If anyone on this thread is an attorney, please feel free to correct my understanding. The FBI can - and usually does - make a request to the DOJ for a Special Counsel. What’s striking is that Comey could have asked Sally Yates - then the Deputy AG - to install a Special Counsel at any time. And she would have. But why did Comey not make such a request? And why did Yates not take the initiative herself if she’s empowered to? After all, these two were primary in publicly blathering about the “Muh Russian Collusion” narrative. So the fact they never did speaks volumes, I would think.
Once Trump fired Comey, then a total panic had to have set in within the Deep State. He was their protetcor; he was their mop up guy, and he was going to keep that narrative open all the way up until 2018, when Democrats have 23 senate seats to defend and 10 of them in state Trump won. So that snake Neil McCabe, Deputy FBI director and whose wife is a huge lefty Democrat (as is he), had to act fast. I’m thinking McCabe went to Rosenstein with some sort of “evidence” (concocted or otherwise) to request a Special Counsel, and Rosenstein played along (or got played, maybe). But they needed a new gatekeeper since Comey was now out. And they decided Mueller would do just that - keep the cloud of suspicion over Trump to weaken him as an advocate against all of those Democrats who will be otherwise vulnerable in 2018. Can you imagine what’s at stake for the left is the GOP obtains 60 seats in the Senate and keeps the House? Over 100 years of progressive policy goes down in flames. The Deep State (which is the Left, both Dem and GOP leftists) have everything on the line. Their only hope is to have a populist like Trump be weakened if not destroyed (politically) by the time the mid terms happen. THAT’S why McCabe went to Rosenstein to ask for a Special Counsel. He’s trying to save Democrats from oblivion.
Nope. The pressure to DoJ for a SC can come from anywhere, and is effectively independent of the FBI.
In the Clinton investigation, the FBI as not conflicted. It could have and should have given the file to the DoJ. If not Lynch, then Lynch's deputy. It's up to Lynch (or her deputy) to decide if SC is warranted.
Comey usurped that. It's as if cop had investigated a murder but never informed the DA, because, in the cops opinion, no DA would press charges.
I've explained elsewhere, across a few threads, that I believe Mueller is a "Trump creation." Mueller (or somebody else) had to be SC in order to put Comey's witch hunt to bed, by somebody that the press could not spin into a Trump sycophant.
That's an unpopular view here, and I feel no need to repeat my justification over and over and over - meaning I have no interest in persuading people that I view as wring-headed, and I am grateful they feel no urge to persuade me.