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4 Jan 2018, 11:16 am by Jordan Brunner
” House Speaker Paul Ryan held an unannounced meeting with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday, Politico informs us. [read post]
2 Jan 2018, 8:00 am by Jane Chong
” Some months earlier, in the pages of New York Magazine, Jonathan Chait made the same assertion and, using similar logic, agreed with Trump that the president had “a legal right to fire FBI Director James Comey. [read post]
1 Jan 2018, 7:00 am by Benjamin Wittes
The braying for Robert Mueller’s blood and for a housecleaning at the Justice Department and the FBI pervades conservative media. [read post]
1 Jan 2018, 7:00 am by Bob Bauer
There will be fewer or no Robert Muellers, just as there are no more Ken Starrs. [read post]
1 Jan 2018, 7:00 am by Jack Goldsmith
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein infuriated Trump when he followed DOJ rules and appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. [read post]
1 Jan 2018, 7:00 am by Jeffrey H. Smith
His insistence that the Russia investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is a “witch hunt” is unfounded. [read post]
28 Dec 2017, 5:00 am by Vanessa Sauter
Congress Should Reconsider Giving the FBI Director Independence From Presidential Control Twenty Questions for Christopher Wray     On May 17, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel to “oversee the previously-confirmed FBI investigation of Russian government efforts to influence the 2016 presidential elections and related matters. [read post]
22 Dec 2017, 11:08 am by Jordan Brunner
The move comes as FBI Director Christopher Wray assembles his team of advisers. [read post]
21 Dec 2017, 9:41 am by Jordan Brunner
Warner said he believed it was up to both Democrats and Republicans in Congress to make clear that any attempt to remove Special Counsel Robert Mueller “would be a gross abuse of power and a flagrant violation of Executive branch responsibilities and authorities,” adding that any interference would cause a “constitutional crisis. [read post]
20 Dec 2017, 4:00 am by Bob Bauer
Josh Blackman, in three successive postings for Lawfare, and co-commentators David Rivkin and Lee Casey in a separate piece for the Wall Street Journal, have been developing the case that a president firing an FBI director or other senior law enforcement official may not subject to impeachment for obstruction of justice. [read post]
18 Dec 2017, 6:00 am by Josh Blackman
The primary predicate offense for this claim is Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey. [read post]
15 Dec 2017, 10:58 am by Jordan Brunner
As House Republicans demand a special counsel to investigate Robert Mueller in the face of newly-released anti-Trump, pro-Hillary Clinton text messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page, Senate Republicans have come to Mueller’s aid. [read post]
14 Dec 2017, 1:31 pm by John Floyd
Thus far, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has produced indictments against four of the president’s associates: Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, George Papadopoulos, and Michael Flynn. [read post]
14 Dec 2017, 1:00 pm by Stewart Baker
That’s very troubling, as is the fact that both participants moved to Robert Mueller’s staff to investigate the president. [read post]
14 Dec 2017, 11:17 am by Stewart Baker
That's very troubling, as is the fact that both participants moved to Robert Mueller's staff to investigate the President. [read post]
14 Dec 2017, 10:52 am by Solomon L. Wisenberg
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe wouldn't know a conflict of interest if it jumped up and bit him in the butt. [read post]
14 Dec 2017, 7:54 am by Benjamin Wittes
Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray are both appointees of Trump himself. [read post]
14 Dec 2017, 7:42 am by NCC Staff
In May, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 1:15 pm by Bill Otis
However, evidence is emerging that special counsel and former FBI director Robert Mueller's investigation of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election, as well as the Hillary Clinton email investigations, have been fatally compromised by naked politics.The central figure in both probes is FBI agent Peter Strzok. [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 10:02 am by Allan Blutstein
Justice Department won't disclose details on Mueller ethics waiverBy Josh Gerstein, Politico, Dec. 12, 2017The Justice Department is refusing to reveal details of the process that led up to former FBI Director Robert Mueller being granted an ethics waiver to serve as special counsel investigating the Trump campaign's alleged collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential election.In response to a POLITICO Freedom of Information Act request,… [read post]