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==Special counsel==

==Special counsel==

[[File:Mooo9.jpg|right|350px|thumb|During his Russia probe, Mueller indicted "the proverbial ham sandwich."]]

[[File:Mooo9.jpg|right|325px|thumb|During his Russia probe, Mueller indicted "the proverbial ham sandwich."]]

:{{See also|Mueller office|Ukrainian collusion}}

:{{See also|Mueller office|Ukrainian collusion}}

In the wake of James Comey's firing, Assistant Attorney General [[Rod Rosenstein]] appointed Mueller as a special counsel to take over the FBI's [[counterintelligence]] investigation of the Trump campaign and administration. The investigation now also became a criminal probe, alleging Trump fired Comey to obstruct justice.  

In the wake of James Comey's firing, Assistant Attorney General [[Rod Rosenstein]] appointed Mueller as a special counsel to take over the FBI's [[counterintelligence]] investigation of the Trump campaign and administration. The investigation now also became a criminal probe, alleging Trump fired Comey to obstruct justice.  

===Oleg Deripaska===

===Oleg Deripaska===

[[File:Levinson.jpg|right|300px|thumb|On November 9, 2019, it was reported that Robert Levinson was still alive.<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/iran-makes-stunning-admission-regarding-fbi-agent-gone-missing-since-2007</ref>]]

[[File:Levinson.jpg|right|325px|thumb|On November 9, 2019, it was reported that Robert Levinson was still alive.<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/iran-makes-stunning-admission-regarding-fbi-agent-gone-missing-since-2007</ref>]]

In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI, the bureau asked Russian oligarch [[Oleg Deripaska]] to spend millions of his own dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007. Mueller wanted a foreigner to fund the operation in order to circumvent U.S. sanctions law that barred spending money in Iran. They arrangement may have also violated the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits the government from accepting voluntary services.

In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI, the bureau asked Russian oligarch [[Oleg Deripaska]] to spend millions of his own dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007. Mueller wanted a foreigner to fund the operation in order to circumvent U.S. sanctions law that barred spending money in Iran. They arrangement may have also violated the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits the government from accepting voluntary services.