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In reply to the discussion: Inside the Mueller team's decision to dispute BuzzFeed's explosive story on Trump and Cohen [View all]deurbano
(2,895 posts)17. Marcy Wheeler is concerned.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2019/01/19/dag-rod-rosenstein-involves-himself-in-muellers-press-response-to-buzzfeed-story/
"That seems to be a violation of Special Counsel regulations, which say that Muellers office shall not be subject to day-to-day supervision of any official, whether DAG or Acting Attorney General:
The Special Counsel shall not be subject to the day-to-day supervision of any official of the Department. However, the Attorney General may request that the Special Counsel provide an explanation for any investigative or prosecutorial step, and may after review conclude that the action is so inappropriate or unwarranted under established Departmental practices that it should not be pursued.
Maybe Mueller and Peter Carr dont care. But it should set off all sorts of alarm bells that as soon as a media report states what has long been clear that Trump suborned perjury Muellers office is getting calls about how to respond to the press, which last I checked was not an investigative or prosecutorial step at all. All the more so given that Carr appears to have bent over backward not to reveal any investigative details to the press, adhering rigorously to any DOJ guidelines on that front."
"That seems to be a violation of Special Counsel regulations, which say that Muellers office shall not be subject to day-to-day supervision of any official, whether DAG or Acting Attorney General:
The Special Counsel shall not be subject to the day-to-day supervision of any official of the Department. However, the Attorney General may request that the Special Counsel provide an explanation for any investigative or prosecutorial step, and may after review conclude that the action is so inappropriate or unwarranted under established Departmental practices that it should not be pursued.
Maybe Mueller and Peter Carr dont care. But it should set off all sorts of alarm bells that as soon as a media report states what has long been clear that Trump suborned perjury Muellers office is getting calls about how to respond to the press, which last I checked was not an investigative or prosecutorial step at all. All the more so given that Carr appears to have bent over backward not to reveal any investigative details to the press, adhering rigorously to any DOJ guidelines on that front."
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Inside the Mueller team's decision to dispute BuzzFeed's explosive story on Trump and Cohen [View all]
Tactical Peek
Jan 2019
OP
So if I'm reading this correctly, Mueller's team doesn't have evidence trump told Cohen to lie
Hoyt
Jan 2019
#3
Am I reading too much into this? Does Whitiker/Rosenstein vet every article written
Nevermypresident
Jan 2019
#10