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    emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 12 May 2017

    Q: Given that the FBI DIRECTOR got fired, how will appointing Special Prosecutor (AKA Special Counsel) fix the investigative problem?

    5:20 AM - 12 May 2017
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      2. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 12 May 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Q: If plan is Special Counsel, then why would AUSA have more ability to protect the investigation than the only existing USA, Dana Boente?

        1 reply 4 retweets 6 likes
      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 12 May 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Q: If plan is Special Prosecutor (AKA change the law to one of questionable constitutionality), why would GOP be amenable to that?

        2 replies 3 retweets 4 likes
      4. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 12 May 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        I mean, I get the urgency. But I'm not sure how Dana Boente isn't the best possibility at this point, however bad.

        1 reply 4 retweets 6 likes
      5. Andrew  🎃‏ @A_M_Dolan 12 May 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Maybe an optics thing? Force Trump/Sessions to fire a special counsel to make it stop. Not that the GOP cared when they axed Comey.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 12 May 2017
        Replying to @A_M_Dolan

        Wouldn't firing The Last USA be worse?

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      7. Andrew  🎃‏ @A_M_Dolan 12 May 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Functionally, yes. Optically, perhaps not given that the special counsel would be explicitly tied to the Russia probe in people's minds.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      8. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 12 May 2017
        Replying to @A_M_Dolan

        Im not sure how the related trade off in institutional power is worth it.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      9. Andrew  🎃‏ @A_M_Dolan 12 May 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        I think you're right; I'm not sure either. I don't know what institutional power, if any, is strong enough to matter now.

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      10. End of conversation
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      2. Andrew Long‏ @andrewlong166 12 May 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Rosenstein, or next DAG, should follow Comey's path to empowering SC (Fitz). If Trump fires DAG to install new 1 to fire SC Congress may act

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 12 May 2017
        Replying to @andrewlong166

        Existing relationship between Rosenstein and Boente is exactly what Comey to Fitz was in 2003, but Boente has more (perhaps too much) power

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Andrew Long‏ @andrewlong166 12 May 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Oh, I didn't realize that. Maybe he's good, or only plausible choice.

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. End of conversation
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      2. Pulled Back High 5‏ @pulledbackhigh5 12 May 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Maybe it will allow for greater subpoena powers in going after tax documents, financial disclosure, etc. that tie Trump to Russia?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. shunting‏ @thehuntinghouse 12 May 2017
        Replying to @pulledbackhigh5 @emptywheel

        Wait, you agree with Feinstein there's no evidence "yet," so this is a fishing expedition, pure and simple?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Pulled Back High 5‏ @pulledbackhigh5 12 May 2017
        Replying to @thehuntinghouse @emptywheel

        No. It's an investigation into possible criminality. Why is that hard to understand?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. shunting‏ @thehuntinghouse 12 May 2017
        Replying to @pulledbackhigh5 @emptywheel

        So, you agree. Your weasel word, which I understand perfectly, is "possible." No evidence. As Feinstein said

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Pulled Back High 5‏ @pulledbackhigh5 12 May 2017
        Replying to @thehuntinghouse @emptywheel

        There is enough evidence to start an investigation You'd make a terrible police officer *Guy fleeing scene of crime* You: "no evidence!"

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. shunting‏ @thehuntinghouse 12 May 2017
        Replying to @pulledbackhigh5 @emptywheel

        Begging the question using dufferent words, eh?

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      8. shunting‏ @thehuntinghouse 12 May 2017
        Replying to @thehuntinghouse @pulledbackhigh5

        * different

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