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Eric Felten: Republicans Should Interrogate Mueller on the Footnotes of His Report -- Because That's Where He Lies the Most BlatantlyFelten notes that the illegally-procured FISA warrant buried, and obfuscated, the important fact that the dossier it cited was paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC, and compiled by a foreign agent. I obviously can't quote the whole thing, but here's one use of a Fabulist Footnote. Mueller claims, in the body of the report, that a source claimed that Trump snuck off from Trump Tower, two days after his election, to secretly attend a chess tournament in lower Manhattan and chat up some Russians. This is footnoted, and if you don't actually read both the footnote and the source the footnote points to, you might imagine that there's some evidence for this fantastical claim. The most famous man in the world as of this day -- his Tower surrounded by dumptrucks filled with sand as a safety precaution against possible vehicle bombers -- just sneaks off to a chess tournament, with the world press present, to have a secret talk with RUSSIANS. He just offers a short footnote to a 302 interview report. To get insight into Mueller's method and intent -- his penchant for building edifices of insinuation on the smallest of citations -- it is worth unpacking one of the shortest footnotes in his report. Footnote 1024 on page 150 of the report’s first volume simply reads: "Nader 1/22/18 302 at 3." It is a reference to the FBI’s memo – known as a 302 -- of its January 2018 interview with George Nader, identified in the Mueller report as "Advisor to the United Arab Emirates's Crown Prince." Nader had spoken with a Russian who was attending the 2016 World Chess Championship in New York and who had expressed an interest in meeting Trump. Nader also told the FBI that an unnamed chess federation official had "recalled hearing" from an unknown attendee that Trump "had stopped by the tournament." What he means is that Mueller, rather than stating conclusively that this rumor appears false, always tries to keep the allegation open and alive by saying "we failed to establish this fucker is guilty, but you know damn well he is." Another of Mueller's tricks is to footnote a source supposedly supporting the claim he makes in the text, when in fact the source actually refutes his claim. He also relies on media reports by reporters themselves fed leaks by highly interested parties (similar to how the FBI cited a Yahoo news article in support of the Steele dossier's accuracy, pretending this was a second, independent source, without telling the court that Yahoo's source was just Christopher Steele again -- so it wasn't a new, second independent source, but the exact same source, this time ventriloquizing his voice through Michael Issikoff). Felten finds it strange that Mueller has to go to media reports to find out what the FBI told, or did not tell, Michael Flynn, rather than just asking the FBI itself. Almost as if the FBI itself would tell a different story -- but he prefers the tale told by the media. | Recent Comments
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