of dark money and the name kept changing too. so it s this kind of quintessential suspicious group. and so we don t know what kind of conflict or who exactly was paying for him to you know, and he was supposed to be nonpartisan. but he kept going on tv and only attacking hillary and only attacking mueller s inquiry. jed, you talked about this constitutional ground he s on that s dodgy, there s a connection between the lack of consent, and what we re learning about now. it s uncontroverted that a principal officer has to be confirmed by the senate. there s at least a question about what the line is between a principal officer and an inferior officer in certain cases, an inferior officer doesn t have to get senate confirmation. that s what the olc basically said is maybe he s not a principal officer, maybe not an officer at all, maybe he s
nonpartisan. but he kept going on tv and only attacking hillary and only attacking mueller s inquiry. jed, you talked about this constitutional ground he s on that s dodgy, there s a connection between the lack of consent, and what we re learning about now. it s uncontroverted that a principal officer has to be confirmed by the senate. there s at least a question about what the line is between a principal officer and an inferior officer in certain cases, an inferior officer doesn t have to get senate confirmation. that s what the olc basically said is maybe he s not a principal officer, maybe not an officer at all, maybe he s inferior. the constitution tells us that s not true. the constitution treats the heads of departments as principal officers. in a couple of different places. so if that s true, then what is whitaker right now? whitaker is the head of a department. and as head of a department,