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*'''17 May.''' '''Rosenstein appoints Mueller "to serve as Special Counsel to oversee the ''previously-confirmed FBI investigation'' of Russian government efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election''' [i.e., a countetintelligence investigation, ital added]." 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, not a counterintelligence investigation'''. Comey's Trump-Russia investigation was a counterintelligence 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 appoints Mueller "to serve as Special Counsel to oversee the ''previously-confirmed FBI investigation'' of Russian government efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election''' [i.e., a countetintelligence investigation, ital added]." 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, not a counterintelligence investigation'''. Comey's Trump-Russia investigation was a counterintelligence 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.  

:*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.

:*Rosenstein allegedly is both a witness and prosecutor in Trump's supposed obstruction of justice in firing Comey for mismanagement.

:*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 investigators.

*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 investigators.

*''Politico'', ''New York Times'', ''Washington Post'', CNN, AP, ''Reuters'  and ''Wall Street Journal'' all report the same [[fake news]] leak that Trump fired Comey after Comey requested additional resources to investigate Russian interference in the election. The ''New York Times''  Matthew Rosenberg and Matt Apuzzo, and CNN’s Sara Murray report the fake news without attribution. The ''Washington Post''’s Philip Rucker, Ashley Parker, Sari Horwitz and Robert Costa wrote news articles in the style of opinion pieces as if it were established fact.

*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>