[Wash Times] A former federal prosecutor has emerged as special counsel Robert Mueller’s most persistent courtroom critic.
It’s not Rudy Giuliani, a former U.S. attorney and now President Trump’s ubiquitous defender, or any of cable TV’s prosecutors-turned-pundits.
He is Eric A. Dubelier, a litigator for the Reed Smith law firm who knows international law and the D.C. playing field. He served eight years prosecuting cases as a Justice Department assistant U.S. attorney in Washington. He refers to his former employer as "the real Justice Department," implying that Mr. Mueller’s team is something less.
His biting remarks have come in months of court filings and oral arguments. Mr. Dubelier has depicted Mr. Mueller as a rogue prosecutor willfully ignoring Justice Department guidelines.
He has accused Mr. Mueller of creating a "make-believe crime" against his Russian client, Concord Management and Consulting, which is accused of funding a troll farm that interfered in the 2016 election.
So far, the federal judge presiding over the case has sided with Mr. Mueller.
Mr. Dubelier charges that the Mueller team violated the confidentially of Concord’s counter evidence while hiding documents Concord needs for its defense. The prosecutor wants to "whisper secrets to the judge," Mr. Dubelier says, as Mr. Mueller is calculating the "short-term political value of a conviction" and not worrying about an appeals court defeat years later.
An example: In a Dec. 20 motion, Mr. Dubelier resurrected a botched case spearheaded by Mr. Mueller’s top prosecutor, Andrew Weissmann.
Mr. Weissmann headed the Justice Department’s Enron task force nearly two decades ago. He won a conviction against the accounting firm Arthur Andersen for shredding the defunct energy firm’s financial documents.
Years later, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the conviction. The 2005 decision effectively said that Andersen, by then out of business and its 28,000 employees gone, hadn’t committed a crime.
"Mr. Dubelier is exactly right on Mr. Mueller’s motives and tactics," said Sidney Powell, whose book "License to Lie" exposes years of Justice Department scandals. "His lieutenant Weissmann is the poster boy for prosecutorial misconduct and has no regard for the facts or the law. He will make up whatever he wants to win, and the entire like-minded team views as an accomplishment everyone whose life they destroy in pursuit of their objective."
’MADE UP A CRIME TO FIT THE FACTS’
Concord Management and Consulting is an unlikely client. Legal observers opined that when Mr. Mueller brought charges against various Russians who hacked computers and trolled the 2016 election, no defendant would travel the nearly 5,000 miles to show up for trial.
No defendant has personally arrived. But Concord did appear quickly after the February indictment. Of 28 Russian individuals and firms charged with election interference by Mr. Mueller, only Concord has appeared in U.S. District Court, in this instance in the person of the aggressive Mr. Dubelier.
The Washington defense attorney seemed to catch the Mueller team off guard by immediately demanding disclosure of evidence. Disclosure, Mr. Dubelier argues, is a sacred legal right in America, even for the oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, Concord’s chief with close ties to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Can anyone who writes these things write me the What in the first paragraph without trying to make it a literacy career - and grandma's haus through the woods scenarios?
Tell me in 140 characters or less.
Then, show me your inner Faulkner or Orwell.
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Can anyone who writes these things write me the What in the first paragraph without trying to make it a literacy career - and grandma's haus through the woods scenarios?
Yes, newc. Real journalism, the kind where they present just the facts in an objective manner, is extinct in this country.
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FBI members are always portrayed as hero’s in TV and Movies. I think that the failure of the rank and file to report abuses is just one reason to disband the entire organization. The least that should be done is to move the complete management structure to Chicago or Detroit.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Democrat New York Governor Andrew Sonny Cuomo has pardoned 22 illegals to stop them from being deported.
The pardons were mostly for drug possession, but drug dealing, arson and robbery as well.
One of the men Cuomo pardoned set "an acquaintance’s car on fire as an act of mischief," according to the governor’s statement.
Cuomo also used the statement to trash President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... "While President Trump shuts down the federal government over his obsession with keeping immigrants colonists out, New York stands strong in our support for immigrant communities," Governor Cuomo said. "These actions will help keep immigrant families together and take a critical step toward a more just, more fair and more compassionate New York."
The statement explained that the goal was to "remove the barriers that their criminal records present to their immigration status. Some are facing deportation, while others wish to be able to participate in their communities as citizens of the country they call home. In each case, a pardon will make immigration-related relief possible, if not automatic."
For one thing, the guvnor can only pardon New York State crimes, not federal ones, and the records probably don’t actually disappear from their files...
Cuomo additionally commuted the sentences of seven illegal immigrants colonists that are currently imprisoned.
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They really have no clue about what sort of image that gives them do they?
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Cuomo could encourage Schumer to get on the stick to build a wall and reform immigration laws in this country rather than try to find ways to jab a thumb in Trump's eye.
[NBCNEWS] Washington residents "are very excited about the prospect of becoming a tree or having a different alternative,” state Sen. Jamie Pedersen said. Different = better, even if it means becoming dirt.
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Soylent Green? Kuru? Getting human remains, dying of disease or not, anywhere near human water/foodstuffs seems ... unwise. Cremate and sprinkle the ashes if you are so inclined.
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Every gardener knows you don't compost protein (for obvious reasons).
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Not only sanitation problems, but drug and hormone content could cause, uh, issues.
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"This potato has Aunt Mary's eyes"
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Look at all the drainage and waste processing systems for newer National Cemeteries. The EPA documents required for them explain quite well why composting humans is a bad bad idea.
The scariest issue was unknown nuclear assist devices like French nuclear pacemakers.
The most common danger was embalming fluids and heavy metals.
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I see the eating part mentioned. I had a long talk once with a hopefully ex-cannibal chief from New Guinea. He explained that civilized man didn't taste good at all. All that coffee, tea, cigs, etc.. ruined the flavor of the meat!
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I had a long talk once with a hopefully ex-cannibal chief from New Guinea. He explained that civilized man didn't taste good at all. All that coffee, tea, cigs, etc.. ruined the flavor of the meat!
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Kathy Griffin revealed on Monday that she attempted to get herself back on the airwaves this New Year's Eve with a new co-host.
The comedian said on Twitter that she had pitched 'New Year’s Eve live with Kathy Griffin and Stormy Daniels' but 'all of the Hollywood check signers were too scared' to greenlight the telecast.
Griffin, 58, and Daniels, 39, became friends after meeting for the first time earlier this year.
The porn star attended Griffin's show in Boston this past June, and the two women later posed for a photo that was posted on Twitter.
'@StormyDaniels it was an honor to have you at my Boston show tonight. I support you 100%! #F***Trump,' wrote Griffin.
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"Twitter and Titters!"
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It would be just one more reason not to watch TV.
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Griffin,58, and Daniels, 39, became friends after meeting for the first time earlier this year.
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In the age of Youtube streaming they could have done this on their own dime and if there was a market they would have had the last laugh. Of course that also means they would have wasted their own time and money if nobody cared which is why thy didn't and why the networks rejected the two has-beens.
[Al Jazeera] US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... has invited top congressional leaders to the White House on Wednesday for a border security briefing, the first between the president and Democratic leaders since before a partial government shutdown began a week and a half ago, US media reported.
According to the Tuesday reports, which cited unnamed sources, Trump will host House and Senate leaders from both parties for the briefing. Other details were not released.
The briefing would come a day before House Democrats are set to vote on their recently announced plans to end the shutdown, which does not include money for Trump's border wall.
Democrats in the House unveiled two bills on Monday to fund shuttered government agencies and put hundreds of thousands of federal workers back on the job.
One bill would temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security at current levels, with $1.3bn - well below the $5bn in wall funding Trump has requested - for border security through February 8 as talks continued.
It would also include another measure made up of six other bipartisan bills - some that have already passed the Senate - to fund the departments of Agriculture, Interior, Housing and Urban Development and others closed by the partial shutdown. It would provide money through the remainder of the fiscal year, to September 30.
House Democrats plan to pass the bills as soon as the new Congress convenes on Thursday, one of the first acts after Democrats took control, according to an aide who was not authorised to discuss the plan and spoke on condition of anonymity.
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Trump has said he is going to visit the border in 2019. He should ask Chuck and Nancy to go along on that trip for a fact-finding mission. After all Pelosi visited Syria in 2007. She wouldn't even have to wear a head scarf and abaya at our border.
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Bring Pelosi to the San Duego part of the border where California has erected walls. Ask her why California needs walls but other less wealthy states don't?
Perhaps she would pay to have the walls moved to states that aren't sanctuary states and want them.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Wash Times] A former federal prosecutor has emerged as special counsel Robert Mueller’s most persistent courtroom critic.
[Al Jazeera] US President 
