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Preet Bharara on Mueller... (Original Post)
pbmus
Apr 2018
OP
It's amazing how the Repugs and Trump are the party of law and order until its directed at them.
politicaljunkie41910
Apr 2018
#3
Law and order are for POC, the way they see it. And sometimes white people, but only the poor ones.
flibbitygiblets
Apr 2018
#4
procon
(15,805 posts)1. Whoa... sock it to Trump, bro!
Robert S. Mueller III doesnt seek deferments. After a classmate died in Vietnam, this well-to-do Princeton athlete traded his lacrosse stick for a military rifle and volunteered for war. He returned with a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart and a gunshot wound.
He later brought the same gritty courage to battling crime at the Department of Justice. Eventually, he retired to private practice, but moved by violence sweeping Washington, D.C., Mueller quit his law firm to work in the trenches as a homicide prosecutor.
When his 10-year term as FBI director expired, a notoriously gridlocked Congress changed the lawjust for himand, once again, Mueller forfeited comfort for continued service.
Mueller is straitlaced and tight-lipped, a legal and sartorial traditionalist. Once, while jointly announcing charges in an international assassination plot, he chided me for wearing a blue shirt.
Muellers buttoned-down discretion has made him an enigmatic vessel into which polarized sides pour their hopes and fears. To millions, the special counsel is either a political savior or berserk villain. He is neither. Hes a by-the-book lawman who, with nothing to prove and a lifetime of service behind him, agreed to lead the most fraught, least understood, highest-stakes investigation of our time.
For that we owe him incalculable thanks.
Bharara is a former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Smack! Right in the kisser! Karma is a beautiful thing.
Wounded Bear
(58,649 posts)2. K & R...for visibility...nt
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)3. It's amazing how the Repugs and Trump are the party of law and order until its directed at them.
Then they become the party of fake law and order. The kind that's directed at everyone but them.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)4. Law and order are for POC, the way they see it. And sometimes white people, but only the poor ones.