{"id":604,"date":"2019-05-09T14:22:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T14:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/?p=604"},"modified":"2019-05-09T14:22:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T14:22:14","slug":"robert-mueller-outsourced-work-to-private-investigators-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/2019\/05\/09\/robert-mueller-outsourced-work-to-private-investigators-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Mueller Outsourced work to Private Investigators &#038; Researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special Counsel Robert Mueller spent more than $732,000 on outside contractors, including private investigators and researchers, records show, but his office refuses to say who they were. While it\u2019s not unusual for special government offices to outsource for services such as computer support, Mueller also hired contractors to compile \u201cinvestigative reports\u201d and other \u201cinformation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The arrangement has led congressional investigators, government watchdog groups and others to speculate that the private investigators and researchers who worked for the special counsel\u2019s office might have included Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS, the private research firm that hired Steele to produce the Russia collusion dossier for the Clinton campaign. &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2019\/05\/08\/who_were_the_mueller_reports_hired_guns.html\">RealClearInvestigations<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-text=\"Robert Mueller Outsourced work to Private Investigators &amp; Researchers\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2019\/05\/08\/who_were_the_mueller_reports_hired_guns.html\" data-show-count=\"false\">Tweet<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Counsel Robert Mueller spent more than $732,000 on outside contractors, including private investigators and researchers, records show, but his office refuses to say who they were. While it\u2019s not unusual for special government offices to outsource for services such as computer support, Mueller also hired contractors to compile \u201cinvestigative reports\u201d and other \u201cinformation.&#8221; The<a href=\"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/2019\/05\/09\/robert-mueller-outsourced-work-to-private-investigators-researchers\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}