Posted on 06/21/2017 6:48:13 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
So I’ve been wondering: Why on earth does a prosecutor, brought in to investigate a case in which there is no apparent crime, need a staff of 14 lawyers?
Or, I should say, “14 lawyers and counting.” According to the press spokesman for special counsel Robert Mueller—yeah, he’s got a press spokesman, too—there are “several more in the pipeline.”
Concededly, none of Mueller’s recruits requires Senate confirmation, as do Justice Department officials—notwithstanding that the former may end up playing a far more consequential role in the fate of the Trump administration. But does it seem strange to anyone else that, by comparison, the president of the United States has managed to get—count ’em—three appointees confirmed to Justice Department positions in five months?
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The way this is supposed to work is: the Justice Department first identifies a likely crime, and then assigns a prosecutor to investigate it. Here, by contrast, there are no parameters imposed on the special counsel’s jurisdiction. Mueller is loosed—with 14 lawyers and more coming—to conduct what I’ve called a “fishing expedition.” But it is actually worse than that....Mueller’s probe is the functional equivalent of a general warrant: a boundless writ to search for incriminating evidence. It is the very evil the Fourth Amendment was adopted to forbid: a scorch-the-earth investigation in the absence of probable cause that a crime has been committed.
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Why does special counsel Mueller need 14 lawyers (and more coming) for a counterintelligence investigation, as to which the intelligence professionals—agents, not lawyers—have found no “collusion with Russia” evidence after over a year of hard work? What will those lawyers be doing with no limits on their jurisdiction, with nothing but all the time and funding they need to examine one target, Donald Trump?
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The Dems (and GOP-e) will tone down talk of Russian collusion, obstruction of justice and impeachment for a while, or at least put it on the back burner.
They got what they wanted - a Special Counsel to investigate all things Trump. Now they will let the Special Counsel get to work, issue grand jury subpoenas to pore over business and financial records of Trump and his family and associates, try to find anti-Trump witnesses within his businesses, and work on collecting evidence that might lead to being able to prove a crime of some sort against Donald Trump, be it for tax evasion, antitrust collusion, securities fraud, bribery of government officials, foreign corrupt practices violations, money laundering violations, failing to pay parking tickets, anything they can find.
The idea is that the Special Counsel by next Spring and Summer will have something that can be leaked into the media to be used in the mid-term 2018 elections. Ideally, perhaps indictments not against Trump, but against people close to him, so that the innuendo of wrongdoing can be used to usher in a Democrat congress in 2018 that will impeach Trump in early 2019.
I doubt they will name Donald Trump himself as a target or subject of the investigation until the last possible moment before handing evidence of whatever crimes they claim to have found to the impeachment managers of the post-2018 Democrat-controlled House.
McCarthy: "none of Mueller’s recruits requires Senate confirmation" - Shouldn't Mueller himself require Senate confirmation? DOJ rules purport to give him all the power of a US Attorney. US Attorneys must be confirmed by the Senate.
Trump will need lawyers experienced in dealing with broad federal grand jury subpoenas covering everything about his life and business and also able to challenge the legality of the Special Counsel appointment and the regulations.
Or, as I have suggested he could terminate the Special Counsel as an unconstitutional unelected shadow Executive Branch and insist that Congress investigate him, as provided for in the Constitution.
At least Trump is hiring some outstanding personal lawyers and has the money himself to fight back. Jay Sekulow is a great choice on his team.
Jay is a very good advocate and appellate lawyer.
The President and The Trump Organization are going to need additional lawyers experienced in defending federal criminal investigations and negotiating grand jury process.
The JOJ created Mueller and the DOJ can undo Mueller...
How long before FBI special agents interview fat-shamed Alica Machado?
and the disgruntled graduates of Trump University?
and Rosie O’Donnell?
and his barber to see if his hair is real?
I seem to have forgotten. Who is President, Obama,Clinton or Trump? Who is the AG, Holder,Mueller or Sessions? Which party is in majority? I guess draining the swamp was actually just recycling the swamp water. This is absurd beyond belief.
Trump should have dismissed the SC as soon as Sessions and rottenstien went before the panel... I don’t know why he is poking it...I have a terrible gut feeling about those Hitlery evil lawyers on the case...HOW THE *UCK DID IT GET THIS FAR...*UCKING SESSIONS!!!
How come a deputy AG can appoint a person that has unlimited power while the president can never appoint some one to have the same power? Does a deputy AG have more constitutional authority than a president?
On a separate note, was Comey one of the investigators working on the email server? If not, when he said there was no prosecution of Hillary Clinton, was he obstructing justice?
“At least Trump is hiring some outstanding personal lawyers and has the money himself to fight back. Jay Sekulow is a great choice on his team.”
I’m afraid Mueller has snatched up the Washington elite lawyers. Trump’s legal team doesn’t appear to stand a chance against this group if their agenda is to do him in. I’ve seen this on many blogs (for what it is worth).....
Or people may simply get sick of the democrats and “deport” them once and for all. Nothing beyond the realm of possibilities here, they have already started the war.
“I’m afraid Mueller has snatched up the Washington elite lawyers.”
Only the lefties.
Give him a budget and a deadline. Like 500k and 60 days.
Hopefully the President and his lawyers are looking at the trust agreement through which he isolated himself from his businesses when he assumed the presidency.
The Special Counsel will be attacking Trump through investigating The Trump Organization.
But Trump agreed to limit his right to receive information about what is going on at The Trump Organization.
Trump and his lawyers will need to know from The Trump Organization what is going on with respect to the Special Counsel going after The Trump Organization so he can defend himself.
Technically, Trump was not required by law to enter into that trust arrangement. But his going above and beyond to give assurance to the American people that he has no conflicts of interest may result in a blind spot through which the Special Counsel can attack him without his seeing it coming.
“How come a deputy AG can appoint a person that has unlimited power while the president can never appoint some one to have the same power?”
And the Depupty Attorney General claims he is the only person who can fire Mueller.
Jay Sekulow. . . .for such a time as this!!!
Doesn’t this swamp dweller have to operate under a budget. The people have a right to know how much he is spending!
Trump should give them enough time to do enough that no one’s story will match then order Sessions to order a special counsel to investigate them. Get them all on procedural crimes.
Not unless it was meant to draw the political assassins out into the open. I smell a counter-ambush.
Sounds to me like Trump is hoping that the witch hunt will politically embarrass itself into oblivion.
God could very well arrange for something like that to happen. This whole thing has poignantly supernatural dimensions. Like all hell has come out to oppose Donald.
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