So much for ethics
Uh oh. Bad news.
Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker has consulted with ethics officials at the Justice Department and they have advised him he does not need to recuse himself from overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, a source familiar with the process told CNN Thursday.
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Whitaker is expected to inform senators, many of whom have raised ethics concerns given his past criticism of Mueller’s investigation, about this development later Thursday, the source said.
Walter Shaub is disgusted.
The government ethics program has now failed the final test of its reason for existing. Born in the wake of the Saturday Night Massacre, it has now blessed a slow motion repeat. With this decision, the ethics program has opted suicide. Burn its carcass to ashes and start over. https://t.co/pSiXp18ii3
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) December 20, 2018
The ethics decision to bless the slow motion Saturday Night Massacre — and to hold announcement of that decision until just before the holiday — will stand as a monument to cowardice in government.https://t.co/wcHuCHNjLX
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) December 20, 2018
Update: WaPo reports that actually, the ethics folks said he should recuse, so Whitaker asked his flunkies for a second opinion:
Arrgh!
Mummy said no so he asked Daddy.