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Preet Bharara asks: Will public servants say no to a president?
Preet Bharara, a former U.S. attorney who was fired by President Trump, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post Sunday evening that lays out three ways to “Restore faith in the rule of law.”
“First, we need a truly bipartisan investigation in Congress,” he wrote. “That means no partisan nonsense — just a commitment to finding the facts, whatever they may be, proving (or disproving) Russian interference in our election and anything related.
“Congress is a check and a balance, and never more important than when a bullying chief executive used to his own way seems not to remember the co-equal status of the other two branches,” he added.
“Second, the new FBI director must be apolitical and sensitive to the law-enforcement mission,” he continued.
“Finally, I join in the common-sense call for an independent and uncompromised special counsel to oversee the Russia investigation,” he added.
“First, we need a truly bipartisan investigation in Congress,” he wrote. “That means no partisan nonsense — just a commitment to finding the facts, whatever they may be, proving (or disproving) Russian interference in our election and anything related.
“Congress is a check and a balance, and never more important than when a bullying chief executive used to his own way seems not to remember the co-equal status of the other two branches,” he added.
“Second, the new FBI director must be apolitical and sensitive to the law-enforcement mission,” he continued.
“Finally, I join in the common-sense call for an independent and uncompromised special counsel to oversee the Russia investigation,” he added.
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/333376-preet-bharara-asks-will-public-servants-say-no-to-a-president
