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It might be a small nuance here, but I think they were prepared to resign because the law required the AG to approve of the actions, Comey did not, and the Pres
by brown9-2 13y ago
It might be a small nuance here, but I think they were prepared to resign because the law required the AG to approve of the actions, Comey did not, and the President ordered the NSA to continue anyway. I think it is less that they disagreed with the surveillance action and more that they could not serve in an Administration that was going to ignore and overrule legal officials like that.
- mpyne 13y agoWell this is the same Mueller who was testifying in Congress just the other day, right? So it does seem the program itself was less of a crisis to them as opposed to the lengths Bush was prepared to in order to implement with Executive authority alone.