GOP lawmakers getting impatient with Mueller

Dana Mathewson

They aren't the only ones. But these men are in a position of influence. And they are calling for Mueller's scalp, even as he is trying every trick in the book to collect the president's. Let's hope they are heard.  From Reuters:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three Republican U.S. lawmakers called on Friday for Robert Mueller to resign as special counsel investigating Russia and the 2016 U.S. election, the latest in a series of conservatives’ criticisms of the FBI and Justice Department during the probe of how Moscow may have influenced the campaign.

Representatives Matt Gaetz, Andy Biggs and Louis Gohmert accused Mueller of a conflict of interest because he was director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation when former President Barack Obama’s administration approved an agreement allowing a Russian company to buy a Canadian company that owned 20 percent of U.S. uranium supplies.

President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans have been calling for an investigation into the Uranium One deal, amid news of Mueller’s first indictments of Trump associates as the special counsel investigates allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow.

Conflict of interest, indeed. Mueller should never have been appointed as the "special counsel" in the first place, or since he was, he should have been given strict guidelines as to just how far he could go in any direction. He should have not been allowed to think he was on a fishing expedition, and whoever appointed him should have slapped his hand, hard, when he began to show that he felt he was on one.

William Katz, of Urgent Agenda, who posted the above snipped from Reuters, had the following to say:

Seems to me this is an easy call. Mueller should clearly resign. He has too many links to the questions under investigation. He has also hired lawyers with direct links to the Hillary Clinton campaign, raising many eyebrows. For the good of the country, he should go.

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