On Wednesday, Former FBI Director Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel to the investigation of collusion between Russia and the Donald Trump Presidential campaign. He served as the second-longest director in Federal Bureau of Investigation history, behind only the iconic J. Edgar Hoover.
He is also no stranger to fans of the National Football League and the Baltimore Ravens, as Mueller was the man who oversaw the NFL’s mishandling of the infamous Ray Rice videotape (much more on that in a bit).
As Charles Krauthammer wrote in the National Review, Robert Mueller is now: “the man who is in charge who has a mandate to investigate essentially anything and is politically untouchable, cannot be fired. Technically he can; politically he can’t. He’s the most powerful man in Washington.”
In 2015, Mueller conducted an inquiry into the NFL’s handling of a video of former running back Ray Rice punching his then-fiancée. And last year, Mueller was asked by Booz Allen Hamilton to conduct a security review after a contractor was arrested for allegedly stealing national security secrets.
Mueller did the same job last year with Volkswagen, when they were caught cheating on their emissions tests. Trump bragged to his Russian comrades that he had taken the pressure off himself in the Russia collusion investigation because he had just fired Comey. The total opposite is true.
With Robert Mueller now on the case, the pressure is only going to get ramped up further.
Paul M. Banks runs The Sports Bank.net and TheBank.News, partnered with FOX Sports Engage Network. Banks, a former writer for the Washington Times, NBC Chicago.com and Chicago Tribune.com, currently contributes to WGN CLTV and KOZN.
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