I guess neither of you bothered to look at the link. The POTUS’ restriction on ordering the AG to do his bidding is not restricted to the area of special counsels.
PS, if you imagine you know more about the laws governing the POTUS/AG relationship than a former AG, then cite your legal sources. Show me where the law allows the POTUS to order the AG to obey his whims.
I’ll wait.
I just read it and as I thought there is NO LAW cited by anyone saying the president can’t order the AG to investigate. He certainly can. They just say it’s bad policy and in most cases I would agree but what is even far worse policy is for the justice dept to completely ignore irrefutable evidence of felony criminal wrongdoing by the former sec of state. We have Clinton Comey and others literally admitting to criminal activity yet nothing has been done.
Here's an article from October 2016 recommending HRC's prosecution -- not via Special Prosecutor -- for her email crimes. A few excerpts that echo my original post:
For mishandling ‘top secret’ information and lying about it, she should be prosecuted.
Fully 36 of Clinton’s e-mails fell into the “secret”-information category. That designation applies when information “could be expected to cause serious damage to national security” if transmitted or stored in an unauthorized manner. “Serious” is not as weighty as “exceptionally grave,” but it is, well, serious. That’s why people usually get prosecuted for compromising it.
its mishandling is a significant offense, even if the damage is not likely to be “exceptionally grave” or “serious.” That’s why its compromise often results in prosecution, or at least severe sanctions such as termination of employment or loss of security clearance. In light of General Cartwright’s prosecution for lying about his mishandling of classified information, it is worth revisiting Mrs. Clinton’s representation to the FBI that she did not know what “(C)” meant.
NB: "Andrew C. McCarthy III is a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. He led the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven others. ... He also contributed to the prosecutions of terrorists who bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. He resigned from the Justice Department in 2003."
More here
and here: "Finally, I was especially unpersuaded by Director Comey’s claim that no reasonable prosecutor would bring a case based on the evidence uncovered by the FBI. To my mind, a reasonable prosecutor would ask: Why did Congress criminalize the mishandling of classified information through gross negligence? The answer, obviously, is to prevent harm to national security. So then the reasonable prosecutor asks: Was the statute clearly violated, and if yes, is it likely that Mrs. Clinton’s conduct caused harm to national security? If those two questions are answered in the affirmative, I believe many, if not most, reasonable prosecutors would feel obliged to bring the case."
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/437479/fbi-rewrites-federal-law-let-hillary-hook