We've just become so used to him flagrantly committing crimes (or certainly appearing to) in plain sight over the past two years, with absolutely no consequence, that we've taken on a kind of 'learned helplessness' that once plagued neglected babies in orphanages.

But Mueller has seen it all and duly noted, AND Nancy is in power now. Somehow he is going to pay for these public threats and lures to witnesses, which are far more serious than the Cohen perjury charge. And the time of reckoning is drawing near.

Liars lie and tell others to lie

like the one in the white house. They routinely fail at plausible deniability.

When Woodward and Bernstein got it wrong about John Dean's testimony about Haldeman, everybody freaked out, especially Bradlee. It was a mistake, and a bad one, but the body of their work prevailed.

I'm not even sure the BuzzFeed article was a total misfire. Mueller could have easily categorically denied the whole thing if that's what he meant; he didn't. The statement was closely parsed. But time will tell.

On“Reliable Sources,” today. Their story turned out to be right, but he also said we need to wait on the Mueller report, not wise to jump the gun.

Investigation was attributed. Mueller had to nix that

Anything. MSM tried mightily to confirm the BF report and couldn't. The two reporters contradicted themselves. The report was so wrong that Mueller felt the need to say so when he doesn't say anything normally.

Mueller's office merely said that the "characterization of documents and testimony" was "not accurate". The CHARACTERIZATION, not the documents and testimony itself.

Here's the exact statement:

"BuzzFeed's description of specific statements to the Special Counsel's Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen's Congressional testimony are not accurate.

The BuzzFeed story only is plausible if someone within Mueller's team spoke to them. And that, to say the least, is highly implausible.

to the Steele Dossier and it wasn't just the right that jumped all over it. Pretty much everyone in the media mocked it and criticized BuzzFeed for publishing it before it could be verified. Very few people took it seriously at the time. It sounded so far-fetched and BuzzFeed wasn't considered a serious news source.