BREAKING>>>FORMER FBI DIRECTOR ROBERT MUELLER NAMED SPECIAL COUNSEL FOR FBI RUSSIA-TRUMP PROBE

[mystery-ak]

FORMER FBI DIRECTOR ROBERT MUELLER NAMED SPECIAL COUNSEL FOR FBI RUSSIA-TRUMP PROBE

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[mystery-ak]

Deputy attorney general appoints special counsel to oversee probe of Russian interference in election

 By Devlin Barrett, Sari Horwitz and Matt Zapotosky May 17 at 6:00 PM

The Justice Department has decided to appoint a special counsel to investigate possible coordination between Trump associates and Russian officials seeking to meddle in last year’s election, according to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Robert Mueller, a former prosecutor who served as the FBI director from 2001 to 2013, has agreed to serve in the role, Rosenstein said. The move marks a concession by the Trump administration to Democratic demands for the investigation to be run independently of the Justice Department. Calls for a special counsel have increased since Trump fired FBI Director James B. Comey last week.

“In my capacity as acting attorney general I determined that it is in the public interest for me to exercise my authority and appoint a special counsel to assume responsibility for this matter,’’ Rosenstein said in a statement. “My decision is not a finding that crimes have been committed or that any prosecution is warranted. I have made no such determination. What I have determined is that based upon the unique circumstances, the public interest requires me to place this investigation under the authority of a person who exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command.’’

He said Mueller has agreed to resign from his private law firm to avoid any conflicts of interest.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/deputy-attorney-general-appoints-special-counsel-to-oversee-probe-of-russian-interference-in-election/2017/05/17/302c1774-3b49-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.5a069718a022

[Frank Cannon]

Robert Mueller is a no bullshit guy. He should get to the bottom of this quick.

[mystery-ak]

Robert Mueller is a no bullshit guy. He should get to the bottom of this quick.

It was bound to happen and Mueller is a good choice.

[mrclose]

Is Clinton going to be investigated too?

[Emjay]

Robert Mueller is a no bullshit guy. He should get to the bottom of this quick.

Yep, we can but hope.

[corbe]

   Him and Comey go way back.

Domestic wiretapping investigation[edit]

Director Mueller, along with Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey, offered to resign from office in March 2004 if the White House overruled a Department of Justice finding that domestic wiretapping without a court warrant was unconstitutional.[12] Attorney General John D. Ashcroft denied his consent to attempts by White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales to waive the Justice Department ruling and permit the domestic warrantless eavesdropping program to proceed. On March 12, 2004, President George W. Bush gave his support to changes in the program sufficient to satisfy the concerns of Mueller, Ashcroft and Comey.[12] The extent of the National Security Agency's domestic warrantless eavesdropping under the President's Surveillance Program is still largely unknown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mueller

[Right_in_Virginia]

Dow dropped over 300 points. 

The Trump agenda, including tax reform and healthcare reform, is dead. 

Judges will be nominated and languish in limbo while the liberals retain their judicial majorities on the federal benches.

North Korea, China and the European Union will see this as a castrated President and will act accordingly to their own benefits.

But what really matters is Russia.  The single entity that covers up Obama's illegal listening, recording and unmasking and pushes Hillary's criminal activities out of our collective memories, and is being used successfully to bring down the sitting President.


But, hey, it's all good.  Who needs this GD orange clown?

[Ghost Bear]

   Him and Comey go way back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mueller

Well *that's* not a good sign.   

[IsailedawayfromFR]

There should have been another special prosecutor established to look into Benghazi.  We have been waiting for years.

This places the bullseye  on just the one.  What a wasted opportunity.

[corbe]

  It's almost a forgone conclusion at this point, It's like appointing Dick Cheney to head your Vice President Selection Committee.

[Silver Pines]

Steve Deace just tweeted that, given Mueller's reputation, if he finds nothing the matter should be put to bed for good.

[Emjay]

I guess there's no particular point now in wondering:

Why no one was appointed to investigate Obama,
 
or

What is the number of the last page on the New York Times.... (where we should look for a retraction)

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

I have no problem with this. I would like to move on from this distraction.

[Oceander]

Here comes the real circus. 

[mystery-ak]

Here comes the real circus.

Fox panel saying this investigation can go on until the 2020 elections..lol

[corbe]

   His committee is about to be flooded with Certified Letters from US Law Firms that have Branches in Moscow, it will take a long time.

[flowers]

Fox panel saying this investigation can go on until the 2020 elections..lol

Keep this in the news till the elections......dems/gope win.

[beandog]

Keep this in the news till the elections......dems/gope win.

And that will make some posters here very happy.

[anubias]

And that will make some posters here very happy.

Yep.  Disgusting, isn't it?

[Frank Cannon]

Here comes the real circus.

This isn't the real circus. Appointing a Special Prosecutor would have been full tilt madness.

[DB]

Dow dropped over 300 points. 

The Trump agenda, including tax reform and healthcare reform, is dead. 

Judges will be nominated and languish in limbo while the liberals retain their judicial majorities on the federal benches.

North Korea, China and the European Union will see this as a castrated President and will act accordingly to their own benefits.

But what really matters is Russia.  The single entity that covers up Obama's illegal listening, recording and unmasking and pushes Hillary's criminal activities out of our collective memories, and is being used successfully to bring down the sitting President.


But, hey, it's all good.  Who needs this GD orange clown?

If the "orange clown" could have kept his mouth shut and his fingers off twitter things could have gone much smoother. He keeps his staff constantly busy running around cleaning up his messes. Often with them contradicting each other and him. Needless messes that gained nothing. Everyone knows the media is a bunch of jackals but he can't stop feeding them. And there lies the problem.

[DB]

And that will make some posters here very happy.

Care to provide an example of a poster here that is happy the dems/GOPE are winning?

[corbe]

   Jeez yall are a bunch of whiners, How do you possibly tolerate all the Trump hate that you perceive has permeated every corner of the Forum?         You're making me want to donate to JR's $325K/yr scam to get the Servers up quicker to be free of all this Drama.

[mystery-ak]

It seems the panel on Fox all agreed that this is a good thing and will help Trump in the long run...that Mueller is a fair and honest person.