Interests requires me to place this investigation to a person who exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command. Mueller served under two president s with an extension under obama. Hes described as very disciplined. He will not answer to Rod Rosenstein on a daily basis. But he does have to report to the a. G. He can pick his own staff. After serving so long in the political armpit he must have some faiths. Hes harder to fire than comey and doesnt serve at the pleasure of the president , and can only be fired by rosenstein with good cause. Reaction has been pretty good from both side. Jason chaffetz tweeted quote, mueller is a great selection. With great credentials. Adam schiff add this. I think there is a far greater chance with a truly independent crown that the public is more likely to accept the result. Kennedy well have to wait and see who cries foul and if mueller has the guts to knock it out of the park. Im kennedy. There was never a special counsel appoint
Interests requires me to place this investigation to a person who exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command. Mueller served under two president s with an extension under obama. Hes described as very disciplined. He will not answer to Rod Rosenstein on a daily basis. But he does have to report to the a. G. He can pick his own staff. After serving so long in the political armpit he must have some faiths. Hes harder to fire than comey and doesnt serve at the pleasure of the president , and can only be fired by rosenstein with good cause. Reaction has been pretty good from both side. Jason chaffetz tweeted quote, mueller is a great selection. With great credentials. Adam schiff add this. I think there is a far greater chance with a truly independent crown that the public is more likely to accept the result. Kennedy well have to wait and see who cries foul and if mueller has the guts to knock it out of the park. Im kennedy. There was never a special counsel appoint
Either has to be evidence of crime or a belief by your investigators that there is, in fact, a crime that has been committed that youre investigating. Isnt that correct . There has to believe that there is still evidence necessary to be looked at to determine whether or not a criminal statute has been violated. Mr. Cole, i really appreciate the dodging on behalf of koran, but my question needs to be answered. Behalfnot dodging on of the crime. That would be a frivolous investigation at some point, wouldnt it . You continue looking into crimes for years of innocent people when there is not a smidgen of evidence. You continue a criminal investigation with months or years without any evidence just because in the long run you think it might happen . That is a yes or no. Do you do that . I outlined a rather repugnant comment that has been made about this chair and this committee that we are continuing to investigate wrongdoing in in washington led by lois lerner. We continue to investigate
So, depending on a duty but that would be something to look into. You would investigate if they had a duty to disclose they had lost those documents . We would. Thats something you would investigate. We would. So you said emergency roarli relative to it depends, it depends on whether theres a problem with the fact that the commissioner at the irs knew in april and waited two months to tell us the American People and more importantly you. So youre going to investigate that aspect, as well, just like you would for a private citizen . All the issues relating to those emails will be wrapped up in the investigation that we do. Including delay . Including delay. So the delay, the fact that the commissioner at the Internal Revenue Service Delayed telling the congress, the American People, the fbi and the Justice Department is a matter that you are going to investigate . We are going do look into what the circumstances were around that, yes. Well, thats important. I would recognize the Ranking
Im not sure the Justice Department requested information or if the irs offered it. Im not sure how the idea when you get in the format you ask for, it sure likes like you asked for it. Im not sure of the actual idea providing that information to the Justice Department came up four years ago, but it was provided after the meeting. Im just reading your testimony. She indicated someone else would followup, but that did not occur. Why did not occur . I dont know. You dont know . Let me give you a reason why i think it might not have occurred. This corresponds, this meeting took place on may 8th 2013. Do you know what happened . Yes i do. What happened . She gave a speech and talk about the issue. Yes. She explained to the whole world the irs was caught with their hand in the cookie jar and were target targeting conservative groups. That is what a followup did not occur. Two days before the very lawyer who met with lois lerner and got that data base. Two days before she goes Public Meeting