Berman's recused (and, comically, rescued) from the Cohen investigation

[Blue_Adept]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-attorney-trump-appointee-recused-michael-cohen-investigation/story?id=54365546

Two sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News Berman was not involved in the decision to raid Cohen's office because of the recusal.

The recusal was approved by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

The raid of Cohen's handled by others in the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and approved by a federal judge.

He wasn't involved in it, but his name came up because of how operations like this would normally run.

[nolabear]

1. I think thats a Freudian typo.

[Blue_Adept]

2. Damn phone autocorrect

I fixed it but tweaked it to keep it in there

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Talk about a

well planned and cautious approach. Do a work around . Have always said,if you attack certain Agencies without the facts,you will be taken down.

The Rule of Law will prevail.

[TubbersUK]

4. Why did he recuse himself? Do we know? n/t

[Blue_Adept]

6. Same reason that Sessions did

He's too close to Trump.

[YessirAtsaFact]

8. Apparently Trump appointees cant be directly involved in investigating him

Probably why he hasn’t fired Sessions.

The next AG would have to be recused, if I understand correctly, because they are appointed by Trump.

[Kaleva]

9. Rosentein was appointed by Trump and he isn't recused.

[EffieBlack]

5. If true, the people who handled this were probably career prosecutors - far out of Trump's reach

Mueller is so far ahead of everyone we can't even see his dust.

[nolabels]

7. Some people just don't like others in their profession to be impugned

Some people don't realize messing around career prosecutors is a bad idea

[YessirAtsaFact]

10. Perhaps thats because he was appointed before the investigation was started

Or I may simply be wrong.

I remember reading somewhere that if Trump fires Sessions, the new AG would not be able to take over supervision of Mueller’s investigation.

It would be a similar situation regarding Rosenstein. His replacement couldn’t directly handle the Russia probe.

Trump would have to fire DOJ directors, assistants, etc. down the chain of command until someone already in the chain of command was willing to fire Mueller.