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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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?
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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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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.
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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.
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Maybe I'm overthinking how most people are paying attention to this issue, though.
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I think problem is even people who know diff bt Special Counsel and Special Prosecutor well aren't attending to those differences.
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Judging by how interchangeably people use the terms, I think this is right. By the way, you're familiar with a lot of the players. What's
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your read on Rosenstein's role in all this?
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I'm as shocked as others by how easily Donald rolled him. If he's not appointing SPecial Counsel bc agrees w/me on Boente he needs to say it
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Replying to @emptywheel
Thanks! And agreed. From what I heard of his rep this... wasn't what I expected. Agreed too that he should speak out on Boente.
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