Robert Mueller is desperately trying to find someone, anyone, who will dish him some dirt on President Trump. From Alan Dershowitz at thehill.com:
An experienced federal judge has confirmed what I have been arguing for months, namely, that the modus operandi of special counsel Robert Mueller is to charge associates of Donald Trump with any crime he can find in order to squeeze them into turning against the president.
This is what Judge T.S. Ellis III said at a hearing Friday: “You don’t really care about Mr. Manafort’s bank fraud … What you really care about is what information Mr. Manafort could give you that would reflect on Mr. Trump or lead to his prosecution or impeachment.”
This tactic is as old as Adam turning against Eve. But, as the judge correctly pointed out, it risks the possibility that the squeezed witness will not only sing, he will compose. Here is what Ellis said about that: “This vernacular is to ‘sing,’ is what prosecutors use. What you got to be careful of is, they may not only sing, they may compose.”
I have been using this “compose” metaphor for decades and I am gratified that a judge borrowed it to express an important civil liberties concern. Every experienced criminal lawyer has seen this phenomenon at work. I have seen it used by prosecutors who threaten wives, parents, siblings and, in one case, the innocent son of a potential witness who was about to graduate law school. Most judges, many of whom were former prosecutors, have also seen it. But few have the courage to expose it publicly, as Ellis has done.
Defenders of Mueller’s tactic argue that the threatened witnesses and their relatives are generally guilty of some crime, or else they wouldn’t be vulnerable to the prosecutor’s threats. This may be true, but the crimes they are threatened to be charged with are often highly technical, elastic charges that are brought only as leverage. They are dropped as soon as the witness cooperates.
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I don’t share many common beliefs with Mr. Dershowitz. He is an old school Demorcat, one like my father, that is a man of firm beliefs who was honest. Mr. Dershowitz is a man of honesty who uses facts and evidence rather than fear and emotion. I respect him and his opinions though I may not agree with him all the time because his views are reasoned.
This is almost unheard of today in a left dominated by “women voted according to what their husbands said,” or “my election saw the rise of oceans end.” Or one of the all time greats, “it depends on how you define “is” is. The Left today is a mass hysteria rather than a reasoned philosophy.
As far as Mueller is concerned, the Left rigged this past election through illegal aliens, fake voters, a bribed media, and vast criminal enterprise involving many federal agencies so they brewed up a coup d’etat involving the courts, their prime agency for subverting the Constitution. But they weren’t as clever as they thought, and not everyone in the Federal agency is driven by power, greed, lust, envy, and hatred.
My only question is will the criminals get their just punishments for treason?