Anonymous ID: e72645 March 24, 2019, 12:15 p.m. No.5865943   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5981

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>Special Counsel info

 

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This Congressional Research Report on Special Counsels was JUST updated.

 

Special Counsel Investigations: History,

Authority, Appointment and Removal

 

Updated March 13, 2019

 

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44857.pdf

 

Footnote 133:

 

Special counsels are required to comply with DOJ rules, regulations, procedures, practices, and policies, and are directed to consult with the appropriate offices within DOJ or the Attorney General directly if necessary. Id. § 600.7(a). Additionally, special counsels are subject to discipline for misconduct and breach of ethical duties that are generally applicable to DOJ employees.

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Federal Regulations - SC Conduct and Accountability

 

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/600.7

 

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Federal Regulations - SC Final Report

 

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/600.8

 

§ 600.8 Notification and reports by the Special Counsel.

 

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/600.8

 

(c) Closing documentation. At the conclusion of the Special Counsel's work, he or she shall provide the Attorney General with a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions reached by the Special Counsel.

Anonymous ID: e72645 March 24, 2019, 12:38 p.m. No.5866353   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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The Acting AG (RR) letter appointing Mueller can be read more broadly:

 

ORDER NO. 3915-2017

APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL COUNSEL

TO INVESTIGATE RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE WITH THE

2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND RELATED MATTERS

 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/967231/download

 

By virtue of the authority vested in me as Acting Attorney General, including 28 U.S.C.

§§ 509, 510, and 515, in order to discharge my responsibility to provide supervision and

management of the Department of Justice, and to ensure a full and thorough investigation of the

Russian govemmenfs efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, I hereby order as

follows:

(a) Robert S. Mueller III is appointed t() serve as Specia] Counsel for the United States

Department of Justice.

(b) The Special Counsel is authorized to conduct the investigation confinned by then-FBI

Director James 8. Corney in testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on

Intelligence on March 20, 2017, including:

 

(i) any links and/or coordination bet ween the Russian government and individuals

associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; and

 

(ii) any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation; and

 

(iii) any other matters within the scope of 28 C.F.R. § 600.4(a).

 

(c) If the Special Counsel believes it is necessary and appropriate, the Special Counsel is authorized to prosecute federal crimes arising from the investigation of these matters.

 

(d) Sections 600.4 through 600. l 0 of Title 28 of the Code of Federal Regulations are

applicable to the Special Counsel.