The Mueller Team? Fair?

If a baker’s dozen, frothing at the mouth, hungry as a pack of wolves, first-string Democrat attorneys, could not dig up indictable crimes to bag President Trump, are we being unreasonable if we believe it is now AG Barr’s turn to seek truth?

Are we being unreasonable if we believe the deck was stacked against President Trump given 13 registered Democrats of the 17 Mueller investigation team members? Or, are we being unreasonable if we notice that 9 of the 17 Democrat Mueller team investigators donated substantial funds to Democrat candidates at election time?

I think not. Being reasonable may be “in the eye of the beholder” so to speak. But my sense of “reasonable” tends to respond to irrefutable facts, especially when those facts are offered by media clearly supporting “the other side.”

It is one thing to hear the raw numbers but adding flesh to the bones does add a dimension of understanding. Hence this detailed list.

Below is the complete list of the special counsel team members, their donations and the party affiliation noted in their past or present voter registration records. And, yes, 13 of the 17 team members are DEMOCRATS. Admittedly, being Democrat is not a crime. But a 13 to 4 ratio does not come even close to a fair and balanced team. Notice also the “donations” data!

1) Brian M. Richardson, a former Supreme Court clerk and clerk for a judge serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in New York City.
No donations.
Voter registration: No affiliation

2) Ryan Dickey, a lawyer on detail from the Justice Department Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section.
No donations.
Voter registration: DEMOCRAT.

3) Kyle Freeny, a lawyer from the Justice Department Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section
Freeny donated $250 to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008, another $250 to Obama’s reelection campaign in 2012 and $250 to Clinton’s campaign in 2016.
Voter registration: DEMOCRAT.

4) Scott Meisler, an appellate lawyer from the Justice Department Criminal Division.
No donations.
Voter registration: No affiliation.

5) Zainab Ahmad, a lawyer from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
No donations
Voter registration: No affiliation.

6) Greg Andres, a former partner at Davis Polk, a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department Criminal Division and a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
He donated $2,700 to the campaign of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) this year and $1,000 to the U.S. Senate campaign of David Hoffman (D) in 2009 when he ran unsuccessfully in Illinois.
Voter registration: DEMOCRAT

7) Rush Atkinson, a lawyer from the Justice Department Criminal Division Fraud Section.
He donated $200 to Clinton’s campaign in 2016.
Voter registration: DEMOCRAT

8) Michael Dreeben, an appellate lawyer from the Office of the Solicitor General.
No donations.
Voter registration: DEMOCRAT.

9) Andrew Goldstein, a lawyer from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
Goldstein donated $3,300 to Obama’s campaigns in 2008 and 2012.
Voter registration: DEMOCRAT.

10) Adam Jed, an appellate lawyer from the Civil Division.
No donations.
Voter registration: DEMOCRAT.

11) Elizabeth Prelogar, an appellate lawyer on detail from the Office of the Solicitor General.
She donated $250 each to Clinton’s campaign in 2016 and the Obama Victory Fund in 2012.
Voter registration: DEMOCRAT.

12) James Quarles, a former partner at WilmerHale and a former assistant special prosecutor for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force.
He donated more than $30,000 to various Democratic campaigns in 2016, including $2,700 to Clinton, although his giving spans two decades. Quarles also gave $2,500 in 2015 to Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and $250 to Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) in 2005.
Voter registration: DEMOCRAT.

13) Jeannie Rhee, a former partner at Wilmer Hale who has served in the Office of Legal Counsel and as an assistant U.S. attorney in Washington.
Rhee donated a total of $5,400 to Clinton’s campaign in 2015 and 2016, and a total of $4,800 to the Obama Victory Fund in 2008 and 2011. She also made smaller donations totaling $1,750 to the Democratic National Committee and to various Democrats running for Senate seats.
Voter registration: DEMOCRAT.

14) Brandon Van Grack, a lawyer on detail from the Justice Department’s National Security Division.
He donated $286.77 to Obama’s campaign in 2008.
Voter registration: DEMOCRAT.

15) Andrew Weissmann, a lawyer who headed the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section. He has served as general counsel at the FBI and as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
Weissmann donated $2,300 to the Obama Victory Fund in 2008, $2,000 to the DNC in 2006 and $2,300 to the Clinton campaign in 2007.
Voter registration: DEMOCRAT.

16) Aaron Zebley, a former partner at WilmerHale who has previously served with Mueller at the FBI and as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia.
No donations.
Voter registration: No affiliation.

17) Aaron Zelinsky, a lawyer on detail from the U.S. attorney’s office in the District of Maryland.
No donations.
Voter registration: DEMOCRAT.

By the way, I didn’t make this up. I’m not a practitioner of fake news. I wrote the above introductory material. The rest is from a Washington Post article (not that I trust WAPO, but they did the research I would have done). They just came to different conclusions. Imagine that!