well reasoned work, cboldt.
re: to keep or dump mueller for working outside his mandate or obvious conflicts of interest:
does anybody remember what it was the got fiske discharged & starr appointed in the bubba drama.
iirc, there was not a big squeal about getting fiske out.
(it has been quite a while, so I’m sure I’m not remembering any of the details)
Fiske found no basis to act, and advocated his report be kept secret.
[Judge] Sentelle's panel said it was removing Fiske, already nine months and $2.5 million into the investigation, because of an appearance of conflict because he originally was appointed by a member of Clinton's Cabinet, Attorney General Reno.Judge Meets Sen. Faircloth Before Fisk was Ousted - August 12, 1994
That judicial removal procedure would not work today, to get rid of Mueller. Fiske's appointment was under a different law, one that empowered Congress to instigate criminal investigations. That procedure is constitutionally weak at best. At any rate, Republicans wanted Fiske out, because he was whitewashing crimes, just like Comey.
The parallel today would be removing Mueller because he was appointed by a member of Trump's cabinet, Sessions. The thought being that Sessions would only pick a person who would whitewash the investigation.