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By News Hound Ellen at Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/04/hannity-and-dershowitz-whitey-bulger-smear
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In an April 8 interview with John Catsimatidis on his New York radio show, Mr. Dershowitz asserted that Mr. Mueller was the guy who kept four innocent people in prison for many years in order to protect the cover of Whitey Bulger as an F.B.I. informer. Mr. Mueller, he said, was right at the center of it. Mr. Bulger was a notorious crime boss in Boston, the head of the Winter Hill Gang, and also a secret source for the F.B.I.
There is no evidence that the assertion is true. I was the federal judge who presided over a successful lawsuit brought against the government by two of those men and the families of the other two, who had died in prison. Based on the voluminous evidence submitted in the trial, and having written a 105-page decision awarding them $101.8 million, I can say without equivocation that Mr. Mueller, who worked in the United States attorneys office in Boston from 1982 to 1988, including a brief stint as the acting head of the office, had no involvement in that case. He was never even mentioned.
But the evidence or rather, lack of it hasnt stopped the piling on against Mr. Mueller, particularly by Mr. Hannity. In a March 20 broadcast, he said, Robert Mueller was the U.S. attorney in charge while these men were rotting in prison while certain agents in the F.B.I. under Mueller covered up the truth.
Gertner also notes that a subsequent House committee investigating the FBIs use of secret informants made only a favorable reference to Mueller: he offered to work with the committee to reform the practices.
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)he preserves some dignity.
fierywoman
(7,684 posts)wishstar
(5,270 posts)being told on Fox and called Fox folks out for lying.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)They discount any exculpatory evidence. They say "fake news" or "lame stream media". They'll say she is lying. It just goes on and on.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)or maybe several of the appeals?
Or Trump has made some promises regarding Israel, which I believe is close to Dershowitz's heart?
He was on MSNBC defending himself recently, saying that people keep saying he's in Trump's camp, when that's not true! You coulda fooled me. I don't know what's going on with him, but he's being so biased!