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louseb

(27 posts)
10. It looks like a chicken and egg situation here.
Tue Mar 12, 2019, 09:44 AM
Mar 2019

Mueller's counter-intelligence investigation mandate is supposed to be confidential, but the prosecutorial aspect of it is a bit of a mix bag because the public certainly has the right to know. But DOJ's internal policy of not indicting a sitting president would require that Congress has to impeach and remove the president first before Mueller can indict. Pelosi is against impeachment which is understandable given the Senate composition unless Mueller's report recommends it or lays the groundwork for which he will not absent a preceding impeachment and removal. Mueller and his office is clearly not the catalyst for this issue. The SDNY and various US state attorneys are, and I believe this is why Mueller's legal staff are now slowly going back to the US Attorneys office taking copies of the files with them. I think SDNY will break the ground here and defy that odd DOJ's internal policy.

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