RT reports on Mueller's indictment of Russians... but only half the story

[DetlefK]

Warning: RT is not a reliable news-source because they regularly lie by omission
https://www.rt.com/usa/419083-russia-probe-mueller-profit-indictment/
https://www.rt.com/usa/419101-mueller-indictment-media-cycle/

The first article quotes some republican Virginia State Senator on how these idictments are a simple ploy to drag out the investigation. This State Senator complains that he was not shown actual evidence for Trump's wrong-doing.

The second article alleges that Mueller was never serious about indicting these Russians because he purportedly timed the indictments to give them as little media-coverage as possible.






Neither of the articles mentions the Internet Research Agency. The second article omits entirely that russian organizations have been indicted at all.

Neither of the articles mentions that these Russians and russian entities get indicted for masquerading as US-citizens and engaging in campaign-activity.

[nocalflea]

1. "Mueller was never serious about indicting these Russians..."

Russian hackers have been arrested in foreign countries on US warrants, so downplaying Muellars intent is interesting.

The playing field for the indicted is now limited to countries with no extradition treaties with the US.

The indictments are not even a "hollow victory" for the Russians. This is lose-lose. Sad.

[RDANGELO]

2. To keep his lucrative job?

He could probably make a lot more money with some high priced law firm.

According to Black, the lackluster outcome of the ever-widening investigation invokes suspicion that although Mueller knows there’s nothing substantial to uncover, he and his team will continue feeding the media headline-grabbers to keep his rather lucrative job.

[quartz007]

3. Mueller is paid $1500/hour

is what I heard.

[wishstar]

4. I seriously doubt he makes more than $100 to 150 per hour (40 hour week)

As Federal employee in his special counsel role, the salary is probably $200,000 to $250,00 per year tops and his prosecutors and staffers make much less. He could be making millions per year in private sector and several of his team also took huge cuts in pay to conduct this investigation instead.

[quartz007]

5. He is not a civil service full time

employee. He is like the zillions of hired consultants on federal payroll. So he can negotiate his HOURLY charges.

My daughter is a lawyer, and sometimes she accepts temporary assignments at hourly rates much higher than when she had a 40hr/week job as prosecutor. I have aq gut feeling Mueller is in similar situation. Of course none of us know for sure what his actual billing rate is.