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What do each of these links have in common?
Link #1:
A member of President Donald Trump's legal team said Tuesday that it's time to create a second special counsel to start investigating the FBI and Department of Justice.
Link #2:
Trump lawyer calls for new special counsel to investigate the Department of Justice and FBI
Link #3:
Trump's lawyer wants a special counsel to investigate DOJ official with Fusion GPS ties
Link #4:
Trump attorney says FBI, DOJ ‘conflicts’ require second special counsel
So, you give me four links that all say that Trump's lawyers are saying that they need a special prosecutor to investigate the special prosecutor. :lol:
Those same lawyers who are trying to discredit Mueller?
I'd ask if you were serious, but clearly, you are.
Mueller has other problems related to this. A wide array of legislators in both the Senate and the House are now aware Mueller evaded oversight on Strozk. No matter who Mueller thinks he is and what he thinks he's doing he is still answerable to oversight. Ignoring it will make his recommendations have little to no force if and when it comes to a Congressional vote.
Due to recent retractions and findings from Mueller's investigation, it appears that Sessions should have never recused himself, in light of the fact that his Russian contacts were indeed legitimate and he was told by the FBI advisors to leave them off the disclosure form as they were directly related to his Congressional duties (hint: McCaskill was there as well).
Sessions is also inquiring into whether the DOJ should carefully monitor and direct Mueller's investigation due to rank partisanship on display from Strozk, most of the investigators, McCabe, and Mueller himself. He may yet launch a second investigation into the FBI itself to find out more about the Steele dossier and how it shaped the FBI investigation and whether it was used as the basis for FISA warrants.
In the same vein, the unmasking under authority belonging to Samantha Powers, but not by her personally (she claims) means the Obama team played around with rules to protect US citizens by expanding the number of people that could leak this information 10-fold, from 50 to 500.
Its apparent the FBI was hopelessly partisan and compromised in both its investigation of Hillary and Trump lending more credence to the firing of Comey as a legitimate option. This may well play out but if Mueller doesn't pull the trigger on his investigation, expect Trump and Sessions to clean house at the FBI and even if Mueller gets his scalp, expect Pence to protect himself from partisan sniping from the Bureau by demoting and promoting personnel that put their mission ahead of politics.