3 Responses to “So much for ethics”

• #1

  Screechy Monkey

  December 20, 2018 at 1:39 pm

  Update: WaPo reports that actually, the ethics folks said he should recuse, so Whitaker asked his flunkies for a second opinion:

  A senior Justice Department ethics official concluded acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker should recuse from overseeing special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe examining President Trump, but advisers to Whitaker recommended the opposite and he has no plans to step aside, according to people familiar with the matter.

  The latest account of what happened underscores the high stakes and deep distrust — within Congress and in some corners of the Justice Department — surrounding Whitaker’s appointment to become the nation’s top law enforcement official until the Senate votes on the nomination of William P. Barr to take the job. Earlier in the day, a different official, who spoke on the condition they not be named, said ethics officials had advised Whitaker need not step aside, only to retract that account hours later.
• #2

  Ophelia Benson

  December 20, 2018 at 5:22 pm

  Arrgh!
• #3

  Acolyte of Sagan

  December 21, 2018 at 2:47 am

  Mummy said no so he asked Daddy.