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*'''17 May.''' Rosenstein mandate to Mueller: "to serve as Special Counsel '''to oversee the previously-confirmed FBI investigation of Russian government efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election."''' Lisa  Page later testifies under oath that '''after nine months of the most invasive surveillance capabilities of the U.S. government, the FBI still had not made a case connecting Trump or his campaign to Russia’s election meddling.'''<ref>https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/406881-lisa-page-bombshell-fbi-couldnt-prove-trump-russia-collusion-before-mueller</ref> Questions remain over the legality of Rosenstein's appointment of Mueller. By statute, a Special Counsel can only be appointed in criminal investigations; Comey's Trump-Russia investigation was a counterintelligence investigation, not a ciminal investigation. Comey's illegal, felonious [[fake news]] [[leak]] of his memo is an effort to create a criminal obstruction of justice charge against Trump, however Rosenstein's mandate clearly authorizes Mueller to continue the FBI counterintelligence investigation into Russian meddling. What's more, the mandate makes no mention of authorizing Mueller to pursue unrelated banking and tax fraud charges against [[Paul Manafort]], which Rosenstein himself deemed unmerited for prosecution a decade earlier.

*'''17 May.''' Rosenstein mandate to Mueller: "to serve as Special Counsel '''to oversee the previously-confirmed FBI investigation of Russian government efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election."''' Lisa  Page later testifies under oath that '''after nine months of the most invasive surveillance capabilities of the U.S. government, the FBI still had not made a case connecting Trump or his campaign to Russia’s election meddling.'''<ref>https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/406881-lisa-page-bombshell-fbi-couldnt-prove-trump-russia-collusion-before-mueller</ref> Questions remain over the legality of Rosenstein's appointment of Mueller. By statute, a Special Counsel can only be appointed in criminal investigations; Comey's Trump-Russia investigation was a counterintelligence investigation, not a ciminal investigation. Comey's illegal, felonious [[fake news]] [[leak]] of his memo is an effort to create a criminal obstruction of justice charge against Trump, however Rosenstein's mandate clearly authorizes Mueller to continue the FBI counterintelligence investigation into Russian meddling. What's more, the mandate makes no mention of authorizing Mueller to pursue unrelated banking and tax fraud charges against [[Paul Manafort]], which Rosenstein himself deemed unmerited for prosecution a decade earlier.

*Federal law at 28 CFR 600.7 prohibits anyone from serving as a special counsel if there is the appearance of a conflict of interest. Rosenstein allegedly is both a witness and prosecutor in Trump's supposed obstruction of justice in firing Comey for mismanagement.

*Federal law at 28 CFR 600.7 prohibits anyone from serving as a special counsel if there is the appearance of a conflict of interest.  

*Lead FBI investigator Peter Strzok, is in immediate communication with Aaron Zelby via email; Strzok eventually finds himself part of the Special Counsel investigative team.

 

*Lead FBI investigator Peter Strzok, is in immediate communication with Aaron Zelby via email; Strzok eventually finds himself part of the Special Counsel investigative team. Unlike others on the [[Mueller team]], Strzok has security clearances to read, declassify, and share FISA data with prosecutors and other investors.

*Jake Novak of [[CNBC]] says latest Trump-Russia leaks sounds like a ''[[coup]]'' attempt. Novak noted "Someone at the highest levels of government has leaked information to the news media about President Trump's discussions with Russian officials...candidate Donald Trump indeed insulted the intelligence community during the election, and many have concluded that this is their plotted revenge...we have some very powerful people in Washington who really don't like how [[democracy]] played out this time around and what they do to attack it next isn't going to be any better than what they're doing now."<ref>http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/16/this-latest-trump-russia-leak-smells-like-a-coup-attempt-commentary.html</ref>  

*Jake Novak of [[CNBC]] says latest Trump-Russia leaks sounds like a ''[[coup]]'' attempt. Novak noted "Someone at the highest levels of government has leaked information to the news media about President Trump's discussions with Russian officials...candidate Donald Trump indeed insulted the intelligence community during the election, and many have concluded that this is their plotted revenge...we have some very powerful people in Washington who really don't like how [[democracy]] played out this time around and what they do to attack it next isn't going to be any better than what they're doing now."<ref>http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/16/this-latest-trump-russia-leak-smells-like-a-coup-attempt-commentary.html</ref>