Isn’t Mueller’s special counsel illegal because congress didn’t renew the act?.
Wouldn’t that make all his work illegal and all for nil?.
True that Congress did not renew the Special Prosecutor statute (done by a democrat congress btw, because THEY were becoming targeted and convicted by the statute they created)— but Mueller is not a special prosecutor (like Ken Starr was). The term of use by rosenswine in “appointing” (as acting Atty General and head of the Dept. of Justice) a “Special Counsel”.
The “Special Counsel” law requires that the description of a crime be the basis of the action of appointing a “counsel”. Rosenswine got around (or tried to) this requirement by “extending” an existing Counter-Intelligence investigation— into the appointment of Mueller as a Special Counsel. The problem is— the “crime” that was the basis for the Counter Intel investigation... was completely fabricated by the false FISA warrants (all gobbledygook from rosenswine on the “warrant” as opposed to the ‘crime” which was nonexistent).
You ARE correct— as the President has pointed out repeatedly on twitter— there was NO crime ever enumerated, as required by DOJ regs (and, in fact the Courts as well) to even empower the “acting AG” to appoint a Special Counsel. It is now beyond argument that Rosenstein, Mueller and Comey were in this for YEARS together, using their power illegally, and justifying themselves, to themselves-
Mueller goes all the way back to before he was FBI director and was allowing, while US Atty in Boston, Irish mobster Whitey Bulgur to commit mass murders of Italian Mafia, as long as he was Mueller’s “confidential informant”. Which was all OK with the Boston Irish “cabal” the Kennedys had created, statewide decades before. An interesting illegal use of the FedGov for the benefit of a marginally “legal” family dynasty of bootleggers. What a story- and all true.
If we had rule of law, it would. We do not have rule of law - not in DC.
That has actually worked to his advantage: Rosenstein could give him carte blanche.