Retired FBI Special Agent Blows the Whistle on the Real Robert Mueller

Shortly after former FBI Director Robert Mueller was announced as the special counsel for the Russia investigation, the screeching hordes of America’s “always wrong about everything” punditry class cheered in near unison, lauding the man as some sort of second coming. This sort of thing should always be seen as a red flag, and thanks to an excellent article written by retired FBI special agent Coleen Rowley, everyone can now know exactly why.

But first, who is Coleen Rowley?

Coleen Rowley, a retired FBI special agent and division legal counsel whose May 2002 memo to then-FBI Director Robert Mueller exposed some of the FBI’s pre-9/11 failures, was named one of TIME magazine’s “Persons of the Year” in 2002. Her 2003 letter to Robert Mueller in opposition to launching the Iraq War is archived in full text on the NYT and her 2013 op-ed entitled “Questions for the FBI Nominee” was published on the day of James Comey’s confirmation hearing.

It’s important to be aware of that background as you read the following excerpts from the excellent post published at CounterPunch titled, Comey and Mueller: Russiagate’s Mythical Heroes:

Mainstream commentators display amnesia when they describe former FBI Directors Robert Mueller and James Comey as stellar and credible law enforcement figures. Perhaps if they included J. Edgar Hoover, such fulsome praise could be put into proper perspective.

Although these Hoover successors, now occupying center stage in the investigation of President Trump, have been hailed for their impeccable character by much of Official Washington, the truth is, as top law enforcement officials of the George W. Bush Administration (Mueller as FBI Director and James Comey as Deputy Attorney General), both presided over post-9/11 cover-ups and secret abuses of the Constitution, enabled Bush-Cheney fabrications used to launch wrongful wars, and exhibited plain vanilla incompetence.

Well of course, that’s how you get promoted in America.

TIME Magazine would probably have not called my own disclosures a “bombshell memo” to the Joint Intelligence Committee Inquiry in May 2002 if it had not been for Mueller’s having so misled everyone after 9/11. Although he bore no personal responsibility for intelligence failures before the attack, since he only became FBI Director a week before, Mueller denied or downplayed the significance of warnings that had poured in yet were all ignored or mishandled during the Spring and Summer of 2001.

I wanted to believe Director Mueller when he expressed some regret in our personal meeting the night before we both testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee. He told me he was seeking improvements and that I should not hesitate to contact him if I ever witnessed a similar situation to what was behind the FBI’s pre 9/11 failures.

A few months later, when it appeared he was acceding to Bush-Cheney’s ginning up intelligence to launch the unjustified, counterproductive and illegal war on Iraq, I took Mueller up on his offer, emailing him my concerns in late February 2003. Mueller knew, for instance, that Vice President Dick Cheney’s claims connecting 9/11 to Iraq were bogus yet he remained quiet. He also never responded to my email.

Beyond ignoring politicized intelligence, Mueller bent to other political pressures. In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, Mueller directed the “post 9/11 round-up” of about 1,000 immigrants who mostly happened to be in the wrong place (the New York City area) at the wrong time. FBI Headquarters encouraged more and more detentions for what seemed to be essentially P.R. purposes. Field offices were required to report daily the number of detentions in order to supply grist for FBI press releases about FBI “progress” in fighting terrorism. Consequently, some of the detainees were brutalized and jailed for up to a year despite the fact that none turned out to be terrorists.

For his part, Deputy Attorney General James Comey, too, went along with the abuses of Bush and Cheney after 9/11 and signed off on a number of highly illegal programs including warrantless surveillance of Americans and torture of captives. Comey also defended the Bush Administration’s three-year-long detention of an American citizen without charges or right to counsel.

What’s not well understood is that Comey’s and Mueller’s joint intervention to stop Bush’s men from forcing the sick Attorney General to sign the certification that night was a short-lived moment. A few days later, they all simply went back to the drawing board to draft new legal loopholes to continue the same (unconstitutional) surveillance of Americans.

The mythology of this episode, repeated endlessly throughout the press, is that Comey and Mueller did something significant and lasting in that hospital room. They didn’t. Only the legal rationale for their unconstitutional actions was tweaked.

Mueller was even okay with the CIA conducting torture programs after his own agents warned against participation. Agents were simply instructed not to document such torture, and any “war crimes files” were made to disappear. Not only did “collect it all” surveillance and torture programs continue, but Mueller’s (and then Comey’s) FBI later worked to prosecute NSA and CIA whistleblowers who revealed these illegalities.

Neither Comey nor Mueller — who are reported to be “joined at the hip” — deserve their current lionization among politicians and mainstream media. Instead of Jimmy Stewart-like “G-men” with reputations for principled integrity, the two close confidants and collaborators merely proved themselves, along with former CIA Director George “Slam Dunk” Tenet, reliably politicized sycophants, enmeshing themselves in a series of wrongful abuses of power along with official incompetence.

It seems clear that based on his history and close “partnership” with Comey, called “one of the closest working relationships the top ranks of the Justice Department have ever seen,” Mueller was chosen as Special Counsel not because he has integrity but because he will do what the powerful want him to do.

Mueller didn’t speak the truth about a war he knew to be unjustified. He didn’t speak out against torture. He didn’t speak out against unconstitutional surveillance. And he didn’t tell the truth about 9/11. He is just “their man.”

Not good.

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19 thoughts on “Retired FBI Special Agent Blows the Whistle on the Real Robert Mueller”

    • comey, lynch, the whole obama adminstration should be jailed, and obama also, with clintons too…put these traitors into jail, if not there will be a revolution coming down, because the people are pissed, if you let these criminals go…LOCK THEM UP, NOW

    • Ms. Rowley was the agent who struggled with FBI headquarters for permission to look into the laptop of Zacarias Moussaoui (eventually known as “the 20th hijacker”). Permission was denied by Mueller’s department because the FBI was actually assigned to run interference for the 20 patsies who had been brought into the US by the CIA under fraudulent visas. So when an honest field agent like Rowley attempted to do her job, it was blocked. These were not “9/11 failures”, it was the FBI working for its real boss, the Deep State.

  1. Excellent. Problem: How many will read Coleen’s article (and your reporting) vs. hear what the MSM and Dems are shouting to the rooftops?

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  2. Persons such as Comey, Mueller, Clapper, Brennan, McMaster, McCabe et al, heading up government agencies or portfolios are where the plutocracy that runs the show becomes visible to the public. These persons serve the plutocrats but must also keep in play the public image and appearance of these agencies as serving the public’s interest while the cameras are rolling. They are all venal sycophants in their inner being as far as serving the public and its Constitution but no doubt see themselves as loyal managers of the greater good as defined by those who give then their marching orders; it is just that ‘we can’t handle the truth’ as far as they are concerned and as their masters tell them.

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  3. “….exposed some of the FBI’s pre-9/11 failures….”

    Yea. Failure to have a conscious, lacking a spine, and going along with a plan of treason, sedition, murder, and crimes against humanity.

    THAT ‘failure’?

    Mueller is just one of MANY that should have swung.

    And OF COURSE – ‘Amerikans cheered his appointment’ – because “no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public”

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  4. “Mueller didn’t speak the truth about a war he knew to be unjustified. He didn’t speak out against torture. He didn’t speak out against unconstitutional surveillance. And he didn’t tell the truth about 9/11.” Well said. The ACLU is my hero please don’t say anything bad about them or I will be lost.

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  5. Just as honest as professional wrestling, you betcha !!
    Same old players, I wonder what disaster they have cooked up for us this time around.

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  6. If Bush Sr had let Casper Weinberger go on trial and blown the lid off Iran/Contra, he would have been impeached. So he brought his Mena drug partner (Bill Clinton) in to be President. Now President Trump is caught up in a TURF WAR between the Clinton Crime Family (Comey) and the Bush Crime Family (Mueller) and, instead of the Clinton’s taking over the Bush/Clinton Crime Family with Hillary (Comey) like they planned, they’ve had to RE-UNITE against TRUMP using Mueller/Comey to save the Bush/Clinton crime family and try to stop President Trump from draining their “criminal” swamp. It’s just that simple.

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  7. Comey has protected the Clintons for 20 years … GOOGLE “comey drugs clintons” you’ll see Comey is a LOW LIFE CRIMINAL and A SWAMP RAT TOO .. (right click) … https://www.google.com/search?q=comey+drugs+clintons&oq=comey+drugs+clintons&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i61j69i59.1201j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

    Ex-FBI Director James Comey Must Cease and Desist In His Treason Against The United States – Seth Rich FBI Connection. (right click) … http://investmentwatchblog.com/ex-fbi-director-james-comey-must-cease-and-desist-in-his-treason-against-the-united-states-of-america-those-who-have-aided-and-abetted-him-must-be-held-accountable/

    How did the FBI Director make #1 on America’s “Most Wanted List”? Here is a report DETAILING THE COMMISSION OF COMEY CRIMES .. right click) .. http://themillenniumreport.com/2017/03/james-brien-comey-how-did-the-fbi-director-make-1-on-americas-most-wanted-list/

    FBI Director James Comey is deeply entrenched in the big-money cronyism culture of Washington, D.C. (right click ) … http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/09/10/exposed-fbi-director-james-comeys-clinton-foundation-connection/

    James Comey, a Whistleblower, Really? .. (right click) … https://www.opednews.com/articles/James-Comey-a-Whistleblow-by-John-Kiriakou-Accountability_Evidence_FBI_James-Comey-170607-177.html#startcomments

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  8. All of the kudos from both Democrats and Republicans alike for the choice of Mueller to be special prosecutor is a sure warning sign.

    Because:

    “The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.” – George Carlin

    But with all due respect to the late great George Carlin, “usually” should be changed to “always” in this day and age.

    I have little doubt that Mueller will produce exactly what the Hidden Hand in the shadows instructs him to produce out of his so-called “investigation”. That being a repeat of the money shot during Comey’s testimony that there is absolute and undeniable proof that the Russians meddled in the election.

    Of course the Special Prosecutor won’t be able to provide any substantive proof of that to us peasants due to national security reasons. The rest of his report will include some hand slapping and a sacrificial lamb or two will probably be placed at the altar for ritual throat slitting and blood letting purposes.

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  9. Thank you so much Michael for what you do to educate the public/sheeple and all.You help immensely in shining light through the cracks and eventually the tide turns .

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  10. Washington DC as a whole does not care about either the law or the general public except as resources to be manipulated and harvested for economic & political power. DC Insiders correctly see that they are on the same team as the FBI, working against the public & the law.

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  11. Michael, thank you so much for bringing this critical article to our attention. An important piece of ammunition in the “wake up, folks” arsenal.

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  12. I’m not a big Trump fan, although I was glad he shut down that CIA training camp for the “rebels” in Syria, so I know that he knows that the Clinton-Bush-Obomber regime was up to no good and actually behind all the terror and chaos in M.E. and beyond.
    However, the way to remove Trump from office is to vote him out. What they are doing is a coup d’tat and it will likely be the nail in the coffin for our Republic.

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