Former (and perhaps future) Attorney General William Barr
Assuming there was no good cause? I would not carry out that instruction.
— Attorney general nominee William Barr, during an exchange with Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), after being asked whether he’d withdraw the special counsel regulations that call for termination only for “good cause,” and fire Robert Mueller if ordered to do so by the president. Earlier, Barr noted, “I think those special counsel regulations should stay in place for the duration of this investigation, and we can do a post mortem then, but I have no reason to think they’re not working.”
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