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Gowdy: Acting AG Could Appoint a Second Special Counsel to Investigate SpyGate

2018-11-10

I’ve heard that elections have consequences...

[PJ] Outgoing Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) on Wednesday evening said that there is a chance that acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker will appoint a special counsel to investigate the Obama administration for espionage abuses against the Trump campaign. Congressional Republicans called for the appointment of a second special counsel to investigate alleged misconduct at the FBI and Justice Department back in May, but Attorney General Jeff Sessions denied the request.

Gowdy told Fox News "Special Report" host Brett Baier that he wasn't surprised that Sessions was asked to step down, but added that he didn't know it would happen "before all the votes had been counted."

"It was going to happen... he's been a proverbial dead man walking for several months now," Gowdy said.

Baier asked the congressman for his reaction to Senator Schumer, who said earlier in the day that any attorney general Trump nominates should not be able to interfere with the Mueller probe in any way.

Gowdy answered: "Every prosecutor has jurisdictional boundaries. I don't know a single prosecutor that does not and Mueller's jurisdictional boundaries were set by Rod Rosenstein in the memo that you have seen, and they were altered or amended in the memo that we have not seen. But there's never been a prosecutor that just had unfettered power to go investigate whatever the heck he or she wanted to do."
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Posted by:Besoeker

#4 Maybe they're waiting to use it as a bargaining chip when the House gets uppity.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-11-10 13:24

#3 Why the hell did Sessions not do this?

Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 2018-11-10 13:10

Resulting in charges being brought against the first black president of the United States ?

Most unlikely.

Posted by: Besoeker 2018-11-10 05:52

#1 Special counsels drag out for a long time. It would have to investigate some of those on Mueller's special counsel.

Much is already known about spygate. Why not Just turn over much of this evidence now to a grand jury or military tribunal? But for a few firings and resignations in the DOJ and the FBI little has happened in the way of justice. When one considers the magnitude of what was done to this country by "the great fundamental transformation" of the last administration, the pace of justice seems glacial. No one has gone to jail. All the arrogant arses who have perpetrated crimes against the U.S. are still running around free.

Posted by: JohnQC 2018-11-10 00:38

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