I hope Mueller has been coordinating with NY AG Schneiderman.

[Stinky The Clown]

Keeping it deeply secret until he needs to play that card. That would send Two Scoops over the top.

[Catmusicfan]

1. Mueller needs to hire Bharara

[dalton99a]

2. Seconded.

[H2O Man]

4. Definitely.

[PJMcK]

6. Definitely not!

If the Trump lawyers are digging for dirt on the attorneys and investigators that Robert Mueller is relying upon, it would be a huge mistake to hire a former US Attorney who had been fired by Trump. The superficial "conflict of interest" would be all the right wing would scream about.

A better idea would be for Mr. Mueller to subpoena Mr. Bharara to testify. Then the former US Attorney could tell some of his story. (There are probably elements of his knowledge that he could not reveal.)

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. He did the best thing under the circumstances and hired a top Bharara

team member.

[H2O Man]

3. Recommended.

I suspect that he has.

[diva77]

5. would that be legal?

[karynnj]

8. One precedent somewhat similar

In the very early 1990s, John Kerry investigated BCCI using a subcommittee he chaired. At the end, the only one still investigating was Kerry. When the powers in the Senate eliminated his sub committee, he and his lead investigator took everything to NYC DA Morgenthau, because NYC had jurisdiction on it -- Morgenthau went after the bank and got it closed.

[diva77]

9. interesting...thanks

makes me hopeful!

[underpants]

10. Thanks

[Gabi Hayes]

12. And guess who he went hammer and tong with

On nightline over the other guy's letting the big fish off the hook down in Florida

Torpedoed the whole thing, which ultimately established al qaeda and bin laden???

Here's maybe the key section of the Kerry Report

https://fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/11intel.htm

Snip:

CIA officials have told the Subcommittee that the CIA as an institution has rules requiring the creation of written records on every activity engaged in by the Agency, and on all significant information reported to the Agency. In the summer of 1991, the CIA engaged in what its officials described as a "dumb" or "brute force" review of its documents, essentially reviewing all possible files for information on BCCI, rather than relying on knowledgeable individuals to select such information. The review located a substantial amount of material generated by the CIA throughout the 1980's, which was produced in July and August, 1991 for CIA internal reviews, in September and October for the Congressional intelligence oversight committees, and beginning in March, 1992, to the Subcommittee.

Unfortunately, there remains a wide disparity between the CIA's official account of critical relationships between BCCI and persons associated with the CIA, and the information available from other sources, including BCCI's own records. One is left with the choice of accepting the official record, which requires an assessment that the other contacts between BCCI and U.S. intelligence figures and operations are coincidental, or of assuming that the full story of BCCI's relationship to the United States has been intentionally veiled by critical players on both sides of that relationship.

...,......,,...........,...

If you have a few weeks, here's the whole thing.....Kerry's finest moment, Probly.

https://fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/

This is the version Kissinger had changed:

FAS Note: This December 1992 document is the penultimate draft of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee report on the BCCI Affair. After it was released by the Committee, Sen. Hank Brown, reportedly acting at the behest of Henry Kissinger, pressed for the deletion of a few passages, particularly in Chapter 20 on "BCCI and Kissinger Associates." As a result, the final hardcopy version of the report, as published by the Government Printing Office, differs slightly from the Committee's softcopy version presented below.--Steven Aftergood

[GoCubsGo]

11. I would be surprised if he isn't.

I have little doubt Schneiderman is providing him with a shitton of evidence for any case he will bring up. I suspect he is also frequently in touch with the New Jersey AG, and maybe even the Florida AG.