SPECIAL PROSECUTOR NOW INEVITABLE
WHO WILL BE LEFT AFTER RECUSALS ?
The House and Senate investigators have both pointed to violations in the FBI and Department of Justice. The question now is what is next? Usually the Attorney General would launch an investigation and determine if laws were broken. The problem now is Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recused himself from this investigation. The Assistant Attorney general Rod Rosenstein may be implicated in their findings, and should recuse himself from any investigation. That would leave the next in line Dana Boente to become acting Attorney general and be given the job of appointing a special prosecutor. If Boente is not implicated in any of improprieties that will most likely be the case.
None of this will happen before the Inspector General, who is also investigating these matters, releases his report. It has been indicated he has found similar inappropriate behavior. If there is no one left standing in the line of succession at the Department of Justice, then a special commission may be selected. This could be comprised of members from other parts of the country, not part of the Washington establishment. Can you imagine the political maneuvering accompanying such a development.
Whatever the course of the future investigations, there will be no turning back now. Too much has been exposed and too many people have put their future on the line. We have seen political and public opinion warfare since the election, now we are moving to legal war where people may be sent to jail. The stakes have now moved to a higher level. Hopefully we can come to a conclusion that will satisfy the majority of the citizens.
None of this will happen before the Inspector General, who is also investigating these matters, releases his report. It has been indicated he has found similar inappropriate behavior. If there is no one left standing in the line of succession at the Department of Justice, then a special commission may be selected. This could be comprised of members from other parts of the country, not part of the Washington establishment. Can you imagine the political maneuvering accompanying such a development.
Whatever the course of the future investigations, there will be no turning back now. Too much has been exposed and too many people have put their future on the line. We have seen political and public opinion warfare since the election, now we are moving to legal war where people may be sent to jail. The stakes have now moved to a higher level. Hopefully we can come to a conclusion that will satisfy the majority of the citizens.
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