Posted on 06/14/2017 4:34:25 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
President Trump should not dismiss Mueller, but the Justice Department must revise the special counsel’s jurisdiction.
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Bottom line: Trump should not dismiss Mueller, but the Justice Department must revise the special counsel’s jurisdiction. Maybe this time, it could be conformed to, you know, the law . . . specifically, the law that limits special counsels to criminal investigations, not counterintelligence probes.
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Rosenstein should issue a directive superseding his original appointment of Mueller in order to more tightly and appropriately define Mueller’s jurisdiction. The new directive should describe, in writing, the potential crimes that have been uncovered in the Russia investigation.
There is no need to name names of suspects — the Justice Department should always resist that, even if the names would be obvious to people who’ve been following the public reporting. But it should be made clear that the special-counsel appointment is not a fishing expedition on the pretext of a sprawling counterintelligence probe.
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If there is to be a special counsel, the public, the Congress, the president, the Justice Department, and the special counsel himself must all know what crimes are being investigated.
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In the superseding order, the DAG should provide that Mueller may seek an expansion of his jurisdiction if he finds evidence of other potential crimes — i.e., real violations of federal law that are grist for prosecution, not intriguing relationships that can be spun into conspiracy theories. Rosenstein should make clear, though, that a) Mueller must explain (in writing, to Rosenstein) what additional crimes he wishes to investigate, and b) such an investigation may not go forward unless and until Rosenstein issues a new written directive, exactingly describing Mueller’s expanded jurisdiction — and explaining why the Justice Department is so conflicted that Mueller, rather than DOJ, should conduct the investigation.
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But after the latest leak by the Special Counsel that he is now investigating President Trump personally for obstruction of justice and manifestly trying to insulate himself from any prospect of having his job terminated, I am of a different view.
I think President Trump should go to Ryan and McConnell and tell them he is terminating the Special Counsel.
The appointment of the Special Counsel resulted from a campaign of leaks creating false smoke that there were reasonable grounds to believe there was a criminal conspiracy involving Trump and his people with the Russian government to hack Democrat computers.
That was always false and there never was any legitimate basis to commence a criminal investigation of Trump, whether by the FBI or a Special Counsel.
The Special Counsel came about from a sleazy, corrupt, self-righteous, fired, leaking FBI Director who manipulated DOJ procedures in order to exact personal revenge on the president who fired him, and who happened to take advantage of a moment of weakness by the Attorney General.
The Constitution vests Congress with the role of deciding whether the President has committed a high crime or misdemeanor. It does not give that role to a ginned-up unaccountable shadow executive branch led by a Special Counsel.
Trump should tell Congress, do your job and investigate this. Hold hearings on me. Make a decision.
He should say I had a good and legal constitutional basis to fire Director Comey and my expressing hope that Comey would go easy on a good man Flynn was not a crime.
He should say I am prepared to openly defend what I did before Congress and the American people.
And he should say since I am on solid legal ground, I am prepared to face Congress in the procedure provided by the Constitution.
But not through a secret, sleazy, unaccountable prosecutor created through the manipulations of the Deep State.
McCarthy was a NeverTrumper.
Fire Mueller and Rosenstein too.
The whole National Review is loaded with Never Trumpers.
Dump Mueller.
“is not a fishing expedition on the pretext of a sprawling counterintelligence probe”
But that’s all it is.
Don’t worry it’s just a distraction from todays shooting
No. Every minute Mueller is Spec counsel is another minute this edges into a Comey pardon. The appointment of Mueller was among the worst political mistakes ever made, I’m amazed that people who pay lots more attention than I missed this when the idea was first floated.
Speaking of Mueller....in retrospect, wasn’t his appointment universally accepted in about 4 minutes?
Meuller is not going to get fired.... But what a mess.
Imho, fire Rosenstein and Mueller now. I don’t care what the lying media or the democrats / communists / liberals think or say.
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And one more thing. Drain the swamp.
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This is SO TRUE !!
Mueller is literally a carbon copy of J. Edgar Comey. Pathetic beyond words.
“McCarthy was a NeverTrumper.”
I think he was to some extent during the campaign, but lately he has reverted to the law. Sessions should have sought out his advice, rather than the “ethicists” he referenced when he recused himself.
Mueller is hired to to investigate Russian interference in the last election. Now it has crept over to Obdtruction. Can him. With as much prejudice as possible.
Why would Rosenstein move to limit Mueller? Mueller is Rosenstein’s guy. He is there to do what Rosenstein thinks should be done. None of the brass at any of the agencies, especially State and DoJ should have kept their jobs past January.
I agree Sessions shouldn’t have recused himself, but Trump was angry about that also. As far as McCarthy, I won’t forget that he was against voting for Trump when his opponent was Hillary lol.
Comey doesn’t need a pardon. Mueller has immunized him totally.
He writes well and to the point, and is reasonably persuasive. That he is a #NeverTrumper weighs in the negative and he has a lot of work to do to restore his good name. But these articles are a good start.
So Mueller wants to shake down the US taxpayers for the rest of Pres. Trump’s term, providing Clinton cronies with even more money for their golden years. Trump should refuse to give them a scrap of paper and no records at all. If Hillary could destroy tons of government documents and run for president, he should do the same thing. He owes that Deputy AG Rosenstein a kick in the a** for appointing Mueller, Comey’s best friend, as Special Counsel.
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