Mueller and the "Russia" probe

[Hawkmoon]

Where does it end?

http://www.newser.com/story/257868/trump-attorney-cohen-under-criminal-investigation.html

Several days ago I came across an article that suggested Sessions should rein in Mueller, because he's investigating a LOT more than what he was appointed to look at, and Sessions only recused himself from the alleged Russian collusion connection, not from running the Justice Department. I'm rapidly arriving at the same conclusion. Mueller is running amok.

[Scout26]

An investigation in search of a crime....


Meanwhile:

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2018/04/15/ba-dum-ch-brit-hume-zings-stormy-daniels-appearing-at-the-cohen-hearing-and-its-a-doozy/

 

[French G.]

They didn't find Russians, they found Soviets, and they are Mueller. We investigate crimes to find people responsible, not show me the man and I'll show you the crime.

[DittoHead]

Where does it end?
he's investigating a LOT more than what he was appointed to look at

That's how special counsels (or special prosecutors) tend to work. That's why Kenneth Starr started with Whitewater and got to Lewinsky. I'm sure they'll try to "fix" that statute again after this round. I think Mueller does deserve some credit (maybe not much, I'll wait & see) for handing off the Cohen stuff to SDNY instead of expanding his own work to include it.

[Scout26]

I thought the Special Counsel statute had expired a few years back ??

Yep:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_prosecutor#Legal_authority

With the expiration of the independent counsel authority in 1999, the Department of Justice under Attorney General Janet Reno promulgated regulations for the future appointment of special counsels. As of 2017, these regulations remain in effect as 28 CFR section 600.[6] While the regulations place limits on the authority of the attorney general, for example to fire the special counsel once appointed, they are internal Department of Justice regulations without an underlying statutory basis. It is thus unclear whether the limits these regulations place on the attorney general would prove binding in practice.

So no real statutory or constitutional authority. Hmmmm....

[French G.]

So the Cohen judge is a Clinton pal and officiated Soros getting married, I am sure she will be impartial. Nope, no deep state here, move along.

[Scout26]

I saw the name and it rang a bell.  Kimba Wood, nominated by Clinton to be AG, but since she paid her nanny under the table she had to withdraw her name. 

[DittoHead]

On December 18, 1987, based upon a recommendation from Senator Al D'Amato, Wood was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

The deep state has been laying groundwork to take down Trump for 30 years now!!!
This must have been after they replaced Reagan with a lizard person.