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#1: redleghunter    To: A K A Stone (#0)

If proven accurate, Mueller needs to recuse himself from the investigation.

redleghunter posted on 2017-06-12 00:20:50   Reply   Private Reply

#2: Tooconservative    To: redleghunter, A K A Stone (#1)

If proven accurate, Mueller needs to recuse himself from the investigation.

This would hardly be the first time the FBI has been involved in returning stolen Russian nuclear materials.

Mueller isn't going anywhere.

Tooconservative posted on 2017-06-12 02:55:09   Reply   Private Reply

#3: Gatlin    To: Tooconservative, redleghunter, A K A Stone (#2)

WikiLeaks Cable Robert Mueller Delivering Highly Enriched Stolen Uranium To Russia In 2009
If proven accurate, Mueller needs to recuse himself from the investigation.

This would hardly be the first time the FBI has been involved in returning stolen Russian nuclear materials.

Mueller isn't going anywhere.

At first glance the headline used here is obviously designed to incite a certain raw emotion, mostly indignant anger — which is reason enough to give us pause in the same manner as we should with the bullshit put out by Deckard’s beloved The Free Thought Project.

Like the subtle technique used by TFTP, WikiLeaks carefully omitted some important context which would show that Mueller was actually doing his job and that the documents were SOP with literally everything in the process being on the up-and- up.

The material being returned was seized in a nuclear smuggling case in Georgia (the country), and Russia wanted to analyze the material to double-check where it may have come from.

This was entirely a law-enforcement matter and you can’t get any more serious in law enforcement than the head of the FBI. It was likely that the US wanted to make a point to Russia that it’s serious by having Mueller return the material.

Balloon Juice carries a pretty good accounting of the real story.

Mueller’s job security is not in jeopardy from this WikiLeaks release.

Gatlin posted on 2017-06-12 05:43:15   Reply   Private Reply

#4: Anthem    To: Gatlin (#3)

Wikileaks may have tossed this up as bait for Trump.

Anthem posted on 2017-06-12 08:45:46   Reply   Private Reply

#5: redleghunter    To: Gatlin (#3)

Valid and accurate points. However in the age of "It's the Russians!" any contact with Russia is deemed colluding.

redleghunter posted on 2017-06-12 09:13:16   Reply   Private Reply

#6: Gatlin    To: redleghunter (#5)

True.

Gatlin posted on 2017-06-12 14:37:31   Reply   Private Reply