re: #72 KGxvi

Appointing a commission is always the most bullshit approach of all the approaches. A special prosecutor* definitely has the greatest chance of finding wrongdoing (it also has the greatest chance of going sideways in the quest for wrongdoing).

*I was under the impression that they let the special prosecutor law expire during the Bush Administration. Sort of a bipartisan acknowledgement that the Starr investigation turned into way too much of a shit show.

No, you’re thinking the Office of Independent Counsel, which relied upon a federal mandate that expired in 1999 after the GOP decided that Monicagate had been a very humiliating bust. The AG possesses the power to appoint a special prosecutor who’s independent of the DOJ chain-of-command. Thing is, once appointed, a special prosecutor generally follows where the evidence leads him. That’s the worry of the White House, that setting one loose on a fishing expedition into the “crimes” of Obama might instead turn up evidence of crimes by one or more highly-placed Trumpers.