I do believe the law stipulates that a special counsel needs to have his scope of operations and such in a WRITTEN document.
The Congress passed a law eliminating the Special Prosecutor after the Clinton Impeachment, and replaced it with a Dept. of Justice appointed Special Counsel law/rule, but THAT has specific requirements. It may well be that Rosenstein screwed up and failed to fulfill them; hence his 4-5 month later memo AFTER the Manafort raid.
Now it’s come back to haunt them. Verbal instructions are a violation of the law itself!
‘I do believe the law stipulates that a special counsel needs to have his scope of operations and such in a WRITTEN document”
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that’s the question but i havn’t seen that answered anywhere or a debate if there is even a “rule” like that...
of course we just found this out yesterday in the transcripts and it was over looked Friday..even by Fox News pundints
Of course one could make the case if there is no rule why even bother to write a Memo in the first place? Why update it months later in writing?
I read the transcripts of hearing before Judge Ellis. SC reps seem to be saying that DOJ regs on Special Counsels are not “the law” (not statutes by Congress) but are just department policy or regs. Meaning Mueller is ignoring DOJ guidelines (obviously raiding attorneys office and homes of peaceful folks). Judge is highly educated. He will see this as a denial of Equal Protection and Due Process for citizen Trump, as everyone else gets protection from DOJ restraints and safeguards. Mueller is also gobbling up AG power which Sessions did not recuse himself from. It may be OK with Rod (because he is enjoying this) but Sessions could wake up at any moment ande reel them all in, fire them, etc.