#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

The Mueller investigation was a partisan hatchet job cooked up by people determined to keep the corrupt system of theft and graft and cronyism that has run DC for thirty years Undisturbed by an outsider. Mueller was either bone-stupid-senile (as he appeared when he testified) or remarkably dishonest (as his history with DOJ would suggest). His underlings, who hated Trump, wrote the report. He was scarcely cognizant if it’s findings.

Excellent assessment of a sorry chapter of history for this country.

Clark said that prosecutors have to use discretion in what they pursue and that a risk with any special investigation is overusing resources to chase down one crime or another. "We don't try to uncover all crimes. Prosecutors use discretion," Clark said.

This isn't how the law worked when the system wasn't so corrupted by lawyers. Prosecutorial discretion is what allows for selective prosecution that winds up with bribes taken by prosecutors and is in large part responsible for the rich not being prosecuted.

The Mueller investigation was a partisan hatchet job cooked up by people determined to keep the corrupt system of theft and graft and cronyism that has run DC for thirty years Undisturbed by an outsider.

I believe you are describing the Deep State here. All of those Federal employees who are working toward their retirement are at the root of it all. ;)

The bureaucrats (with a few prominent exceptions, like the IRS and, of course, the intelligence agencies) are not the main problem, it appears to me. The main problem is congressional corruption and corporate domination of the system. Reading/watching John Perkins’ material on economic hit men really opened my eyes. Latin America is a microcosm of the United States in some ways. The same corporations who have destroyed democracy in South America have done their best to destroy it here.

I agree. The IRS is the main problem. All the money people pay into the system does not go to funding anything. It merely pays for the existence of the IRS.

And as Joe Bannister found out, the IRS collects an unlawful tax. And people pay it under threat of lien, levy and seizure.

I had two IRS liens against me in the town I lived when I was driving trucks. I called the recorder's office. They told me send a check for $4 and SASE and we will send you copies.

I had Lexington Law, credit repair lawyers in Salt Lake City challenge the IRS. They could not prove I owed the tax and were forced to withdraw the liens. My Credit Karma used to the "2" for Public Filings. Now it says "0". The proof is in the pudding. ;)

...John Perkins’ material on economic hit men really opened my eyes.

That and Smedley Butler's War is a Racket should be required reading for everyone.

Audit all government sectors in America. Evidently, our nation is being run like corrupt charities, where only a few pennies of every dollar appropriated at taxpayer expense are used for the stated purpose and the rest goes to Commiecrat racketeers to give themselves and their cronies high paying jobs and for the sustenance of their bloated bureaucracy biznesses.

the special counsel's office has also tracked other, complementary spending from the Justice Department— something it says it was not legally required to do—that, it says, doesn't cost taxpayers additional money because the resources would have been spent elsewhere if the investigation did not exist.

That sort of twisted thinking cost American lives and severely wounded the lives of other Americans during the Iraq War because our troops had to sandbag their vehicles and scavenge scrap metal parts to try and shield them after the Clinton administration decided to de-armor and under-armor our Military. Some of their flak jackets/bullet-resistant vests were ineffective, too, and so was some of their ammo. All of that tragedy was written off as if "thrifty" on .gov accounting documents and as big profit boons eventually for contractors in the manufacturing industries of "Up-armor Kits", protective gear and ammunition.

John Perkins’ material on economic hit men really opened my eyes.

That and Smedley Butler's War is a Racket should be required reading for everyone.

And not one shred of this is taught in our schools, especially Perkins. The only reason I know about Butler is because I found him by reading on 4um.

Of course those men are the dark underbelly of our government. ;)