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In reply to the discussion: Two things that DU'ers get wrong every time [View all]sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Comey and Rosenstein had a plan if he got fired. That plan brought us Mueller.
Mueller and I bet Rosenstein too have a plan if Mueller gets fired. At that point we are in full-scale Constitutional crisis.
My guess is that Mueller has gotten his most important evidence to enough civil servants in the FBI that if he gets fired, the evidence gets leaked slowly to the press. Slowly is key because it controls the news cycle. Perhaps the plan is also to get CIA and NSA to go public with important evidence they have. And I wouldn't be surprised if Mueller is coordinating with Schneiderman and if Mueller is canned Schneiderman moves forward quickly. Schneiderman could even hire Mueller if fired.
Schindler has been saying that our allies in Europe have damning audio. And if we had such, we could pass it to them via Five Eyes relationships. If Mueller gets canned i expect such audio to be released to the press.
Mueller got appointed not because of Comey's memos, but because of the daily drip drip of bad TrumpRussia news. Much of that bad news came from releases from inside the FBI or US IC. Don't underestimate the power of the IC dripping out more bad news - once DJT hits 20% approval the GOP will move to impeach. (By then it will be too late for them).
I wouldn't worry about Mueller getting fired -- we should be worrying about unknowns we have not yet thought of. What if Russia runs another big covert op in the US, either information warfare or actual violence or bombing? Trump fires some missiles at China? Trump calls a bunch of armed militia types to the capitol? Could be bad out there.