I can’t say that I would miss Mueller, although I suppose Obama would then find someone worse.
I didn’t mean to suggest that Bush did it on purpose. The chad wars and clinton’s refusal to have a transition and the footdragging on appointments by the Democrats in congress delayed all Bush’s appointments, and as I recall Mueller wasn’t put in until about a week before 9/11. I don’t think many people knew how he would handle the job, and maybe Bush picked someone whom he thought the Democrats wouldn’t give him too much of a fight over.
But I did wish Bush had gotten rid of him somehow and put somebody decent in the job. Now we’ll probably get a junior Holder in there.
That may well be true-I am not arguing his merits, only noting the difficult position he’s in if Obama was lying—as he appears to have been-when the release took place.