Q: If plan is Special Counsel, then why would AUSA have more ability to protect the investigation than the only existing USA, Dana Boente?
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Q: If plan is Special Prosecutor (AKA change the law to one of questionable constitutionality), why would GOP be amenable to that?
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I mean, I get the urgency. But I'm not sure how Dana Boente isn't the best possibility at this point, however bad.
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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.
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Wouldn't firing The Last USA be worse?
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Functionally, yes. Optically, perhaps not given that the special counsel would be explicitly tied to the Russia probe in people's minds.
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Im not sure how the related trade off in institutional power is worth it.
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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.
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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
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Existing relationship between Rosenstein and Boente is exactly what Comey to Fitz was in 2003, but Boente has more (perhaps too much) power
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Oh, I didn't realize that. Maybe he's good, or only plausible choice.
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Maybe it will allow for greater subpoena powers in going after tax documents, financial disclosure, etc. that tie Trump to Russia?
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Wait, you agree with Feinstein there's no evidence "yet," so this is a fishing expedition, pure and simple?
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No. It's an investigation into possible criminality. Why is that hard to understand?
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So, you agree. Your weasel word, which I understand perfectly, is "possible." No evidence. As Feinstein said
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There is enough evidence to start an investigation You'd make a terrible police officer *Guy fleeing scene of crime* You: "no evidence!"
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Begging the question using dufferent words, eh?
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* different
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