Charles Pierce | Mueller Is Asking Questions. He Knows the Answers.



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Former FBI Director James Comey, Special Investigator Robert Mueller, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. (photo: Getty) 
Charles Pierce, Esquire 
Pierce writes: "Any morning when you wake up and discover that the sitting Attorney General of the United States has been questioned by a special prosecutor on the subject of the president*'s complicity with thugs, hoodlums, international brigands, and Russian ratfckers is a day begun well, at least for scurvy political blogging types." 
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