Is Muller a bureaucrat or a patriot?

[Miigwech]

If it is true that Muller will issue a report next week, or a synopsis of his report (who knows?), will Muller be compliant to the rules or will he break out to save the Nation by releasing the report to Congress and the American people? Or will he only release the report to the AG, like a good little bureaucrat? IMO Muller will protect the USA against the trump cabal.

[marylandblue]

1. He's definitely a bureaucrat, but that's a good thing.

Nothing will be gained by violating the rules.

[Miigwech]

3. Nothing said about violating the rules

... just bending them

[marylandblue]

4. From what I understand, he doesn't bend them either.

[jberryhill]

6. Everyone has a justification for bending the rules

I prefer my rules unbent.

If the rules don't work well that way, then work for new rules.

[mia]

2. Why pose this forced-choice question?

[ZZenith]

5. It's really odd, isn't it?

Like there’s no way he can be both.

[mia]

8. I wonder why.

I tend to view this type of question as a set-up.

[Miigwech]

7. Because, isn't this what we are hoping and possibly worried

to find out when the report is released? That is what I want to know. Can we trust Muller to be strong enough to stand up to the institutional forces and those in power who support trump? I believe he can, maybe not by indicting trump (wish Justice Dept would), but by getting the report out in full to Congress and American's. That's all I am requesting.

[GemDigger]

10. We will see it eventually and it will be heavily redacted and we will have to accept that.

We have the right to transparency until that transparency interferes with national security.

[mia]

14. I see Mueller as a person with high standards.

Like you, I also want the report to be made public, but breaking the rules and releasing the document could jeopardize the findings. Calling Mueller a bureaucrat for failing to bend or break the rules diminishes the man. These days people who call themselves patriots are usually Trump supporters.

Your question was confusing for me.

[skylucy]

9. His name is spelled Mueller.

[jodymarie aimee]

12. yes

people take OPS seriously when you spell correctly !! It is not like his name isn't on here a million times a day for 2 years..

[sharedvalues]

11. He's a Republican. He's tight with Barr. Barr covered up Iran-Contra

[Hekate]

21. Well then, I guess we need to have no further information about him.

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[JI7]

13. both

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Which Would You Prefer As A Pet?

A giraffe or a cantaloupe?

[zaj]

16. He's been releasing it at every possible step along the way he can.

The report is in almost every court filing along the way.

The summary conclusions are what's missing. I don't see how those could possibly be redacted.

But he's not close to done. This will be *a* report, not the final report, IMO.

[TomSlick]

17. The two things are not inconsistent.

I would expect that most bureaucrats are patriots.

[Miigwech]

18. Not so

The media is reporting that Mueller will give the report to Barr ... questionable at best, bureaucratic at the most ... not questionable if he releases the full report to Congress and the American people

[TomSlick]

22. Surely you do not mean to suggest that most government employees are unpatriotic.

The rise of bureaucratic administration in the 19th century was a reform under which governmental decisions are made on the basis of rules instead of being made on the basis of privilege and favors. You cannot favor the rule of law and oppose bureaucracy and bureaucrats.

"Bureaucrat" has unfairly become a pejorative.

[emulatorloo]

19. You should read thru the indictments and other filings, there is a lot of information in them

[Miigwech]

20. OK. But average Americans are not reading

anything like indictments or filings ... they need IMO the naked facts in a report

[GulfCoast66]

23. You phrase it like it's a binary choice. He is both.

His combat service in Vietnam, which he could avoided answers the your second question without even considering his following service.