Who is Bob?

[JackLuis]

Robert Mueller: Straight Shooter With a Moving Target

This article from 2001 sets the direction of Bob Muller's career.

When Bob Mueller took the helm of the Justice Department's criminal division in 1990, his subordinates liked to tease him about his Ivy-League roots, his stiffly formal public persona and the pressed blue jeans that were his idea of dressed-down for Saturdays in the office. His high WASP name — Robert Swan Mueller III — spawned the nickname "Bobby Three Sticks."

But there's nothing bland or diffident about Mueller's sharp, commanding style, formed on the hockey rinks of St. Paul's and Princeton and as a Marine officer on the front line in Vietnam. Confronted with a range of high-profile cases, from the BCCI bank fraud scandal to the Pan Am 103 terrorism investigation, he proved so decisive and careless of controversy that at one point, his deputy Dave Margolis warned him gently that if he didn't choose his battles, Washington might bang him up as it had done to so many of his predecessors.

Mueller fixed Margolis with his icy blues. "I don't," he said, "bruise easily."

From his Wikipedia page I learned that Bob, joined the Marine Corps in 1968 and went to Army Ranger and Jump Schools before commanding a platoon of Marines riflemen, earning a Bronze Star and a few other decorations. Those with any familiarity with the course at Ranger School know that it stresses you out with no food or sleep and yet asks you to overcome and persevere, to accomplish your objective!

Despite his 'Conservative Republican" personal politics he is not a boot licking sycophant of the Lindsey Graham class. Given the Marines, emphasis on marksmanship it can be a given that Bob knows that one round, one kill is the goal.

The question is did the system choose to give him the artillery support to accomplish the task they set for him?

Nancy, Nancy....crickets...

 

[KeithD]

Another question is just how naïve is he?

 

[JackLuis]

The Untold Story of Robert Mueller's Time in Combat

One day in the summer of 1969, a young Marine lieutenant named Bob Mueller arrived in Hawaii for a rendezvous with his wife, Ann. She was flying in from the East Coast with the couple’s infant daughter, Cynthia, a child Mueller had never met. Mueller had taken a plane from Vietnam.

Keith D writes: "Another question is just how naïve is he?"

Naive enough to expect Congress to supply the artillery.

Nancy?, Nancy?...crickets..

 

[KeithD]

Keith D writes: "Another question is just how naïve is he?"

Naive enough to expect Congress to supply the artillery.

Which is relevant, I think, in terms of being naïve in the current circumstances. He's pretty much locked into an American sense of propriety and fair play that don't exist at the moment. If he really believes in where he indicates he thought this should go, he should have seen the obstacles and the likelihoods under Trump/Barr and maneuver better in the report release. Barr recently said he believed Mueller had the ability to make a judgment call (Barr certainly did). Mueller could now say, "Well all righty . . ." and blast forward. It's not like the Trump "administration" is following the law in any of this.

 

[JackLuis]

Which is relevant, I think, in terms of being naïve in the current circumstances. He's pretty much locked into an American sense of propriety and fair play that don't exist at the moment. If he really believes in where he indicates he thought this should go, he should have seen the obstacles and the likelihoods under Trump/Barr and maneuver better in the report release. Barr recently said he believed Mueller had the ability to make a judgment call (Barr certainly did). Mueller could now say, "Well all righty . . ." and blast forward. It's not like the Trump "administration" is following the law in any of this.

Bobby Three Sticks is too much a patrician to stoop to Rethuglican levels. However, I want to see him ask Rep Jordan if he is as stupid as he seems?