Posted on 01/12/2019 12:58:48 PM PST by jazusamo
You are fine with that?
No, they clearly have to answer to POTUS. OTOH, Newt’s assertion that they don’t report to an elected official is just wrong. As he well knows.
It’s an unprecedented situation as far as I can tell, and we don’t really know much yet, like who the FBI may have notified, but ultimately it’s up to POTUS to decide what’s in the national interest even if everyone else in the government disagrees.
Constitutionally, they are supposed to answer to the president.
But on matters of the Russian investigation, Mueller, Rosenstein and Sessions(before Trump fired him) haven't been answering to Trump.
And people like Wray and Rosenstein have been claiming their independence, whilst the news media and the Democrats and RINOs in Congress have been threatening to accuse Trump of obstruction.
Of course they have.
They don't look to him for day-to-day direction but he can fire any or all of them tomorrow if he's willing to pay the political price.
That's what answering to him means in the Constitutional sense.
Of course they have.
No, of course they haven't. Even Trump says that he hasn't.
They don't look to him for day-to-day direction but he can fire any or all of them tomorrow if he's willing to pay the political price.
The president does have the Constitutional power to direct, "day-to-day", his underlings in the executive branch.
That's what answering to him means in the Constitutional sense.
No. Article II simply states, "the executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America".
The Constitution means what it says.
True, and it's also true that they almost never do so, for a host of practical reason.
Trump has known about the Russia investigation for years and can direct Rosenstein to conduct it any way he wants. He just has to be willing to live with the political fallout when Rosenstein resigns.
Just the way the framers intended.
SPOT ON. - I want ALL of the deep state SCUM gone forever.
Yours, TMN78247
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