Former independent counsel Ken Starr argued that former special counsel Robert Mueller has done “a grave disservice” to the United States by hiring staffers who were partisan.
Starr appeared on Fox News’ coverage of Mueller’s Wednesday testimony during the break between the special counsel’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee. Mueller was in front of those committees to testify about his two-year-long investigation into whether or not the president’s campaign knowingly conspired with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election.
“The entire process has been so unfortunate that I think, to be honest — and I love Bob Mueller as a human being, as a patriot — but I think he has done a grave disservice to our country in the way he conducted this investigation. Now by the way, he said time and again, ‘I don’t question politics of my staff,’” Starr stated. “I understand that. But you aren’t blind to what your staff members are all about as human beings.”
“You don’t ask them about it, but you don’t have to ask to know that your Andrew Weissmann-types are very, very partisan in their outlook on life,” he continued. “Now partisan people can put aside their partisanship, but it’s a test. Can they? And what steps did Bob Mueller take to assure the American people that he had, shall I say, a fair and balanced staff? That was one thing I thought was very revealing and missing.”
