Mueller Taps More Prosecutors to Help With Growing Trump Probe

[PoliticAverse]

(Bloomberg) -- Special Counsel Robert Mueller is tapping additional Justice Department resources for help with new legal battles as his year-old investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 election continues to expand.

As Mueller pursues his probe, he’s making more use of career prosecutors from the offices of U.S. attorneys and from Justice Department headquarters, as well as FBI agents -- a sign that he may be laying the groundwork to hand off parts of his investigation eventually, several current and former U.S. officials said.

Mueller and his team of 17 federal prosecutors are coping with a higher-then-expected volume of court challenges that has added complexity in recent months, but there’s no political appetite at this time to increase the size of his staff, the officials said.

According to his most recent statement of expenditures, more money is being spent on work done by permanent Department of Justice units than on Mueller’s own dedicated operation. The DOJ units spent $9 million from the investigation’s start in May 2017 through March of this year, compared with $7.7 million spent by Mueller’s team.

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[democratisphere]

1. This Mueller investigation will be GIGANTIC when it is complete.

[DownriverDem]

12. Concerned

I'm concerned that trump will fire Rosenstein and appoint someone who will fire Mueller. Please hurry.

[Achilleaze]

2. Let me know when they get up to around the $90 million republicans blew

on a bj. I mean, republican treason against America cannot stand.

[Mr. Ected]

3. By the time this investigation finally ends, the R's in Congress

Will have spent years normalizing our relationship with Russia. They'll appear in buddy movies with the Russians. They'll be captured in thousands of photographs, arm in arm, smiling, conveying the idea that the Russians are our friends and we have nothing to worry about.

The masters of propaganda are turning treason into ex post facto "foreign policy". The Deplorables already believe this. Given time and media coverage, so will those who are not paying attention.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

4. I think

you're exactly right.

[AlexSFCA]

6. that's exactly right

he may be able to prosecute a bunch of people but it’s the voters whose views are gonna make an impact. Normalization of relationship with putin and the new global order. I still wonder if those who voted for trump would lose their jobs due to the new trade policies, will they still support trump? will thet vote or not even show up the polls?

[lagomorph777]

9. RePutin CongressTraitors celebrate the 4th of July in MOSCOW!

Seriously, what the fuck? Can they not picture the campaign ads their opponents will run?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/republican-lawmakers-come-to-moscow-raising-hopes-there-of-us-russia-thaw/2018/07/03/1213130c-7e94-11e8-b0ef-fffcabeff946_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8dfc6138066f

[DownriverDem]

13. Vote Vote Vote

If we focus on voting in November, we will be able to slow down/stop the trump/repub agenda. Then russia will not be normal. Don't forget, a lot of folks are not listening to the repub propaganda now. They think the repubs are just a bunch of old white haters.
Vote Vote Vote!

[WhiteTara]

5. Maybe a Go Fund Me is in order

to hire all the people needed to bring down the cabal.

[AlexSFCA]

7. I doubt its allowed

[lagomorph777]

10. It's allowed if Avenatti acts as an informal "auxiliary" support.

[WhiteTara]

11. I thought of that too.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. This shit is starting to remind me of the movie 'Z'. Let's just hope it

doesn't turn out the same way.