ThankQ for the information. I didn’t realize this was after Trump was POTUS. RR was committing his crimes against a sitting POTUS. No wonder they aren’t forthcoming with information. Sessions was “RECUSED” so he was involved.
RR did this on whose authority? I believe meuller was the person in charge in July 2017. Comey had already been fired. Doesn’t take a genius to connect the dots.
DOJ sign off on FISA applications is usually done by the Deputy AG. Sessions recusal has NOTHING to do with the FISA approval process. Other DOJ sign offs of this string of FISA warrant applications were DAG Yates and (Acting) DAG Dana Boente.
A dirty little secret is that DOJ sign off is perfunctory, no review is done, all the "meat" is handled by DOJ minions employed in the FBI. The DOJ sign-off is substantively meaningless. They'd sign anything put in front of them, as long as it fit the "form" template.
According to the law, Mueller is not empowered to conduct counterintelligence investigation, and all FISA warrants are justified solely on counterintelligence basis. Long of way of saying SC Mueller has no business at all in the FISA world. In principle.
So you think Sessions is evil and Trump is a fool to hire him.
As Deputy Attorney General, RR is Mueller’s direct supervisor and Mueller derives his prosecutorial authority from RR’s authority. Theoretically Mueller has to run all of his actions through RR for approval.