August 16, 2017

Mueller assembles growing team of legal all-stars, Trump has trouble keeping handful of also-rans

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/11/1688648/-Mueller-assembles-growing-team-of-legal-all-stars-Trump-has-trouble-keeping-handful-of-also-rans"The team members include Michael Dreeben, a Justice Department deputy solicitor general who has argued more than 100 cases before the Supreme Court; Andrew Weissmann, the chief of the Justice Department’s fraud section; James Quarles, who worked as an assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force; and Jeannie Rhee, a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel who also came from WilmerHale. That’s just the tip of a still-growing iceberg. Mueller’s team just added its sixteenth attorney, almost all of them with deep knowledge on corruption and financial crimes."