I had to remind myself of Weissmann, so I looked him up. Apparently, he was involved in going after Paul Manafort, and then left the government to be at New York University. It sounds like he was simply out of the loop at that point.
As for the demons, I lay it to the psychology of fickle people and skimming management. Those who were in the details were counting their chickens according to what they thought they saw, and those who were managing were not attending to details nor assembling the big picture. I think it was beyond Mueller's comprehension, at that point. So, yes, they had no clue, because they had drunk their own bathwater, and because they had never seen the big picture. Bill Barr's cover letter was a wake-up call.
What convinced me for absolute certain that the effort was dead was that the Democrats simply tossed Mueller's report into the trash. That was supposed to be their triumphal march to impeachment and removal. They had to start all over again from scratch.
Apparently, he was involved in going after Paul Manafort, and then left the government to be at New York University.
I used to listen to some NPR at that time, and I was following the Muller investigation pretty closely, but from the other side. Weissman was portrayed as the powerhouse in the Muller investigation and all the podcasters put a lot of their hopes and called him "bulldog" (or some name like that) because apparently he had prosecuted a lot of high profile people.
He was with Muller even until March 2019 less than a month before the report was released.
It is interesting that in addition to Paul Manafort, he was tasked at one point with going after Trump's children and extended circle, which was later rescinded by Whittaker. Almost makes me think that Weissman had already been turned, or was very masterfully distracted from the main investigations.
Cant wait to read the books about the inside stories of this times.
For me what really struck me was how all the podcasters were lamenting about the way the report was summarised, but not one of them would ever go into details and explain where the summary was wrong.
I had to remind myself of Weissmann, so I looked him up. Apparently, he was involved in going after Paul Manafort, and then left the government to be at New York University. It sounds like he was simply out of the loop at that point.
As for the demons, I lay it to the psychology of fickle people and skimming management. Those who were in the details were counting their chickens according to what they thought they saw, and those who were managing were not attending to details nor assembling the big picture. I think it was beyond Mueller's comprehension, at that point. So, yes, they had no clue, because they had drunk their own bathwater, and because they had never seen the big picture. Bill Barr's cover letter was a wake-up call.
What convinced me for absolute certain that the effort was dead was that the Democrats simply tossed Mueller's report into the trash. That was supposed to be their triumphal march to impeachment and removal. They had to start all over again from scratch.
I used to listen to some NPR at that time, and I was following the Muller investigation pretty closely, but from the other side. Weissman was portrayed as the powerhouse in the Muller investigation and all the podcasters put a lot of their hopes and called him "bulldog" (or some name like that) because apparently he had prosecuted a lot of high profile people.
He was with Muller even until March 2019 less than a month before the report was released.
It is interesting that in addition to Paul Manafort, he was tasked at one point with going after Trump's children and extended circle, which was later rescinded by Whittaker. Almost makes me think that Weissman had already been turned, or was very masterfully distracted from the main investigations.
Cant wait to read the books about the inside stories of this times.
For me what really struck me was how all the podcasters were lamenting about the way the report was summarised, but not one of them would ever go into details and explain where the summary was wrong.