Federal Judge Rebukes Hannity, Limbaugh For Using Whitey Bulger Scandal to Smear Mueller

[DonViejo]

by Rachel Dicker | 10:48 am, April 19th, 2018

Despite what Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and other conservative commentators would have us believe, special counsel Robert Mueller was not involved in the protection of notorious mobster Whitey Bulger – in fact, he wasn’t even mentioned in the case.

Says who? Nancy Gertner, the federal judge who presided over a case against the FBI brought by the men who were wrongfully convicted (and their families in the case of two men, who died in prison).

Gertner wrote in an op-ed in The New York Times Wednesday that because she wrote 105-page decision which awarded $101.8 million to the damaged parties, she can state “without equivocation that Mr. Mueller, who worked in the United States attorney’s office in Boston from 1982 to 1988, including a brief stint as the acting head of the office, had no involvement in that case.” She wrote further:

I was unsparing in my criticism of the F.B.I. and Justice Department officials who were responsible for this wrongful imprisonment. I named names where the record supported it. I resoundingly condemned the government in an unusual court session in which I read my conclusions.

Mr. Mueller is mentioned nowhere in my opinion; nor in the submissions of the plaintiffs’ lead trial counsel, Juliane Balliro; nor in “Black Mass,” the book about Mr. Bulger and the F.B.I. written by former reporters for The Boston Globe.

The case Mueller may – and it’s an incredibly tenuous “may” – have had some involvement with would have been that against Joseph Barboza, which was a similar case in which the FBI protected a mobster who perjured himself and knowingly incarcerated the wrong people. But there’s no evidence of that, either, says Gertner.

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[Achilleaze]

1. repube propagandists really must stop lying to the American people

free clue for republicans: Lying is wrong, even if your 'leader' Dirty Donny* models lying as a daily behavior.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[Fred Sanders]

2. Evidence? Hate speech is fed by lies and hate by definition. And Fox is the

motherlode of hate and lies...incredible such a media outlet is even allowed in any country, 2nd amendment or not.

[Initech]

3. Hannity and Limbaugh lying about something? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!

[Cartoonist]

4. That Judge is part of the Deep State

Han & Limb in unison

[Snackshack]

5. At some point this going to have...

To be addressed by legislation. The cognitive bias the citizenry has demonstrated in a very visceral way is obvious and apparently rendered some incapable of discerning fact from fiction. We cannot rely on common sense to prevail just like we could not rely on common sense to keep people from drinking and driving. We needed laws with clear punishments as an incentive to reduce this behavior.

[Exotica]

6. I agree with every atom of my being