The death Friday, March 20, of Robert Mueller was met with mixed emotions across America.

While mainstream media will be showering accolades in memory of Mueller, previous observations over the years from real journalists such as Lee Smith, provides reality:

“The purpose of the Mueller inquiry is therefore not to investigate the mostly ludicrous-seeming charges in the Steele dossier, but to protect the institution of the FBI, former colleagues, as well as the national security surveillance system,” he wrote at the time.

“Therefore the inquiry has to cover up the sinful origins of the collusion narrative itself—which was born in repeated abuses of power and subsequent crimes committed by US officials in the intelligence bureaucracy and the Obama administration.”

Of the 16 attorneys Mueller selected to go after Trump, none of the them were registered Republicans. There were 13 registered Democrats on the investigation. Three lawyers claimed to have no party affiliation

Campaign finance records revealed that 11 of the lawyers were Democratic donors.

At another time, Smith provided more truth:

“As director of the FBI during the post-9/11 period, when foreign intelligence surveillance and its abuses made regular front-page headlines, Muller knows exactly how the system can be abused—and what the penalties are. He also recognizes that Russiagate is evidence of how it was abused, and who abused it—including some of the same people he worked with during his 12-year tenure as FBI director.”

“First and foremost, Mueller ditched the presumption of innocence,” Robert Lowry from the National Review likely explained it best at the time. “In the normal course of things, all of us are considered innocent unless a jury finds us guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Mueller switched this around.”

Referring to Deep State attempts to destroy President Donald Trump during his first term, Lowry explained:

“Rather than finding conclusive evidence of Trump’s guilt, he had to find conclusive evidence of his innocence. Since he didn’t find this exculpatory evidence, Mueller deemed Trump ‘not exonerated.’”

Recently, damning allegations revealed Mueller had “no authority” for the Special Counsel’s Office to open a case on Tom Barrack. He was a billionaire friend of Trump and chairman of his 2017 inaugural committee. The allegations were over false claims that he was an unregistered agent of the United Arab Emirates.

The FBI’s Washington Field Office had already declined to open an investigation. Nevertheless, the Mueller team arrested Barrack. They held him in jail and charged him with being an agent of a foreign government.

No Evidence

Mueller’s investigation ran until March 2019. It cost taxpayers more than $30 million. The investigation found no evidence of Russia collusion.

In May 2023, another special counsel, John Durham, released a report. The report described the Trump-Russia probe as “seriously flawed.” The report found that the FBI “discounted or willfully ignored material information.” This information did not support the narrative of a collusive relationship between Trump and Russia.

After a lengthy and expensive legal battle, Barrack was acquitted by a jury in 2022. He now serves as US ambassador to Turkey.

The Mueller team chronically abused federal surveillance, or FISA, warrants. These warrants govern secret monitoring of suspected foreign agents. The team used them to target Trump campaign advisers. They even renewed them over the objections of FBI agents.

In one case, the agent claimed that the target of the investigation was cooperating. The surveillance warrant would not provide anything more.

There was nothing in the past FISA that aided the investigation. It only proved the Target was being honest with the investigators.

“There were no corroborating facts that tied the target to the facts we thought were originally true.”

Investigators decided to apply for a fourth warrant against the aide. The agent pointed out a series of needed corrections. In response to the proposed revisions, FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith told him: “We can’t send this.”

The DOJ subsequently decided the corrections weren’t needed.

Clinesmith later pleaded guilty to doctoring an email that underpinned a FISA warrant application for another blameless Trump adviser, Carter Page. He was sentenced to 12 months’ probation and kept his law license after a short suspension.

Mueller prosecutor Zainad Ahmad, a protege of former Barack Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch, repeatedly violated security protocols.

In at least one instance, she brought classified documents to a meeting at the Washington Field Office (WFO) and did not adhere to FBI security policy.

She brought her classified notebook to the meeting without a proper carrying bag. What was worse, she came to WFO from her residence, meaning she kept her notebook at the residence.”

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe “referred to President Trump in a derogatory manner” in an official interview record — and DOJ prosecutors later tried to pressure FBI agent Michelle Taylor to “change the tone of the [document] to reflect that McCabe spoke about [Trump] without the negative connotation.”

Taylor refused and left the FBI shortly after her secondment to the Mueller team ended, the agent said.

A “general atmosphere … of bias [in the office was] led by one young prosecutor, Aaron Zelinsky … There were caricatures and cartoons that were anti-Trump.”

Zelinsky handled the zealous investigations into Trump advisers Roger Stone, George Papadopoulos, and Michael Caputo. He resigned from the DOJ in January 2025.

“McCabe joined the FBI in 1996, climbed to Deputy Director in 2016, overseeing major investigations into national security threats,” Roger Stone later revealed.

“McCabe’s leadership was overshadowed by persistent allegations of misconduct. The Justice Department’s Inspector General report in 2018 painted a damning picture, McCabe lacked candor on four separate occasions when questioned about unauthorized disclosures to the media regarding the FBI’s probe into Hillary Clinton’s emails. He was accused of misleading investigators, a violation that led to his termination and a referral for criminal charges.”

“Ultimately, the DOJ declined to prosecute him in 2020. Numerous critics decried this as a miscarriage of justice, arguing that failing to prosecute McCabe signals a tolerance for corruption at the senior ranks of federal law enforcement.”

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