Is there a legal standard to measure by? I would guess not, and recusals come as a result of pressure from other sources or self-recusal... Not a measurable standard.

https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/recusals

Obviously more to that than I know... haha

Almost by definition a Prosecutor is not neutral, right?
Do the same ideas about recusal apply to prosecutors? Yep.

recuse

v. to refuse to be a judge (or for a judge to be requested by one of the parties to step aside) in a lawsuit or appeal because of a conflict of interest or other good reason (acquaintanceship with one of the parties, for example). It also applies to a judge or prosecutor being removed or voluntarily removing himself/herself from a criminal case in which he/she has a conflict of interest, such as friendship or known enmity to the defendant. (See: recusal)

Here is a good example of recusal based on mere working relationships, not even personal.

http://www.king5.com/article/news/local ... /492084273



Mueller and Comey used to work together. They are also friends. How can this NOT be a conflict of interest?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/17/politics/ ... index.html

"Going to jail for the rest of their lives"......for what???
It's not like they murdered a girl on a SF pier with a cops stolen gun.

https://news.grabien.com/story-morning- ... heir-lives

‘Morning Joe’: Trump Team ‘Going to Jail ... for the Rest of Their Lives’

s the "noose" of Robert Mueller's probe into the Trump team's contacts with Russia is "tightening," members of the administration are starting to understand they're going "to jail ... for the rest of their lives," MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski said Tuesday.

"Knowing them, I think they're shocked that the noose is tightening," Brzezinski said. "I don't know if they were arrogant or incredibly un-self aware and really dumb about what the job was about, how important it was, and how under the microscope every move you made would be. I think they just thought they'd go in there and riff through it. And I think they're shocked that the noose is tightening and that people might go to jail."

"You're exactly right," her co-host and fiancé, Joe Scarborough, agreed.

"For the rest of their lives," Brzezinski added, perhaps hopefully.

Trump, Scarborough said, only ran for president as part of a money-making scheme, and did not actually expect to win.

"You know, the campaign — Trump didn't think he was going to win even on Election Day," he said. "But it was all about money. It was all about making contacts. We've said this before. But the most remarkable thing about it is that even now that he's president, it's still all about money. Like, he's not sitting there thinking what Barack Obama or George W. Bush or Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan thought. Like, what is my legacy going to be? He's thinking every day, how can I leverage this so when I get out of the White House I can make even more money?"

Funny how no one is discussing the Strzok-Page bombshell.

Can we all agree now there are serious doubts about Mueller's team and even himself given that he tried to bury this shocking development?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12 ... =Google+UK

Read the texts. They and Mueller's attempts to hide them are damning. There is no chance at this point that the personnel fired did not contaminate this so called "investigation."

I have been following. I have contended from Day 1 it's political bullshit driven. Guess what? It's political bullshit driven. So dense, we'll need the diamond tip chain on the chainsaw to cut through it.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/20 ... w-we-know/

Yeah, they need to shut it down. It's clearly tainted, and it was born of bogus intel to start with. Nothing good will come of allowing it to continue. And I say this as a guy who couldn't even bring myself to vote for Trump. I don't like him, but he is being treated extremely unfairly.

Nope. I agree with Rosenstein, and even tillerson on this. Colluding with Russia is treasonous in my book, and it's imperative to find how deep it goes.

Your book probably needs a little work. Especially if you are ok with FBI agents planning to prevent election of a selected candidate.

Nope, my book is fine. i'm just not using the lens of ultra partisanship to read my book.
don't get me wrong, I do not hope for Trump to fail. For the sake of the 2a, I hope he succeeds. I don't believe there is anything to impeach him for either.
But the investigation must and will continue.

The collusion of the FBI with plans to prevent trump from being elected and plans for "if" he gets elected makes Watergate seem like a child's play.

Are you guys paying attention? Did you see the text back and forth? Holy moly!

Heads are gonna roll.

Did you read the texts? The ones about finding a way to end Trump's presidency before they were even working on this it had any official reason to even be interested in it?

Those combined with Mueller's attempts to hide them poison the whole inquiry.

Before you were arguing that just because Mueller hired democrats and democrat donors and activists doesn't mean they are biased. Now, when they get caught secretly admitting their bias and even plotting a sort of coup against POTUS you are still OK with it?
Mueller has no problem leaking anti Trump info his team is working on but he tried to hide these. That makes him almost as bad as these text authors.

These people are no longer in the investigation. The investigation will continue.

We have no idea how much they contributed and how much they poisoned the investigation.

It's wholly tainted now. Mueller's attempts to conceal this when he was happy to leak other info that made Trump look bad or put perceived pressure on Flynn or Manafort proves Mueller is also untrustworthy and hypocritical, as well as proving political motivation on his part.

At the very least we now need a 2nd special counsel to investigate Mueller and his team as many Republicans have already called for.

So where to now? It seems like we're down in a rabbit hole.

President Trump promised to drain the swamp... Is this (the anti-Trumpism and legal maneuvers) the way the swamp fights back? Does President Trump have members of the swamp on his cabinet or in too-powerful positions in his administration?

What do we expect from Mueller and his team?
We should have a flowchart of YES-NO / TRUE-FALSE paths through this quagmire.

At the top of the chart could be "Did Trump Violate Federal Law / Collude with Russia"
Neither side of that flowchart would be short, but I am curious as to just how far both sides go and what steps are coming up.