WASHINGTON Deputy attorney general Robert Rosenstein appointed special counsel Robert Mueller because our friends all have stuff on him, according to private messages exchanged by five federal government employees on the day Mueller was appointed in May 2017. Intelligence insiders in Washington are exchanging the messages presented below because they believe they show an accurate presentation of what the House Intelligence Committee has long known: that an inter-agency coalition of a small number of operatives including a top official at John Brennans CIA conspired to leak negative stories and memos on General Michael Flynn.