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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: mystery-ak on May 21, 2018, 01:00:26 pm
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Does the Justice Department have to tell Congress what Mueller is doing?
by Byron York
| May 21, 2018 02:02 AM
Special counsel Robert Mueller's recent admission that the May 17, 2017, Justice Department order defining the scope of his investigation was just for show, and that the real extent of his probe is a secret, is reverberating on Capitol Hill.
On Thursday, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley wrote to deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, asking to see the document outlining the true scope of the Mueller investigation. Grassley noted that earlier this month, federal judge T.S. Ellis "expressed some skepticism" about the secrecy of Mueller's authority and demanded to be shown an Aug. 2, 2017, memo that is said to define the probe in detail. Now Grassley wants to see it, too.
In court before Ellis, Mueller lawyer Michael Dreeben revealed that the May 17 appointment order is not a "factual statement" of Mueller's assignment. "The regulations nowhere say that a specific factual statement needs to be provided publicly," Dreeben added. "The specific factual statement … was conveyed to the special counsel upon his appointment in ongoing discussions [between Rosenstein and Mueller] that defined the parameters of the investigation."
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