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Title: Mueller’s Investigation Flouts Justice Department Standards
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on March 17, 2018, 03:45:22 pm

Mueller’s Investigation Flouts Justice Department Standards
National Review, Mar 17, 2018, Andrew C. McCarthy

These columns have many times observed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s failure to set limits on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. To trigger the appointment of a special counsel, federal regulations require the Justice Department to identify the crimes that warrant investigation and prosecution — crimes that the Justice Department is too conflicted to investigate in the normal course; crimes that become the parameters of the special counsel’s jurisdiction.

Rosenstein, instead, put the cart before the horse: Mueller was invited to conduct a fishing expedition, a boundless quest to hunt for undiscovered crimes, rather than an investigation and prosecution of known crimes.
 
That deviation, it turns out, is not the half of it. With Rosenstein’s passive approval, Mueller is shredding Justice Department charging policy by alleging earth-shattering crimes, then cutting a sweetheart deal that shields the defendant from liability for those crimes and from the penalties prescribed by Congress. The special counsel, moreover, has become a legislature unto himself, promulgating the new, grandiose crime of “conspiracy against the United States” by distorting the concept of “fraud.”


More: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/muellers-investigation-flouts-justice-department-standards/ (https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/muellers-investigation-flouts-justice-department-standards/)

Title: Re: Mueller’s Investigation Flouts Justice Department Standards
Post by: Bigun on March 17, 2018, 04:32:36 pm

The Mueller investigation should never have been constituted in the first place as it is based on an ENTIRELY false premise!