From A Legal Perspective, Muellers Investigation is Dead. Heres Why
Like a headless turkey running around in circles, Special Counsel Robert Muellers anti-Trump investigation is dead, even if he does not yet realize it. While his investigation stumbles onward, with life support provided by the biased media, from a legal perspective the viability of any criminal case that Mueller could possibly bring has been effectively gutted thanks to the news (suppressed for months by Muellers team) that the FBIs key agent in both the Russia investigation and the Clinton email probe was an ardent Hillary supporter with an anti-Trump bias.
Under federal law, a prosecutor is required to disclose exculpatory and impeachment information to criminal defendants and to seek a just result in every case. Specifically, pursuant to Giglio v. United States, prosecutors are obligated to provide defendants with impeachment evidence, which includes, according to the DOJs guidelines, evidence of a witnesss biases, [a]nimosity toward defendant, or [a]nimosity toward a group of which the defendant is a member or with which the defendant is affiliated.
As a result, in any prosecution brought by Mueller against a Republican target, defense counsel would be entitled under the Constitution to all evidence in the governments possession relevant to exploring the apparent biases of FBI agent Peter Strzok and his animosity toward Trump and the Republican Party. This, in and of itself, could be a case-killer because it is very unlikely that Mueller or the DOJ would want defense counsel poring through all the records and documents, emails, and texts in the DOJs and Strzoks possession revealing the agents biases since this could fatally undermine any other cases or investigations the agent has worked onsuch as the FBIs decision to recommend charging General Flynn with lying to federal agents even though Hillary Clintons besties, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, were given a free pass despite apparently doing the same thing.
Significantly, the fatal damage done to Muellers anti-Trump investigation does not only rest in the fact that defense counsel will be able to conduct an unlubricated prostate examination on the FBIs key agent at trial. Instead, the real reason why Mueller will not risk a criminal trial is the lasting damage that would be done to the FBIs reputation by having Strzoks baggage brought into the daylight.
Why The Mueller Investigation Is Dead | The Daily Caller
