Ah yes, Whitaker ... it's all over but the report

As Mueller's boss, Whitaker will have control over the special counsel’s budget, as well as his decisions on subpoenas, indictments and the public disclosure of a final report.

While Whitaker, a former federal prosecutor from Iowa who joined the Justice Department under Sessions last September, has spoken highly of the special counsel himself, he has also been an outspoken critic of the Russia probe.

He’s suggested Mueller’s budget could be tightened to placate the president and he’s also argued on cable television that Trump should be cleared of wrongdoing for his decision to fire FBI Director James Comey in May 2017.

“There is no criminal case to be made on an obstruction of justice,” Whitaker said on CNN.

Whitaker has also written that Mueller’s probe should not include any examination into the Trump Organization and the president’s finances.

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"Given his previous comments advocating defunding and imposing limitations on the Mueller investigation, Mr. Whitaker should recuse himself from its oversight for the duration of his time as acting attorney general," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement.

  Politico

Of course he won't.

So, Sarah Kendzior was right. Mueller took too long.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:







UPDATE 11/8:

Whitaker is a former U.S. attorney in Iowa, but he was also involved in a Miami-based invention-marketing company the Federal Trade Commission shut down last year after calling it a scam.

Whitaker not only sat on the board of World Patent Marketing but also once sent a threatening email to a former customer who had complained after he spent thousands of dollars and did not receive the promised services. Court records obtained by New Times for a 2017 feature about the fraudulent company show that in an August 2015 email to a disgruntled customer, Whitaker touted his background as a former federal attorney and suggested that filing a complaint with the Better Business Bureau and "smearing" the company online could result in "serious civil and criminal consequences."

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Internal records show the company paid him nearly $10,000 before the company was shuttered.

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Other threats came from Whitaker. In one email included in thousands of pages of documents New Times reviewed, he accused a customer of "possible blackmail or extortion" and threatened "serious civil or criminal consequences."

The feds alleged that thousands of would-be inventors — whose ideas included posterior-enhancing jeans, bimini tops for lawnmowers and fruit crossbred with marijuana — were ripped off in the scheme. They lost as much as $400,000 apiece; some spent their entire life savings.

After losing a 2014 Senate bid and leaving World Patent Marketing, Whitaker became a CNN commentator and penned op-eds claiming that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe has "gone too far" and that he would have indicted Hillary Clinton. He was named Sessions’ chief of staff in September 2017.

  Miama New Times

Once a scammer, always a scammer.