Given Sessions' recusal, this guy can approve a special prosecutor on his own -- and no one can stop him if he decides to do so, not the President and not the Senate. I wonder if he's decided to pull the trigger.
This is not a criminal investigation, so I can't imagine anyone would appoint a special prosecutor.
It's a counterintel investigation. To prosecute anyone, you need a credible accusation that one/more statutes were violation. To date, I haven't heard that this condition has been met.
That said, the past 2 years have been so weird that I'm not sure anyone can even find the rule book, much less read it.
I gather Michael Flynn left off his $45,000 paying gig from a Russian speech when he filled out his last SF-86, and as you know that is a criminal offense if they choose to prosecute it as such. He did amend that later, but if you really wanted to put a scalp on the wall you could still go after him.
Besides, with the law and the regulatory codes as complicated as they have gotten, there's always a felony if you want one badly enough.
I've already stipulated that if they want to go after Flynn, they are free to do so. But they're going to have a tough time with this, given all the other public figures who haven't declared payments (and weren't prosecuted):
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This is not a criminal investigation, so I can't imagine anyone would appoint a special prosecutor.
It's a counterintel investigation. To prosecute anyone, you need a credible accusation that one/more statutes were violation. To date, I haven't heard that this condition has been met.
That said, the past 2 years have been so weird that I'm not sure anyone can even find the rule book, much less read it.
*sigh*
violated... not 'violation'.
I feel violated by this whole thing :p
I gather Michael Flynn left off his $45,000 paying gig from a Russian speech when he filled out his last SF-86, and as you know that is a criminal offense if they choose to prosecute it as such. He did amend that later, but if you really wanted to put a scalp on the wall you could still go after him.
Besides, with the law and the regulatory codes as complicated as they have gotten, there's always a felony if you want one badly enough.
I've already stipulated that if they want to go after Flynn, they are free to do so. But they're going to have a tough time with this, given all the other public figures who haven't declared payments (and weren't prosecuted):
*cough*
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