Mueller’s Team Prepares To Return To Old Jobs In Sign Probe Really Is Ending

WASHINGTON - JUNE 25:  FBI Director Robert Mueller speaks during a news conference at the FBI headquarters June 25, 2008 in Washington, DC. The news conference was to mark the 5th anniversary of Innocence Lost initiative.  (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON - JUNE 25: FBI Director Robert Mueller speaks during a news conference at the FBI headquarters June 25, 2008 in Washington, DC. The news conference was to mark the 5th anniversary of Innocence Lost initia... WASHINGTON - JUNE 25: FBI Director Robert Mueller speaks during a news conference at the FBI headquarters June 25, 2008 in Washington, DC. The news conference was to mark the 5th anniversary of Innocence Lost initiative. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Lawyers on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team have been calling their old bosses in preparation to return to the jobs they had before, a sign that the investigation may truly be at its end.

According to a Wednesday Washington Post report, Mueller’s office is 12 lawyers strong now, down from 17. Eight of them were reassigned from other posts in the Department of Justice.

They would reportedly be able to pitch in with the prosecution of cases launched by Mueller’s investigations from their original posts.

Per the Post, Mueller sees his team’s job as more investigatory than prosecutorial, so will comfortable closing down the formal operation before all the related indictments come down.

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  1. If all Barr releases is a summary whitewash, it’s time to start painting the “What Are You Hiding?” signs, to be carried during the mass demonstrations in D.C.

  2. Robert Mueller is not going to save us.

  3. Going back to their regular jobs after what they have seen and done has to be a letdown. It will be something to tell the grandkids about at some point. An AG appointed by a Dem POTUS could reunite the team and set them loose on all the miscreants that weren’t mowed down in the first rounds of investigation.

  4. The thing about Mueller is that he was the safeguard that investigations were going to become prosecutions and not be buried. If he hands in his report and departs–especially if only a bare-bones summary is released to Congress and the public–the House will have to take up that mantle.

  5. Yes, but first we need to have a Democratic president, and a big, big step on that road is exposing the corruption in the current maladministration, and prosecuting the important wrongdoers. Will that happen if Mueller leaves?

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