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by fictioncircle
3322 days ago
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> Mueller was asked to stay on as head of the FBI by President Obama, and served in the post all the way to 2013. I'm aware. You seem to believe it means something more than Obama didn't have any major scandals to worry about that involved the FBI. > If you're going to accuse him of partisanship, by all means post some citations. He is a registered Republican that backed the vast majority of their programs that were later found unconstitutional. He only ever pushed back when it involved Bush trying to get a guy in a hospital bed to sign an order overturning one small portion of it. There isn't any way to "prove" someone is a partisan to people's satisfaction if the man's career doesn't speak for itself already. |
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"In May 2011, President Obama asked Director Mueller to continue at the helm of the FBI for two additional years beyond his normal 10-year term, which was expiring on September 4, 2011."
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"Director Mueller, along with Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey, threatened to resign from office in March 2004 if the White House overruled a Department of Justice finding that domestic wiretapping without a court warrant was unconstitutional. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft denied his consent to attempts by White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales to waive the Justice Department ruling and permit the domestic warrantless eavesdropping program to proceed. On March 12, 2004, President George W. Bush gave his support to changes in the program sufficient to satisfy the concerns of Mueller, Ashcroft and Comey."
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"After leaving the FBI in 2013, Mueller served a one-year term as consulting professor and the Arthur and Frank Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford University where he focused on issues related to cyber-security. He gave a speech and Q&A on March 8, 2017 at Anderson University, where he stated, "For the bureau, one of the most important things is integrity."
The layman who reads such an account of his career would be well-justified in asking how you have reached your conclusion, because the above would indicate that Mueller is recognized as a man of integrity by Presidents from both political parties. So I say again: if you're going to accuse him of partisanship, by all means post some citations.