Mueller is not obliged to release his report to the AG. The Watergate special prosecutor, for example, had his grand jury send their report to the Watergate committees in Congress.
So it looks like I was right here - the DOJ has announced that Whittaker is now managing the Mueller investigation. As of now, Rosenstein is still employed, although maybe that will not be true by the time I finish typing this sentence. barfo
From what I've read that's not true about Mueller - Rosenstein (now Whittaker) gets to decide what happens. The law under which Mueller operates is different than the law under which Jaworski operated. But I'm not 100% sure of that. barfo
I heard this - President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign, effectively firing him. Sessions’ resignation letter has been delivered to White House chief of staff John Kelly. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is expected to remain in charge of the Russia investigation and special counsel Robert Mueller.
I'll try to find an open-source article about it, but basically the gist was that Kelly called Sessions up this morning and said, in effect, "when can the President expect your resignation letter?"
Hmm, my job as the nation's chief law enforcement officer requires me to follow the law, I think I will have to do that. Until I'm eventually replaced by a political hack who neither knows nor cares about the rules, that is. barfo
I had jobs like that at Boeing and Emerson Electric. I loved my job at Tektronix. I got to work on some of the most sophisticated instruments in the world. Back almost 40 years ago I used a Tektronix instrument that measured electrical current that was in the range of atto amperes. I also got to make design changes whenever I felt they were needed. The bad part was Tek paid very low. Boeing paid extremely well but I had to put up with more bullshit than you would believe. At Emerson Electric they assigned me to helping out some 19 year old girl with her senior project at Cornell. Her dad was the president of Rigid Tools. I had important work to get done on a military project that was very important in any battle of armored units. I kept putting her off and putting her off until I couldn't put her off any more so I quit. That was like jumping from the frying pan into the fire when I went to work at Boeing. At Boeing, absolutely everything I worked on was due yesterday. I got stuff that started out due yesterday. Another problem with Boeing was I'd get onto one job and get about halfway done and my boss would tell me to drop it and work on something else. I could never finish anything until I started ignoring my boss and continued on whatever I was on until I finished it. All this while working on the most powerful nuclear missile in the world. Lots and lots of high pressure on military hardware at Boeing. Airplanes were more fun. You got to work on projects until they were done. Also, the mechanics greatly appreciated out work. How do I know, I spent half my time crawling around every inch of the 747. As I did, I would interact with the plumbers, electricians and mechanics. I loved talking to those guys. One time I figured out they were putting the wrong potable water lines in an airplane. I told the lead plumber and he said I was wrong. He worked on 747s for over ten years. I had worked on those planes for 6 months. The drawings were 'F' size and there were over 1,000 sheets. We had a friendly argument going for most of the day as we reviewed the drawings and crawled around the plane. Toward the end of the day he said "You're right. We've gotta pull all those lines and replace them." Nice guy, I really liked working with him. Sorry, I can be a little pedantic from time to time.
He recused himself because he had a conflict of interest. It's called ethics. It's also called not wanting to be disbarred.
I imagine Mueller will be explaining to his new boss very soon as to when he will drop the bomb. But then, perhaps the boss will want to see if the bomb needs to be dropped.
You righties can pretend all you want that this is going away. Sorry Charlie. And, I don't even get why you would want it to go away. Innocent presidents should have nothing to be afraid of, right?
I don't think they believe he's innocent. They believe he should get away with it. In order to own the libs, of course. The Prime Directive. barfo
