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Hannity And Dershowitz' Whitey Bulger Smear Of Robert Mueller Just Fell Apart Bigly
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By News Hound Ellen
4/20/18 9:53am
The now-retired federal judge who presided over the case just destroyed the allegations by Sean Hannity and apparent Supreme Court Justice auditionee Alan Dershowitz that special counsel Robert Mueller allowed four men to remain wrongfully imprisoned in the 1980s.
As Media Matters noted, Hannity smeared Mueller, the head of the Russia probe, by trying to tie him to a hideous chapter in FBI history on four consecutive broadcasts last week. One of those instances was during a chat with Dershowitz.
In another instance, as a large graphic titled "THE MULLER CRIME FAMILY?" dominated the screen, Hannity said:
During Muellers time as a federal prosecutor in Boston, fourfour men wrongfully imprisoned for decades framed by an FBI informant and notorious gangster Whitey Bulger, all while Muellers office looked the other way. And, by the way, in that case with Whitey Bulger, $100 million payout and two of the four people died in jail that were put in there and they were innocent.
Today, retired federal judge and Harvard Law School senior lecturer Nancy Gertner set the record straight in a New York Times editorial:
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. ......................................
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Hannity And Dershowitz' Whitey Bulger Smear Of Robert Mueller Just Fell Apart Bigl (Original Post)
riversedge
Apr 2018
OP
The instant I heard who was alleging this i knew it was a lie and said so
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2018
#2
Conflict of interest, conflict of interest, conflict of interest, repeat, repeat, repeat nt
Chalco
Apr 2018
#3
They don't care about truth and their sheep only remember bad stuff about their libruhl opposition
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2018
#4
Perhaps Mueller should consider filing a slander and or libel case against Hannity then?
cstanleytech
Apr 2018
#7
Now Dershowitz is just making crap up, he wants to be on Red Don's team really bad
uponit7771
Apr 2018
#9
BootinUp
(47,219 posts)1. Hannity has to manufacture something
Its his job. Lol.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,137 posts)2. The instant I heard who was alleging this i knew it was a lie and said so
They never
not once
not ever
ever
ever
ever
tell the truth
Wawannabe
(5,690 posts)10. Yep. nt
Chalco
(1,312 posts)3. Conflict of interest, conflict of interest, conflict of interest, repeat, repeat, repeat nt
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,073 posts)4. They don't care about truth and their sheep only remember bad stuff about their libruhl opposition
dhill926
(16,388 posts)5. doubtful hannity's viewers would read...
the New York Times....or anything for that matter. This will all be gospel to the shitheads....
kimbutgar
(21,278 posts)6. Ok too bad Mueller cant sue Hannity and Dershowitz for slander
Outright lies like this oneshould gave consequences and both heathens should spologize or face consequences.
cstanleytech
(26,357 posts)7. Perhaps Mueller should consider filing a slander and or libel case against Hannity then?
world wide wally
(21,760 posts)8. Hillary should have done that long ago.
uponit7771
(90,371 posts)9. Now Dershowitz is just making crap up, he wants to be on Red Don's team really bad