Flake: Whitaker shouldn't oversee Mueller probe

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

GOP Sen. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) said Friday that he does not believe Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, or any non-Senate confirmed official, should have oversight of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.

"The way the president has basically designated someone who is not Senate confirmed to oversee the investigation, someone who's already expressed his reservations about the investigation, that's a problem," Flake told The Hill.

Several of Flake's Democratic colleagues have called on Whitaker, who was previously Jeff Sessions's chief of staff, to recuse himself from Mueller's probe into the 2016 election and potential collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.

Flake hedged Friday on if recusal calls were the right step, instead circling back to concerns that Trump had picked someone not confirmed by the Senate to become acting attorney general and get oversight of the Mueller probe.

https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/416036-flake-whitaker-shouldnt-oversee-mueller-probe

Well see if you can get cocaine Mitch to not stymie legislation to protect Mueller.

[Tom Rivers]

1. He wouldn't be overseeing the Mueller probe

if Flake and other "deeply concerned" Senate republicans would've done their F***ING jobs, held a mutiny against McTurtle, and refused to pass any GOP agenda item until they agreed to protect him in the first damn place!

[redstateblues]

2. Flake is the worst because he talks big but is cowardly

When it comes to walking the walk. Like Corker

[jcgoldie]

3. Yeah yeah

...and Susan Collins is concerned... FFS.