Except for President Obama’s, no recent administration has avoided an independent counsel or special prosecutor investigation since they began sprouting in the Watergate era. So far, the Trump administration has signaled it will not exercise the option of bringing in an outsider to serve as a special prosecutor. That may mean a more controlled investigation, but it also means the White House itself will be called to answer for every development. Swept into the swirl were White House staffers who were not targets of the investigation but, in effect, informed bystanders. (He was selected in large part by his close friend James Comey, then the deputy attorney general and now head of the FBI, one of the agencies looking into Russian election activities.)

Source: Los Angeles Times March 06, 2017 11:03 UTC