Montegriffo wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 8:16 am
pineapplemike wrote: ↑Sat Jan 19, 2019 7:41 am
man i was surprised how quickly this story flipped
Buzzfeed -1
Mueller +1
So does this mean we don't have to keep listening to everyone saying that Mueller is a political appointment out to get Trump, no matter what the truth is, anymore?
Does this show his objectivity or is he still a lying hack?
I've lost track. It's like Comey all over again. One minute he was the hero of the people for announcing that the Hillary email investigation was re-opening 10 days before the election and thereby handing victory to Trump but now he's the villain for going after him.
yknow, i'll call jim comey a weasel and mueller and clapper and all but i still hold a certain amount of respect for these people. the same way i can admit that trump is smart, and it isn't an accident that he's president, i can admit that all of these people are highly qualified and sit at the top of their food chain for a reason. you don't just *become* director of the FBI or rise through the military ranks to general. these are all great men and my own criticisms of them are only to highlight the deficiencies they do lack.
i've made this point several times about jim comey and re-opening the hillary case 10 days out, ive watched congressional testimony of jim comey make the point himself, yet people still approach that story thinking he was a hero or villain in that scenario-
as if he had a choice in the matter. he had personally closed the investigation with congress- and told them he would notify them if anything changed. something changed, they found additional classified emails on an outside device (derp) and he was forced to notify congress, or risk an FBI agent leaking it to the press. to put it in his own words, "a tough choice but not really that tough at all."
as far as that specific scenario goes, there's no hero, there's no villain, thats extreme right/left idiocy, there was just a reasonably intelligent man that had to play the hand he was dealt, so the fact you're even looking at our arguments through the hero/villain frame is depressing and indicative and hinders conversation on the MHF
imo