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17 May 2017, 7:22 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Rosenstein today announced the appointment of former Department of Justice official and FBI Director Robert S. [read post]
Rosenstein’s order says that: (b) The Special Counsel is authorized to conduct the investigation confirmed by then-FBI Director James B. [read post]
17 May 2017, 4:21 pm by Kent Scheidegger
Del Quentin Wilber and Aruna Viswanatha report for the WSJ:Former FBI Director Robert Mueller III was appointed as special counsel to oversee the FBI investigation of the Russian government's efforts to influence the 2016 election, the Justice Department said.Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the appointment because Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from any investigation related to the 2016 race. [read post]
17 May 2017, 4:06 pm by Associated Press
WASHINGTON  — Besieged from all sides, the Trump administration relented and appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller Wednesday evening as a special counsel to oversee the federal investigation into allegations Russia and Donald Trump’s campaign collaborated to influence the 2016 presidential election. [read post]
17 May 2017, 3:33 pm by Quinta Jurecic
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to oversee the investigation into Russian election interference. [read post]
As Chairman of the Judiciary subcommittee overseeing the FBI, Senator Robert Byrd said during a hearing on the ten-year term legislation that the FBI director must not use the Bureau as “a political action agency for the President,” but cannot be allowed to turn the Bureau into a personal “empire. [read post]
16 May 2017, 1:02 pm by Susan Hennessey
Bush-appointee Republican Robert Mueller for two additional years and then selected James Comey, who was a registered Republican prior to his appointment). [read post]
15 May 2017, 7:33 am by Jack Goldsmith, Benjamin Wittes
Can you imagine if President Obama, instead of nominating a Republican former senior Justice Department official—Comey—to replace another Republican luminary who ran the FBI under him, Robert Mueller, had appointed Chuck Schumer or Richard Durbin? [read post]
10 May 2017, 12:13 pm by Scott Bomboy
(Robert Mueller was re-confirmed under a consent agreement in 2011 and didn’t have a second set of hearings.) [read post]
21 Mar 2017, 4:00 am by Ronda Muir
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, lawyer Colleen Rowley, who was Chief Division Counsel to the FBI’s Minneapolis field office, wrote an analysis for then FBI Director Robert Mueller documenting how FBI headquarters personnel in Washington, D.C., had mishandled and failed to take action on information provided by the Minneapolis office regarding its investigation of suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, which information she felt… [read post]
21 Mar 2017, 4:00 am by Ronda Muir
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, lawyer Colleen Rowley, who was Chief Division Counsel to the FBI’s Minneapolis field office, wrote an analysis for then FBI Director Robert Mueller documenting how FBI headquarters personnel in Washington, D.C., had mishandled and failed to take action on information provided by the Minneapolis office regarding its investigation of suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, which information she felt… [read post]
10 Feb 2017, 7:56 am by The Federalist Society
The defendants included high-level officials in the Department of Justice (DOJ) such as Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI director Robert Mueller, and Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner James Ziglar, as well various detention officials. [read post]
25 Jan 2017, 7:00 am by Darren E. Tromblay
Under then-Director Robert Mueller III, it presented itself as a bifurcated intelligence and law enforcement organization. [read post]
18 Jan 2017, 2:06 pm by Amy Howe
Representing former U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft and former FBI director Robert Mueller, Gershengorn focused primarily on whether the detainees could hold the senior government officials individually liable in a federal lawsuit for damages for alleged violations of their constitutional rights – known as a “Bivens” remedy. [read post]
15 Jan 2017, 7:56 am by Jonathan Hafetz
Plaintiffs in Abassi brought claims against two sets of defendants: senior level Justice Department officials, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft and former FBI director Robert Mueller; and wardens of the federal detention center in New York where the plaintiffs were held. [read post]