This blog post speculates that either Robert Mueller was drunk when he wrote to MacAskill, or that he signed an inaccurate letter that an underling wrote for him. You can tell it was Queens Council blog material though, because hit never once speculates that Mueller may be a cornered crime boss lashing out to protect himself, like I would. He certainly never said Mueller is the sickest fucker to be be FBI boss since J.Edgar Hoover hung up his sadistic spurs, maybe he knows that to be libellous. Jonathan Mitchell QC does compare the FBI to the Cheka though, he does equate Muellers rule as the rule of a police state.


"That letter from the FBI to the Justice Secretary: is it real?"

So I have to ask: who actually wrote this letter? If it was Robert Mueller, he must have been on the juice, which may perhaps have been what Lord Fraser had in mind when he kindly suggested Mueller visit Scotland to ‘discuss some good whisky‘. If it was some underling, he didn’t do his homework.

Whoever it was, it was someone with the Stalinist thinking about the infallibility of police and prosecutors which coloured the UK governments strenuous efforts to keep the evidence in the recent appeal effectively secret, but in a less disguised form. Look at this:

… only the prosecutor handling the case has all the facts and the law before him in reaching the appropriate decision.

That’s the thinking that led to the founding of the Cheka in 1918. As Hector MacQueen pointed out, it’s the old chestnut that we don’t need courts or judges to “reach the appropriate decision“; still less any defence. The prosecution, after all, is infallible. No wonder then, perhaps, that the writer of this letter, whoever he or she may have been, was so appalled at anyone not following its instructions. Thus the complaint “You never once sought our opinion” on the release. As the Justice Secretary rightly pointed out in Parliament, however, in Scotland “we have separation of powers“. Someone in the FBI, however, does not believe in this.

There’s a phrase for this, and the phrase is ‘police state’.

You go ahead and write to those U.S. religious leaders, Danny and ask them if they agree with the Scottish Kirk and the Catholic Church. While you're at it, you ask them about gangsterism, fascism, and genocide - mention, say, the Crusades, perhaps?
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades
Or the Cathars?
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_Crusade
Or the Inquisition?
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition
or the Priest sex abuse scandals, which never end:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest_Abuse_Scandal

I think I'll side with the Church of Satan, myself.