long ago.

[kimbutgar]

23. Darn I was not going to work that day to watch on TV.

[YOHABLO]

24. We were told this was a done deal. ''at some point'' ain't gonna get it.

[Kurt V.]

28. Subpoena him. he's 74 and forgetting shit by the day.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

30. Kick