With little time left before the Justice Department inspector general's report becomes public, and with special counsel Robert Mueller having failed to bring down Donald Trump after a year of trying, they know a reckoning is coming.
With Attorney General Jeff Sessions shoved out of the way, Rosenstein and Mueller then ignored their own conflicts and took charge anyway.
Flush with 16 prosecutors, including a former lawyer for the Clinton Foundation, and an undisclosed budget, the Mueller investigation has been a scorched-earth effort to investigate the entirety of the Trump campaign, Trump business dealings, the entire administration and now, if it was not Russia, maybe it's some other country.
The president's earlier legal team was naive in believing that, when Mueller found nothing, he would just end it.
Just like the Doomsday Machine in "Dr. Strangelove" that was supposed to save the world but instead destroys it, the Mueller investigation comes with no "Off" switch: You can't fire Mueller.
The president's lawyers need to extend their new aggressiveness from words to action, filing complaints with the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility on the failure of Mueller and Rosenstein to recuse themselves and going into court to question the tactics of the special counsel, from selective prosecutions on unrelated matters, illegally seizing Government Services Administration emails, covering up the phone texts of FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, and operating without a scope approved by the attorney general.
Stopping Mueller isn't about one president or one party.
http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/388549-stopping-robert-mueller-to-protect-us-all
With Attorney General Jeff Sessions shoved out of the way, Rosenstein and Mueller then ignored their own conflicts and took charge anyway.
Flush with 16 prosecutors, including a former lawyer for the Clinton Foundation, and an undisclosed budget, the Mueller investigation has been a scorched-earth effort to investigate the entirety of the Trump campaign, Trump business dealings, the entire administration and now, if it was not Russia, maybe it's some other country.
The president's earlier legal team was naive in believing that, when Mueller found nothing, he would just end it.
Just like the Doomsday Machine in "Dr. Strangelove" that was supposed to save the world but instead destroys it, the Mueller investigation comes with no "Off" switch: You can't fire Mueller.
The president's lawyers need to extend their new aggressiveness from words to action, filing complaints with the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility on the failure of Mueller and Rosenstein to recuse themselves and going into court to question the tactics of the special counsel, from selective prosecutions on unrelated matters, illegally seizing Government Services Administration emails, covering up the phone texts of FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, and operating without a scope approved by the attorney general.
Stopping Mueller isn't about one president or one party.
http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/388549-stopping-robert-mueller-to-protect-us-all
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