Epstein Secrets

and the public. Mr. Mueller was appointed as the special counsel on May 17, 2017, in the wake of Mr. Trump's decision eight days earlier to dismiss James B. Comey as F.B.I. director. Mr. Mueller was given a mandate to investigate whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election and "any links and/or coordinatio

, Mr. Barr wrote a 19-page memo last summer arguing that Mr. Mueller was on shaky legal ground if he tried to treat Mr. Trump's decision to fire Mr. Comey, the former director of the F.B.I., as an act of obstruction — a memo that has Democrats in Congress worried that the attorney general comes to the

lied to the government about his contact with a Russian associate during the campaign and after the election. Prosecutors claim that the associate, Konstantin V. Kilimnik, has ties to Russian intelligence, and have been investigating whether he was involved in a covert attempt to influence the 2016 presidential electi

and the public. Mr. Mueller was appointed as the special counsel on May 17, 2017, in the wake of Mr. Trump's decision eight days earlier to dismiss James B. Comey as F.B.I. director. Mr. Mueller was given a mandate to investigate whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election and "any links and/or coordinatio

, Mr. Barr wrote a 19-page memo last summer arguing that Mr. Mueller was on shaky legal ground if he tried to treat Mr. Trump's decision to fire Mr. Comey, the former director of the F.B.I., as an act of obstruction — a memo that has Democrats in Congress worried that the attorney general comes to the

lied to the government about his contact with a Russian associate during the campaign and after the election. Prosecutors claim that the associate, Konstantin V. Kilimnik, has ties to Russian intelligence, and have been investigating whether he was involved in a covert attempt to influence the 2016 presidential electi

it released materials in the Clinton case, despite prosecutors not bringing charges." However, McCabe said, "I'm not sure that [former FBI Director James Comey's] decision to announce it in July is a precedent. ... However, I think that it is a very concerning and now recent precedent the volume of informatio

d, "I'm not sure that [former FBI Director James Comey's] decision to announce it in July is a precedent

w York Times (2/23, Vogel, Kramer, 17.89M) reports that in the Mueller investigation, "few figures seem to have offered more tantalizing leads than Konstantin V. Kilimnik." The Times describes him as "a diminutive, multilingual political operative" who "has continued to attract intense interest from prosecutors for hi