Robert Mueller and his team investigated and prosecuted ENRON.
I've said from the beginning, NEVER play chess with Bob Mueller!
This is worth reading in its entirety.
Did tRump provide written answers based on MANAFORT's LIES?
Did the Special Counsel Set Manafort Up?
Why did Mueller allow Manafort to share information with Trump? Inside the three-dimensional legal chess game.
t is the kind of fine print to which lawyers devote many billable hours crafting and reviewing. Rick Gates’s plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller includes this line:“The defendant agrees not to reveal his cooperation, or any information derived therefrom, to any third party without prior consent of the Office.” The language of Paul Manafort’s cooperation deal is almost identical—with the exception of that sentence about disclosing information to third parties. “The absence of that gag order is not an oversight,” says Katya Jestin, a former federal prosecutor. “This could be part of a larger strategic play by Mueller. Which gives this a John le Carré aspect.”
The timing of Mueller’s split with Manafort is curious: he announced it just days after receiving Trump’s written answers to the special counsel’s questions. The tantalizing possibility is that Trump, basing his answers on what he was hearing from Manafort, lied in those written answers and has now stumbled into strengthening the obstruction of justice case against him. “Mueller built the plea agreement to permit Kevin Downing to continue to share information with Rudy Giuliani,” says Marcy Wheeler, a national security expert who blogs under the name Emptywheel. “So in the eventuality Manafort lied and Mueller didn’t tell them what evidence they had that he was lying, then that would in a sense be negative reinforcement for Trump. He would think that he was going to get away with it, just like Manafort was.”
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FOCUS: Did the Special Counsel Set Manafort Up?
Chris Smith, Vanity Fair
Smith writes: "The stunning collapse of Manafort's deal raises a bigger and more intriguing question: who created that loophole about talking to third parties, and is it part of a sophisticated game Mueller is playing? Or did President Donald Trump just blunder into incriminating himself?"
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Chris Smith, Vanity Fair
Smith writes: "The stunning collapse of Manafort's deal raises a bigger and more intriguing question: who created that loophole about talking to third parties, and is it part of a sophisticated game Mueller is playing? Or did President Donald Trump just blunder into incriminating himself?"
READ MORE
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