The Justice Department has appointed former FBI director Robert S. Mueller III as special counsel to oversee the investigation into ties between President Trump’s campaign and Russia.
Here are five things you need to know about the newly appointed special counsel.
1. He became director of the FBI a week before the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001
Mueller, now 72, has said the tragedy shaped his 12-year career as FBI director.
“I had been a prosecutor before, so I anticipated spending time on public corruption cases and narcotics cases and bank robberies and the like,” he told NPR in 2013. “And Sept. 11 changed all of that.
Here are five things you need to know about the newly appointed special counsel.
1. He became director of the FBI a week before the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001
Mueller, now 72, has said the tragedy shaped his 12-year career as FBI director.
“I had been a prosecutor before, so I anticipated spending time on public corruption cases and narcotics cases and bank robberies and the like,” he told NPR in 2013. “And Sept. 11 changed all of that.
- 5/18/2017
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton is, like most former presidents of the USA, one of the most recognisable and talked-about figures in world politics. Not only is his wife, Hillary, Barack Obama’s former Secretary of State, but Clinton himself was one of the most popular presidents in the history of the Us while he was in office.
Serving as the 42nd President of the United States between January 1993 and January 2001 after beating incumbent George H W Bush in the November 1992 election, Clinton is often described as a “New Democrat” and someone who adopted a new centrist “Third Way” in American politics.
Notable policies attempted during his presidency include the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement, failure to pass national healthcare reform, welfare reform, and the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in Us history. Yet it is not only Clinton’s policies that make for intriguing reading – because...
Serving as the 42nd President of the United States between January 1993 and January 2001 after beating incumbent George H W Bush in the November 1992 election, Clinton is often described as a “New Democrat” and someone who adopted a new centrist “Third Way” in American politics.
Notable policies attempted during his presidency include the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement, failure to pass national healthcare reform, welfare reform, and the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in Us history. Yet it is not only Clinton’s policies that make for intriguing reading – because...
- 3/25/2015
- by Chris Waugh
- Obsessed with Film
Want to see what life is like inside the White House? NBC's new comedy "1600 Penn" (premieres Thursday, January 10 at 9:30 p.m. Est) follows fictional President Dale Gilchrist (Bill Pullman) and his family's wacky lives behind the doors of the most famous address in America.
In HuffPost TV's exclusive video above, Pullman, Jenna Elfman (First Lady Emily Gilchrist, stepmother to the president's children), Josh Gad (Skip Gilchrist, the idiot first son) and Martha MacIsaac (Becca Gilchrist, the knocked-up first daughter) offer scoop on the new show.
"Meet the sex appeal of '1600 Penn': William Jefferson Pullman," Gad jokes in the video as Pullman strolls through the White House halls. "This is really my second term," Pullman adds, referring to his previous role as the president in the 1996 blockbuster "Independence Day."
According to Eflman, those who aren't politically-inclined will be happy to see that "1600 Penn's" focus is elsewhere. "It's all family dynamic,...
In HuffPost TV's exclusive video above, Pullman, Jenna Elfman (First Lady Emily Gilchrist, stepmother to the president's children), Josh Gad (Skip Gilchrist, the idiot first son) and Martha MacIsaac (Becca Gilchrist, the knocked-up first daughter) offer scoop on the new show.
"Meet the sex appeal of '1600 Penn': William Jefferson Pullman," Gad jokes in the video as Pullman strolls through the White House halls. "This is really my second term," Pullman adds, referring to his previous role as the president in the 1996 blockbuster "Independence Day."
According to Eflman, those who aren't politically-inclined will be happy to see that "1600 Penn's" focus is elsewhere. "It's all family dynamic,...
- 12/6/2012
- by Jaimie Etkin
- Huffington Post
I couldn't think of a more fitting movie for this Election Day than Mr. Cao Goes to Washington, and my only regret is that I can't urge you to watch it right now. The documentary screened at Austin Film Festival last month, and PBS will broadcast it in January, but in the meantime you'll have to watch Butter or The Candidate instead. (Or Idiocracy, but I digress.)
The subject of Mr. Cao Goes to Washington is Anh "Joseph" Cao, a Republican who won a U.S. Congress seat in 2008 for Louisiana's Second Congressional District, which includes most of New Orleans district and which had elected Democrats for more than a century. Cao was running against the incumbent, William Jefferson, whom I will refer to as a politician in the very oldest traditions of Louisiana politics. Cao's victory was considered an upset, which tells you even more about why the oldest...
The subject of Mr. Cao Goes to Washington is Anh "Joseph" Cao, a Republican who won a U.S. Congress seat in 2008 for Louisiana's Second Congressional District, which includes most of New Orleans district and which had elected Democrats for more than a century. Cao was running against the incumbent, William Jefferson, whom I will refer to as a politician in the very oldest traditions of Louisiana politics. Cao's victory was considered an upset, which tells you even more about why the oldest...
- 11/6/2012
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
Former "Saturday Night Live" actress Victoria Jackson, working on confidential information she as a web talk show host has special clearance to obtain, has claimed that the United States is being overtaken by radical Muslims bent on bringing the nation under Sharia law.
"I just went to a briefing in Washington DC, across the street from the Capitol, at the Longworth building at 8:30 am two days ago and it changed my life," Jackson said last week on her web show, "Politichicks." "For six hours, I saw pictures and names and dates and facts and Islamic law books and Korans, Surahs for six hours and they proved to me... that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated our highest positions in government and this is serious."
Jackson also detailed the meeting in an earlier blog post this December. In that post, she details testimony given by John Guandolo, a former FBI agent...
"I just went to a briefing in Washington DC, across the street from the Capitol, at the Longworth building at 8:30 am two days ago and it changed my life," Jackson said last week on her web show, "Politichicks." "For six hours, I saw pictures and names and dates and facts and Islamic law books and Korans, Surahs for six hours and they proved to me... that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated our highest positions in government and this is serious."
Jackson also detailed the meeting in an earlier blog post this December. In that post, she details testimony given by John Guandolo, a former FBI agent...
- 12/27/2011
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Huffington Post
President Obama's call for Anthony Weiner to resign may have been unavoidable, but it kept what has to be history's least sexually satisfying sex scandal in the headlines for another day-and it won't push the congressman out the door. After all, he's got nothing to gain by going, says Eric Alterman.
"I can tell you that if it was me, I would resign,'' President Obama told Today's Ann Curry-thereby ensuring that we would spend at least another day discussing Anthony Weiner's not-so-private parts and the implications thereof.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Media's Selective Sex Scandal Savagery
This may have been unavoidable. Ducking the question would have looked like a kind of endorsement of Weiner's weird behavior, so instead Obama made sure that his agenda would be buried beneath, um, Weiner's you-know-what for one more day.
It was a rare misstep in a scandal that,...
"I can tell you that if it was me, I would resign,'' President Obama told Today's Ann Curry-thereby ensuring that we would spend at least another day discussing Anthony Weiner's not-so-private parts and the implications thereof.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Media's Selective Sex Scandal Savagery
This may have been unavoidable. Ducking the question would have looked like a kind of endorsement of Weiner's weird behavior, so instead Obama made sure that his agenda would be buried beneath, um, Weiner's you-know-what for one more day.
It was a rare misstep in a scandal that,...
- 6/15/2011
- by Eric Alterman
- The Daily Beast
The Buffy Cafritz-Vernon and Ann Jordan Swearing-In Eve party in DC. Our now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton drank only ice water. With the Clintons, never the twain shall meet. She came ahead of her husband, split early, and left him and Chelsea behind. The party was scheduled to end 12:30 a.m. Bill worked the crowd, holding a mini seminar in parts of the room, until 1 a.m. William Jefferson was the last to leave.
Oprah and Nobel prize winner Elie Wiesel, whose memorable book "Night...
Oprah and Nobel prize winner Elie Wiesel, whose memorable book "Night...
- 1/23/2009
- by By CINDY ADAMS
- NYPost.com
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