FLASHBACK: Robert Mueller Used Counter-Terrorism Jet For Personal Travel, Wasted Taxpayer Money

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Special counsel Robert Mueller has had a rough week as his credibility has taken a substantial hit after a report revealed that an anti-Trump FBI agent was highly involved in key aspects of investigations into President Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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The Washington Post reported in 2007 that the FBI asked Congress for $3.6 million “in the war spending bill” to ensure that its $40 million Gulfstream V jet could continue to fly critical counterterrorism missions into Iraq.

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) slammed Mueller for misusing government resources and asked for an explanation from the FBI, but never received a response.

“Using this FBI jet to get to speaking engagements when the plane is intended to help fight terrorism is a good way to lose congressional approval of a necessary resource,” he said. “If the FBI wanted a jet to fly the director around, then it shouldn’t try to justify the plane as a weapon in the war on terror.”

The Washington Times reported in 2013 that an investigation by the Government Accountability Office revealed Mueller used the FBI’s Gulfstream V jet for personal travel:

The bureau’s state-the-art, sleek Gulfstream V jets logged 60 percent of their hours between 2007 and 2011 on “non-mission flights” that cost taxpayers $11.4 million, according to an investigation by the Government Accountability Office obtained by the Washington Guardian.

The travel included 88 personal trips for Holder and former Republican Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who stepped down in 2009, and 10 for Mueller, the review found. Taxpayers were reimbursed only pennies on the dollar for those personal trips under the current rules, the audit found.

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