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dajoki

(10,678 posts) Tue Apr 3, 2018, 11:15 AM Apr 2018

Jeff Sessions Quietly Appointed a Prosecutor to Probe Trumps Foes

Jeff Sessions Quietly Appointed a Prosecutor to Probe Trump’s Foes. That Could Be an Unprecedented Disaster.
The press treated the news about John Huber’s probe as a non-event. That’s what they said about Ken Starr, too.

Michael Tomasky
04.03.18 4:49 AM ET
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeff-sessions-quietly-appointed-a-prosecutor-to-probe-potus-foes-that-could-be-an-unprecedented-disaster?ref=scroll

The headlines called it a non-event when Attorney General Jeff Sessions decided not to appoint a special counsel to look into the special counsel after all. For the people who believe that fired FBI agent Andrew McCabe is at the center (with Hillary Clinton, natch) of a vast Deep-State conspiracy to bring down Donald Trump, this was a bitter disappointment.

Or maybe not. As the stories noted farther down, Sessions did announce that sometime last fall, without saying anything publicly at the time, he had appointed the U.S. Attorney for Utah, John Huber, to team up with Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz to conduct an internal investigation into all the questions that Republicans in Congress have raised about the FBI and its allegedly raging anti-Trumpery.

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In this case, Huber was appointed by Sessions not to investigate potential wrongdoing by Trump administration officials, but potential wrongdoing by its critics and/or its perceived enemies. And he was appointed because of pressure from within the president’s own party to go after the supposed Deep Staters.

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But he is worth keeping an eye on. Those of us burdened with long memories recall reading a lot of quotes from Washington establishment types back in 1994 about how the guy named to replace independent counsel Robert Fiske was a man of utmost probity. That man was Ken Starr. At a moment of complacent forgetting, that seems maybe worth remembering.