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Originally Posted by Ohio
The history of appointing special or independent prosecutors has become quite dangerous to our American system. The Founders never envisioned this. Neither Starr nor Mueller ever accomplished their original directives, unless their real mission was purely political. Both concluded their investigations with "process crimes," aka as "perjury traps."
Clinton was never convicted of Whitewater crimes, rather for lying to protect himself and his marriage. Flynn pled guilty to lying because he was broke. The real message here is never talk to the FBI or federal prosecutors. Plead the Fifth. If you don't, you can be convicted. Not for actually lying about a crime, but for misremembering or forgetting something, or for protecting your family.
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This is true and don't know what the solution is. But if we are going to talk about special investigators you have to include Nixon and Watergate.
Too much politics. We have taken financial policy out of the hands of the politicians, we should do the same with these special investigations. Perhaps judges with a lifetime appointment, dare I say the Supreme court, should have to determine if a special prosecutor is necessary and if so oversee an investigation. Senate has to call for it, Supreme court has to decide it is warranted, and Congress has to fund it. That would prevent highly partisan politics from controlling the process.
I am also going to be very disgusted if the sum total of Mueller's findings is that Trump is a shady businessman who does business with people who lie to investigators. We knew that before he even started.