Sunday, November 4, 2018

Primed for Obstruction

Let's see if I have this right. If Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gets fired or resigns:
  1. Oversight of the Mueller investigation would fall to the next available person in the Justice Department's hierarchy, Noel Francisco. 
  2. Noel Francisco is a partner in the law firm that represents Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in the Russia probe.
  3. Noel Francisco was a lawyer on Trump’s transition team (which also has been pulled into the Mueller investigation).
  4. The White House in April granted an Ethics Waiver for Noel Francisco.
  5. That waiver gives Francisco immunity from having to recuse himself from supervising Mueller's investigation.
  6. Francisco would become the person signing off on the special counsel’s budget.
  7. Francisco would become the person making decisions on subpoenas and indictments for that investigation.
  8. Francisco would become the person who determines whether or not the final report is publicly disclosed.
  9. Francisco would become the person overseeing the investigation of himself.
  10. That ethics waiver was never listed with the 28 other ethics waivers granted by the White House, giving that waiver the secrecy it should not have had. 
  11. That waiver is signed by then-White House Counsel Don McGahn, who is also a partner with Francisco at the same law firm that represents Trump's presidential campaign in the Russia probe.
Can you say, "conflict of interest"? Can you say, "obstruction of justice"? Can you say, "cover-up"? I knew you could.

Link: Secret waiver clears possible Trump Russia Rosenstein replacement

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