{"id":9966,"date":"2018-03-19T08:14:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=9966"},"modified":"2018-03-19T08:14:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:14:17","slug":"muellers-investigation-flouts-justice-department-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/muellers-investigation-flouts-justice-department-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Mueller\u2019s Investigation Flouts Justice Department Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller departs after briefing the U.S. House Intelligence Committee on his investigation of potential collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 20, 2017. REUTERS\/Aaron P. Bernstein – RC12D3A49610<\/p><\/div>\n

National Review<\/strong>
\nby Andrew C. McCarthy
\n3\/17\/2018<\/h3>\n

Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gates was charged with $100 million in financial crimes \u2014 and pled guilty to two minor offenses, one of them highly questionable.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

T<\/span>hese columns have many times observed<\/a> Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein\u2019s failure to set limits on Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation. To trigger the appointment of a special counsel, federal regulations require the Justice Department to identify the crimes that warrant investigation and prosecution \u2014 crimes that the Justice Department is too conflicted to investigate in the normal course; crimes that become the parameters of the special counsel\u2019s jurisdiction.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rosenstein, instead, put the cart before the horse: Mueller was invited to conduct a fishing expedition, a boundless quest to hunt for undiscovered crimes, rather than an investigation and prosecution of known crimes.<\/em><\/p>\n

That deviation, it turns out, is not the half of it. With Rosenstein\u2019s passive approval, Mueller is shredding Justice Department charging policy by alleging earth-shattering crimes, then cutting a sweetheart deal that shields the defendant from liability for those crimes and from the penalties prescribed by Congress. The special counsel, moreover, has become a legislature unto himself, promulgating the new, grandiose crime of \u201cconspiracy against the United States\u201d by distorting the concept of \u201cfraud.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Why does the special counsel need to invent an offense to get a guilty plea? Why doesn\u2019t he demand a plea to one of the several truly egregious statutory crimes he claims have been committed?<\/em><\/p>\n

Good questions.<\/em><\/p>\n

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View the complete article including image and links at:<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/03\/muellers-investigation-flouts-justice-department-standards\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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