point is that there were multiple renewals. each renewal grows in the package grows. implying they re getting new information along the way. at no point does either the justice department hierarchy or the court say, hey, wait a minute, this material isn t good enough to support the surveillance that you re requesting. so i think it s it really does give the lie to both the president and the house republicans claims that there was something fe fair mouse or inappropriate here. yeah. john heilemann, i wanted to follow up with you about the lies from devin nunes, paul ryan, the house republicans. yes, please. i remember when i first ran in 1994, not only myself but probably every other republican across america was still
attorney general. if he fires rosenstein, his responsibilities for the mueller investigation would go from deputy attorney general, which is what he is, to the associate attorney general, which is what rachel brand is. so she s the next person in line to assusupervise the mueller investigation. if she s gone and mueller is fired, then it gets confusing about who is the supervisor of the mueller office. there would have to be new people nominated. i would have to check the statute about how far down in the justice department hierarchy it would go to who controls rod rosenstein. everyone had assumed that she would stay in the administration for longer than barely a year. she s only been on the job nine months. quite curious.
cause and conflict of interest. if he were fired beyond that, i suppose there could be some reckoning to go along with that for the person who makes the firing decision. what do you mean by that? well, i think there would be a lot of outrage if he were fired on a whim and there was no finding of misconduct. rod rosenstein said he was the one who hired him and he won t fire him except for just cause. but to answer your question, what happens to the investigation, i think it continues. it existed before robert mueller was appointed. i think it would continue. the question is, under whose jurisdiction, would a u.s. attorney pick it up, some other member of the justice department? or would there be a new special counsel hired? if the justice department hierarchy, rod rosenstein was persuaded that mueller should be fired and the whole investigation was bunk, at the person overseeing it, he could end it, if he wanted to? he can end the investigation. the deputy attorney general can
reckoning to go along with that for the person who makes the firing decision. what do you mean by that to? i think for had were a lot of outrage if he was fired on a whim. rosensteen has said he s the one who hired him and he can fire him but he won t unless there s just cause. i think the investigation continues. it was going on in the eastern district of virginia. i think it would continue. the question is under whose jurisdingz? if it justice department hierarchy, rod rosensteen was persuaded that the whole investigation was bunk. he could end it, iffee wanted to, right? he could end the investigation. the deputy aturny general could end the investigation to end, i suppose. but i don t think that s not
and it is now january 23, more than four months later, it is unacceptable the accident has made it so difficult for congress to exercise oversight responsibility. a couple of questions. in a couple of months of the attack during the july/august period, ambassador stevens pressed concern about militia activity in benghazi and the need to aessential security assistance. we have seen the cables where security officers on the ground expressed considerable frustration at difficulty getting the personnel they believed were needed. we know now that management of security personnel guaranteed limited institutional knowledge was grossly inadequate. why was the department hierarchy so obstinate and why deny a