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    Trump pushes for Clinton investigation

    -WASHINGTON — President Trump did not need to send a memo or telephone his attorney general to make his desires known. He broadcast them for all the world to see on Twitter. The instruction was clear: The Justice Department should investigate his defeated opponent from last year’s campaign.

    However they were delivered, Mr. Trump’s demands have ricocheted through the halls of the Justice Department, where Attorney General Jeff Sessions has now ordered career prosecutors to evaluate various accusations against Hillary Clinton and report back on whether a special counsel should be appointed to investigate her.

    Mr. Sessions has made no decision, and in soliciting the assessment of department lawyers, he may be seeking a way out of the bind his boss has put him in by effectively putting the matter in the hands of professionals who were not politically appointed. But if he or his deputy authorizes a new investigation of Mrs. Clinton, it would shatter norms established after Watergate that are intended to prevent presidents from using law enforcement agencies against political rivals...

    ...But conservatives said Mrs. Clinton should not be immune from scrutiny as a special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, investigates Russia’s interference in last year’s election and any ties it may have to Mr. Trump’s campaign. They argued, for example, that Mrs. Clinton was the one doing Russia’s bidding in the form of a uranium deal approved when she was secretary of state...

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/u...stigation.html

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    Sessions vows quick decision on possible Clinton prosecutor
    Paul HANDLEY
    AFP•November 14, 2017
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/sessions-...174310908.html

    Washington (AFP) - US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that the Justice Department would work quickly to decide whether to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton, President Donald Trump's election rival.

    Sessions' comments indicated that Republicans were seeking to mount a counter-offensive to the probe into Russian election meddling -- and whether or not Trump's campaign colluded with Moscow to sway the 2016 contest.

    The Justice Department sent political shockwaves across Washington late Monday when it revealed it was evaluating the possibility of naming a special counsel to probe the foundation of former president Bill Clinton and its ties to firms involved in a deal that sold US uranium rights to a Russian state company.

    The letter also said it was reviewing the FBI's handling last year of a probe into Hillary Clinton's use of a personal server for official and in some cases classified emails, in breach of government rules, while she was secretary of state....



    ...Sessions promised the committee that his department would move quickly to decide whether to take action on the cases, including appointing a special prosecutor.

    "Do I have your assurance that these matters will proceed fairly and expeditiously?" committee chairman Robert Goodlatte asked him.

    "Yes, you can, Mr. Chairman, and you can be sure that they will be done without political influence and they will be done correctly and properly."

    Democrats said any such action would represent an unacceptable politicization of the country's justice system....




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